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1739: Persians sack Delhi in India.
List of London Bankers 1740:N.B. From "The Complete Guide to London" Reprinted in the "Handbook of London Bankers".
1740: S. W. C Pack, (Ed.), Anson's Voyage Round the World, 1740-1744. By Richard Walter MA. Penguin, 1947.
1740: John Buchanan a young London Scots merchant who visited Maryland in the early 1730s on behalf of his partnership with Gilbert Buchanan, who possibly was his father. Later John Buchanan and Russell were partners in the Nottingham ironworks. (Jacob Price, p. 170).
By 1740 and later, Moses Israel Fonesca/Fonseca was active in London. Little more is known of him than his name, but his non-English origins would be of interest if known.
1740, Samuel Sedgley, merchant in Bristol.
1740, James Gildart, merchant in Liverpool.
1740: William Russell of Baltimore the brother of Scotsman aged about 21, James Russell who settled in Maryland about 1729-1730. At Nottingham in Prince George's County. By 1735 he lent on mortgage, or bought land and slaves and in the 1730s part-owned a ship with John Buchanan of London. (Jacob Price, pp. 168-170.)
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Anthony Bacon: Sources: Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke, The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1754-1790. [Two Vols]. London, Parliament Trust of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1964., Vol. 2, p. 35. Kellock's article, p. 117).
1740: Huntsman makes crucible steel, enabling accurate watches.
1740: George and Carolina attempt to invade Florida (a Spanish possession) for its policy on runaway slaves from American colonies.
1740: South Carolina passes a comprehensive Negro Act, making it illegal for slaves to move abroad, assemble in groups, raise food, earn money, and learn to read English. Owners are permitted to kill rebellious slaves if necessary.
1741: Russian ship captained by Aleksey Chirikov leaves Kamchatka for Alexander Archipelago, loses 15 crew members and a commander, but returns with hundreds of sea otter skins, which it sells in China. (Item re fur trade and North-West America)
1741: In New York is trouble with rebellious slaves. See re career of Cadwallader Colden the Elder.
Died 1741: Vitus Jonassen Bering, who was commissioned by Peter the Great to explore Siberia and Alaska. He refused to winter in Alaska, and ended dying of scurvy on a remote island between America and Russia.
1741: In New York is trouble with rebellious slaves. See re career of Cadwallader Colden the Elder.
Follows an impression of the family history of London Lord Mayor
for 1741 Sir Robert Godschall
Descendants of Draper, Levant trader, John Godschall (b.1647;d.27
Sep 1681) and sp: Bethia Charlton dr1, coheir (b.1662;m.27 Sep
1681)
2. Sarah Godschall dr1 (b.1682/1683;d.Aug 1719) sp: London
merchant, William Johnson, Fenchurch St. (b.May
1686;m.1707/1708;d.Aug) 3. William Johnson Unm (b.Dec 1709;d.1840)
sp: Beata Selwyn (c.1709) 3. Sarah Johnson (b.3 Nov 1710) sp: Dr.
Notknown Fullerton (c.1690) 4. Catherine Fullerton (c.1730) 3.
Bethia Johnson (b.1711) 3. John Johnson (b.6 Sep 1712;d.1775) sp:
Elizabeth Ann Warner 4. Planter Godschall I Johnson of Antigua
(d.1800) sp: Elizabeth Hodges dr2, wife1 (b.16 Jul 1757;m.28 Mar
1779;d.19 Nov 1788) sp: Mary Francis wife2 (b.1770;m.1792;d.16 Jan
1842/1843) 4. Sarah Johnson (b.1744;d.28 Jul 1823) sp: Walpole Eyre
(b.1735;m.5 Nov 1767;d.Apr 1773) sp: Colonel Jeremiah Hodges sp:
Miss Notknown wife2 (d.1786) sp: Miss Notknown wife2 (d.1786) 3.
Mary Johnson Unm (b.1713;d.1724) 3. Jane Johnson Unm (b.3 Feb
1714/1715;d.1795) 3. Catherine wife1 Johnson no issue (b.3 Apr
1716;d.1780) sp: Merchant, Edward Warner, of Eltham (b.11 Jul
1725;m.22 Sep 1746;d.1628) 2. Draper Turkey Co., Levant trader,
Nicholas Godschall (b.1686;d.1748) sp: Sarah Onley (m.1727;d.1750)
3. Jane Godschall Died Young 3. Sarah Godschall, orphan, a fortune
(b.1729/1730;d.1793) sp: William (Godschall-Mee) Mann of Clapham
(m.1752;d.1802) 4. Rev. Samuel Mann Godschall (no issue)
(b.1758;d.1821) sp: Lucy Malthus (Daughter of Malthus the essayist
on population problems) (m.1823) 4. Barnard Mann Died Young 2. Jane
Godschall (b.1687;d.1747) sp: MP London Lord Mayor, Sir John
Barnard (b.1685;m.1708;d.29 Aug 1764) 3. Jane Barnard wife2 sp:
Henry (Houblon) Temple (m.12 Sep 1738;d.18 Aug 1740) 4. Lord
Admiralty Henry Temple Visc2 Palmerston (b.4 Dec 1739;d.16 Apr
1802) sp: Mary Of Dublin Mee wife2 (m.5 Jan 1783;d.20 Jan 1805) sp:
Frances Poole, dr1 (m.6 Oct 1767;d.20 Jan 1805) 3. Sarah Barnard
(d.15 Mar 1762) sp: Banker, Alderman, Sir Thomas Hankey (b.21 Dec
1704;m.19 Jun 1733;d.3 Jul 1770) 4. Thomas Hankey sp: Mary Wyver 4.
Robert Hankey 4. Susanna Hankey (d.1 Aug 1799) sp: MP, Exchqr
official, Beaumont Hotham Baron2 Hotham (b.5 Aug 1737;m.6 Jun
1767;d.4 Mar 1814) sp: James Norman husband1 4. John Hankey (b.6
Sep 1741;d.29 Aug 1792) sp: Elizabeth Thomson 4. Thomas Hankey sp:
Mary Wyver 3. John Barnard extinct 2. Turkey Co. merchant, John
Godschall, Levant trader (b.1690;d.1725) sp: Jane Wilson (d.1782)
2. London Lord Mayor Sir Robert Godschall (b.1691;d.1741) sp: Lady
Godschall Catherine Tryon (Remarried) (d.1755) sp: Miss Lewen 2.
Bethia Godschall (b.1715) sp: George Lewen (m.1715;d.1725) 2.
Catherine Godschall sp: Jonathan Hogg (d.1725)
1740s: Power of Hindu Marathas of central India expands into northern India.
1742: The slave Tacky foments a revolt on Jamaica in 1760. There had been earlier revolts in 1742 and 1745, and white fear stretched from the east to Westmoreland in the west. The island's slave-security systems are later tightened. (Walvin p. 248, p. 268-269).
8 Sep 1742: London convict contractor Andrew Reid wrote to Birch, a Coventry official re convicts health conditions for the voyage - cleanliness etc. Forward and Reid could be suggested as working together, at least, taking convicts from same area. Reid 1742-45 made at least 7 voyages averaging 92 felons per trip.
1743- 1800 Total of 100 Russian ventures. (Item re fur trade and North-West America)
1744: English EICo makes another loan to govt. of £1,000,000, by about then its imports had doubled to £1,100,000 since 1708, and its exports at about the same figures, but it still only had 20 ships sailing, it imported raw silk, cotton yarn, undyed calico, tea from China and coffee from Surat or Mokha. and it never chartered a ship over 499 tons since a tonnage of 500 required a chaplain aboard.
1744, John Langley, merchant in Ireland.
1745-1748: (Olson, Virginia Merchants of London, p. 380, Note 73). By 20 December, 1745, John Hanbury commented on Perry's out-of-date business methods in a letter to John Custis. By the late 1740s, Perry and Hyde were bankrupt and had no relatives to revive the business. Olson comments, "They were a sad object lesson in the difficulties of combining political and mercantile careers". Hanbury as a Quaker also stood aloof, he was financially the most successful.
1745: Leyden jar stores an electrical charge.
1745: Paper cartridge allows English victory at Fontenoy.
1745: Circa 5 August, sails from Liverpool ship
Gildart, Capt. Richard Holme, to arrive Port North,
Potomack, Maryland with Scottish "rebels". Ship owned by Lord Mayor
of Liverpool, Richard Gildart. On the Gildart family, we find other
linkages. This Richard Gildart had a daughter Harriet who married
London brewer Andrew Reid... (Per emailer Dave Reid to this
website...) This Andrew Reid founded Reid's Brewery in London about
1800. His brother(s) dealt in the East opium; David Reid a major
opium trader in year?; with a brother David who was "a Danish
military officer". One such Reid brother arrived in 1780 in China
as Austrian Consul to China, and he became a partner with John
Henry Cox; also with a connection with firm Reid and Beale, see re
David and Thomas Beale, who with Alexander Shank formed the China
agency of Reid and Beale, which became Beale and Magniac which
became in 1832, Jardine-Matheson. There were also Andrew and David
Reid, possibly sons of one of the brothers, who went into Fairlie,
Reid and Co. of Calcutta, and Gildart his partner qv. See website (now defunct, is 404): once at: http://maxpages.com/ourlostfamily/Prison_Ships
Bulley, Bombay Ships, pp. 108ff. Hodson lists. See W. E.
Cheong, Jardine, p. 10, various. See Coates' book on Macao,
p. 73; Keswick, Thistle and Jade, pp. 50ff in an essay by
Alan Reid, and appendices.
1745+: From mid-1740s: Two London firms Reid and Armour, and Sydenham and Hodgson, competed for franchise for felons from Coventry. The larger firm was Reid and Armour. John Stewart once said, that the transporting of criminals was left to "the most corruptible class" of traders and he once described his former partner, Andrew Reid, as a "person against whom almost every species of complaint was made". (As cited in Coldham, Bonded Passengers. Note that Stewart was complained of in the colonies as a profiteer.)
1745: Last Jacobite uprising of the Scots against the English by "Bonnie Prince Charlie", unsuccessful.
1746: American scientist Benjamin Franklin begins his research into electricity. Follows material on London Lord Mayor 1747-1748 Sir Robert Ladbroke1748: (Olson, Virginia Merchants of London, p. 380), late 1740s, Perry and Hyde are bankrupt and have no relatives to revive the business. Olson comments, "They were a sad object lesson in the difficulties of combining political and mercantile careers". Hanbury as a Quaker also stood aloof, he was financially the most successful.
Follows an impression of the family history of London Lord Mayor
of 1748 Sir William Calvert of the London brewing family.
Descendants of 1. Felix Calvert (b.15 Feb 1623;d.22 Mar 1698) sp:
Joan DAY
2. William Calvert, cousin, Of Herts (b.1667) sp: Honor Calvert 3.
Sir, London Lord Mayor, Brewer William Calvert (b.1703;d.2 May
1761) sp: Martha Smith, of Southwark (m.Jun 1732) 3. Brewer Felix
Calvert (b.1693;d.15 Jun 1755) sp: Christian Nicolson (c.1730;d.Nov
1759) 4. Merchant, MP Nicolson Calvert (b.1725;d.4 May 1793) sp:
Rebecca Goodwin 4. Felix Calvert (d.23 Mar 1802) sp: Elizabeth
Ladbroke (m.21 Jul 1763) 5. MP Charles Calvert (d.8 Sep 1832) sp:
Jane Rowley (m.31 Mar 1823) 6. Colonel Archibald Motteux Calvert
(c.1890;d.1900) sp: Constance PETERS (d.1915) 7. Charles Archibald
Calvert (b.1873;d.1956) sp: Winifred Susan Cholmeley (d.1957) 7.
William Archibald Calvert (b.1868) sp: Beatrice Cubitt 7. Maud
Marianne Calvert sp: Henry Baron Cubitt, Ashcombe, Baron2 (b.14 Mar
1867;m.21 Aug 1890;d.27 Oct 1947) 6. Henry Eric Ladbroke Calvert 6.
Lt. Charles Calvert 6. Arethusa Jane Calvert wife1 (d.4 Feb 1877)
sp: Leicester Hibbert (b.6 Mar 1826;m.29 Apr 1851) 6. Georgiana
Emma Calvert 6. Charles William Calvert (d.1870) 6. Robert Francis
Twisleton Calvert 5. MP Nicolson Calvert (b.15 May 1764;d.13 Apr
1841) sp: Frances Pery wife2 (c.1789;m.3 Jan 1789;d.22 Feb 1859) 6.
Lt-General Felix Calvert, Unm, (b.16 Oct 1790;d.3 Mar 1887) 6.
Edmund Pery Calvert JP (b.26 Oct 1797;d.18 Jun 1866) sp: Elizabeth
Campbell (m.8 Aug 1844) 7. Felix Calvert (b.12 Sep 1847;d.26 Apr
1910) 7. Capt. Walter Campbell Calvert (b.4 Sep 1849) sp: Elizabeth
Campbell (m.8 Aug 1844) 7. Felix Calvert (b.12 Sep 1847;d.26 Apr
1910)
6. Nicolson Robert Calvert sp: Elizabeth Blacker 6. Isabella
Calvert sp: Privy Chamber member Sir James Matthew Stronge, Bart2
(b.6 Apr 1786) 7. MP Sir James Matthew Stronge, Bart (d.11 Mar
1885) sp: Selina Nugent 7. Pauline Caroline Diana Stronge Mary sp:
Capt. William Bunbury McLintock RN (m.1842;d.1866)
7. Catherine Caroline Brownlow Stronge sp: Lt-Col. George Augustus
Jocelyn McLintock (b.1822) sp: Mary Calvert (Second cousin) (m.8
Sep 1757;d.May 1757) 4. Brewer Charles Calvert sp: Miss Notknown 4.
MP John Calvert of Albury Hall Hertford Town (b.6 May 1726;d.22 Feb
1804) sp: Elizabeth Hulse (b.1732;m.8 Sep 1757) 5. John Junior Unm
Calvert MP (b.1758;d.2 Jun 1844) sp: Elizabeth Hulse (d.1807) 4.
Mary Calvert sp: Thomas Calvert (m.27 May 1773) 3. Peter Calvert
sp: Susannah Tooke
1748: The asiento (cross-national contract re provisions
of slaves) is renewed in 1748, but partly due to conflict, in 1750
the Spanish agree "to the recession of the Asiento Treaty
altogether with the payment by Spain of £156,000" to Britain.
Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Asiento chronology -
1749: Richard Grubb, partner with James Crokatt, South Carolina trade, from 1749 with Alexander Watson, became Grubb and Watson to Carolina, Billiter Sq then George Yard Lombard St. (Kellock's Lists).
1749: In 1749, was the Ohio Company Grant, leading to exploration beyond the mountains. From the 1760s, to 1775, Virginia and Massachusetts led resistance to Geo II's more objectionable policies.
1749: George II repeals the 1705 act of Virginia which made slaves into "real estate", that is, property.
1750: Benjamin Franklin suggests idea of a lightning rod.
1750: William Craven - Lord Mayor of London 1750.
(Item, per Peter Western)
1750: Georgia in America legalises slavery.
1750-1779: Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747-73), who united Afghanistan, invades India, takes Lahore; plunders Delhi in 1755.
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1652: The Dutch establish a ships' revictualling station (not a plantation-based colony) for their East India Company ships at Cape of Good Hope. (Cited in Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control. New York, Verso, 2002., p. 207)
1687++: Europeans have failed to penetrate usefully for their purposes into Africa, so they resort to establishing forts/trading depots on the coast at Kommenda in 1687, Sekondi in 1694, and Anombau in 1701. (Cited in Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control. New York, Verso, 2002.,p. 206)
1675: The British launch a crown colony -- Senemgambia -- on the West Coast of Africa between the rivers Gambia and Senegal. The project is abandoned in 1783. (See Basil Davidson, Africa in History. New York, 1974). (Cited in Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control. New York, Verso, 2002., p. 206)
Reference Item: At www.archive.org/stream, W. H. Coates, The old “country trade” of the East Indies. London, The Anchor Press, 1911.
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1796: Island of St Vincent in the Caribbean. Anexing the island, the British have found that the island is inhabitated by people known as The Black Caribs, a mix of surviving Caribs and Negro slaves escaped from other islands. The Black Caribs rose in revolt against the British in 1795 but were defeated, then deported, in 1796. (Cited in Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1, Racial Oppression and Social Control. New York, Verso, 2002.,p. 217)
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