Archibald Smith of Jordanhill

Profile & Legacies Summary

1749 - 1821

Biography

Glasgow merchant, partner in Leitch & Smith and James Finlay & Co. Purchased Jordanhill 1821. Son of James Smith of Craigend.

Anthony Cooke shows Archibald Smith leaving an estate of £69,160 including share of stock in Leitch and Smith of £62,237.

Sources

'An elite revisited: Glasgow West India merchants, 1783-1877', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 32.2 2012 pp. 127-165, at p. 164, Inventory CC 10/7/4/2357 11/10/1822; additional inventory CC 10/7/4/236 31/10/1822, further inventory SC 36/48/19/143 10/08/1824.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Isabella Ewing

Children

James; Archibald

Wealth at death

£69,160

Occupation

West India merchant

Associated Estates (3)

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

1800 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Heywood Hall Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Leitch & Smith had advanced £25,000 to Robert Mackay & Co. in 1800 on mortgage.

Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 164-166, 215.

1800 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Iter Boreale [ Jamaica | St George ]

Leitch & Smith had advanced £25,000 to Robert Mackay & Co. in 1800 on mortgage.

Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 164-166, 215.

1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known

Millenium Hall [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Millennium Hall was shown against Leitch & Smith for 1810-11 (Jamaica Almanacs 1811 and 1812). The Glasgow merchant firm had a branch in Kingston Jamaica.