P_10433_3080 – Nathaniel Bogle French
Nathaniel Bogle French senior (1758-1816), London merchant, son and former partner of James Bogle French (q.v.), co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Hero to Africa and Barbados in 1797. The family firm (from which Nathaniel Bogle French jun. had retired in 1811) failed in 1815.
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First name: Nathaniel Bogle
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Last name: French
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Elizabeth nee Skottowe (1761-1803)
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Plantation owner: Yes
Inherited as trustee (and residual beneficiary) from James Bogle French, his father, the Palmiste estate and the enslaved people attached to it on Grenada with instructions to sell it and them.
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146661573 Henry Maddock, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor of England Vol. III (Philadelphia, 1829) pp. 205-208; London Gazette 16448 29/01/1811, p. 188. 'On Tuesday morning, at Brighton, after a long and painful illness, sincerely regretted, Nathaniel Bogle French, Esq. aged 58', London Morning Post 12/12/1816 p. 4.
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Crossings (1)
81817 - Hero (1797 - 1798)
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Occupation: Merchant – West Indies
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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