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Bristol West India merchant, partner in Protheroes & Claxton, and then Robert Claxton & Son. Descended from "a well-established Bristol family which settled in St Kitts in the early seventeenth century".
Will of Robert Claxton merchant of Bristol proved 06/02/1813. He left £3000 each to his younger sons Christopher, Robert, William and Philip Protheroe Claxton at 21, and £4000 each to his daughters Elizabeth and Margaret. To his wife Rachael he left his house and furniture in Park Street and £1000 a year.
Robert Claxton's son Christopher was agent to James Evan Baillie (q.v.) in the 1830 'slavery election' in Bristol and circulated a petition defending the institution of slavery. Christopher was in direct conflict with Edward Protheroe Jnr q.v. standing as the anti-slavery Whig candidate.
Madge Dresser, Slavery Obscured (2001) p. 212.
PROB 11/1541/102.
Madge Dresser, Slavery Obscured (2001) pp. 211-214.
We are grateful to Ruth Hecht for her assistance with compiling this entry.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Rachel Mardenborough
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Children
Butler Thompson; Christopher; William; Robert; Philip Protheroe
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Occupation
West India merchant
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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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1798 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
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1804 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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1802 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Protheroe and Claxton were mortgagees of 100 enslaved people on Stoakes Hall from Eliphalet Fitch; their mortgage appears to have been paid off by Alexander Donaldson sometime between 1802-1803. |
Commercial (2) |
Partner
Philip & George Protheroe
West India merchant |
Senior Partner
Robert Claxton & Son
West India merchant |
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Husband → Wife
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Father → Son
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Father → Son
Notes →
This is tentative. Robert Claxton certainly had a son William but to date the likely link with William Claxton of the compensation records has not been...
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Uncle → Nephew
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9 Park Street, Bristol, Gloucestershire, South-west England, England
Notes →
Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919) vol. II p. 169 (sourced to Bristol Directory); also his will in which he leaves his house in Park Street to his wife Rachael. |
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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:
'Robert Claxton of Bristol', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146649873 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
