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Ann Fothergill

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1802

Biography

Sister and heir of Dr John Fothergill (q.v) from whom she inherited the estate on Nevis known as Jory's or Fothergill's, together with the enslaved people attached to it, which and whom she she sold in 1791, when there were 100 enslaved people on the estate. The detailed will of Ann Fothergill spinster of Bloomsbury Square proved 20/07/1802 contains no reference to 'slave-property'; neither does the article on Ann Fothergill by Christopher C. Booth, 'Ann Fothergill: The Mistress of Harpur Street.'


Sources

PROB 11/1377/239; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 122, no. 5 (1978): 340-54. Accessed July 21, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/986689.

We are grateful to Christine Eickelmann and David Small for sharing their work in tracing the history of the Jory's or Fothergill's estate, and to Audrey Dewjee for highlighting Ann Fothergill's possible connections with slave-ownership to us.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Estates (2)

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
1784 [EA] - 1784 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Jory's later Fothergill's [ Nevis | St George Gingerland ]

Either mortgagee-in-possession or owner. It is not clear whether or when she had purchased the equity of redemption, or relied on the wills of John Boddie and her brother John Fothergill.

1791 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Seller
Jory's later Fothergill's [ Nevis | St George Gingerland ]

Entered 5 April 1791, indenture between Ann Fothergill of Great Russell St, Bloomsbury Sq, Middlesex (and John Fothergill her nephew) and Cossley Saunders of Nevis. An agreement to sell to Saunders ‘Jorey’s’, 320 acres formerly the estate of Frances Bladen together with 100 slaves (schedule attached).

Relationships (1)

Ann Fothergill
Sister → Brother
Dr. John Fothergill
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Ann Fothergill was the main heir of her brother's...

Addresses (2)

Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Harpur Street, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Ann Fothergill lived with her brother at Harpur Street at least until his death in 1781.