Pinney family
Other Business Names:
- Pinney, Azariah
- Pinney, John P
- Tobin, James
- Pinney & Tobin
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bristol, City of Bristol, Avon, South West, England
- Kitts & Nevis
Sectors:
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
General trading & trade
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Agriculture & fishing
Plantation management, sugar
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Financial services
Private loan financing inc individuals & businesses
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Transport services
Shipping services - long distance, inc ship ownership & management
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Merchanting & trade, international & inland
Sugar trading & trade
Notes:
Traced origins in sugar business to late 17th century when Azariah Pinney established sugar plantations on the West Indian island of Nevis. Emerged as leading sugar planters. This business was developed especially by John P Pinney, 1740-1818, from the 1760s. In 1783 he returned from Nevis to establish, with James Tobin, a merchanting business at Bristol as Pinney & Tobin. Emerged as leading sugar merchants at Bristol, trading with Nevis, owning ships and financing plantations through the provision of loans. Plantations sold from 1808 and Bristol firm closed c1850 [2023]
Publications:
- A West India Fortune by Pares, Richard
- Commercial Organisation of the Late Eighteenth Century Atlantic World. A comparative analysis of the British and French West Indian trades by Forestier, Albane
- Gateway of Empire by MacInnes, Charles M
- House of Pinney and Garnett's patent rollers by Ward, Owen
- 'John Pinney, planter and merchant' in C M Macinnes, Gateway of Empire by MacInnes, Charles M
- 'Managing a West Indian sugar estate. John Pinney and the Island of Nevis' in A Buchanan (ed), Landscape with Technology. Essays in honour of L T C Rolt by Rolt Fellows of the History of Technology Seminar at the University of Bath by Ward, Owen
- Price of Emancipation. Slave ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery by Draper, Nicholas
- Risk, kinship and personal relationships in late eighteenth century West Indian trade. The commercial network of Tobin & Pinney by Forestier, Albane
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Pinney, Azariah
- Pinney, John P
- Tobin, James
- Pinney & Tobin
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Bristol, City of Bristol, Avon, South West, England
- Kitts & Nevis
Sectors:
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland General trading & trade
- Agriculture & fishing Plantation management, sugar
- Financial services Private loan financing inc individuals & businesses
- Transport services Shipping services - long distance, inc ship ownership & management
- Merchanting & trade, international & inland Sugar trading & trade
Notes:
Traced origins in sugar business to late 17th century when Azariah Pinney established sugar plantations on the West Indian island of Nevis. Emerged as leading sugar planters. This business was developed especially by John P Pinney, 1740-1818, from the 1760s. In 1783 he returned from Nevis to establish, with James Tobin, a merchanting business at Bristol as Pinney & Tobin. Emerged as leading sugar merchants at Bristol, trading with Nevis, owning ships and financing plantations through the provision of loans. Plantations sold from 1808 and Bristol firm closed c1850 [2023]Publications:
- A West India Fortune by Pares, Richard
- Commercial Organisation of the Late Eighteenth Century Atlantic World. A comparative analysis of the British and French West Indian trades by Forestier, Albane
- Gateway of Empire by MacInnes, Charles M
- House of Pinney and Garnett's patent rollers by Ward, Owen
- 'John Pinney, planter and merchant' in C M Macinnes, Gateway of Empire by MacInnes, Charles M
- 'Managing a West Indian sugar estate. John Pinney and the Island of Nevis' in A Buchanan (ed), Landscape with Technology. Essays in honour of L T C Rolt by Rolt Fellows of the History of Technology Seminar at the University of Bath by Ward, Owen
- Price of Emancipation. Slave ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery by Draper, Nicholas
- Risk, kinship and personal relationships in late eighteenth century West Indian trade. The commercial network of Tobin & Pinney by Forestier, Albane