John Jeffreys

John Jeffreys

John Jeffreys
Person	John Jeffreys
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First name	John
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Last name	Jeffreys
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Occupation	Merchant
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Has opening text	John Jefferies
Has signoff text	John Jeffreys
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Language skills	English language
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Res town	London
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Res country	England
Birth year	1616
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First deposition age	40
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/71 f.235v Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Jun 5 1656
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

John Jeffreys (alt Jefferies) (b.ca.1616; d.?). Merchant.

Resident in in 1655 Clements Lane, London according to the master of one of John Jeffrey's ships.

Jeffreys himself gave his residence in 1656 as "London", but the following year he specified the parish of Saint Clements Eastcheap

Described himself as a merchant trading in tobacco.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

1655

Richard Hull, master of the ship the Rappahanacke, deposed on June 16th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of "John Jefferyes and Company" in the cause of "The claime of John Jeffreys and} company for the shipp the Rappahanacke whereof Richard Hull was master and her lading".

He stated that "John Jefferyes dwelleth in Clements Lane London and that he hath knowne him for 3 or 4 yeares last, and that Thomas Coleclough liveth in Cornehill London, and that he the rendent hath knowne him for about 4 or 5 yeares last, and he answereth by vertue of his oath that they the sayd Jefferyes and Coleclough and he this rendent are the owners of the said shipp".

1656

Forty year old John Jeffreys deposed on June 5th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "Warner against the shipp the Alexander William Watson master and against Alexander Howe comming in for his interest and against the sayd Watson".

1657

John Jeffreys deposed the following year in the High Court of Admiralty, specifically on February 3rd 1657. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of William Watts in the cause of "Ewers against Watt". He again gave his age as forty, but detailed his residence as the parish of Saint Clements Eastcheap, London.

Jeffreys stated that he "is by profession of a merchant and hath traded to Virginia for tobaccoe for these twelve yeares or thereaboutes last past and thereby knoweth that it is usuall with such as are traders in tobaccoe there and have any by them to send their tobaccoes by when March is past by any shipps they can, or if noe shipps bee bound for England bee then there then to barter it away to any that will take it for the like quantitie of tobaccoe to bee paid them the next yeare following or send the same for New England, rather then keepe it in Virginia after March is past, by reason it is a commoditie which with the heate of the country in Virginia will bee spoiled if it bee kept after the moneth of March next following after the yeare wherein it groweth".

1660

"On the behalfe of John Jefferyes and Company touching thee Hopewell Arthur Perkins Master aforesaid
- witnesses (1) XX (2) XX (3) XX (4) John Taylor, former boatswain of the Hopewell, of Limehouse, aged 39 XXX (10) Johannes Goodlad, of Lee Essex, mariner, aged 46 (?X) William Jackson, servant to merchant Thomas Burton

The Hopewell. On behalf of John Jefferys, Michael XX, Colclough etcetera touching the seizure of the Hopewell by the Portugalls
- Interrogatories to be administred unto witnesses produced and sworne for and on the behalf of Thomas Burton of London merchant and others concerning a losse in the Hopewell of London
-- Interrogatories mention Thomas Burton, James Jenkins, Richard Netmaker, John Hefferies and Thomas Colclough of London merchants, who had goods aboard the ship
-- Note on the interrogatories cover states: John Goodlad and William Jackson sworne the 18th of Aprill 1660 before both the Judges in Court

Comment on sources

"JEFFREYS, John (B)
Ald Bread Street, 27 Jun 1661, disch same day, F £820 (1) St Mary Axe, 1677, St Andrew Undershaft, 1686/7, The Priory, Brecon (2) GR, appr, 1632, to Nicholas Heywood, M, 1661 (3) b 1614, 3rd son, at Llywell, Brecon, d s Nov 1688, bur St Andrew Undershaft (4) Will PCC 150 Exton pr, 20 Nov 1688 f Edward Jeffreys of Baillie Cwmdwr, and Llywell, 1630, Brecon, gent, m -, da of John David Gwilym, mar Mary Bassett of -, Leic (5) Merchant, tobacconist in partnership with neph Jeffrey Jeffreys Assis RAC, 1672-3, 1675 Said to have lost £20,000 worth of tobacco in the Fire of London Inner Temple, 1640 Auditor of Imprests, 1664/5 (6) City and London property, land Norf, Kent, Oxon, Glouc, Essex, Heref, Middx, Brecon (7) MP Brecknockshire, 1661-2 (void), Brecon Boroughs, 1679-81, Jun 1685-7 Pro Court, "very right", 1680/1 (8) Lt Col in Royalist army, prisoner, 1645 Constable of Dublin Castle Compounded for delinquency, 1646/7 (8) Neph and heir Jeffrey, Jeffreys, Kt, Ald, 1701, MP Brecon Boroughs, 1690-98, 1701-09, "worth £300,000" He mar Sarah, da and heir of Nicholas DAWES Their son, Edward Jeffreys, MP Marlborough, 1702-5, Brecon Boroughs, 1709-13 Neph and heir John Jeffreys, MP Radnorshire, 1692-98, Marlborough, 1701-2, 1705-8, Brechnockshire, 1705-2 (9)
(1) Beaven, I, p 50 (2) Directory, 1677, will, Pink MS 305/23 (3) Beaven, II, p 92, GR, Appr Reg, 1629-66, f 31 (4) C B Boulter, History of St Andrew Undershaft (1935), pp 124, 127, will (5) C B Boulter, op cit, p 127, GR, Appr Reg, 1629-66, f 31, W R Williams, The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales, 1541-1895 (1895), p 18 (6) Directory, 1677, C B Boulter, op cit, p 127, will, K G Davies, Index, W R Williams, op cit, p 18, HMC, 9th Rept (Ormonde MSS), p 158 (7) Will (8) Beaven, II, p 92, W R Williams, op cit, pp 18, 24, see Mrs Eric George, "Elections and Electioneering, 1679-81" in EHR (1930), p 554, SP, Chas II, 415/39, Pink MS, 305, f 27 (9) Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne, Luttrell, IV, p 531, will of Nicholas DAWES"

1660

C 6/147/13 Short title: Borre v Jefferies. Plaintiffs: Christian Borre. Defendants: John Jefferies, Richard Michelborne, John Pennell, John Currer, James Jenkins, Robert Earle and others. Subject: money matters. Document type: answer only. SFP. 1660