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Free man of colour, natural son of William Hicks of Bath.
Will of John William Hicks of Walcot Somerset proved 15/05/1800. In the will he left his freehold house at 16 Lansdowne Crescent to his wife Mary, and entailed his British and Jamaican estates for his son John William Hicks and then younger sons.
'When John William Hicks petitioned [for the privileges of white subjects] for himself [in 1765], he indicated the size of the fortune he had received from his father, as he had been, “in his infancy, sent to England by his said reputed father, and there brought up, educated, and instructed . . . at great expence.”'
PROB 11/1342/145
D.A. Livesay, Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 2010 [forthcoming as of March 2017 from the University of North Carolina Press or the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture], p. 99, sourced to December 18, 1764, CO 140/40, f. 481, NAE.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Married but no further details
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Children
John William
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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:
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1771 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
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1770 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
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Father → Son
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Son → Father
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16 Lansdowne Crescent, Bath, Somerset, South-west England, England
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1759 - 1820
Enslaved woman on Caliviny Estate in Grenada; also listed as a slave-owner herself.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'John William Hicks I', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146649579 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
