William Michell

Awarded with Rev. William Sloane Wilson (q.v.) the compensation for the enslaved people on Cradley estate on Tobago and two-thirds of the compensation for 122 enslaved people on another, currently unidentified, estate (possibly Montpelier) on Tobago as mortgagees. William Michell was identified in the will of Rev. William Sloane Wilson as the MP for Bodmin in Cornwall.

1. The two men were related by marriage and were probably trustees for the marriage settlement of the Rev. Bennet or Bennett Michell and Matilda Euphemia Wilson, the Rev. William Sloane Wilson's sister. The Rev. Bennet Michell left under £5000 on his death in 1857.

Tobago 25A & B. Counterclaim by William Mitchell [sic] of Bodmin Cornwall and the Rev William Sloane Wilson of Kings Brompton, Somerset, Clerk, as mortgagees for £4100 principal. Admitted but confined to 2/3rds estate.

1. http://www.devon-mitchells.co.uk [accessed 04/02/2013] shows the marriage of Bennett Michell and Matilda Euphemia Wilson; National Probate Calendar 1867 (Letters of Administration were granted to his son 10 years after his death).