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Benjamin Grahame

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1782

Biography

  1. Will of Benjamin Grahame merchant of Dominica [made July 1782] proved 04/02/1783. He ordered his property to be sold, with his Richmond estate 'with the slaves on and belonging to the same' to be sold at the end of the lease-term with Thomas Bushby. 5/16ths of his total property were to go to his brother Peter Grahame of Hornby Hall, Westmoreland; 3 and 1/2 16ths to Isaac Walker in trust to pay his [the testator's] niece Jean Bushby the wife of Thomas Bushby of Dominica the interest for life and then to her children; 2/16ths to his brother-in-law John Scott in the Sheriffdom of Dumfries in trust for his [the testator'] natural daughter Jean Grahame; 1/16th to John Scott himself; 3 and 1/2 16th to his nephew Peter Grahame; and the remaining 1/16th to his godson Benjamin Workman the son of Hugh Workman of Westmoreland.

Sources

  1. PROB 11/1100/100.

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
- 1782 [EY] → Owner
Richmond [ Dominica ]

In his will made in 1782 Benjamin Grahame showed himself as the owner of an estate named Richmond on Dominica that he had leased to Thomas Bushby and that he ordered to be sold at the end of the lease-term. It is not certain that it is the same Richmond estate as that in the Slave Registers.