Benjamin Parkhurst

Benjamin Parkhurst of Norfolk Street, Strand, London counterclaimed as judgement creditor for £160 against the compensation for the enslaved people on the Donovan's estate on Antigua.

1. Possibly but not certainly the purser Benjamin Parkhurst (at that time living at 'Thomas Scott's' or Mr Scott's in Bethnal Green - Benjamin Parkhurst married Eleanor Scott in Bethnal Green in 1808) who in 1808 was the victim of a theft of a £50 note. The trial resulted in a death sentence for the accused, a 13 year old boy (the jury and prosecution asked for clemency). The same man was identified in 1851 as 'Paymaster and Purser H[alf] P[ay], when he was living (aged 67) with his wife Eleanor at Lee in Kent. His will - in which he was shown as of Tredegar Square Mile End Road - was proved 20/10/1852: it is short and included specific legacies to his children, including his Encyclopaedia Britannica to his third son, with the residue to his wife Eleanor.

1. Old Bailey Sessions, http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=18080713; PROB 11/2160/262.