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Richard Sayers of Dublin

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Dublin merchant, partner with John Sayers, and mortgagee of the Peruvian Vale and Henry's Vale estates in St Vincent from 1802. With John Sayers and John Gordon he was also party to a deed of 1804 whereby the three men agreed to accept bills of exchange drawn on them by Jonathan Morgan in favour of the partners of Lang, Turing for a total of £19,959 4s 2d over three years, secured on the Lower Diamond and Escape estates and the enslaved people attached to them. The Dublin merchants took on the consigneeship as part of this agreement.


Sources

'Sayers v Whitfield' (1829), in Jerome William Knapp, Edmund Fitz Moore (eds.) Reports of cases argued and determined before the Committees heard before the Committees of His Majesty's Privy Council (1831); Deed Book 1804, British Library, EAP688/1/1/18, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-18.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Occupation
Merchant

Associated Estates (1)

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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1802 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Peruvian Vale and Henry's Vale [ St Vincent ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
Sayers, Gordon and Sayers
West India merchant?  
 
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Relationships (2)

Richard Sayers of Dublin
Business partners
John Gordon of Dublin
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Richard Sayers of Dublin
Brothers
John Sayers
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Richard Sayers of Dublin is almost certainly the brother Richard Sayers mentioned in the will of John Sayers. The two men were also business...

Addresses (1)

Greenwood, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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