William Camden

London slave-trader, partner in Camden & Calvert and Calvert Camden & King.

1. Will of William Camden merchant of City of London [made in1794] proved 23/11/1796. He left his estate at Grafton Oxfordshire in the occupation of Daniel Taylor and his estate at Standlake Oxfordshire and all his other real estate to Daniel Taylor, without explanation. He left: £1000 to his niece Sukey Richardson, the daughter of his sister Mary Arrowsmith wife of Edward Arrowsmith; £2500 to his friend and partner Mr Anthony Calvert; £1000 to his partner Thomas King; and £500 to George Lear sugar baker, the last two legacies to compensate them for the trouble as his trustees. He left £200 to William Handayside sugar baker of Wapping. He instructed his executors to lay out £500 and pay the interest to his niece Mary Ann Camden, daughter of Mary Arrowsmith and wife of his nephew John Camden, and to invest £14,150 to be received from Calvert and King with the interest to be paid to his sister Mary Arrowsmith for life, with authority for her to will £2650 of this amount to her children; £1000 of the balance was to go to his niece Harriott Mangles wife of John Mangles of Wapping; and another £1000 to his great-nephews William and John Nield. The remaining £9500 after Mary Arrowsmith's death was to go to Sukey Richardson, failing whom to Mary Ann Camden failing whom to John Camden. Camden provided that if it were inconvenient for Anthony Calvert and Thomas King for £14,150 to be withdrawn from the partnership, then it was to be paid in instalments of £2000 two years after his death, £3000 p.a. for three years thereafter and £3500 six years after Camden's death. He left John Camden his two sugar houses in St George in the East held under lease from St Thomas' Hospital and Bridewell Hospital. He left the effects in his Leytonstone house to Mary Arrowsmith, and after monetary legacies to servants, Camden made Anthony Calvert his residuary legatee.

PROB 11/1281/219