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John Allen McPherson

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1822

Biography

Partner with Barclay Farquharson and Louis Perras as 'West India planter' on Martinique (when he was known simply as John McPherson) coming to England in 1803 and then going to Bombay in 1804, where he died in 1822. In 1827 there was an advertisement for his creditors to come forward in London arising from the Chancery suit between Gillies McPherson and William Taylor Money.


Sources

London Gazette 18335 13/02/1827 p. 346 shows the partnership on Martinique apparently dissolving sometime between 1798 and 1803.

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

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
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
Burleigh Castle [ Tobago | St Andrew ]
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
Orange Hill [ Tobago | St David ]
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
Spring Garden [ Tobago | St Andrew ]

Relationships (1)

John Allen McPherson
Business partners
Barclay Farquharson
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