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Andrew Newton 'of London'

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Annnuitant on Cocoa Nut Hall in Antigua, having purchased an annuity of £300 p.a. from the Crump family c. 1770. Andrew Newton has not yet been traced. A man of this name was buried aged 61 in Ratcliffe in 1781; another possible candidate is Andrew Newton of Litchfield, a philanthropist and founder of Newton College Litchfield whose will proven 08/03/1806 is silent on Antigua or on 'slave-property' but includes a London solicitor (Edward Boodle) as executor.


Sources

Agents C. Meeker Plantations of Antigua: the Sweet Success of Sugar (2018) shows Newton, Andrew against Cocoa Nutt Hall in 1790 in an unsourced 'Registry of Plantation Owners for St George's and St Peter's Parish; PROB 11/1440/107.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish?

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
1770 [EA] - → Annuitant
Cocoa Nut Hall [ Antigua ]

Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, M198 p. 236 shows Andrew Newton of London purchasing an annuity for life of £300 p.a. secured on Crumps Mountain, Crumps Windward, and Crump's Steel [=Stock] in 1770.