Samuel New

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1763

Biography

Slave-owner on Nevis, and a merchant of Bristol.

Will of Samuel New [late of Nevis] merchant of Bristol Gloucestershire proved 30/03/1763. In the will he left the Stapletons estate which he had purchased in fee of Mary Sargent, with other lands in Nevis, to his son Rev. James New, and his moieties of the Clifton and Mountain estate now in the tenure of ------Galloway and of the Bristol estate to his son John New (the other halves were owned by Richard Cox, he said). He also left 1000 acres in Georgia in the American colonies between his two sons, leaving James also two enslaved men in the service of another individual there. In a codicil he revoked his legacy of an annuity of £8 p.a.and her freedom to a 'negro woman' named Peggy, 'she now living with my daughter Parris.'

Sources

PROB 11/885/501.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Spouse

Married but no further details

Children

James; John; Martha; Elizabeth

Occupation

Merchant

Associated Estates (2)

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

- 1763 [EY] → Joint owner

Clifton's, Paynes and Morton's Bay [ Nevis ]

Samuel New left his moiety of the Clifton and Mountain estate in his will of 1763 to his son John New, specifying that the other half was owned by Richard Cox.

- 1763 [EY] → Owner

Stapletons [ Nevis | St John Figtree ]

Shown in his will, made and proved in 1763, as having been purchased in fee by Samuel New of Mary Sargent.