William Whittaker or Whitaker of Bromley Kent

Absentee slave-owner on Barbados. Probably the consignee of William Holder (q.v.) named in the latter's will.

1. Will of William Whittaker or Whitaker of Bromley [made 23/04/1759] proved 21/01/1760. In the will he disposed of English property (including his lease of a dry dock at Chepstow) in trust to his son William and his heirs, failing whom to his daughters, and left the White River estate 'and all the stock of negroes, cattle, utensils and things' in St Philip, and the Henley estate in St John, again with the enslaved people on it, in a separate trust but with the same beneficiaries, with consent to sell Henley but not White River. The estate was subject to his legacies of an annuity of £300 p.a. to his wife Loretta Maria and £2000 each to his daughters, who appear to be five but were conceivably three (they appear as 'Ann Mary Loretta Maria and Sarah').

1. PROB 11/852/360