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John Williams the younger MP

Profile & Legacies Summary

1736 - 1793

Biography

Absentee slave-owner for Nevis, briefly MP for Saltash in 1772, described by Walpole as ‘a West Indian, who bribed the corporation’, and unseated on petition. Son of John Williams of Nevis the elder and his wife Sarah, also nee Williams.


Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/williams-john-1736 [accessed 29/11/2017], which gives his wife as Charlotte Mary Thornhill; details of his slave-owning on Nevis are given in David Small and Christine Eickelmann's 'Clifton Estate, Nevis: an Account of Absence and Ambition' http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~emceee/cliftonhistory.pdf [accessed 29/11/2017], which gives his wife as Mary Charlotte Thornhill Moore.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
Charlotte Mary Thornhill
Children
John Mathew Williams

Associated Estates (2)

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
1769 [EA] - 1769 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Morton's Bay [ Nevis | St Thomas Lowland ]

In 1769, Morton's Bay (probably this estate) was purchased by the trustees of the marriage settlement of John Williams the younger (q.v.).

1769 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Owner
Windmill [ Nevis | St Thomas Lowland ]

In 1769, John Williams the younger reportedly purchased the Windmill and Paradise estate (also known as Colhouns) to add to Morton's Bay, which had been settled on him and his wife earlier that same year, under the term of his marriage settlement of 1766.

Legacies Summary

Political (1)

MP
 
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Saltash Cornwall
1772

Relationships (2)

John Williams the younger MP
Father → Son
Major John Matthew Williams
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Tentative relationship...
John Williams the younger MP
Husband → Wife
Mary Charlotte Thornhill Bindley formerly Williams (née More)
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Addresses (1)

Wimpole Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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John Williams of Wimpole Street was party to an indenture of 24 and 25/03/1775 with the London bankers Stephen Sayre and Bartholomew Coote Purdon and Charles Best of the Crescent, Minories. The indenture itself has not yet been found by LBS but from the scant detail in the power of attorney given by Charles Best to Magnus Morton 11/05/1776, Best was the assignee of a mortgage entered into by Williams with Sayre and Pardon inferred to have been over one or more of Williams' estates on Nevis. Common Records 1776-1777, British Library, EAP794/1/1/16, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-16 pp. 343-4.