Thomas Hunt of Oundle

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1817

Biography

Slave-owner on Dominica and son of Edward Hunt of Oundle (q.v.). His estate(s) have yet to be definitively identified, but with Rowland Hunt of London he was mortgagee of Capuchin estate in Dominica c. 1775, and that estate later passed to the heir of Thomas Hunt. Thomas Hunt of Oundle and Rowland Hunt [the latter given as of Dominica] were also parties to a deed dated 1786 with Thomas Wolley of Southampton Street Bloomsbury (q.v.), Edward Hunt senior of Oundle and Edward Hunt of London then at St Vincent concerning the West Wood and Rodrigues estates on St Vincent and Mount Aeolus on Dominica.

Will of Thomas Hunt of Oundle proved 04/03/1817. In the will he left his English real estate to Bridget Hunt the wife of his cousin the Rev. Thomas Hunt of Benefield Northants, and his estates in Dominica to his nephew Thomas Welsh [sic] Hunt subject to annuities to Henrietta and Susannah Dalbiac [sp?].

Sources

PROB 11/1590/41

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (3)

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

- 1817 [LA] → Owner

Little Capuchin, St John [ Dominica ]

Inferred to belong to Thomas Hunt by virtue of the tentative identification of his heir in the 1817 Slave Register

1775 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Little Capuchin, St John [ Dominica ]

Thomas Hunt together with Rowland Hunt of London are known to have held a mortgage of £11,500 over the Capuchin estate 1775-7.

1786 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Not known

West Wood [ St Vincent ]

It appears likely that the Hunt family were mortgagees of the estate. Thomas Wolley was also the nephew of Edward Hunt the elder and cousin of Thomas and Rowland Hunt.

Shropshire Archives, Document Reference: 552/27/15 System Reference: X552/11/4/1 Date: 1786 Description: 1) Agreement, 2 Sep 1786 1 Thomas Wolley of Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, esq 2 Edward Hunt the younger heretofore of London, thereafter of the Island of St Vincent, merchant [now of Lille in French Flanders, merchant] 3 Edward Hunt the elder of Oundle, co Northampton, esq 4 Thomas Hunt of Oundle, esq Attached: declaration as to accruals 2) Enclosed: copy of Thomas Wolley's power of attorney empowering Rowland Hunt of the Island of Dominica, merchant, and Robert Gordon and Herbert Palmer Cox of St Vincent, merchants, to take possession of the Westwood and Rodrigues plantations in St Vincent and the Mount Eolus plantation in Dominica and to manage them for Wolley's benefit. 3) Mortgage by lease and release, 1&2 Sep 1786: Principal property and parties as above. Slaves enumerated by name. Lease of possession attached with attestation by Thomas Wright, Lord Mayor of London 4) Mortgage by lease and release, 1&2 Sep 1786: As the preceding item, but registered in St Vincent 5 Dec 1786.