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Thomas Whytlaw

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1805

Biography

Former merchant of Glasgow, but dying in Jamaica; mortgagee-In-possession of the Manningsfield estate in Vere Jamaica at least 1785-1789. Partner in Anderson, Coats and Whytlaw of Glasgow and of Thomson & Whytlaw in Jamaica.

  1. Thomas Whytlaw contributed £4 15s to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

  2. Oct. 15 [1805] In Jamaica [death of] Thomas Whytlaw, late merchant in Glasgow. [This is inferred by LBS to be the Thomas Whytelaw or Whytlaw shown as mortgagee-in-possession of Manningsfield].


Sources

Scots Magazine Vol. 68 Part 1 (Feb. 1806) p. 156; Thomas S. Paton, Report of Cases Decided in the House of Lords upon Appeal from Scotland, from 1753 to 1813, Vol. IV [1854?], pp. 148 et seq.

William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 74, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

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
1784 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Manningsfield [ Jamaica | Vere ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania...... 
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William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 74, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in...