???? - 1787
Mathias Kitchen of Mile End was an investor in annuities secured on 'slave-property'. He was among a group of individuals purchasing, for a total of 拢15,000, annuities from John Mills secured on the latter's estates and enslaved people on Nevis in 1774, when for 拢500 he bought an annuity of 拢50 p.a. on his own life (aged 51) and that of his wife (aged 41). In a second such investment, he was among a group of 16 annuitants created in 1775 when each purchased an annuity from Jacob Kladen (q.v.) secured on Kladen's St Vincent property, including named enslaved people, to raise 拢11,000, when Kitchen purchased an annuity of 拢50 p.a. in common with almost all the other subscribers, on the lives of himself and his wife Elizabeth.
Common Records 1775-1776, British Library, EAP794/1/1/15, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-15 pp. 65-94; Deed Book 1770-1776, British Library, EAP688/1/1/25, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-25 pp. 528-530.
Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Elizabeth
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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:
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1775 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Annuitant
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1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Annuitant
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Mile End, London, Middlesex, London, England
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