Simon Taylor of Kingston

1796 - 1838

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Merchant in Kingston Jamaica, partner in Simpson Taylor (q.v.) awarded the compensation for Pleasant Hill in Port Royal, Constant Spring, Ramble Pen and New York in St Ann, and two awards in Kingston all as owner-in-fee, plus the compensation for an estate in St David as trustee.

  1. Simon Taylor in Pleasant Hill Jamaica, son of John Taylor of Kirktonhill, died Kingston Jamaica  01/11/1838. Margaret M'Call, daughter of the Glasgow Virginia merchant George M'Call, had married John Taylor of Kirktonhill.

  2. John Taylor was the cousin of Simon Taylor, the major Jamaica planter, and established himself as a merchant and slave-trader in Jamaica in the 1790s. The Simon Taylor of this award appears most likely to have been the Simon whom John Taylor had with his wife Mary [sic] McCall in 1796, rather than his natural son of the same name.

  3. The will of Simon Taylor at present of Etton Hall Yorkshire [but late of the City and Parish of Kingston in Jamaica] [made in 1836] was proved 25/06/1839. He left £1000 to his reputed daughter Letitia Taylor of Kingston, then a minor, and £1000 each to his two sisters, Christiana Taylor and Catherine Taylor of Edinburgh, and £3000 to his nephew Robert Taylor, son of his eldest brother Robert Taylor of Kirktonhill. He left his residuary estate, including the services of his apprenticed labourers, to his brother and sole executor George Taylor of Kingston. In a codicil of 1838 he recorded the deaths of his two sisters.


Sources

Port Royal no. 5; St Ann nos. 42, 43 (both Ramble) 58 (Constant Spring), and 68 (New York); Kingston nos. 1801 and 1802; St David no. 143. T71/1606 letter from Simon Taylor 17/09/1835 Kirktonhill: dates of payment, 'I shall not go to London until I ascertain the time at which the money in Exchequer Bills can be granted. 'Be so good as let me know when the Simon Taylor will sail for Jamaica'. NDO4/3 Simon Taylor of Kingston at present in Great Britain.

  1. David Dodson, Scots in the West Indies 1707-1857 p. 137; John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry (2nd edn., Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1878) XI. Belvidere House.

  2. Daniel Livesay, 'Children of Uncertain Fortune: mixed-race migration from the West Indies to Britain 1750-1820', Ph.D Dissertation University of Michigan 2010, #http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/77875/1/livesay_1.pdf# [Accessed 27/05/2012] p. 262.

  3. PROB 11/1912/387.

 


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Occupation
West India merchant

Associated Claims (10)

£1,057 8s 0d
Unsuccessful claimant (Mortgagee)
£19 10s 10d
Awardee (Assignee)
£39 1s 8d
Awardee
£5,094 6s 0d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£3,754 13s 4d
Awardee (Receiver)
£5,489 5s 7d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£1,451 7s 7d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£1,141 5s 4d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£516 6s 6d
Awardee (Owner-in-fee)
£2,808 16s 3d
Awardee (Trustee)

Associated Estates (43)

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
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1830 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Not known
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Other
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - → Trustee
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Lessee
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Lessee
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1815 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
1820 [EA] - → Other
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Owner
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Other

Previous owner of 5 of these enslaved people.

1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Name partner
Simpson, Taylor & Co.
West India merchant  
 

Relationships (5)

Brothers
Business partners
Executor → Testator
Nephew → Uncle
Son → Father

Addresses (2)

Kirktonhill, Aberdeenshire, North-east Scotland, Scotland
Etton Hall, Beverley, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England
Notes →

Of Etton Hall when he wrote his will in 1836.