Joseph Hawes

???? - 1738


Biography

Slave-owner on Antigua, dying in London in 1738, whose estate(s) if any have not been identified to date. Vere Langford Oliver shows the Hawes estate in Bermudian Valley, St Mary's Parish on Antigua as belonging to Thomas Hawes senior (b. 1744) and Thomas Hawes jun. in 1787, when it was ordered to be sold in the Chancery case of John Rose v. Thomas Hawes and Thomas Hawes junior. Oliver's brief family tree for the Hawes family does not show a Joseph Hawes.

  1. '1738, April. In Mansfield Street, Goodman's Fields, [death of] Mr Hawes, an Antigua merchant [sic] lately arrived from that Island.'

  2. Will of Joseph Hawes of [the island of Antigua but now residing in] London, planter proved 18/08/1739. He left all his 'negroes, estates and effects' in trust (his trustees were Richard Bodicote, James Parke and Edward Evanson of Antigua) for his own, also Joseph Hawes, failing whom to his wife Elizabeth, failing whom to his sister Catherine Nibbs and his wife's three sisters, including the wife of James Parke.


Sources

Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. II p. 69.

  1. Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. II p. 69, citing Historical Register p. 15.

  2. PROB 11/697/364.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic

Relationships (1)

Testator → Executor