Samuel Hayward

Resident slave-owner on Jamaica, friend of Thomas Thistlewood (q.v.), who was his executor. In this capacity Thistlewood reportedly sold 53 enslaved people (52 adults and one child) belonging to Samuel Hayward to Julines Herring in 1784 for £5200. Hayward hired out enslaved people rather than owning his own estate, earning according to Thistlewood over £1400 in one year c. 1780.

1. Will of Samuel Hayward of Jamaica 'being about to leave this island' proved 31/12/1781. He instructed his property to be sold, and the proceeds remitted to Messrs Bland, Barnett and Hoare of London, with £500 to be paid to his sister Jane Butcher of Pitfield Street Hoxton; £1000 to his natural daughter Elizabeth Brown 'a mullato'; and the remainder in trust for his two natural children George and Jenny.

Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny and Desire p. 56, p. 59.

1. PROB 11/1085/420