Maxwell Trokes Esq., Partner Gordon Trokes & Leitch of New York

"..., Maxwell Trokes, Directors[3]. - William M Neal, Secretary. The time dividends.are declared or payable, are 2d Tuesdays in May and November. London Phoenix Insurance Company. Office, 26 W T all-street. [2]

Gordon, Trokes & Company, a mercantile firm in Richmond, may have been a partnership between Richmond merchant Robert Gordon (ca. 1773–1847) and New York-based merchant Maxwell Trokes, who married Sarah H. Goode of Manchester, Virginia, in August 1809. TJ ended his relationship with the firm in 1811, concerned about his inability to make timely payments. By 1819 Gordon was listed without a partner in a Richmond city directory, and that same year saw the bankruptcy of Trokes, then identified as a Liverpool merchant in partnership with James Frisby ("Frisney") Leitch of London and Robert Graham of Manchester, Virginia, in the firm of Maxwell Trokes & Co. (MB, 2:1264; TJ to Gordon, Trokes & Co., 4 Apr. 1811; Richmond Directory, Register and Almanac, for the Year 1819 [Richmond, 1819], 48; Liverpool Mercury, 13 Sept. 1819; Richmond Enquirer, 20 Aug. 1809, 24 Aug. 1847).

Missing letters of 31 July and 29 Aug. 1809 from Gordon, Trokes & Co. are recorded in SJL as received from Richmond on 8 Aug. and 5 Sept. 1809.

Suddenly at 3 Maule Terrace, Partick, on the 4th instant, Maxwell Trokes Esq., formerly of Richmond, Virginia. – Friends at a distance will please accept of this invitation.

Census 1850: Virginia

Name: Maxwell Trokes Age: 70 Birth Year: about 1780 Birthplace: Scotland Home in 1850: Richmond, Richmond (Independent City), Virginia, USA Gender: Male

Name: Maxwell Trokes Event: Marriage Marriage Date: 7 August 1813 Marriage Place: Manchester, Virginia Spouse: S H Goode Newspaper: New York Evening Post Publication Date: 23 August 1813 Publication Place: New York, USA

Name: Maxwell Trokes Arrival date: 31 July 1826 Birth Date: about 1782 Age: 44 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Liverpool, England Port of Arrival: New York, New York

[2] Longworths American Almanac, New-York Register and City Directory, 1797 [3] Thomas Jefferson to Gordon, Trokes & Company, 25 July 1809 To Gordon, Trokes & Company Monticello July 25. 09

From Scotland's People - Old Parish Records - Deaths and Burials

4 December 1852 death or burial: Maxwell Trokes, male, aged 71 [born about 1781], died in the parish of Glasgow

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Suddenly at 3 Maule Terrace, Partick, on the 4th [December 1852] instant, Maxwell Trokes Esq., formerly of Richmond, Virginia. – Friends at a distance will please accept of this invitation

From Scotland's People - Legal records, wills, testaments

• 23 May 1853 Last Will and Testament of Maxwell Trokes of Richmond, Virginia, USA, died at Partick, near Glasgow, Scotland; in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court Wills
• 23 May 1853 Inventory of Maxwell Trokes residing in Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.; in the Edinburgh Sheriff Court Inventories