John Higgin

London merchant, partner in first in Bolt & Higgin and then in Higgin & Whiteley with his son-in-law George Whiteley (q.v.).

1. One of the executors of Thomas Bainbridge junior (d. 1826). Probably the Higgin referred to as the owner (with Grace Bolt and G. Bainbridge) as owner of 14 enslaved people in St Ann, Jamaica, in 1792 (Grace Bolt had a relationship with Thomas Bainbridge junior).

2. Buried at St John Hackney 24/06/1826 aged 72. Will of John Higgin merchant of [London Field in the parish of] Hackney [and of London Street City of London] Middlesex [made 14/01/1825] proved 29/07/1826. He left his wife Mary his freehold house at London Field and all his household effects; 4 £500 shares in the Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Office; the dividends from his 60 shares of £50 in the Atlas; and an annuity of £800 p.a. secured on his estates in Jamaica. He further charged a sum of £16,000 on theses estates, the interest on half of which was to be paid to his daughter Mary for life and then the principal to her children, and the interest on the other half was to be paid to his daughter Sarah Graham, wife of Joseph Graham. The estate themselves he left subject to these charges to his sons Isaac and Thomas Winder Higgin. He left a further £2000 to his grandchildren Jane and George Whiteley, the children of his late daughter Jane Whiteley and her husband George Whiteley. He instructed that the business of Higgin & Whiteley be continued for seven years after his death, with profits shared equally between his sons Isaac and Thomas Winder Higgin and George Whiteley, and he provided for arbitration if any dispute arose over the several vessels in which he asserted ownership as his private property rather than as the property of the partnership of Higgin & Whiteley.

1. PROB 11/1717/327; 'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.

2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online]; PROB 11/1714/455.