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    Francis Levett was an English trader, who worked as factor at Livorno, Italy, for the Levant Company until he lit out for East Florida in 1769 where his...
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    Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from [de] Livet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British...
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  • Francis Levett (alias Levet) (1654–1705) was a Turkey Merchant (member of the Levant Company) of the City of London who in partnership with his brother...
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    ISBN 0-905418-91-3. Francis Levett of Nethersole, Kent, was born in London to English trader Francis Levett (merchant). Francis Levett Jr. was chief representative...
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    was married to the sister of planter Francis Levett. The Levetts were children of English Turkey merchant John Levett, who died April 1731 at Constantinople[1]...
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    he trained. Among these was John Levett, brother of planter Francis, who was in Oswald's employ as a young man. Levett (1725–1807) was born in Turkey to...
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    Boddington 1733–1741 Francis Williams 1741–1742 Thomas Carleton 1742–1762 Samuel Crawley 1762–1794 Anthony Hayes 1794–1825 Francis Werry 1580–1586 William...
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    John Holt's sister Susan was married to Francis Levett, Esq., tobacco merchant and brother of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London. Holt's father, Sir...
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    America was an Englishman, Francis Levett. Other cotton planters came from Barbados. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, Levett left his Georgia plantation...
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  • Rev. Ralph Levett (1600 – c. 1660) was an English Anglican minister who served as domestic chaplain to an aristocratic family from Lincolnshire with Puritan...
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    scholar Aurelio Lampredi Dario Lari Gio Batta Lepori (1911–2002), painter Francis Levett, English merchant, the Levant Company Augusto Liverani (1858–1929),...
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    English merchant who conducted his business in Turkey and his brother was Francis Levett a very wealthy merchant who acquired property in Florida. John also...
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  • Shelburne. One of Turnbull's prospective partners in the venture was Francis Levett, an English factor working in Livorno for the Levant Company. From a...
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  • editions. Edward Levett Darwin was the son of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin and his wife Jane Harriet Ryle. He was a cousin of Sir Francis Galton and half-cousin...
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    to 1694; and of merchant Francis Levett, as well as the site of the wedding of his niece Ann Levett, daughter of William Levett, Dean of Bristol and former...
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  • the 1760s, including the 10,000 acre plantation created by Francis Levett Sr. The Levetts cultivated a variety of crops and used enslaved people for this...
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    1677, Wheelwright sold his property in Lincolnshire, (purchased of Francis Levett, gentleman) to his son-in-law Richard Crispe, the husband of his youngest...
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    1808 Frances Arabella married to John Levett-Yeats, grandson of the English merchant and planter Francis Levett Philip was known for his copying as were...
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    General Patrick Tonyn, brother-in-law of English merchant and planter Francis Levett. Grant left his overseer Alexander Skinner in charge of his enslaved...
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    returned to the living. Although born with connections, Richard Levett and his brother Francis were thrown onto their own resources, and were as much pioneers...
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    Sir Francis Child (1642–1713), of Hollybush House, Fulham, Middlesex and the Marygold by Temple Bar, London, was an English banker and politician who...
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    Discourse Practice: From Regulation to Resistance. London: Taylor & Francis. Levett, A., Kottler, A., Burman, E. and Parker, I. (eds) (1997). Culture,...
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    Percival Levett (1560–1625) was an early merchant and innkeeper of York, England, Sheriff of the city, member of the Eastland Company and father of English...
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    William Levett, Esq., (sometimes spelled William Levet) was a long serving courtier to King Charles I of England. Levett accompanied the King during his...
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    Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats CIE (c. 1858–1916), an English novelist known professionally as S. Levett-Yeats, was the descendant of an old English trading...
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    Captain Christopher Levett (15 April 1586 – 1630) was an English writer, explorer and naval captain, born at York, England. He explored the coast of New...
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  • Thomas Levett (1594 – ca. 1655), was an Oxford-educated Lincoln's Inn barrister, judge of the Admiralty for the Northern Counties and High Sheriff of Rutland...
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  • Dr Henry Levett (c.1668 – 2 July 1725) was an English physician who wrote a pioneering tract on the treatment of smallpox and served as chief physician...
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  • Leman, son of Sir William Leman, 1st Baronet and Susan who married Francis Levett. Visitation of Berkshire 1664–66 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500–1714: Hieron-Horridge'...
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  • Heath's family-owned. William Levett had at least two brothers, Richard, who became Lord Mayor of London, and Francis, an international trader; these...
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