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 Sir John Gayer
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-(1)  Will of Gilbert Morwood of London 21 June 1650 PROB 11/212  Pembroke Quire Numbers: 55 - 109 pp.3 PDF  (2) Will of John Morewood, Gentleman of Oaks in Bradfield, Yorkshire 11 May 1648 PROB 11/204 Essex Quire Numbers: 53 - 107 pp. 3 PDF;  p. 14, Thomas Noble (ed.), 'Pedigree of Morewood, of the Oaks in Bradfield, and Alfreton', The History of the County of Derby  (Derby: Henry Mozley & Son, 1829)  (3) C10/109/102 (1663)  (4) C10/82/2 (1664) (5) Table 4.2, p.192, Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
+(1)  Will of Gilbert Morwood of London 21 June 1650 PROB 11/212  Pembroke Quire Numbers: 55 - 109  (2) Will of John Morewood, Gentleman of Oaks in Bradfield, Yorkshire 11 May 1648 PROB 11/204 Essex Quire Numbers: 53 - 107;  p. 14, Thomas Noble (ed.), 'Pedigree of Morewood, of the Oaks in Bradfield, and Alfreton', The History of the County of Derby  (Derby: Henry Mozley & Son, 1829)  (3) C10/109/102 (1663)  (4) C10/82/2 (1664) (5) Table 4.2, p.192, Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)
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 d. c.1656
-According to Foster, Captain Jeremy Blackman [senior] was associated with William Courteen Junior as commander of the ''William'' on a voyage to India and China in 1643-45.  Following his return, Blackman joind the EIC, and was elected in August 1647 a committee of the Second General Voyage.  Prominent in the planning behind the Assada scheme, which sought, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a plantation on an island off the island of Madagascar.  Became a committee of the United Joint Stock, when it was formed in XXXX.  Declined offer in February 1650 to become President in Surat, but accepted in November 1651, in succession to President Merry.  Took his wife and children with him to Surat.
+According to Foster, Captain Jeremy Blackman [senior] was associated with William Courteen Junior as commander of the ''William'' on a voyage to India and China in 1643-45.  Following his return, Blackman joined the EEIC, and was elected in August 1647 a committee of the Second General Voyage.  Prominent in the planning behind the Assada scheme, which sought, ultimately unsuccessfully, to establish a plantation on an island off the island of Madagascar.  Became a committee of the United Joint Stock, when it was formed in XXXX.  Declined offer in February 1650 to become President in Surat, but accepted in November 1651, in succession to President Merry.  Took his wife and children with him to Surat.
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 d. 1686
-Christopher Boone (b. c.1615, d. c.1686).  Merchant.  Member of the Merchant Taylor livery company.  Cousin to George Oxenden and Elizabeth Dalyson, and five years older than Oxenden.  Business location in London, with a residence in the parish of All Saints, Lee, West Kent.
+Christopher Boone (b. c.1615, d. c.1686).  Merchant.  Originally from Taunton, Somerset.  Member of the Merchant Taylor livery company.
-Originally from Taunton, Somerset, he expanded his commercial reach into the East India trade.  He appears in a venture associated with the Guinea trade in the company both of Elizabeth Dalyson’s close advisor, the merchant Thomas Papillon, and with the merchant Thomas Tyte, one of Elizabeth Dalyson’s two nominated referees required by the Court of Chancery.
+Cousin to George Oxenden and Elizabeth Dalyson; five years older than Oxenden.  Factor in Seville (XXXX), prior to return to London.  Residence at St Leonard, Bromley, Middlesex (1666) and at  All Saints, Lee, West Kent (1686).
-Brother or cousin of Thomas Boone, merchant, they were both involved in the Spanish trade, and appear frequently in the correspondence of the Spanish merchant, John Paige.  Thomas Boone was involved with Maurice Thompson in the late 1640s in advancing the Asssada plantation off Madagascar.  Christopher Boone was elected a committee of the New England Company of 1649 in September 1677
+Brother or cousin of Thomas Boone, merchant, they were both involved in the Spanish trade,.  Both Christopher and Thomas Boone appear frequently in the correspondence of the Spanish merchant, John Paige. Paige  was associated with Maurice Thompson in the 1650s in several ventures in the East Indies.  Thomas Boone had been involved with Maurice Thompson in the late 1640s in advancing the Asssada plantation off Madagascar.
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 Sir Richard Ford (b. ? 1613, d. ?1678)<ref>'Ford, Richard,' in [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=31882#s38 J.R. Woodhead, 'Fabian - Fyge', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 67-74], viewed 21/02/12</ref> was a naval supplier, working in partnership with his son-in-law, Peter Proby, who had married Grace Ford.  Proby was the grandson of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Proby.
-Ford was an associate in the 1650s of Nathaniel Temms, John Dethick, John Bancks and Martin Noell, all men rising rapidly.  He was one of the new subscribers to the New General Stock in 1657 and was appointed to the six person committee which was established to negotiate with a six person committee of existing subscribers.  His associates on the committee are revealing – they were Maurice Thompson, Alderman Temms, Alderman Noel, Thomas Kendall, and Samuel Moyer.   He was thus an ally of Thompson as Thompson inserted himself at the apex of the EIC hierachy.
+Ford was an associate in the 1650s of Nathaniel Temms, John Dethick, John Bancks and Martin Noell, all men rising rapidly.  He was one of the new subscribers to the New General Stock in 1657 and was appointed to the six person committee which was established to negotiate with a six person committee of existing subscribers.  His associates on the committee are revealing – they were Maurice Thompson, Alderman Temms, Alderman Noel, Thomas Kendall, and Samuel Moyer.   He was thus an ally of Thompson as Thompson inserted himself at the apex of the EEIC hierachy.
-He was appointed an EIC committee in XXXX, knighted by Charles II in XXXX, and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted.  On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour.
+He was appointed an EEIC committee in XXXX, knighted by Charles II in XXXX, and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted.  On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour.
 Steven Pincus asserts that Sir Richard Ford was one of the most important London merchants in the Restoration period.<ref>Steven C.A. Pincus, ''Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668'' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 250 CHECK PAGE NO.</ref>  This is a bold and decidely unproven statement.
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 No will has been discovered for Beniamine, and he may have died intestate, since C10/109/102 appears to refer to an adminstratrix, possibly a married sister, or alternatively his cousin Frances Greseley, who m. Thomas Greseley, and who was dau. of Gilbert Morwood.  He  was dead by 1664, so it is likely that he would have been in his mid to late thirties at the time of his death.  (4)
-It is not clear in what commercial areas Beniamine was active in 1650s, other than than the East Indies through his investment in the SVJS.  Gilbert Morwood, to whom he had been apprenticed,  had been a committee of the EIC at his death, and had been involved in trade with Brasil in 1649, and in trade possibly with Guinea and West Indies in 1648 (5)
+It is not clear in what commercial areas Beniamine was active in 1650s, other than than the East Indies through his investment in the SVJS.  Gilbert Morwood, to whom he had been apprenticed,  had been a committee of the EEIC at his death, and had been involved in trade with Brasil in 1649, and in trade possibly with Guinea and West Indies in 1648 (5)
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 d. ? 1678 (def. By 1681, when Grace Ford, relict, in probate suit)
-Sir Richard Ford (b. XXXX, d. ?1678) was a naval supplier, working in partnership with his son-in-law, Peter Proby, who had married Grace Ford.  Proby was the grandson of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Proby.
+Sir Richard Ford (b. ? 1613, d. ?1678)<ref>'Ford, Richard,' in [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=31882#s38 J.R. Woodhead, 'Fabian - Fyge', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 67-74], viewed 21/02/12</ref> was a naval supplier, working in partnership with his son-in-law, Peter Proby, who had married Grace Ford.  Proby was the grandson of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Proby.
-Ford was an associate in the 1650s of Nathaniel Temms, XXXX Dethick, John Bancks and Martin Noell, all men rising rapidly.  He was one of the new subscribers to the New General Stock in 1657 and was appointed to the six person committee which was established to negotiate with a six person committee of existing subscribers.  His associates on the committee are revealing – they were Maurice Thompson, Alderman Temms, Alderman Noel, Thomas Kendall, and Samuel Moyer.   He was thus an ally of Thompson as Thompson inserted himself at the apex of the EIC hierachy.
+Ford was an associate in the 1650s of Nathaniel Temms, John Dethick, John Bancks and Martin Noell, all men rising rapidly.  He was one of the new subscribers to the New General Stock in 1657 and was appointed to the six person committee which was established to negotiate with a six person committee of existing subscribers.  His associates on the committee are revealing – they were Maurice Thompson, Alderman Temms, Alderman Noel, Thomas Kendall, and Samuel Moyer.   He was thus an ally of Thompson as Thompson inserted himself at the apex of the EIC hierachy.
 He was appointed an EIC committee in XXXX, knighted by Charles II in XXXX, and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted.  On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour.

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 He was appointed an EIC committee in XXXX, knighted by Charles II in XXXX, and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted.  On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour.
-Steven Pincus asserts that Sir Richard Ford was one of the most important London merchants in the Restoration period.<ref>Steven C.A. Pincus, Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 (Cambridge, 1996), p. 250 CHECK PAGE NO.</ref>  This is a bold and decidely unproven statement.
+Steven Pincus asserts that Sir Richard Ford was one of the most important London merchants in the Restoration period.<ref>Steven C.A. Pincus, ''Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668'' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 250 CHECK PAGE NO.</ref>  This is a bold and decidely unproven statement.
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	He was appointed an EIC committee in XXXX, knighted by Charles II in XXXX, and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted. On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour.		He was appointed an EIC committee in XXXX, knighted by Charles II in XXXX, and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted. On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour.
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		+	Steven Pincus asserts that Sir Richard Ford was one of the most important London merchants in the Restoration period.<ref>Steven C.A. Pincus, Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 (Cambridge, 1996), p. 250 CHECK PAGE NO.</ref> This is a bold and decidely unproven statement.
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 p. vii, Calendar, 1650-1654; Will of Jeremy or Jeremie Blackman of Saint Andrew Undershaft, City of London 25 November 1656 PROB 11/259 Berkeley 363 - 412; [PROBABLE MATCHED RECORD OF SON OF CAPT. JEREMY BLACKMAN] Will of Jeremy Blackman, Gentleman 31 August 1668 PROB 11/327 Hone 58 - 112
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 LETTER TO GO FROM ELIZABETH DALYSON: Aprill y:e 1:th (sic) 1663:ff.74-82: Oxenden Papers, Vols. XIII-XVIII: Volume: “ In Ano 1663”, Add MSS. 40708-40713; John Evelyn’s Diary; Introduction', The letters of John Paige, London merchant, 1648-58: London Record Society 21 (1984), pp. IX-XXXIX; p. 70, 93; PRC11/385 Lloyd Quire Numbers: 136 – 181; PRC11/389 Foot Quire Numbers: 133 – 172;  p. XXX, 'The New England Company of 1649 and John Eliot: The ledger for the years…' (XXXX:XXXX, XXXX)]
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-LETTER TO GO FROM RICHARD FORD: London March 14:th [could be 19th] 1662/3: f.16: Oxenden Papers, Vols. XIII-XVIII: Volume: “ In Ano 1663”, Add MSS. 40708-40713
+[[MRP: 14th March (poss. 19th) 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ford to Sir GO, London|14th March (poss. 19th) 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ford to Sir GO, London]]
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 ==James Maddiford/Modyford==
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-(1)  LETTER TO SirGO FROM JAMES MODYFORD: London y:e 10:th March 1662 [MODERN 1663]: f.14: Oxenden Papers, vols. XIII-XVIII: Volume: “In Ano 1663”, Add MSS. 40708-40713: (2)  'Modyford, Sir James, baronet (1618–1673), merchant and colonial agent in Jamaica. Oxford Biography Index Number 101018870' [''ODNB'']
+[[MRP: 10th March 1662/63, Letter from James Modyford to Sir GO, London|10th March 1662/63, Letter from James Modyford to Sir GO, London]]
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 ==Beniamine Morewood==
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 [[MRP: Nicholas Read| Will of Nicholas Read of Stoke Hall next Ipswich, Suffolk 29 August 1671 PROB 11/337 Duke 102 - 158]];
 [[MRP: 17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich|17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich]]
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-This page lists key merchants, lawyers, and family members involved in the commercial life and litigation of Sir George Oxenden in the 1650s and 1660s.  It does not provide a complete list of Oxenden and related family members
+'''This page is at an early stage of development.  It is likely to be restructured and to receive considerable new content'''
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