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3. slaver merchant Charles Town Laurens Henry-12781 (John , Progenitor ) was born in 1724 in Carolina,probably. He died in 1792.
See his Oxford DNB online entry. He went to England in 1744 for commercial education, Of Huguenot background. See R. B. Sheridan p. 55 of econ his review on Jamaican wealth. On whether Laurens was involved in slaving or not, see Egnal, Mighty Empire, p. 144ff esp p. 148 re Laurens letters about 1763-1768 to gapskey Richard Oswald and Co, John Knight, John Rutherford, William and Morris, to Rossel and Gervais, George Apleby, Isaac King, William Reeve, to William Stork in 1767, Ross and Mill, Laurens to Campbell and Hays Dec. 2, 1768, Benjamin Addison, Andrew Turnbull in 1769. by 1770, slave imports to Carolina had dropped a full two-thirds. In 1769 p. 149, Laurens to Lachlan McIntosh, in 1770, Laurens to Ashburner and Hinds. slavery, pp. 240ff. Cf., on slave importers see W. Robert Higgins, Charles Town Merchants and Factors dealing in the External Negro Trade, 1735-1775, SCHM, LXV, 1964, pp. 205-217. Some slave importers into South Carolina from 1756 included Miles Brewton, John Edwards, Thomas Evance, Christopher Gadsden, Henry Laurens, Gabriel Manigault, Thomas Middleton (other Middletons are Arthur and Henry see Egnal, Mighty Empire, table, pp. 364ff whether they are Egnalite expansionists or not), John William Ancrum, Alexander Rose, James Smyth, John Smyth, Neufville, Thomas Savage, Benjamin Smith, Roger Smith, Cf., Philip M. Hamer, et al, (Eds), The Papers of Henry Laurens, II, Columbia SC, 1970. pp. 537ff. See biog D. D. Wallace, 1915. See Klingelhofer, Ridley, p. 100. See Sheridan, British Credit Crisis, p. 175, Laurens dealt with John Knight of Liverpool, concerned about low prices from 1772. It appears he was in London at Westminster about March 17, 1773. This Kellock, pp. 141-142 re Laurens having in his counting house one John Hopton who formed a rival slave-getting firm with Robert William Powell of South Carolina, in 1771, to Laurens' great annoyance. see qv names here Richard Oswald slave supplier and names Edmund and Samuel Brailsford plus name Middleton; also, Brailsford and Chapman. See Kellock's article, pp. 113-123. Encyc = Am Rev statesman, wealthy merchant and planter, angered by Townshend Acts with two of his ships seized, in 1771-1774 he lived in England and developed a low opinion of British officials, was imprisoned in Tower of London later to be exchanged as ransom for Lord Cornwallis. See on the Ball lineage at http://www/genealogy.com/users/c/o/r/Mark-R-Cordz/FILE/0001page.html -
Henry married Ball Eleanor Delamere-12782 daughter of Ball Elias-444211 and wife2 Delamere Mary-365936 in North America. Eleanor was born in 1731. She died in 1770.
See on the Ball lineage at http://www/genealogy.com/users/c/o/r/Mark-R-Cordz/FILE/0001page.html -
Henry and Eleanor had the following children:
+ 4 M i Laurens Henry Junior-2192 was born in 1763. He died in 1841. + 5 M ii soldier Laurens John-2211 was born in 1753/1754. He died in 1782. 6 F iii wife3 Laurens Martha-365942. Martha married Dr Carolina Congressman Ramsay David-365949 son of Ramsay Progenitor-365952 and RNotknown Miss-365953.
He is son of an Irish immigrant. He is a historian of the American Revolution. Laurens is his third wife.+ 7 F iv Laurens Mary Eleanor-365943.
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