Grant Allan

London West India merchant and East India Co. proprietor, with no slave-ownership or mortgages over enslaved people traced to date, although he was Receiver in the case James Dick v Robert Milligan c. 1793, was an attendee at the meetings of the West India Merchants in 1796-98, and attested the will of John Barker Barnes of St Croix in 1807, while his son, also Grant Allan, left in his own will proved in 1851 his interest in the Gaspard estate [and presumably the enslaved people attached to it] on St Croix. His former partner Robert Cuming Dewar was bankrupt in 1817. In his will proved in 1839 he left his estate after several monetary legacies to his son Grant Allan.

C 101/6680 Description: Accounts in: Short title: Dick v Milligan. Plaintiffs: James Dick. Defendants: Robert Milligan AND Plaintiffs: Robert Milligan. Defendants: James Dick. Subject: estate not described, accounts of money. Details: list of receipts and disbursements Remittances from Philadelphia, Jamaica. Receiver: Grant Allan, merchant. Chancery Master: John Eames. 1791-1793.

The Minute of the West India Committee show Grant Allan or Mr Allan present on 08/03/1796,18/10/1796 28/10/1796, 08/11/1796, 15/11/1796, 10/01/1797, 23/05/1797, 07/07/1797 and 12/01/1798. https://westindiacommittee.org/historyheritageculture/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Minutes-1796-1797.pdf.

London Gazette 18 January 1831Issue:18768Page:106.