James MacVicar Affleck I

???? - 1802


Biography

James MacVicar Affleck 'of Edinghame', a surgeon in Jamaica, was granted a variant to the coat of arms of the MacVicar family in December 1777. 'Dr James McVicar Affleck' had been an owner of a jobbing gang of 143 enslaved people. Either he or his son of the same name was an assignee of Williamsfield from William Innes between 1801 and 1807, and the attorney of Winchester estate in 1796-7.

  1. James MacVicar Affleck son of James MacVicar of Jamaica matriculated University College Oxford 27/10/1795 aged 19, of Lincolns Inn 29/01/1793.

Sources

http://www.clanmacvicar.com/heraldry/affleck.shtml [accessed 07/06/2019]; Nicholas Radburn and Justin Roberts, 'Gold versus Life: Jobbing Gangs and British Caribbean Slavery', The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 76, No. 2 (April 2019), pp. 223-256. James Macviccar [sic] Affleck was buried at St Mary's Southampton 11/11/1802, Ancestry.com, James Macviccar Affleck in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 [database online].

  1. Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni 1500-1886 [database online]

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?

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
1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Previous owner
1801 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Assignee
1796 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Attorney

Relationships (2)

First Cousins
Father → Son