Harris
Neate (1706 – 1742). The father of the Two Children in the Portrait of the Neate Children Accompanied by their Tutor by Joshua Reynolds in the Metropolitan Museum, New York
The first records of the
Neate family suggest that they originate in the 17th
century in the North Wiltshire Area and were early Quakers. There were
Quaker Meeting Houses at Calne, Devizes and Chippenham.
1704. - Thomas Neate described as Merchant of Bristol, previously a soap maker of Chippenham bought land at Chippenham, Langley Burrell, Potterne and Hardenhuish in Wiltshire, Documents at Trowbridge records Office showing a close association of Thomas Neate – Merchant of Bristol and Thomas Harris, Apothecary of Chippenham (info in Rich.Colviles note book), Thomas either the father or brother of Nathaniel Harris, father of Love Harris / Neate, mother of Harris Neate.
Nathaniel
Harris was party to a lease in 1706 of Gods Place, on the High Street
in Chippenham, from the Church in 1713. This is probably the date of
his death. Thomas Harris rents Gods Place until 1735. Love Harris
(mother of Harris Neate) lived at Gods Place until 1757. Harris Neate
had an “estate” at Gastard, Nr Corsham, Wilts.
1705. Marriage of Thomas Neate I of the City of Bristol, merchant to Love Harris, daughter of Nathaniel Harris of Chippenham, Wiltshire at Chippenham,
1706. Marriage of Anthony Neate, (d. 1735 of fever), Haberdasher of Georges Yard, Lombard Street, London (son of Thomas Neate of Chippenham) married Hannah Marsh (d.1723) of Bermondsey. (Anthony is the brother of Thomas Neate I). They have a son also Anthony (b1717).
1706. Birth of Harris Neate, the first husband of Martha Vandewall, ne Barrow at Castle Green, Bristol. In 1716 the family are described of James Square, Bristol. This suggests that the family are very prosperous. Castle Green was built in the grounds of Bristol Castle, which was destroyed in the Civil War in the late 17th Century.
1729. April 1, Sale of messuage and land called Knowles in parish of Hardenhuish. (Just north of Chippenham, Wilts)
Parties - (1) Thomas Neate and Love his wife of Bristol, Charles Harford, Walter Hawkesworth, James Davis,
(2) Nathaniel Harris of Bristol.
See at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives : Note 212B/3356.
1734.
- 6 Jan – Harris
Neate,
described as of the Island of Jamaica married Martha Barrow daughter
of Jonathan Barrow of the county of Monmouth.
Martha had a brother Francis Barrow who was died at Charleston in America on12 July 1750, leaving his estate to Samuel Vandewall, see South Carolina Wills. p 47
The following notes relate to Thomas Neate of Jamaica and William Neate. I have not yet established the relationship of these two Neates to Harris Neate.
This Thomas Neate is perhaps the father or brother of Harris Neate
There
is a reference to a brother in the will of – is this William Neate??
There
are also two other companies in London bearing the Neate name – Neate and
Pigou,(Kents Directory 1763, St Marys Hill, London) and Neate and Neave.
1744. The ship the Dragon was part owned by Nehemiah Champion of Bristol, she was supplied with guns and shot from Coalbrookedale in June and August of 1744: see The Goldeney Family, Stembridge. 1998.
1737.
Saturday, April 30; Issue 660. Read's
Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer (London,
England), Reports the Death of Thomas Neate –
“by
letter from Jamaica, we are informed of the death of Mr Thomas Neate,
a merchant who had resided there about eight years. He died in very
good circumstances and beloved by all who were acquainted with him”
1737.
Thursday, July 28; Daily
Post,
London, England, Issue 5578, reports – Gravesend, July 26. The
Dragon, Neate from Jamaica.
1738.
Monday, June 5, Daily
Post, London,
England; Issue 5845 reports –under Port News – Deal, June 2
arriv’d the Dragon, Neate from Jamaica
1738
– 40 Anthony Neate of Jamaica, ref. RGO/ Sp Tw Liber 23 from Index
of Early Wills of Jamaica
1738,
Monday, June 5, London
Daily Post and General Advertiser (London,
England), Issue 1123 – reported -The Dragon, Captain
Neate
from Jamaica which ship spoke with the St Quinten, Cathcart from the
Bay of Honduras in lat 49, 30m, which ship had lost her main mast,
foretop mast, boats, guns and anchors, was very leaky and most of the
crew sick or dead. On Saturday in the afternoon the above ship (whose
holding is wholly log wood arrived in the downs.
1739,
March 20; London
Daily Post and General Advertiser London,
England, Tuesday, Issue 1370 – reports – The Dragon, Neate, from
Philadelphia is arrived at Jamaica in 21 days
1739,
Monday, July 2, Daily
Post, London,
England; Issue 6181- reports Deal, June 30, Dragon, Neate from
Jamaica.
1739,
Saturday, September 29, Country
Journal or The Craftsman,
London, Issue 690 –reports The Dragon, Capt William Neate, bound to
Philadelphia and Jamaica is sail’d, having a letter of marque.
Benjamin
Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette reports arrival of Capt. William
Neate, 5 Dec, at Phila. from London with European News
1740,
Friday, May 30, London
Daily Post and General Advertiser,
London, England, Issue 1747 – reports The Dragon, Neate from
Philadelphia is arrived at Jamaica.
1740;
Friday, August 8, Daily
Post, London,
England, Issue 6527 reports under port news - Deal, August 6, arrived
the Dragon, Neate from Jamaica.
Undated
Ref in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette to the Dursley Galley
–William Neate, Commander will sail from Phila. As a privateer to
Jamaica (9 July)
1742;
Saturday, January 9, London
Evening Post (London,
England), Issue 2211. – reports – Extract of a letter from
Captain Neate of the Dursley, Galley, to his owners in London dated
Oct 17 –describes an engagement between the Dursley Gally and two
Spanish privateer sloops off Jamaica - one of which was sunk.
For Jamaica; The
Ship Dursly Gally, WILLIAM
NEATE, Commander
Burthen
about 400 Tons, mounts 22 Cannon, six Pounders,
and 8Swivel Guns, with small Arms and all other Matterials fitting
for a Ship of War, & is to carry 50 Men. This is
is therefore to give Notice to all Gentlemen Sailors that are willing
to enter on board said Ship they shall have monthly Wages as they
shall agree with said Commander, and on half of all Prizes or Booty
that shall be taken during the Voyage divided between Captain,
Officers, and Men, in such manner as Privateers
generally divide, the other half to go to the Owners, and in Case any
Man in Battle loose a Limb he shall be intituled to 50 l
Sterling out of the first Booty or Prize that shall be taken, if an
Eye 30 l.
Sterling, if a joint 10 l.
Sterling, and further if any Man get wounded or maim'd in defence of
said Ship and no Captor be made, the Owners of the said Ship do
oblige themselves to allow to every such Man 5 l
Sterling.
N.B. As the Ship is principally engaged to carry Kings Provisions the Company need be under no Apprehensions of being Pressed
N.B. As the Ship is principally engaged to carry Kings Provisions the Company need be under no Apprehensions of being Pressed
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A couple of notes on other Neate Companies,
Neate
and Pigou
From
- http://www.danbyrnes.com.au/merchants/merchants9.htm
In
April 1761 Frederick Pigou Jnr became partner of William
Neate.
Pigou Snr was in manufacturing and selling gunpowder, a partner with
Miles Peter Andrews, at 28 Budge Row. Pigou Jnr went from Neate in
1768 and tried to take over Neate's correspondents. Booth had been
briefly in New York, in 1759 with a store. By 1773, Pigou Jnr's
father was a director of the East India Co, and wanted tea consigned.
The owners of the Nancy to carry tea to New York were William Kelly
and Co and perhaps John Blackburn qv in Kellock. After the revolution
began, Pigou returned to England, but in 1777 as British troops
occupied he returned to New York, but back in England by 1779 or
1780. The partnership had been ended. Booth tried to set up alone but
by 1782 was bankrupt. Booth once wrote a book on a complete system of
book-keeping. Pigou and Booth in 1790 claimed £6056 from New York
and Pennsylvania.
(On Frederick Pigou, see Olson, Making the Empire Work, citations p. 244, Note 59.)
(On Frederick Pigou, see Olson, Making the Empire Work, citations p. 244, Note 59.)
From - The London Mercantile Lobby and the Coming of the American Revolution - Alison G. Olson
The
Journal of American History, Vol.
69, No. 1 (Jun., 1982), 21-41
Before
the 1760s Quakers had held back from cooperating with non-Quaker
merchants. The
most
powerful had lobbied with ministers and the Board of Trade on their
own; lesser ones had
channeled
their influence through the London Meeting for Sufferings, but their
names were con-
spicuously
absent from mercantile petitions. In the 1760s Quakers like William
Neate,
David
Barclay,
Daniel Mildred, and, before his early death, Hanbury had begun
cooperating with the
larger
merchant community. Quaker influence is also suggested by John
Fothergill's statement
that
three or four Quaker merchants got the merchants mobilized on the
Stamp Act opposition,
though
Fothergill was clearly writing for Quaker consumption. John
Fothergill to James Pember-
ton,
April 8, 1766, in Chain
of Friendship: Selected Letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London,
1735-
1780,
ed.
Betsy C. Corner and Christopher Booth. (Cambridge, Mass., 1971),
257-61
From
Franklin's Autobiographical Writings
On
the 24th
I received the following note from a considerable merchant in the
city - "Mr.
William Neate presents
his most respectful compliments to Dr Franklin, and as a report
prevailed yesterday evening that all the disputes between Great
Britain and the American colonies were, through his application and
influence with Lord North, amicably settled conformable to the wish
and desire of the late Congress, W. N. desires the favor of Dr.
Franklin to inform him by a line, per the bearer, whether there is
any credit to be given to the report”.
"St. Mary Hill, 24th December,
1774."
1740
- 11 April, Thomas
Neate II
was born at Laurence Pountney Hill, City to Harris Neate and Martha
Neate ne Barrow.
1740
- Harris Neat & Co, Merchants of Laurence Pountney Hill noted in
Kent’s Directory of London.
1741
– Birth of Martha Neate.
1742 - 6 September – Harris Neate of the parish of St Lawrence Jewry, died of a fever and is buried at Friends Burial Ground, Long Lane. London.
1743 - Saturday, June 18, Daily Advertiser, London, England, Issue 3874.
A
black negro women about nineteen years old with two letters on her
breast and her shoulder made her escape from the ship Hannah, Capt
Fowler, for Jamaica the 6th inst. Goes by the name of Sabinah is
supposed to be deluded away by some other black about Whitechapel,
Rag Fair or Rotherhith, whoever brings her to the late Mr Neates, on
Lawrence Pountney Hill, shall have three guineas reward, or if put on
board the ship again any time between this and next Tuesday, ten
shillings more.
The
above advertisement was repeated in the Daily Advertiser (London,
England), Wednesday, September 14, 1743; Issue 3949 without the last
sentence.
1740’s – Both Harris Neate’s and Samuel Vandewall’s portraits were painted perhaps by George Knapton, (1698 – 1778).
Provenance
- Anne Bulley & Mark Garthwaite through Patricia Allen (their
mother) who inherited from grandfather, Charles Eden Neate (son of
Walter Neate) now with Susanna Harris Hughs. Info
from Susannah Harris Hughes a direct descendant of Thomas Neate.
Martha Neate was also painted by Knapton at around the same time. The portrait sold by Christies King St, London Lot 28, 25 November 2003 and sold by a member of the family. Described by Christies - Portrait of Mrs Neate, of Donnington, Hampshire, half-length, in an embroidered silver shawl trimmed with fur, seated by a table with a spaniel her lap, in an interior, beside a pole screen.
The will of Harris Neate of 2 December 1740 states:
“Firstly
I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife Martha
Neate one thousand
pounds and all my household goods linen plate jewels rings watches
and all furniture of what kind so ever……..”
He leaves his sisters Love Neate and Anne Grant £200 each. He also wishes that his wife is not pursued for any of his brother’s debts. (William Neate??)
The Will
of Harris Neate 1740 (in full)
In
the name of God Amen
I
HARRIS NEATE of London ~ Merchant ~ being in perfect health and of
sound and disposing mind
memory and understanding do make this my last Will and Testament in
manner following
Firstly
I give and bequeath unto my dearly beloved wife MARTHA NEATE one
thousand pounds and all my household goods linen plate jewels rings
watches and all furniture of what kind so ever I also give unto my
mother LOVE NEATE one hundred pounds and do hereby release and
discharge my said mother from the payment of and every sum or sums of
money as may be due and owing from her to me at the time of my
decease and and I also give and bequeath to my sister LOVE NEATE
and my sister ANN GRANT the sum of two hundred pounds each which said
last mentioned legacies of one hundred pounds and two hundred pounds
I will shall be paid by my Executrix herein after named within twelve
months after my
decease
I also give to JULINES BARFFORD of Lincolns Inn Fields ~ Esquire ~
and JOSHUA FFLEETHAM of Cornhill London ~ Woollen Draper ~ Twenty
guineas each I give unto my servant JOHN GORDON ten guineas if he
shall be living with me at my death and from and after payment and
satisfaction of the above mentioned legacy's and of all such Debts as
I shall owe at my death and of the Charges attending the Probate and
execution of this my Will I do hereby Will direct and appoint the
rest and residue of my personal estate to be paid by my Executrix
hereinafter named within two years next after my decease unto the
said JULINES BARFFORD and JOSHUA FFLEETHAM upon Trust that they the
said Juline BARFFORD and Joshua
FFLEETHAM //
[2 pages] // Security as my said Executrix shall approve
to her not to molest sue or implead her for or on account of all or
any of the Estate or Effects of my said late Brother which were in
partnership between us or on any other account whatsoever // And I
do hereby make constitute and appoint my said dear wife MARTHA NEATE
sole executrix of this my Last Will and Testament in witness whereof
I the said HARRIS NEATE to the my last Will and Testament contained
in two sheets of paper have sett my hand and seal to each sheet
thereof this second day of June in the thirteenth year of the Reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God of Great
Britain France and Ireland King Defender of
the
ffaith and so forth and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and fforty
HARRIS
NEATE Signed sealed published and declared by the said Testator
Harris NEATE as and for his Last will and Testament in the presence
of us who in his presence and at his request have subscribed our
names as Witnesses hereunto Thom's GRIFFITHS Edward WHITE Jno
MIDDLEBROOKE of CLIFFORDS jur.
This
Will was proved at London the second day of December in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty two Before the
Worshipful Robert CHAPMAN Doctor of laws Surrogate of the Right
Worshipful John BETTESWORTH Doctor of Laws and master Keeper or
Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully instituted
by the solemn and sincere declaration or affirmation of MARTHA NEATE
~Widow the Relict of the Deceased and sole Executrix named in the
said Will to whom Administration was granted of all and singular the
Goods Chattels and Credits of the said deceased having first made the
Declaration or Affirmation aforesaid according to Act of Parliament
Duly to Administer.
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