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Linen-draper of Cornhill, City of London. He was one of the assignees in bankruptcy of Mills & Swanston in 1781. This role must have arisen from his business supplying linens for the West India market: Mills & Swanston were characterised as 'buying sundry large quantitys [sic] of linen drapery ironmongery and other goods and sending the same to the Leeward islands in exchange for the sugar and other consignments they received from the Leeward islands' in the papers tabled by their assignees at the time of bankruptcy. He left £30,000 in monetary legacies and real estate in Essex and Leicestershire.
Common Records 1783-1785, British Library, EAP794/1/1/19, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-19 p. 21; will of John Platt merchant of St Michael Cornhill proved 14/03/1787, PROB 11/1151/149.
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Assignee-in-bankruptcy → Bankrupt
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Cornhill, City of London, Middlesex, London, England
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1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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 Platt of Cornhill', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666767 [accessed 22nd December 2024].
