UCL

Benjamin Way

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1709

Biography

London merchant and slave-trader. The Helyars conveyed half of Bybrook to him in 1704, an ownership interest not reflected in the account of the Helyar family by Richard Dunn, who shows a half share conveyed the following year to a different counterparty.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Estates (1)

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
1704 [EA] - 1704 [LA] → Not known
Bybrook [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]

Draft articles of 1704 conveying half of Bybrook to Benjamin Way are held in the Somerset Heritage Centre, together with an additional set that might be the definitive agreement. Either the transaction was a mortgage or the transaction was not completed, given that Richard Dunn shows the Helyars selling half the estate in 1705 and the second half in 1713, to other buyers.