elanya

So, I learned something new, that will be of litle interest to others but I'm writing about it anyway.

There were *two* Nicholas Trotts wandering about the New World in the late 17th/early 18th centuries. One of them was from London. he was sent over to the Bahamas as Governor, dealt with pitrate, etc. He is the bone who tried to buy Hog (now Paradise) Island and half the Nassau waterfront for fifty pounds, and was sacked by the Lords Proprietors for the above piratical dealings. Later, he tried to buy is way into a proprietorship. When they said no, he married the daughter of Thomas Amy, who gave Trott his rights as a proprietor of South Carolina (note that the LPs of Carolina and the Bahamas were *mostly* the same people - oh the irony!

The *other* Nicholas Trott went to South Carolina, possibly from Barbados or Bermuda?, and was an important judge, the first Attorney General there. He proceeded over the piracy trial of Stede Bonnet in Charleston in 1718.

Apparently, they were cousins.

The problem is that except that by their positions, it is really hard to know who is who in certain records. I'm not sure the editors of the Calendar of State Papers differentiated between them, for instance. I am pretty sure one of them was surveyor of customs in South Carolinas for a while, but I'm not sure which. I also know that one of them had a lot of kids that stayed in Bermuda and the Bahamas, and I also think that was the same one, but again there are some confusing documents. I can't even find a clear genealogy. However if you do a google search for Nicholas Trot, I think it is interesting to see how many modern lawyers you turn up....