William Mackintosh

William Mackintosh of London, mariner, now in Grenada, was party to a deed of 12/07/1771 under which he bought for £21,600 the Richmond (St Andrew) and Digue coffee estates together with 74 enslaved people 'and future progeny of the females' on Grenada for £21,600 from Louis Roulleau deceased and widow Duval deceased respectively. He either resold or mortgaged the estates in 1772 to Samuel Crawley.

1. This was almost certainly William Mackintosh, commander of the ship Hindoostan in the service of the East India company [and now at sea], whose extraordinarily expressive will [made in 1797] was proved at London 25/06/1803. In that will William Mackintosh said he had intended to leave very considerable legacies to this brother John and another person whose 'impertinent conduct' led him to alter his disposition of his property. He left: £100 p.a. to his brother John who had cost him a very large sum of money; £5000 to Thomas Townsend formerly of Grenada now of Poyle Park in recognition of Townsend's exertions on his behalf after Mackintosh had finally left that island; £10,000 equally between each of the children of his brother James Mackintosh of Farr and each of the children of his sister Marjorie, previously married to Mr Macpherson but now to Mr Lesslie both of Inverness. He felt £1000 to his first mate and executor John Mackintosh (apparently a relative) and £1500 If the profit of the voyage on which they were embarked should be more than £10,000. He felt £5000 in trust to the magistrates of Inverness to educate in succession five boys named Mackintosh from the families of Farr and two other parishes. His executors were Joseph Cotton and Thomas King of the Trinity. His list of assets totalling £40,825, largely dealing with the Asian trade, included a share in the Drury Lane Theatre. In a codicil of 1800 headed Gower Street he left the interest on £10,000 to Mrs Rae sister of Sir George Dallas with the principal to go to the Inverness magistrates in lieu of the £5000 he originally left in trust with them; he then revoked this legacy to Mrs Rae after disappointing correspondence with her.

Bedfordshire & Luton Archives C1521 http://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/ExploreYourArchive/Caribbean/GrenadaCoffeePlantation1771.aspx [accessed 27/04/2020]. The site summary has conflicting accounts as to whether the estates were sold or mortgaged to Samuel Crawley.

1. PROB 11/1395/162.