Archibald Thomson or Thompson

Slave-owner on Nevis, fl. c. 1763-1771, apparently resident. He was party to a deed of 21/06/1763 with Edmund Akers under which he undertook to buy estates named there as Bridgwater and Abbots with 49 named enslaved people in St Thomas Lowland, Nevis for £8000, subject to Akers repaying his debts of £7000 to Hon. Francs Fane now the Earl of Westmorland and £2825 1s 4d to John Mills and Thomas Mills. He was also party to a deed of 1769 probably related to the Zetland estate, and was the owner of an estate adjacent to Tower Hill, tentatively identified by David Small and Christine Eickelmann as Paradise.

Common Records 1763-1764, British Library, EAP794/1/1/8, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-8 pp. 185-190; David Small and Christine Eickelmann, 'Tower Hill Estate: a preliminary chronological account' (2007, revised 2017), https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/towerhillhistory.pdf [accessed 04/05/2020].