Will of Thomas Trinder, West Africa

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Please note: the record described by this entry makes reference to enslaved people as commodities.

Will of Thomas Trinder of James Fort, Accra [West Africa, in an area described by Europeans as the Gold Coast, later part of Ghana], in the service of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, but a native of Cirencester, Co Gloucester, England.

Makes several bequests of, and to enslaved people.

Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and administration granted Dec. 1779 to Ann Trinder the niece and next of kin of testator.