Samuel Farmer, Esq.

Samuel Farmer was born 1613 in Of Bristol, Somerset?, and died 1678.

Family

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He married Elizabeth Dallathy, daughter of William Dallathy and Elizabeth. She died AFT 13 MAY 1679.

	  Children of Samuel Farmer and Elizabeth Dallathy are:

• i. John Farmer died ABT 1684.
• ii. Joyce Farmer.

Notes

But Bristol merchants could also be asked to supply their planter-customers with labour and it is this function which renders the connection between slaving and mercantile activity more visible.

Samuel Farmer (1613-78), a Bristol merchant active in Barbados during the years of Cromwell's rule, is a living embodiment of such a connection. In 1645 Farmer bought over 500 acres of two estates belonging to one William Hilliard. In return, not only was Farmer obliged to live on the larger of the estates in St John's and to oversee its management, but he was also to supply the estate with 90 African slaves. By the time he died, he appears also to have owned a 300-acre plantation in the parish of St Thomas (reportedly still called 'Farmers'), although he may well have died heavily indebted.

(Slavery obscured: the social history of the slave trade in an ... Madge Dresser. 2001.) GoogleBooks

Will of WILLIAM DALLATHY, GENT. OF BDOS St. Michaels Parish, Barbados 20 Nov 1677, RB6/10, P. 188

• Dau Margrett Lewis, wf of Capt. Hugh Lewis;
• Wife Elizabeth Dallathy ? Executrx;
• gr chn Elizabeth, Margarett, William, John, & Benjamin, all at 18; Capt. John Farmer, Margarett Farmer, Samuell Farmer, & Elizabeth Farmer, the sons & daus of Samuel Farmer Esq of Bdos; James Cowes, gr ch of said Samuel.
• Signed William Dallathy.
• Wit: John Sparke, William (x) Lukus [or Curtis?], Susannah (x) Barnes
• Proved 29 JUNE 1680, court says Hon. John Sparke is also decd.
• (Barbados Records Wills and Administrations Volume 1, 2 and 3. Joanne McRee Sanders

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Samuel Farmer Mentioned in the 1671 will of Constant Sylvester GoogleBooks

From Chronological History of the Discovery and Settlement of Guiana ... James Rodway (1888) Page 151-152: