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John Boddie surgeon of Nevis

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1780

Biography

Slave-owner on Nevis, and doctor to the Mountravers estate of John Pretor Pinney (q.v.) among others.

  1. Will of John Boddie surgeon of Nevis [made in 1777] proved 05/12/1780. He left his 'plantations...negroes, cattle, live and dead stock' in trust (his trustee was John Fothergill Doctor of Physick of Harpur Street in London) to repay what he owed on mortgage (including possibly to Fothergill) with the residue to his children John Ward Boddie and Mary Ward Boddie.

Sources

https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/mountravers~part2chapter4.pdf [accessed 15/07/2020].

  1. PROB 11/1072/65. The will implies but is not completely clear that the amounts owed by John Boddie to Fothergill were part of the mortgage debts. The will of John Fothergill of Harpur Street proved 12/01/1781 PROB 11/1073/140 makes no reference to slave-property.

Associated Estates (1)

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
1772 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Owner
Jory's later Fothergill's [ Nevis | St George Gingerland ]

In 1772 (1 and 2 January) John Fothergill sold Jory’s to John Boddie, but the estate was mortgaged back to him (19 and 20 February) by John Boddie to secure the purchase price.

Relationships (1)

John Boddie surgeon of Nevis
Testator → Trustee
Dr. John Fothergill
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