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'''Francis Rubbens''' – living at Antwerp; servant to John Bollart<ref>[IMG_118_07_2956]</ref>
 
'''Francis Rubbens''' – living at Antwerp; servant to John Bollart<ref>[IMG_118_07_2956]</ref>
 
'''Philipp de La [?Surpe]''' - living in Dunkirk; merchant
 
'''Philipp de La [?Surpe]''' - living in Dunkirk; merchant
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'''Adrian Valzolio''' - living in Antwerp; merchant; living in George Bosschaert's house in Antwerp as cashier; had been at Cadiz in 1652 "at the time of the said lading being imployed thither from Antwerp by the said Boschaert to looke after his businesse there"<ref>[HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2946}</ref>; "a Brabanter by birth, borne at Loven, and liveth at Antwerp with Mr Boschaert"<ref>[HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2949}</ref>
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'''Adrian Valzolio the younger''' - living in Antwerp; merchant; living in George Bosschaert's house in Antwerp as cashier; had been at Cadiz in 1652 "at the time of the said lading being imployed thither from Antwerp by the said Boschaert to looke after his businesse there"<ref>[HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2946}</ref>; "a Brabanter by birth, borne at Loven, and liveth at Antwerp with Mr Boschaert"<ref>[HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2949}</ref>; lived with George Boscaert "about six yeares last" [as of April 1653], including four years with him in Spain<ref>[IMG_117_07_1614]; [IMG_117_07_1615]</ref>; Adrian Valzolio calls himself "the younger" in a deposition of March 29th 1653 on behalf of George Biscaert for his plate and silver in the ''Morning Star''<ref>[IMG_07_1599]</ref>
 
'''Lorenzo da Veloes [alt. Lorenzo de Veles]''' – living at Dunkirk; merchant<ref>[IMG_118_07_2759]</ref>; deponent; “this deponent [Lorenzo de Veles]saw all and singular the before mentioned sylver in the possession of the sayd Arangall and Mannrga att Mexico in the Indies where they bought the sylver”<ref>[IMG_118_07_2759]</ref>; sylver laded aboard the Sampson was on September 27th 1652 new style<ref>[IMG_118_07_2762]</ref>; carried cases of bon lace of Flanders to Nova Hispania for Abraham van Hembeck of Antwerpen<ref>[IMG_118_07_2773]</ref>
 
'''Lorenzo da Veloes [alt. Lorenzo de Veles]''' – living at Dunkirk; merchant<ref>[IMG_118_07_2759]</ref>; deponent; “this deponent [Lorenzo de Veles]saw all and singular the before mentioned sylver in the possession of the sayd Arangall and Mannrga att Mexico in the Indies where they bought the sylver”<ref>[IMG_118_07_2759]</ref>; sylver laded aboard the Sampson was on September 27th 1652 new style<ref>[IMG_118_07_2762]</ref>; carried cases of bon lace of Flanders to Nova Hispania for Abraham van Hembeck of Antwerpen<ref>[IMG_118_07_2773]</ref>
 
'''John Vervoort''' - living in Antwerp; cashier and bookekeeper to John Smeesters/Smesters, merchant<ref>[[IMG_118_07_3019]]</ref>
 
'''John Vervoort''' - living in Antwerp; cashier and bookekeeper to John Smeesters/Smesters, merchant<ref>[[IMG_118_07_3019]]</ref>

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Spanish witnesses and others living in Spanish West Indies


Witnesses

Roderigo Alonzo – living at Cadiz; merchant; deponent; passenger on the Sampson[1]; “borne att Bexer in Spaine eight leagues from Cadiz and is an Inhabitant of Cadiz”[2]
Manuell Corea - living in Varinas/Varines; merchant; passenger on the Salvador
Antonio Estevan de Balderas - living in Limma; borne at Madrid, Spain[3]
John Mexia de Herrera - living in Limma; born at Temblick in the territories of the Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
John de la Barona - living in Limma; merchant; born Segovia in Spain
Thomas Sanchez Durissa - living in Peru; born in Spain

Others

Juan Alvarez – silver to be delivere for his account[4]
ffrancisco da Cairodye [alt. Coiradye] - living in Vera Cruz in New Spaine for 13 years; "liveth at Saint Austins place in Vera Cruz"[5]; "native of Biskay in Spaine"; "one of the Treasurers of and for the King [of Spain] att Vera Cruz"[6]
Lewis ffernandez Angell - living at Caracas in Spanish West Indies; born in Spain; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz


Spanish witnesses and others living in Spain


Witnesses

Pedro Arangel [alt. Arangevil; Aranqual] - living in Cadiz; lives "his house is in Saint ffrancis Street [Cadiz]; "a Biskayer by birth"[7]; “this deponent saw all and singular the before mentioned sylver in the possession of the sayd Arangall and Mannrga att Mexico in the Indies where they bought the sylver”[8]; “a native of Biskany”[9]; has lived in Cadiz for 16 years of the knowledge of deponent Roderigo Alonzo, merchant of Cadiz[10]; “the interrate John Mann[?r]ga and Peter Arangall the producents live neere to the ffranciscans Cloyster in Cadiz”[11]
Thomas Sanchez de Vacar [alt. Thomas Sanchez de Vicar] - living in Cadiz; born at Valladolid in Nova Castilia, Spain]; merchant
Anthonio Da La Rosa [alt. Antonio Ala (sic) Rosa] - living in Sevile; mariner [CHECK NOT LIVING IN WEST INDIES]; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
Thomas Juan [alt. Thomas John] - living in Cadiz; mariner; passenger on the Salvador
Francisco Lopez [alt. ffrancisco Lopez] - living in Sevile; merchant, aged 21
ffrancisco Lopez - living in Grenada; merchant
Domingo Padellas [alt, Domingo Padilla] - living in Saint Lucar; merchant
John Baptista Sabino - living in Cadiz; merchant; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
Michael Perry Severino - living in Saint Lucar; merchant
Thomas Swann - living in Cadiz; mariner

Others

Domingo Centurion - living at ?Cadiz; assentista of King of Spain; caused John de Windt at Cadiz to lade eighty six sacks of wool onto the Sampson by order of Domingo Centurion "an Assentist of factor" of the King of Spain, "consigned to Jacques Swarez att Ostend"[12] [NEED TO CONFIRM CENTURION IS SPANISH AND LIVING AT CADIZ]
Pedro ffrancisco - living in Xeres; merchant
William Jansen - living in Sevill; "by the Port of Sevill"; merchant and factor for Edward Peters in Antwerp[13] [IS HE FLANDRIAN?]
Peter Johnson [alt. Janson; Peter Jansen Clomp] - living at Cadiz; barkman/barkier (carrying goods to ships in Bay of Cadiz)
John Lamotte - living in Cadiz; "in the stret de Juan de los Santos in Cadiz"; merchant; factor for Edward Peters in Antwerp; batchelor[14] [IS HE FLANDRIAN?]
ffrancis Machado - living in Port Saint Mary near Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
[?Trocato] Millenes - living at Cadiz; claimant
One Montobia [or Montolia] - living at ?Cadiz; laded two separate parcels of wool at Cadiz, each of twenty-nine sacks, belonging to the King of Spain and consigned to John Baptista Pallavorino and John Estava Spinola, both at Antwerp[15]
John Baptista Montolia [or Montobia]; Jean Baptista Munteva [alt. Muntova] - living at Cadiz; merchant[16]; laded fifteen sacks of wool at Cadiz "consigned to the Procurador of John Baptista Pallavorino and fifteen other sackes to the factor of John Estevan Spinola" all "by the order of ...Piranoti"[17]; a "Merchant Agent" at Cadiz for the King of Spain[18]
fferdinando Numez [alt. Nunez] - living at Sevile; merchant, owner of goods in the Salvador
Andrea [?Piranoti] - living at ?Cadiz; ordered the lading of two parcels of wool at Cadiz, both of twenty-nine sacks, belonging to the King of Spain and consigned to John Baptista Pallavorino and John Estava Spinola, both at Antwerp[19]
Symon ffonseca Pyna [alt. Pina; Symaon da ffonseca Pyna] - living in Madrid; claimant
Don Pedro Seravier - living at Saint Lucar; sold wines at Saint Lucar to John [?Stoten] [?Papa] in the presence of Francisco de Bois[20]
Anthony Rodriques - living at Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
John Ximines - living at?; "an Indian"; sold tobacco at ?Saint Lucar to John [?Stoten] [?Papa] in the presence of Francisco de Bois[21]

Spanish witnesses and others living in the Canaries


Antonio da Ponte - living in Teneriffa; merchant
Pasquall Andrada - living in Teneriffa; servant

Spanish witnesses and others living in Madrid


Witnesses

Others

His Catholique Majestie of Spaine - claim for several parcels of wool belonging to King of Spain[22]


Spanish witnesses and others living in London


Witnesses

Egido Mottet - living in London; "Secretary to his Excellencye the Lord Ambassador of his Catholique Majesty the King of Spayne"; aged thirty two; deponent[23]
Leonardo Mottet - living in ?London; younger brother of Egido Mottett[24]

Others

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Hamburger witnesses and others living at Cadiz


Others

ffrederick Bevia (alt. ffrederick Bevin) - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Sampson; "Vincent da Campo and John de Windt[?s] live in the Woodstreet by the Porto da Sevillia in Cadize and the sayd ffrederick Bevia in teh Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"[25] [NEED TO CONFIRM HAMBURG SUBJECT AND LIVING AT CADIZ]
William Jansen - living in ?; "a Hanburger"[26]
John Roopke, Ropke - ?living in Cadiz; native of Hamburg; merchant stranger at ?Cadiz/Sevill for last six years.[27]
Daniel Sloyer [the younger] - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Salvador of Hamburg
Vincent van Campen (alt. Vincent del Campo) - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Saint George of Hamburg and the Sampson of Lübeck; "Vincent da Campo and John de Windt[?s] live in the Woodstreet by the Porto da Sevillia in Cadize and the sayd ffrederick Bevia in the Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"[28]


Flandrian and Brabanter and Liege witnesses and others living at Cadiz and Sevill


Witnesses

ffrancois du Boys [alt. Francisco de Bois] - living in Cadiz; merchant; deposed on June 9th 1653;[29] "hee this deponent is a flandrian by birth and was borne in the citie of [?dendremonde] neere Antwerp and within the dominion of the King of Spaine"[30]
Guillermo Crombeen [alt. William Crombeen] - living in Cadiz; merchant
Diego Maestre - merchant; servant of Flandrian merchant in ?Cadiz/?Sevile, Hjeronimo Brudgmans; "Diego Maestre who laded the moneys interrate [in Cadiz] a fflandrian]"[31] Roland Baetens mentions in a footnote "Diego Maestre ( = de Meester, jij heeft eeem zuster Catherina te Brugge)"[32]
ffrancis de la Sierpe - living at Cadiz; factor of George Bosscaert and James [Puiquett/Pinquett], merchants trading together from Antwerp with Cadiz; factor for George Bosschaert since Bosschaert returned from Cadiz to Antwerp ca. June 1651;[33] "commonly accompted a Dunquirker borne";[34] living in Cadiz for at least seven years[35]

Others

Andreas da [?Allegria - living at ?Cadiz; caused John de Windt at Cadiz to lade twenty-four sacks of wool by order of Andreas da [?Allegria] "likewise assentissa of his sayd Majestye", "consigned to Jacques Swarez att Ostend"[36]
Hjeronimo Brudgmans [alt. Hieronimo Brudgmans; Jeronimo Brudgmans] - living "in Saint Nicholas Street in Sevill";[37] claimant; merchant; factor of his mother Anne Muyntinx, who lived in Antwerp
Jacques Bassiliers - ?living in Cadiz or Sevill; son of Joanna Vanden Bergue[38]
Peter Johnson the younger - living at ?Cadiz; factor of George Boscaert of Antwerp; according to van Lubken, Boschaert "left in his place [at Cadiz] and to doe his affaires as his factor Peter Johnson the younger"[39]; Michael van Lubken had known Johnson for about eight or nine years (as of April 1653), during which time he had always lived at Cadiz; van Lubken belived Johnson was "a fflandrian borne somewhere in the Dominion of the Kinge of Spaine", and took him to be from Lile or Ypres; a bachelor[40]
John Lamotte - living in Cadiz; "of Bridges in fflanders"[41]
Daniell de Leon - living in Spain; merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; secondary sources he was a Flemish merchant resident in Seville as early as 1637, and appears to have been naturalised in Spain
John [?Stoten] [?Papa] - living at Saint Lucar; merchant; usually trades in wines; subject of King of Spain; Francisco de Bois knew him to be living there for ?XXX years;[42] "borne in the Towne of [?Nora] within the principality and dominion of [?Leige] and that he is a batchelor"[43]
Gerrard Ryper - living in Cadiz; factor of John Smeesters in Antwerp; "lived for theise 7. yeares last at Cadiz in Spaine"[44]; factor also of John Bollart of Antwerp [CHECK IF IMG_07]IMG_2953]
Peter vanderbergh [alt. Peter Vanderbeck] - living in Spain; deceased; named by deponent Paulus Cobrisse as a one eighth part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck from its first building until his death two years ago (i.e. ca.1651), and that his share was bought by Cornelius Leyman from his heirs; Cobrisse stated that Peter Vander beck was borne att Courtrey in fflanders, and of this deponents knowledge lived sixteene yeares next before his death in Spaine[45]
John de Windt [alt. John de Vint; Juan de Vint] - living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Sampson of Lubeck; laded "one hundred and ten sackes of woolls" at Cadiz onto the Sampson, eighty six by order of Domingo Centurion "an Assentist of factor" of the King of Spain, and the other twenty-four by order of Andreas da [?Allegria] "likewise assentissa of his sayd Majestye", "all of them consigned to Jacques Swarez att Ostend"[46]; a "Merchant Agent" at Cadiz for the King of Spain[47]; "Vincent da Campo and John de Windt[?s] live in the Woodstreet by the Porto da Sevillia in Cadize and the sayd ffrederick Bevia in the Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"[48]

Witnesses and others living in Flanders and Brabant


Witnesses

Joos Arnoult of Dunkerke - living in Dunkirk; merchant
ffrancisco Boesdonck - living in Antwerp; merchant; servant, cashier and book keeper of Antwerp merchant James [?Puiquet]; had lived with his master for four and a half years when deposed.[49]
George Boschaert [alt. Boscaert; Bosschaert; Boschart]- living in Antwerp; lived in Cadiz until two years before June 1653, when moved to Antwerp;[50]; Adrian Valzolio (cashier of James [?Puiquet] stated that Bosschaert lived in Cadiz for four years before he returned to Antwerp[51]; Michael van Lubken, Hamburg mariner and master of the Morning Star, stated that he "hath knowne the producent George Boscaert (sic) for theise thirteene yeares last" and that of his knowledge George "lived seaven or eight yeares together (ended about two yeares since) in Cales in Spaine as a merchant or factor, and about two yeares since removed thence for Antwerp"; subject of King of Spaine but borne at Hamborough[52]; merchant; claimant; claimant also for silver in the Morning Star; "dwelleth neere the Exchange in Antwerp"[53] According to van Lubken, Boschaert "left in his place [at Cadiz] and to doe his affaires as his factor Peter Johnson the younger"[54]; "a Hamburger by birth"[55] and a bachelor in April 1653[56]; [57]
Paulus Cobrisse - living in Bridges in fflanders; "merchant aged eight and thirty yeares"[58]; deponent; stated he was personally in Cadiz in 1647 and saw the Sampson arrive there "then a new shipp"[59]
Antonio Cuppens – living at Dunkerke in fflanders; chyrurgeon and purser of the ship the John Evangelist[60]; “native and inhabitant of Duinkerk”[61]; laded silver on the Saint John Evangelist for James Lordell on April 19th 1653 [presumably new style][62]; as purser of the Saint John Evangelist first came aboard the ship at Dunkirk, “about the tenth day of ffebruary last past”[63] the silver was delivered in the day time into the hands of the purser in the presence of the master “by a merchant factor who laded the same whom this deponent knoweth not and saith he concealed his name for the danger that might befall him if he should have bene knowne to lade sylver to be transported out of Spaine” [64]; ship was bound for Dunkirk[65]
John Hanschen - living in Antwerp; merchant; servant of Adrian Goldsmith
Anthony Lewis - living in Antwerp; cashier and book keeper of the Antwerp merchant Edward Peters[66]
John Moller [signs as "Juan Moller"] - living in Antwerp; servant and cashier of Antwerp merchant George Bosschaert; born in Hamburg, but now living in Antwerp with George Boschaert[67]; lived in Spaine with George Boschaet when "yonge".[68]
John Popeliers – living at Antwerp; “Booke-keeper to the said John Bollart”; aged 25 years[69]; known John Bollart for 8 years and Gerald Riper (sic) for 6 years[70]; deponent
Francis Rubbens – living at Antwerp; servant to John Bollart[71]
Philipp de La [?Surpe] - living in Dunkirk; merchant
Adrian Valzolio the younger - living in Antwerp; merchant; living in George Bosschaert's house in Antwerp as cashier; had been at Cadiz in 1652 "at the time of the said lading being imployed thither from Antwerp by the said Boschaert to looke after his businesse there"[72]; "a Brabanter by birth, borne at Loven, and liveth at Antwerp with Mr Boschaert"[73]; lived with George Boscaert "about six yeares last" [as of April 1653], including four years with him in Spain[74]; Adrian Valzolio calls himself "the younger" in a deposition of March 29th 1653 on behalf of George Biscaert for his plate and silver in the Morning Star[75]
Lorenzo da Veloes [alt. Lorenzo de Veles] – living at Dunkirk; merchant[76]; deponent; “this deponent [Lorenzo de Veles]saw all and singular the before mentioned sylver in the possession of the sayd Arangall and Mannrga att Mexico in the Indies where they bought the sylver”[77]; sylver laded aboard the Sampson was on September 27th 1652 new style[78]; carried cases of bon lace of Flanders to Nova Hispania for Abraham van Hembeck of Antwerpen[79]
John Vervoort - living in Antwerp; cashier and bookekeeper to John Smeesters/Smesters, merchant[80]

Others

Christian Aelst - living in Antwerp; claimant; working with Hjeronimo Brudgmans, a Flandrian in Cadiz
Andrew Annaka[?ch] [alt. Hamekach; Annarkach] - living in Antwerp; claimant; merchant; Flandrian by birth
Peter Annaka[?ch] [alt. Hamekach; Annarkach] - living in Antwerp; claimant; merchant; Flandrian by birth
Cornelius Basseliers [alt. Basseleirs] - Living in Antwerp; deceased; claimant
John Bollart [alt. John Bollard] – “John Bollart is an Antwerper borne and hath lived in the ffaylestreet in that City with his family for all the time of this deponents knowledge of him” [8 years][81]
Ann Brudgmans - living in Antwerp; claimant; daughter and heir of Anne Muyntinx
Margaret Brudgmans - living in Antwerp; claimant; daughter and heir of Anne Muyntinx
Peter de Cock [alt. Peter Cock] - living in Ghent (of which a native); merchant; cousin of London merchant Peter Mathews
[Mr ?Didemans] - living at Ypers or Rysesell[82]
Adrian Goldsmith - living in Antwerp; mentioned in case brought by Christopher Boone; merchant
Abraham van Hembeck(s) [alt. Hembecque] – living at Antwerp; merchant[83]; claimant for silver on Saint George; "a fflandrian borne and hath lived in fflanders a subiect of the King of Spaine all his tyme and for fifteene yeares now past by like common report hath driven a constant trade betweene Spaine and fflanders for sylver and other goods"[84]; Lorenzo de Velos has known him for 8 years last[85]
Peter Hustin - living at Cambray[86]
William La Rousseau - living in Antwerp; mentioned in case brought by Christopher Boone; publique notary
Peter [?Lams] - living at Ostend, later at Dunkirk; George Bosschaert and partner "made use of his [Lams] name for the more comodious taking up the said plate by him to be sent to Antwerp, and that in regard of the said Peters dwelling in Ostend where the said shipp [the XXX] was to have arived".[87]; "Peter Lams lived in Ostend when the said silver was laden, and till Dunquirke was was regained by the Spaniards, and now liveth at Dunquirke"; flemming born[88]
Anne Muytinx/Muitinx - living in Antwerp; claimant; "a native of fflanders an inhabitant of Antwerpe and a subiect of the King of Spaine"[89]; deceased; mother of Hjeronimo Brudgmans (Sevill merchant); traded in her own name between Antwerp and Cadiz, using her son as her Spanish factor
[Gillis/Gilles] de Nemay - living in Antwerp; recipient of bills of lading sent by land from Cadiz by Laurenzo de Veles
John Baptista Pallavorino - living at Antwerp; his "Procurador" at Antwerp was the consignee of twenty-nine sacks of wool loaded on the Sampson at Cadiz belonging to the King of Spain[90]
Edward Peters - living at Antwerp; formerly living at Dover; merchant; claimant
James [?Pinquett/Puiquett/Puiquet/Puignet/Pincquett] - living in Antwerp; merchant trading together with fellow Antwerp merchant George Bosschaert; "a married man dwelleth neere the [?Vesten] over against the [?Hartastreete] in Antwerp".[91]
Jacques [?SeaXXXXX] – living at Antwerp; merchant; was to have received silver for James Lordell sent from Cadiz in April 1653 on the Saint John Baptist[92]
Sarah Smitsartsa [alt. Smetsarta] - ?living at Antwerp; widow of PeterVander Wyer of Antwerp, deceased; claimant for silver on Salvador[93]; mother of deponent Pedro Van de Wyer, merchant of Dunkirl[94]
John Estava Spinola [alt. John Stevan Spinola] - living at Antwerp; consignee of twenty-nine sacks of wool loaded on the Sampson at Cadiz belonging to the King of Spain[95]
Jacquez Suarez [alt. Swarez] - living at Antwerp; factor of the King of Spain at Antwerp[96]
Johanna Vanden Bergue - ?living in Antwerp; claimant; widow of Cornelius Basseliers; Flandrian by birth
Pedro van der Wyer – living at Dunquirke in fflanders; merchant; aged 26 years[97]; son of Sarah Smitsartsa [alt. Smetsarta] and Peter Vander Wyer, merchant of Antwerp, deceased[98]

Witnesses and others living in Hamburg


Witnesses

Nicholas van Aspren - living at Hamburg; purser of the Salvador; aged 38 yeares[99]; "belonged to and bin purser of the said shipp by the space of three moneths and upwards and came first to serve abord her at Cadiz"[100]
Joachim Beene - living in Hamburg; mariner
Christian Cloppenburgh - living in Hamburg; "his howse upp in the Sandtin Hamburgh";[101] mariner; master of the Salvador
Hendrick Grusse - living sometimes at Hamburg and sometimes at Vemar in the Jurisdiction of the Duke of Holsteyn; mariner & stiersman of the Salvador
Michael van Lubkin [alt. van Lubken] - living in Hamburg; mariner; "he was borne and is an inhabitant of Hamburgh"[102]; master and commander of the Morning Star "about five yeares" [as of April 7th 1653][103]
Henrick Martens – living in Hamburg; of Hamburgh Captaine of the shipp the Hope of Hamburgh aged 30 yeares; deponent
John Martinsendorp [alt. John Martenson-Dorp; John Martindorp] - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the Saint George
Hance Ramke [alt. Hans Ramkey] - living in Hamburg; mariner
Henry Slegar - living in Hamburg; mariner
Gaspar Tam - of Hamborough Purser of the shipp the Goulden Sunn of Hamburgh aged 24 yeares; deponent
Henrick Vett - living in Hamburg; mariner; brother-in-law of John Martindorp

Others

Albert Balthazar Beerents - living at Hamburg; insurer of 2,000 li flemmish money on one of the three Silver Ships[104]
Jacob Elers - living at [?Barnestey] about four miles from Hamburg; cabin boy in the Sampson
Nicholas van [?Esteren] – purser of the Salvadore[105]; “a native of [?ffinmeren in Holsteyn and liveth in Hamburgh”[106]
Henry Greeve – living at Hamburg; mariner[107]; former steersman on the ‘’Salvador’’, travelling on her to Cadiz[108]
[?Paridom ?Instram] – purser of the Saint George[109] [CHECK LOCATION]
John Moller - living in Hamburg; shipwright; master shipwright of the Saint George
Daniel Sloyer [the elder] - living in Hamburg; deceased; merchant
Franz Sloyer - ?living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador
Widow Sloyer - living in Hamburg; widow of Daniel Sloyer [the elder] and mother of Daniel Sloyer [the younger] and Franz Sloyer [TBC]
Peter Tam - living in Hamburg; mariner

Owners of the Silver Ships


Owners of the Salvador of Hamburg

Daniell Brandes - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[110]
Jernonimus Switger [alt. Jerome Switger] - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador;[111] The Staatsarchiv Hamburg has a record of a dispute about insurers paying out on an insurance policy on a shipment of silver. The insurance policy was taken out by the deceased Cadiz based Hamburg merchant Vincent von Kampen. The sum in dispute was 10,000 Reichstaler. The dispute was between on the one side Johann Baptista Juncker (a known part owner of one of the Silver Ships, the Saint George, Abraham Stockmann (a Hamburg merchant, who had also written insurance on another silver ship, the Saint John Evangelist), the heirs of the merchants Peter Finx and Duarte Esteves de Pina, and on the other side the Hamburg merchant Geronimo Snitquer, in whose name the insurance policy was made, though paid for by Vincent von Kampen.[112] Jonathan Israel identifies Duarte Esteves de Pina as a Hamburg based Sephardic Jew, citing an archival source from 1651 in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Admiralitätskollegium.[113]
Jerom Peterson - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[114]
Henderick Hambrooke - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[115]
John Baptista Juncker - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[116]
Vincent Clingeburgh [alt. Klingenbergh] - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[117]; probably the "Vincent Klingenberg" mentioned as active in the Hamburg-Iberian trade in the study by Martin Reissman (1975) of Hamburg merchants in C17th.[118] Reissman identified him as the son of a brewer, born in 1615.[119] Other secondary sources suggest that Vincent Klingenberg was the nephew of the Danish Postmaster-General in Hamburg, Paul von Klingenberg, who was also a Danish Admiralty Counsellor ("Admiralitätsrat")[120], and that Vincent Klingenberg became a director of the Danish Guinea Company in Glückstadt in 1660.[121]
Derrick Rourke - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[122]
Gerrit Bowmaster - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[123]


Owners of the Saint George of Hamburg

Abraham de Bois [alt. Abraham du Bois] - living in Hamburg; burger and subject of Hamburg; deceased; original part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George[124] Maartje van Gelder identifies the du Bois family as part of a complex European trade network in the first half of the C17th. He names Alvise du Bois, who was located in Venice and involved in a partnership founded by Martin Hureau in Cologne in 1608. Alvise returned to the Low Countries in 1638 (p.203). He also names Alvise's brother, Abraham du Bois, who he states was resident in Hamburg, and who later joined the Hureau led partnership.[125] Roland Baetens writes in a footnote that "Abraham du Bois was te Hamburg uitgegroeid tot een vermogendste kooplieden.[126] Reinhard Löhmann identifies a link between the du Bois and Woltes families of Hamburg, with Jacoba du Bois, daughter of Abraham du Bois, marrying Liebert Wolters in 1641.[127] Löhmann also mentions a "Louis du Bois", who may be the son, "Lawrence de Bois" who took over his father's part-ownership of the Salvador.[128]
Lawrence de Bois - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George[129]; "liveth in the [?Nantrem] where his father Abram (sic) de Bois aforesayd dwelt"[130]
Decloffe Classoft [alt. Dittelof Classoft; Detliffe Classoft] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George[131]; lives "in the Dyck street"[132]
Joachim [?Helt] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George[133]
John Martins - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George[134]
Mathys Heyndrick [alt. Mathys Hendricx; Matthias Heydenryck] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of the Saint George[135]
Daniel Sloyer [the elder] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; deceased[136]
Daniel Sloyer [the younger] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George with his brother ffrancis [a.t Franz] Sloyer[137]; lives "neare to the Torreon in Cadize"[138]
ffrancis Sloyer - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George with his brother Daniel Sloyer [the younger][139]; "liveth in Saint Katharine Street in the house where his father Daniell Sloyer dwelt"[140]
Vincent van Campen - part-owner of two eighths of the Saint George[141]; lives "in Porto de Sivillia in Cadize"[142]

"the arlate shipp the Saint George was built att Hamburgh in or about the yeare 1642 att the charges and for the accompt of the owners thereof here afetr mentioned, whose names and respective shares are as followeth. videlicet Daniel Sloyer and ffrancis Sloyer in the right of Daniel Sloyer their father for theis eight yeares last past have bene and att present are Joynt owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp her tackle and furniture Lewis [?de] Bois in the right of Abraham de Bois his father for about six yeares last past hath bene and is owner of one eighth part and, Joachim [?Helt], John Martins detliffe Classoft and Mathias Heydenryck for theis ten yeares last past have bene and att present are each of themseverally and respectively owners and proprietors of one eighth part of the sayd shipp tackle apparrell and furniture, And the arlate Vincent Van Campen for theis ten yeares last past hath bene and att present is lawfull owner of two eighth parts of the sayd shipp her tackle apparrell and furniture...the aforesaid Daniel Sloyer the father was one of the originall owners from the tyme of the first building of the sayd shipp being ten yeares agoe or thereabouts, and the part or share of him the sayd Daniell by his death descended and came to Daniell Sloyer and ffrancis Sloyer his sonnes, And the said Abraham de Bois was likewise one of the originall owners of the sayd shipp..."[143]


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John de Windt/Vindt [alt. Juan de Vint] - living in Cadiz; merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; "Vincent da Campo and John de Windt[?s] live in the Woodstreet by the Porto da Sevillia in Cadize and the sayd ffrederick Bevia in the Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"[144]
ffrederick Bevia - living in Cadiz; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; "Vincent da Campo and John de Windt[?s] live in the Woodstreet by the Porto da Sevillia in Cadize and the sayd ffrederick Bevia in the Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"[145]
Daniell de Leon - living in Cadiz; merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; secondary sources he was a Flemish merchant resident in Seville as early as 1637, and appears to have been naturalised in Spain
- See "Mercaderes que asisteron a la junta que, presidida por Bartholomé Morquecho, se celebró el 4 de junio de 1637 para aprestar una armada de veinte mil toneladas (A. I. Indiferente, 759)...Daniel de Léon..."[146]
- "el dicho Daniel de Leon, mercader flamenco, ..."[147]
- "343. DE LEON, Daniel de Leon, *1603 in de Nederlanded, te SEVILLA CA 1625-1645, gentauraliseerd in 1634. A.H.N.M., O.M.S.P.C., 464; A.I.S., 50, 2."[148]
ffrancisco [?Pennincg?r] - location unknown, possibly Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
Don Joseph - location unknown, possibly Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
ffrancisco Peralti - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
Cornelius Leman [alt. Cornelius Leyman] - location unknown, possibly Antwerp or Spain; ?merchant; new part-owner of one eighth share of the Sampson of Lübeck, havinga cquired the share acquired from the heirs of the deceased Peter Vander Bergh [alt Vanderbeck][149]
Peter vanderbergh [alt. Peter Vanderbeck] - living in Spain for sixteen years prior to his death; deceased; ?merchant; named by deponent Paulus Cobrisse as a one eighth part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck from its first building until his death two years ago (i.e. ca.1651), and that his share was bought by Cornelius Leyman from his heirs; Cobrisse stated that Peter Vander beck was borne att Courtrey in fflanders, and of this deponents knowledge lived sixteene yeares next before his death in Spaine[150]

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Jacomo Maria - living in Genoa; merchant; correspondent of Vincent van Campen[151]
[?Thomaso] Van Harten - living in Genoa; merchant; correspondent of Vincent van Campen[152]

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William Astell - living in Allhallowes Barking, London; surgeon
John Bacon - living in Saint Giles Cripplegate, London; mariner
Thomas Barker – living in Saint Nicholas Lane London; clothworker[153]; born at Essex, but lives in London[154]; deponent; packed goods for James Lordell, merchant of London, to be sent to Spain (such as perpetuanas and Norwich stuffes)[155]
Benjamin Bathurst - living in London; merchant
Robert Demetrius - living in London; merchant
Antonio Fernandez Caravashall/Caravashell - living in London; merchant
John Gover - living in London; merchant; working in London prize Office in Bishopsgate Street
Magdalena Hendricks - living in the Minories, near London; wife of Abraham Johnson
Abraham Johnson - living in precinct of Saint Catherins near the Tower of London; sailemaker
Roger Kilvert - living in London; merchant
William Pembridge - living in Saint Magnus, London; haberdasher
Stephen Puckle - living in Eastsmithfield, near London; merchant
James Stanier - living in London; merchant
ffrancis Thoris - living in London; merchant
Roger Thorpe - living in London; Customs House waiter
William Turner - living in Blackfriars, London; Prize Commission waiter
Giles Vandeputt - living in Saint Martins Orgar, London; merchant
John Wilmott - living in London; merchant

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James Lordell – living in London; merchant; claimant[156]; traded to Saint Lucar and Cadiz in last two years with factors there[157]; had silver on the the Saint John Evangelist, laded at Cadiz April 19th 1653 [presumably new style][158]
Paul Marrier - living in Southampton; correspondent of XXX[159]
Mr Richoult - living in London; contacted by Edward Peters from Antwerp to secure restitution of his silver

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  1. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2763]
  2. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2765]
  3. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2910]
  4. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2971]
  5. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2667]
  6. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2655; 2667]
  7. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2667]
  8. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2759]
  9. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2074]
  10. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2764]
  11. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2764]
  12. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1908]; [IMG_117_07_1908]
  13. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7r
  14. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7r
  15. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1908]
  16. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1906]
  17. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1909]
  18. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1906]
  19. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1908]
  20. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  21. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  22. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1905]
  23. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1908]
  24. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1909]
  25. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1904]
  26. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.2v
  27. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2655; 2658]
  28. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1904]
  29. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  30. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1969]
  31. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2661]
  32. ↑ Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart. De diaspora en het handelhuis De Groote tijdens de eerste helft der 17de eeuw, vol. 1 [TBC] (XXXX, 1976), p.170
  33. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2938]
  34. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.172r Annotate
  35. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2939]
  36. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1909]
  37. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2663]
  38. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2668]
  39. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1610]
  40. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1611]
  41. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.2v
  42. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  43. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1969]
  44. ↑ [[XX IMG_118_07_2022
  45. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1903]
  46. ↑ IMG_117_07_1908]; [IMG_117_07_1909]
  47. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1906]
  48. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1904]
  49. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2943}
  50. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2938]
  51. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.> IMG_118)07_2948]
  52. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1610]
  53. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2940]
  54. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1610]
  55. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7v}
  56. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1611]
  57. ↑ For background see online article: Georges Bosschart (1625-1678), Heer van BOOM
  58. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1903]
  59. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1903]
  60. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2767]
  61. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2769]
  62. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2768]
  63. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2768]
  64. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2768]
  65. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2769]
  66. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.1r
  67. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2939; 2940]
  68. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2941}
  69. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2953]
  70. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2954]
  71. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2956]
  72. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2946}
  73. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2949}
  74. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1614]; [IMG_117_07_1615]
  75. ↑ [IMG_07_1599]
  76. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2759]
  77. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2759]
  78. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2762]
  79. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2773]
  80. ↑ IMG_118_07_3019
  81. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2955]
  82. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2943}
  83. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2769]
  84. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2770]
  85. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2770]
  86. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2943}
  87. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2939}
  88. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2948}
  89. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2661]
  90. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1908]
  91. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2940}
  92. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2768]
  93. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2961]
  94. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2961]
  95. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1906]; [IMG_117_07_1908]
  96. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1906]
  97. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2961]
  98. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2961]
  99. ↑ IMG_117_07_1971
  100. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1972]
  101. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2671]
  102. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1987]
  103. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1611]
  104. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7v
  105. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2959]
  106. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2960]
  107. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2958]
  108. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2960]
  109. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2770; IMG_118_07_2771]
  110. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  111. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  112. ↑ [XXX]
  113. ↑ Jonathan I. Israel in Yosef Kaplan, Henry Méchoulan, Richard H. Popkin (eds.), Menasseh Ben Israel and His World (Leiden, 1989), fn.14, p.144
  114. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  115. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  116. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  117. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  118. ↑ Martin Reissmann, Die hamburgische Kaufmannschaft des 17. Jahrhunderts in sozialgeschichtlicher Sicht (Hamburg, 1975), p.79
  119. ↑ Martin Reissmann, Die hamburgische Kaufmannschaft des 17. Jahrhunderts in sozialgeschichtlicher Sicht (Hamburg, 1975), p.46
  120. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinischer Heimatbund, Schleswig-Holstein(1976), p.110; Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, vol.7 (Tübingen, 1851), p.309
  121. ↑ Ole Justesen (ed.), Danish Sources for the History of Ghana, 1657-1754, vol. I: 1657-1735 (XXXX, 2005), fn.15, p.5
  122. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  123. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  124. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  125. ↑ Maartje van Gelder, Trading Places: The Netherlandish Merchants in Early Modern Venice (Leiden, 2009), pp. 60, 61, 101, 110, 112, 113, 114, 137, 141, 150, 203
  126. ↑ Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart. De diaspora en het handelhuis De Groote tijdens de eerste helft der 17de eeuw, vol. 1 [TBC] (XXXX, 1976), fn.200, p.194. See also pp.96,191
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  128. ↑ Reinhard Löhmann, Die Familie Wolters in Hamburg während des 17: Jhs (Hansen, 1969), pp.36, 314, 315
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  130. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1987]
  131. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  132. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1987]
  133. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  134. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  135. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  136. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  137. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  138. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1987]
  139. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  140. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1987]
  141. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  142. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1987]
  143. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1986]
  144. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1904]
  145. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1904]
  146. ↑ Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Orto y ocaso de Sevilla (Sevilla, 1991), p.179
  147. ↑ José María Oliva Melgar, El monopolio de Indias en el siglo XVII y la economía andaluza, la oportunidad que nunca existió (Huelva, 2004), p.115
  148. ↑ Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schoone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren, ?Issues 1-2; Issue ?70 (1971), p.44
  149. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1903]
  150. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1903]
  151. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.419v
  152. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.419v
  153. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2766]
  154. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2767]
  155. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2767]
  156. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2766]
  157. ↑ [IMG_IMG_07_2766]
  158. ↑ [IMG_118_07_2768]
  159. ↑ [XXX IMG_118_07_3021]]

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