Robert STUPART

• Name	Robert STUPART
  Gender	Male
  Event	1774
  	Christchurch Priory Pew Rents: Seat 70 Timothy Stark: three places in this seat where Mrs Stupart and Robert son of Robert Stupart Esq sat they having by consent of the churchwardens resigned.
  Event	Jan 1770
  	Received £125 bill from John Pillgrem for building work including the construction of a dovehouse.
  Event	6 Nov 1762
  	Grant of arms and crest by Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, to Robert Stupart, of Stanes [sic], Middlesex, Esquire, Officer in the Royal Navy, son of Robert Stupart of Elphingston in the Shire of Stirling, Gentleman by Martha his wife, daughter of Thomas Dick of Kingcairne in the Shire of Fife, Gentleman [Coll. Arms Grants 10.450].
  Residence	6 Nov 1762	Staines, Middlesex
  Event	23 Apr 1764
  	Began a series of purchases of freehold in Westover and Burton
  Residence	22 Jun 1764	Knowle Green, Staines, Middlesex
  Residence	1 Apr 1769	Burton, Christchurch, Hampshire
  Event	22 Nov 1771
  	Sold Stourfield Estate to Edmund Bott for a total of £5,600 (including £2,000 mortgage which he had taken out 1 Apr 1769).
  Residence	22 Nov 1771	Burton, Christchurch, Hampshire
  Event	10 May 1774	Burton, Christchurch, Hampshire
  	Sale of 'the neat HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, lately belonging to Robert Stupart Esq, consisting of - viz a most elegant India cabinet (quite new), the inside representing the form of a Chinese temple [etc]'.
  Event	18 Oct 1777
  	For £8,400 sold Burton Farm and Hoffleet Farm, together with 'One new erected Messuage Tenement or Mansion House, situate at Burton'
  Residence	18 Oct 1777	Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, London
  	'late of Burton'
  Event	10 Mar 1778
  	From the Diary of John Adams: 'Tuesday March 10. 1778. We espied a Sail and gave her chace. We soon came up with her, but as we had borne directly down upon her, she had not seen our Broadside and knew not our force. She was a Letter of Mark, with fourteen Guns, Eight nines and Six Sixes. She suddenly turned and fired a broadside into Us, but did Us no other damage, than by cutting some of our rigging, piercing some of our Sails, and sending one of her Shot through our Mizzen Yard. I happened to be standing in the gang Way between the Quarter Deck and the Main Deck, and in the direction from the Ship to the Yard, so that the Balls flew directly over my head. We upon this Salutation, turned our broadside towards her. As soon as she saw this she struck her colours. Our Sailors were all in a rage to sink her for daring to fire. But Captain Tucker very promptly and prudently ordered his Officers not to fire, for he wanted the Egg, without breaking the Shell. I suspected however that the Captain of the Prize knew our force better than he pretended, and that he discharged his Broadside, that he might have it to say that he had not surrendered his Ship, without firing a Gun. The Prize was the Ship Martha, Captain McIntosh from London to New York, loaded with a Cargo of great Value. The Captain told me that seventy thousand Guineas had been insured upon her at Lloyds and that she was worth Eighty thousand. The Behaviour of the Captain was that of a Gentleman, and he bore his misfortune with fortitude but his Mate cryed like a Child in despair. The Sailors seemed to me to felicitate themselves that it was not a British Man of War, and that they were not impressed. There were two Gentlemen on board as Passengers. Mr. R. Gault was One, and Mr. Wallace of New York the other. There were two young Jews, on board. That and the next day were spent in dispatching the Prize, under the command of the third Lieutenant, Mr. Wells to Boston'.
  	https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=A2_6&hi=1&query=martha&tag=text&archive=all&rec=5&start=0&numRecs=11
  Event	10 Mar 1778
  	The Martha 'was taken in the Bay ten days after she left the Thames, and is worth upwards of 70,000l. Her cargo would have been most acceptable to the rebels, if they could but have carried her in safe'.
  Event	10 Apr 1778
  	Letter from A.M. Dumas: 'We have now the Pleasure of acquainting you that Mr. John Adams, a Member of Congress appointed to succeed Mr. Deane in this Commission, is safely arrived here. He came over, in the Boston, a Frigate of thirty Guns, belonging to the United States. In the passage they met and made prize of a large English Letter of Mark Ship of fourteen Guns, the Martha, bound to New York, on whose Cargo, seventy thousand pounds Sterling was insured in London. It contains Abundance of Necessaries for America, whither she is dispatched, and We hope will get well into one of our Ports'.
  Event	11 May 1778	Casco Bay
  	'Sir George Collier, Captain of his Majesty's ship the Rainbow, writes, in a letter of the 16th of May, that on the 11th, being a few miles from land near Casco Bay, he fell in with and retook the Martha, with a valuable cargo, which had been taken by the rebels on her voyage from London to New York'. Another report said that the 'Ship is valued at 84,000l. She was taken by the Boston Privateer, on her passage to France'.
  Event	30 May 1778
  	Mr Bean brought action against Stupart, subsequently tried before Lord Mansfield as Bean v. Stupart. Stupart lost.
  Event	28 Jul 1778	Guildhall, London
  	Cause heard before Lord Mansfield, 'wherein Capt. Mackentosh, was plaintiff, against the insurers of his ship the Martha, that was bound for New York, but taken on her passage by the Boston frigate of 32 guns; when the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff of 33l 11s'.
  Event	7 Dec 1779
  	Commission of Bankrupt awarded and issued forth against Robert Stupart, of Southampton Street ... Merchant, Insurer, and Dealer, and he being declared a Bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said Commission named ...
  Event	14 Dec 1779
  	First bankruptcy hearing
  Residence	1776	New Lloyd's Coffee House, London
  	Listed among the Governors of the Scottish Corporation of London, having donated £10 10s.
  	https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bIFbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP10
  Residence	14 Dec 1779	Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square, London
  	Leasehold property
  Death	Index To Death Duty Registers 1796-1903: Robt Stupart, 1800, PCC, resident on The Ship Triumph [IR27/19 given as reference, but the dates do not correspond].
  Person ID	I1011	Westover
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Robert STUPART   d. 13 Oct 1778, Tulliallan, Fife, Scotland
  Mother	Martha DICK
  Family ID	F398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances BIGG
  Marriage	6 Dec 1762	St George in the East, Stepney, Middlesex
  	By banns, bachelor and spinster, both otp; witnessed by Diana Stupart and Samuel Bright.
  Children	1. Frances STUPART,   b. 1764   2. STUPART,   b. c.1766   bur. 12 Feb 1766, Christchurch Priory, Hampshire   3. Martha STUPART,   b. 1766   d. 11 Mar 1838 (Age ~ 71 years)   4. Robert STUPART,   c. 3 Sep 1767, Christchurch, Hampshire   5. Charles STUPART,   b. 1768   6. Henry STUPART,   b. 3 Dec 1769   7. Alexander STUPART,   b. 1771   8. Elizabeth STUPART   d. 1773
  Family ID	F384	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Jun 2019