William Blake Speaker of the House of Assembly

???? - 1797


Biography

Speaker of the House of Assembly in Jamaica 1790 and 1793, husband of Elizabeth Anne Partridge and executor of his brother Nicholas Allan Blake in Westmoreland, Jamaica, 1789-1791.

  1. A deed in the Tharp Papers record the mortgage by William Blake and his wife of their half of Potosi and the whole of Dean's Valley Waterworks to John Tharp IV in 1770.

  2. William Blake contributed £20 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.


Sources

  1. Cambridge Archives R/55/7/122/(j)/1

  2. William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 73, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.


Further Information

Spouse
Elizabeth Ann (or Anne) Partridge
Children
Mary Anne; William Williams

Associated Estates (3)

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
1789 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Executor
1770 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Joint owner

A deed in the Tharp Papers records the mortgage by William Blake and his wife of their half of Potosi and the whole of Dean's Valley Waterworks to John Tharp IV in 1770.

1768 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Joint owner

Joint owner by virtue of his marriage to Elizabeth Ann[e] Partridge.


Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Benefactor
University of Pennsylvania...... 
notes →
William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 73, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in...

Relationships (4)

Father → Daughter
Father → Son
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
Notes →
William Blake married Elizabeth Anne Partridge in 1768 (her father had died some 10 years before). ...
Husband → Wife