UCL

James Akers the elder

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1791

Biography

Slave-owner of St Kitts and Nevis.

  1. By an indenture of 20/07/1792, Nicholas Richards, John Akers of St Kitts barrister-at-law and Isaac Dupuy Akers clerk (as trustees under an indenture of 11/05/1791 between James Akers of Great James Street, Bedford Row and Anne his wife, Henry Holt of Palgrave Place and Nicholas Richards, John Akers and Isaac Dupuy Akers) sold a small plantation on Nevis to Stedman Rawlins for £1000. James, John and Isaac Dupuy Akers were devisees and executors of their father James Akers late of St Kitts, who had purchased the estate from Edward Abbott, son of Richard Abbot[t], in 1775 for £1750. The earlier indenture of 11/05/1791 involved Anne Akers surrendering her right of dower in James Akers of Great James Street's share of inheritance from his father.

  2. James Akers the younger was a merchant in London. In 1817 a notice appeared advertising for creditors of James Akers merchant late of the Adelphi to meet with the Trustees for his creditors, implying his business had failed.


Sources

  1. Common Records 1792-1794, British Library, EAP794/1/1/24, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-24 pp. 99-112.

  2. London Gazette 17257 7 June 1817 p. 1301.

Further Information

Spouse
Jane Dupuy
Children
Isaac Dupuy Akers; James Akers; John Akers

Associated Estates (1)

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
1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Previous owner
Key estate [ St Kitts | St Mary Cayon ]

In his will, John Julius described an estate that he had bought from the heirs of James Akers then known as Gregory but that he had altered and renamed as Key.

Relationships (1)

James Akers the elder
Father → Son
Rev. Isaac Dupuy Akers
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