Peter Leheup

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1777

Biography

Of London, mortgagee of John Mills in St Kitts for £7000 and of Thomas Meade in Montserrat for £4000 (the balance of the original £8000 loan), and father-in-law of Richard Garth. A Peter Leheup was Agent for Virginia, and a man of the same name embezzled funds from the lottery established to finance the British Museum. LBS has not yet untangled Peter Leheup, the mortgagee from Peter Leheup junior (whose will was proved in 1774) and from a third Peter Leheup whose will was recorded in Chester in 1808.

Sources

Will of Peter Leheup of St George Hanover Square proved 28/05/1777, PROB 11/1031/291.

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

- 1777 [EY] → Mortgage Holder

Golden Rock [ St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre ]

The will of Peter Leheup of St George Hanover Square proved 28/05/1777, PROB 11/1031/291 showed him as the mortgagee as to £7000 on the St Kitts estates of John Mills. LBS has inferred these estates to have been Golden Rock and Mills.

- 1777 [EY] → Mortgage Holder

Mills [ St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town ]