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London merchant and slave-owner on St Croix, purchaser in 1777 of the equity of redemption in the Bagatelle estate on St Vincent for £1750 sterling.
Will of John Bradshaw of St Dionis Backchurch, Lime Street City of London proved 23/09/1779. He left £20,000 to each of his two sons John and James, £3000 to his daughter Mary Teresa Hawkins, his 1/5th share in Blackburn Rectory to the younger children of his late sister Ann Croughton, and his residuary estate to his son Thomas Bradshaw.
In conjunction with his brother-in-law Nicholas Tuite (q.v.), John Bradshaw developed Sion Hill in St Croix in the 1760s.
Endangered Archives Project EAP 688 St Vincent 1785 Deed Book pp. 251-271.
PROB 11/1056/319.
Orla Power 'Irish planters, Atlantic merchants: The development of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1750 to 1766' [Unpublished PhD Thesis, National University Galway, 2011] pp. 62 and 164.
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John Bradshaw bought the equity of redemption for £1750 sterling in 1777. |
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St Dionis Backchurch, Lime Street, City of London, Middlesex, South-east England, England
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'John Bradshaw of the City of London', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146665505 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
