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Augustus Boyd

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1765

Biography

Slave-owner on St Kitts, one of the 'Citizens of the World', and co-owner of the Bance Island slave-trading factory in West Africa. Founder of the Boyd family of baronets, and father of Sir John Boyd, the 1st bart. (q.v.).

  1. Will of Augustus Boyd merchant of London [and Lewisham] [made in 1763] proved 11/09/1765. He left an annuity of £800 p.a to his wife Lucy payable out of the Fountains or Castle plantation and secured on all his St Kitts property. He alluded to the estates left to his son John by his [John's] maternal grandmother Elizabeth Henderson.

Sources

David Hancock, Citizens of the World (1995) pp. 46-48, 383.

  1. PROB 11/911/356

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
- 1765 [EY] → Owner
Fountain [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

Relationships (4)

Augustus Boyd
Father → Son
Sir John Boyd 1st Bart.
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Augustus Boyd
Grandfather → Grandson
Sir John Boyd 2nd Bart.
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Augustus Boyd
Business partners
Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bart.
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Augustus Boyd
Business partners
Richard Oswald
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Addresses (1)

Lewisham, Kent, London, England
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