William Hayman (merchant)

William Hayman, was a merchant, slave trader and Mayor of Bristol in the 17th Century.

Hayman was Mayor of Bristol in 1684.^[1] In 1684, Hayman was involved in an abortive attempt to supply slaves illegally to a Somerset squire, William Helyar, with a plantation in Nevis. Slaves were transported but for an unknown reason were sold to other owners. Hayman undertook this trade with his nephews Anthony and William Swymmer, and another merchant .^[2]^[3]

Solomon, "a black belonging to William Hayman", was baptised in St Augustine's Church in Bristol in 1631; it is not clear if this the same Hayman.^{[citation needed]}

After the Monmouth rebellion, Hayman, who was Mayor of Bristol at the time, was fined £1000 by Chief Justice Jeffreys, for kidnapping of slaves for plantations.^[2]

Hayman's daughter Mary married Thomas Edwards, MP. Mary inherited much of her uncle Edward Colston's fortune when he died in 1721.^[4]

It is not know when Hayman died. He attended a meeting of the Society of Merchant Venturers, of which he was a member, in 1699.^[5]

References[]

^ Ricarts, Robert. "List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Bristol from 1216" (PDF).
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Dresser, Madge, author. Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port. ISBN 978-1-4742-9171-2. OCLC 1089438580.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "The Swymmer brothers | Personal stories: Traders and Merchants | Traders, Merchants and Planters | The People Involved | Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery | PortCities Bristol". www.discoveringbristol.org.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
^ "EDWARDS, Thomas (c.1673 – by 1743), of the Middle Temple and Filkins Hall, Oxon. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
^ MacGrath, Patrick. Records relating to the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century (PDF). Bristol Record Society.

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[1] Ricarts, Robert. "List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Bristol from 1216" (PDF).

[:0-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Dresser, Madge, author. Slavery obscured : the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port. ISBN 978-1-4742-9171-2. OCLC 1089438580.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[3] "The Swymmer brothers | Personal stories: Traders and Merchants | Traders, Merchants and Planters | The People Involved | Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery | PortCities Bristol". www.discoveringbristol.org.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

[4] "EDWARDS, Thomas (c.1673 – by 1743), of the Middle Temple and Filkins Hall, Oxon. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

[5] MacGrath, Patrick. Records relating to the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century (PDF). Bristol Record Society.

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