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Royall left the West Indies in 1732 to retire to his beloved Medford, Mass. Seven years later, he died and left his fortune—and his Caribbean sugar plantation—to his son, Isaac Royall, Jr.
In 1700, a 28-year-old man named Isaac Royall established a sugarcane plantation on the island of Antigua in the West Indies. Royall made much of his fortune from the Atlantic Triangle Trade, which dealt in sugar, rum, and slaves.
The younger Royall, who served on an administrative committee at Harvard, would later donate over 2,100 acres of land to Harvard, and also leave funds to establish what is now the Royall Professorship of Law, the first endowed chair at the Law School.
A ROYALL AFFAIR
Catherine S. Manegold, a research fellow and resident at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute last year, is currently doing research for a book entitled “Ten Hills Farm,” named for the Medford property which Royall Jr. purchased with the profits from the Antiguan...