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James MILLIKEN 1669-1741
Biographical Note
Born in Ayrshire, and recorded as a burgess of the Port of Irvine in 1692. After beginning a military career, he moved to the Caribbean in 1693 as overseer of a plantation on Nevis; acquiring wealth through marriage to Mary Stevens, a planter's widow, in 1700, he bought his own plantations on Nevis and St Kitts, where he is recorded as owning over 100 slaves, and co-owning slave ships. He returned to Scotland in 1729 where he became a partner in the South Sugar House in Glasgow, and built Milliken House.
Books
The engraved armorial bookplates, Franks 20624-5, are assumed on design grounds to have been used by this man rather than his son of the same name (1710-76), rector of the University of Glasgow, though they could have been used by both. The extent of the library is not known.
Sources
- Legacies of British Slave-ownership.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.