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David Mitchell Merchant of London

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1804

Biography

Partner with Robert Milligan (q.v.). Father of William, Robert, Samuel and Francis Henry Mitchell (each of whom q.v.).

Will of David Mitchell merchant of London proved 24/12/1804. The will identifies his partner as Robert Milligan and William Mitchell and James Mitchell of Jamaica as his brothers. He left 拢500 to his wife Ann Hewitt Mitchell, and the whole of the rest of his estate (including a plantation and enslaved people in Clarendon Jamaica, which might have been Mears, of which he was shown as owner in 1795) in trust to support an annuity of 拢1200 p.a. for his wife, to be reduced to 拢600 p.a. if she were to remarry, with the remainder of his estate for the benefit of his eleven children. In a codicil he noted his purchase of an estate in Carshalton Surrey England from John Hodgson Durand.

Sources

PROB 11/1418/306.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (2)

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] → Not known

Golden Vale Estate [ Jamaica | Portland ]

Registered by John Milligan as attorney of Milligan and Mitchell, who were possibly mortgagees or mortgagees-in-possession. David Mitchell had died in 1804, before the registration.

1788 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Owner

Mears [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]