Mungo (Batten's servant)

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N Terry F on Thu 16 Feb 2006, 05:06am

Mungo/Mingo/Mingoe - from Servant to Lighthouse Keeper
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Sir William Batten was granted Letters Patent by King James I to operate the Harwich Lighthouse, a profitable concern because of its strategic importance to shipping in 1664. These extracts from his will reveal that Batten wanted his ‘servante Mingoe a Negroe’ to become lighthouse keeper upon his death. The servant was also left a legacy of £20 per year for life - a substantial sum of money at the time.

PROB 11/325, q. 144 (Dec 1667) [Image and transcript of the portion of Sir W. Batten’s will as it pertains to ‘Mingoe’[Mungo] at the bottom of http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/work_community/servants.htm
N in Aqua Scripto on Thu 16 Feb 2006, 05:42am

add to Terry F: links
http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/02/14/
http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/03/27/
http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/04/10/
N in Aqua Scripto on Thu 16 Feb 2006, 05:44am

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