Thomas De Lavall

Thomas De Lavall

Thomas De Lavall
Person	Thomas De Lavall
Title
First name	Thomas
Middle name(s)
Last name	De Lavall
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation	Merchant
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training	Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen	Unknown
Literacy	Signature
Has opening text	Thomas De Lavall
Has signoff text	Tho: De Lavall
Signoff image	(Invalid transcription image)
Language skills	English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
Birth town	Highgate
Birth county	Middlesex
Birth province
Birth country	England
Res street
Res parish
Res town	Dover
Res county	Kent
Res province
Res country	England
Birth year	1622
Marriage year
Death year
Probate date
First deposition age	32
Primary sources
Act book start page(s)	HCA 3/46 f.2r Annotate, HCA 3/46 f.5v Annotate, HCA 3/46 f.11v Annotate
Personal answer start page(s)
Allegation start page(s)
Interrogatories page(s)
Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/68 f.575r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.242v Annotate, HCA 13/72 f.250v Annotate
Chancery start page(s)
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Act book date(s)	Mar 4 1654, Mar 11 1654, Mar 20 1654
Personal answer date(s)
Allegation date(s)
Interrogatories date(s)
Deposition date(s)	Feb 13 1654, Feb 21 1655, Mar 3 1658
How complete is this biography?
Has infobox completed	Yes
Has synthesis completed	No
Has HCA evidence completed	No
Has source comment completed	No
Ship classification
Type of ship	N/A
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

Thomas De Lavall [alt. Delavall] (b. ca. 1632; d. ?ca. 1683). Merchant.

Born in Highgate in the county of Middlesex. Possibly related to the Delaval value of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland.

Resident in 1654 and 1658 in Dover in the county of Kent.

Excise collector in Dunkirk in 1659.

May have been in partnership or close trading relationship with fellow Dover merchant Vincent de la Barre.

May be the same Thomas De Lavall, merchant, who was involved in London to New York trade in the 1670s. A will has been preserved for "Thomas De Lavall of City of New York, America", proven in February 1683.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

September 1649

Supposedly aged thirty,"Thomas de-la-Val" deposed on September 26th 1649 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in the case of Wilson et al against Jourdaine. He had been asked to give evidence by the English Guinea company in this cause.

February 1654

Jacob ffrancois, a thirty year old merchant of Lisle in Flanders, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on February 3rd 1654. He identifed Thomas de lavalle and Vincent dela Barr as the correspondents of Dunkirk based merchant Peter Lams. The cause concerned the claim of "Nicholas Wielande and others for the lading of the shipp the ffortune (whereof Sem} Jacobson Pronck is master)"

Thirty-two year old Thomas De Lavall deposed on February 13th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "XX".

March 1654

Cause of "John Barke[?man] against Vincent delabarre Thomas delavall and Richard Pettingale"

Cause of "Abrahall against the shipp the John and against Delavall

February 1655

Thirty-five year old Thomas De Lavall deposed on February 21st 1655. He was examined "On the behalfe of Captaine Phillips".

The case concerned a warrant in early 1654 issued by the High Court of Admiralty for the arrest of a Thomas Hart of Dover ar the suit of John Phillips. The warrant was delivered to a Mr Simpson, Serjeant of the Admiralty in Dover, but he refused to execute it, since it was unsigned by Doctor Walker. A second signed warrant was delivered to Simpson about three months back, but Simpson still refused to execute it. Thomas De Lavall recorded the details, and stated that, despite the warrant outstanding, Thomas Hart "walketh frequently
and publiquely abroad in Dover.

July 1655

The personal answers of Thomas Delavall made to the positions of an allegation given in against him on the behalf of the Lord Protector. De Lavall gave details of several ships bought by him in Dover from the Commissioners for Prize Goods. He claimed to have paid for these ships and goods the total of £1258.

The attached schedule lists:

The Beuckhoulter Church and goods in her £725-08-00

The Carpenter and salt £635-13-00

The Hope of Rotterdam, bought be De Lavall for £35 but never delivered by the commissioners

The Glasse in the Catch £24-14-00

September 1655

Cause of "Yaxeday against Delavall and others" in the High Court of Admiralty. The case concerned the collison of the ships the ffreeman and the Mary.

August 1657

Affidavit "Joseph of London Vincent Ruslet Master".

John Shorter and William Warren, both London merchants, stated that they had bought the ship the Joseph of London (Master: Vincent Ruslet) in February 1652 Shorter from the Commssioners for prize goods, who sold a quarter part to William Warren, and a half part to Vincent De La Barr and Thomas De Lavall, merchants of Dover. The ship was of the burthen of 250 tons and was formely called the Black Cock of Memblick.

March 1658

Thirty-seven year old Thomas De Lavall deposed on March 3rd 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Arnold Vanderhemel in the cause of "The clayme of Arnold Vanderhemel et etera".

The case concerned a ship the Hare of Middelburg, which was owned, De Lavall claimed, by Arnold Vanderhemel and Isaack Courteine and company. Both men were merchants of Middelburg.

Comment on sources

1653

SP 46/97/fo13A Intelligence report by Robert de Lavall in Calais to his friends Vincent de la Barre and Thomas de Lavall in Dover concerning Van Tromp's ships and other Dutch vessels. 1653 Mar. 5 Calais.

1654

C 5/19/41 Short title: Delavall v Blunt. Plaintiffs: Thomas Delavall. Defendants: John Blunt. Subject: money matters, Kent. Document type: bill, answer. 1654

SP 46/97/fo13A Intelligence report by Robert de Lavall in Calais to his friends Vincent de la Barre and Thomas de Lavall in Dover concerning Van Tromp's ships and other Dutch vessels. 1653 Mar. 5 Calais

1658

Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae, partis quintae (Oxford, 1842)

"5. Dunkirk; 14 Jan. 1659. fol. 16. ...5. Account by Thos. Delavall of the proceeds of confiscations at the custom-house of Dunkirk ; Sept.-Dec. 1658. fol. 19 b."

"29. " An accompt of all prises brought into the port of Dunkirk by commission of the Kinge of Sweedland and Kinge of Portingall by Thoinas Delavall. p.351."

"32. Account by Thos. Delavall of the duty on ships going in and out of Dunkirk; July 1658 — June 1659- P-376."

1660

C 6/200/27 Short title: Delabarr v Phillips. Plaintiffs: Vincent Delabarr and Thomas Delavall . Defendants: Isaac Phillips . Subject: money matters, Kent. Document type: bill only. 1660

1683

PROB 11/372/179 Will of Thomas De Lavall of City of New York, America 07 February 1683
- property and land mentioned is entirely in America

- mentions money due to Mr Samuel Swinock of London merchant