Silver Ship Witnesses - by Geography

Spanish witnesses and others living in Spanish West Indies

Witnesses

Roderigo Alonzo – living at Cadiz; merchant; deponent; passenger on the Sampson; "borne att Bexer in Spaine eight leagues from Cadiz and is an Inhabitant of Cadiz" [CHECK WHETHER LIVING IN SPANISH WEST INDIES]

Antonio Estevan de Balderas [alt. Antonio Stephen da Bolderas; Anthony Stephen Bolderas] - living in Limma in Peru; borne at Madrid, Spain; came from Spain to West Indies in 1643, returning to Spain in 1651; "a batchelour and not of a settled habitation, using a voyaging manner of life in merchandize" ; De Balderas deposed that he had "bin thirteene or fourteene yeares in the West Indies"; aged thirty-eight in October 1653; claimant for silver and red wool laden on the Saint George and the Sampson, and also a witness for Manuel Gomez de Arosta and Anthony Chavez, both of Sevile, who were assentistas to the King of Spain. Claimed to know both men for twenty-five years

Juan de Losa Barona - living at Limma in Peru in the West Indies; merchant; aged forty; passenger on the Saint George from Cadiz; born in the city of Segovia in Spain; witness

Manuell Corea [alt. Mannuell Corea; Correa] - living in Varinas/Varines; "he this deponent was borne in Verina in the West Indies, where he liveth and hath a wife and family there"; thirty-four years old; Manuel Corea calls this "the Citty of Varinas in the West Indies"; merchant; passenger on the Salvador; Manuel Corea appears to have been in the Spanish West Indies for at least twelve years, since he states in support of the claim for silver of Lewis ffernandez Angell that he "hath knowne the arlate Lewis ffernandez Angell an Inhabitant of Caracas in the West Indies for theis twelve yeares last past"

Manuell Corea himself deposed in August 1654 that "he was borne att Lisbon in Portugall, and for theis 22 yeares hath lived in the Varinas of the West Indies""; this statement means that Manuel Correa lived in Varinas since the age of about twelve. Correa added that " he hath bene long out of Spaine, and lived there but for a small space of tyme, and saith he knoweth not the Lawes and Customes of Spaine"

Baetens (1976) mentions a "Manuel Correo" in a list of merchants and goods by year ("Manuel Correo Hollands lijnwaad 164[?6]"

A "Manuel Correa" is named in a list of individuals in Virgilia Tosta, Familias, cabildos y vecinos de la antigua Barinas (Barinas, Venezuela, 1980)

Lionel [?Curran?X] [alt. Coram] - living at ?Ostend; silver shipped in the Sampson to Lionel [?Curran?X] at Ostend by Hjeronimo Brudgmans from Cadiz on the account of Nicholas Pauslo, an officer or agent of and for the Treasury of the Santo Crusado; Nicholas Paulo "a factor for the Treasury of Madrid of which
Treasury the sayd Heires of George da Etton heard were and are the principall masters and mannagers" shipped shilver from Cadiz to Ostend "consigned to Lionel Coram a merchant of Antwerpe a correspondent
of the foresayd Heires of Etton heard"

John Mexia de Herrera [alt. Juan Mexia de Herera; John Mexia da Herreya; John Mexia do Herera] - living in Limma in Peru; born at Temblick in the territories of the Archbishop of Toledo, Spain; merchant; aged thirty-four in May 1653; witness and ?claimant; travelled with Antonio Stephen da Bolderas from Lima in Peru to Panama and then to Porto Bello, where they both "imbarqued themselves in the Vice Admirall of the gallions for Spaine"; passenger on the Saint George; in May 1653 de Herrera stated "hath his most usuall residence at Lima in Peru in the West Indies where hee hath dwelt these twelve yeares last in respect of his place of habitation"

John Mexia de Herrera is identified in depositions in another case in HCA 13/73 as assistant to John Moller (alt. Mollar) in the Santa Maria. The Santa Maria was alleged to be a Dutch ship, and was seized by the English with alleged goods in it from San Domingo in the island of Hispaniola. He is described in March 1659 by John Van Lienen, the thirty seven year old commander of the Santa Maria, as "a Spaniard and subiect (as this deponent taketh it) of the king of Spaine, borne at Toledo and a batchelour, but saith this examinate hath seene a burger brief, whereby it appeared that the said Mexia was a burger of Amsterdam"; Jan Van Lienen's description of John Mexia de Herrera as a Spaniard, born in Toledo, matches de Herrera's self-description in his deposition in the Silver Ships litigation, in which he is described as "John Mexia de Herrera borne at Temblick in the Territories of the [?Archbishop] of Toldeo in Spaine living for the most part at [?Lima] in the West Indies aged thirty yeares"

John de la Barona - living in Limma in Peru; merchant; born Segovia in Spain; travelled with Antonio Stephen da Bolderas from Lima in Peru to Panama and then to Porto Bello and to Cadiz; passenger on the Saint George [ADD REFERENCES]

Thomas Sanchez Durissa [alt. Thomas Sanchez de Orisa] - living in Lima in Peru for last twelve years; born at Validalid in Spain; emarked on ship in December 1651 to return to Spain; merchant; aged thirty-five in May 1653; witness;

Antonio da Ponte [alt. Don Antonio de Ponte] - "of Garachicho in the Island of Tenariffa", but appears to have lived in Caracas in the West Indies for eight years where he knew Lewis ffernandez Angell, prior to returning to Cadiz in 1552 in the Saint John Baptist via Havana; merchant; aged twenty-nine in May 1653; witness; passenger from Cadiz in the Sampson; signs his name "Don Antonio deponte guzman y Castilla"; Antonio da Ponte's servant, Pasquall Andrada, gives a rather different impression, stressing his master's family living at Teneriffa, but had clearly been travelling with his master in the Spanish West Indies. Pasquall Andrada stated that: "Don Antonio da Ponte is a Spaniard and as this deponent hath credibly heard and beleiveth was borne in Garachicho aforesayd, where this deponent was likewise borne. And he is a subiect of the King of Spayne and hath his family at Garachicho aforesayd, And for many yeares of this deponents knowledge, having lived with him four yeares as a servant, hath traded as a merchant betwixt the West Indyes the Canary Islands Spayne and other places under the dominion of the sayd King of Spaine"

Lorenzo da Veloes [alt. Lorenzo de Veles] – living in Indies and at Cadiz "as occasion offers"; born at Dunkirk; Lawrence de Veles stated "this rendents father was a Spaniard, and hath rendent was borne at Duinkerk, and hath for theis eighteene yeeres upwards lived att Cadiz aforesayd where he hath his family"; merchant; 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"; sylver laded aboard the Sampson was on September 27th 1652 new style; carried cases of bon lace of Flanders to Nova Hispania for Abraham van Hembeck of Antwerpen; Lorenzo de Veles stated about himself that "he was borne at Dunkirke. and liveth att Cadiz and in the Indies as a merchant as occasion offers"

Others

Juan Alvarez – silver to be delivered for his account

ffrancisco da Cairodye [alt. Coboscartiradye] - living in Vera Cruz in New Spaine for 13 years; "liveth at Saint Austins place in Vera Cruz"; "native of Biskay in Spaine"; "one of the Treasurers of and for the King [of Spain] att Vera Cruz"
Lewis ffernandez Angell - living at Caracas in Spanish West Indies; according to [Don] Antonio de Ponte, Lewis ffernandez Angell had been "an inhabitant of Caracas in the West Indies under the jurisdiction of the sayd king of [?Spayne] sixteene yeares now past as this deponent hath heard, and for eight last past of this deponents knowledge"; Antonio Ala Rosa, a thirty-two year old mariner from Sevile, stated that "Lewis ffernandez Angell is by nation a Spaniard, and to this deponents knowledge, hath bene for theis thirteene yeares now last past an inhabitant of Caracas in the West Indies under the jurisdiction of the King of Spaine£"; born in Spain; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz on which he had laded thirteen bars of silver; claimant; Manuel Coreas stated that Llewis ffernandez Angell"is a Spaniard, and lives when att home, and hath his family att Caracas in the Indies"

ffrancisco Hurtado - living at Varinas; sold tobacco to Anthony Roderigues and ffrancis Markadoe at Varinas, which was witnessed by Manuell Corea

ffrancisco [?de] [?More] Juan Pays - living at Varinas; sold tobacco to Anthony Roderigues and ffrancis Markadoe at Varinas, which was witnessed by Manuell Corea

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Spanish witnesses and others living in Cadiz, San Lucars and Sevile

Witnesses

Roderige Alonzo - living at Cadiz; merchant; aged thirty-three in May 1653; witness; travelled as a passenger in the Sampson

Pedro Arangel [alt. Arangevil; Aranqual] - living in Cadiz; lives "his house is in Saint ffrancis Street [Cadiz]; "a Biskayer by birth"; 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"; "a native of Biskany"; has lived in Cadiz for 16 years of the knowledge of deponent Roderigo Alonzo, merchant of Cadiz; “the interrate John Mann[?r]ga and Peter Arangall the producents live neere to the ffranciscans Cloyster in Cadiz”; Roderigo Alonzo deposed in September 1653 that "Pedro Arangel lived neere to the ffranciscans Cloyster in Cadiz and ffrancisco da [?Coyrodge] neere the ffranciscans college in vera Cruz"

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 Seville; "he this deponent was borne att Sevill in Spayne, and when in Spayne inhabiteth att Sevill"; mariner; aged thirty-two; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz; has known claimant Lewis ffernandez Angell for sixteen years

Thomas Juan [alt. Thomas John] - living in Cadiz; mariner; passenger on the Salvador

Francisco Lopez [alt. ffrancisco Lopez] - living in Seville; merchant, aged 21

ffrancisco Lopez - living in Grenada; merchant

John Baptista de la Mot - living at Cadiz; merchant; aged twenty-four in December 1653

Domingo Padellas [alt. Domingo Padilla] - living in Saint Lucar [CHECK THIS RESIDENCE AND SOURCE]; merchant; but see "clayme of Domingo da Padilla of Cadiz merchant for 12 butts of Sherry wines taken and seized in the shippe Sampson whereof Octavio George is Captaine"

John Baptista Sabino - living in Cadiz, but born in Genua; aged twenty-seven in November 1653; merchant; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz; John Baptista Sabino stated that "hee this deponent is a Genoese by birth and hath lived at Cadiz in Spaine for the space of 15. or 16 yeares last past"

Michael Perry Severino [alt. Michael Pery Severino; Michael Perry; Michell Perry; Miguel Pery Severino; M. Perry] [SENIOR] - living at ?Cadiz; Anthonie Lois, XXX, deposed that at Cadiz "one Michael Perry senior one of the said producents ffactors did also then and there for the producents accompt lade or cause to be laden in the said shipp the said two barrills of sweet Lemmons, and two barrills of olives of the same marke to be transported in the said shipp (Michael van Lubkin Master) to Dunquirke in fflanders"; presmumably Michael Perry senior is the father of the twenty eight year old Michael Perry Severino of Saint Lucar, who appears multiple times as a deponent; John Vorvoort, Antwerp based cashier and booke-keeper to John Smeesters in Antwerp, had never been to Spain. He deposed, referring to the factor of John Smeesters, who we know from Anthonie Lois to be Michael Perry Senior, that that "Perry as hee beleeveth is a fflandrian borne, and hath long time lived at Cadiz"; Micahel Perry Severino makes reference to his own father, deposing in October 1653 support of a claim by John Bollart of Antwerp that "he hath for theise ten years last past or thereabouts knowne the producent John Bollart by meanes of correspondencey and trade between the said producent, and this deponents father and himselfe"

Roland Baetens identifies a letter addressed to "M. Perry" in the Antwerpen Insolventen Boeken, dated 27th April 1645 making reference to the lading of silver for Antwerp [CHECK SPELLING].; Baetens identifies further letters. These include "Alsook IB 110, brief van N. de Groote aan M. Perry, 26 maart 1651", and "IB 109, brief van N.D.G. aan M. Perry, 2 maart en 26 mei 1652"; Baetens also identifies a "Francisco Perry"

A document in the J.A.L. Velle Collection in the NEHA archive in Amsterdam may refer to the eponymous father of Michael Perry Severino. The document metdata state: "2.4.40.1: Invoice by Michiel Burnley for cargo shipped from Dunkirk to Dover on consignment of Michel Perry for order of Pedro Henriquez in San Lucar, 1632"

Michael Perry Severino [alt. Michael Pery Severino; Michael Perry; Michell Perry; Miguel Pery Severino; M. Perry] [JUNIOR] - living at San Lucars in Spain; merchant; passenger on the Salvador; aged twenty-eight; CHECK AGE, SINCE TWENTY-FOUR IN ANOTHER DEPOSITION; Michael Perry Severino states that he "was borne and liveth at Saint Lucar"; John Stueten Paep stated in June 1653 in support of a claim by Michael Perry Severino that "the producents howse is in Bread[?street] and Lafflys house in the plate street of Saint Lucar";

Michael Perry Severino stated in October 1653 support of a claim by John Bollart of Antwerp that "he hath for theise ten years last past or thereabouts knowne the producent John Bollart by meanes of correspondencey and trade between the said producent, and this deponents father and himselfe"

Thomas Swann - living in Cadiz; mariner

Others

ffrancisco de Alarero - living at Cadiz; loaded silver coins on board the Morning Starr for the accounts of Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin [alt. Hille wer den Ven]

Nicholas Alleman - living at Cadiz; victualler; Miguel Severino Perry stated that "the sayd bills of lading were signed respectively as aforesayd by Pedro del Campo, and Christian Cloppenbergh in the howse of Nicholas Alleman a victualler in Cadize, and this deponent saw them signed as he hath predeposed"

Domingo Antonio - living at ?Cadiz; factor of George [da] Etton Head, together with Peter Claesson

Manuel Gomez de Arosta - living at Sevile; merchant and assentista of the King of Spain; claimant for wool in the Salvador; known to the deponent Antonio Estevan de Balderas for twenty-five years

John Baptista - living at Sevile; one of four Spanish factors of John Bollart, merchant of Antwerp; according to Michael Perry Severino (himself resident in Sevile), John Baptista was "a native of Sevill and liveth in the street de Rosario"

ffrederick Bevia (alt. ffrederick Bevin; Fadrique Bevia; Fadrique Beuven; ffrederico Bevia) - living in Cadiz; native of Spain and always living in Spain according to Otto George; 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 the Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"; Identifed by Maria Guadalupe Carrasco González as "Fadrique Bevia"; Possibly the same man as identified by Jonathan Irvine Israel as "Fadrique Beuven"., and by Beatriz Cárceles de Gea as "Fadrique Bevan"

fferdinando Lopez da [?Bellomias] [alt. poss. Fernando Lopez de Bolaños] - living at Seville; claimant for goods in the Sampson and Salvador; usually trade and deal in sending hides and other West Indian commodities into fflanders from Seville; married and a native subject of Spain; possibly mentioned in Enriqueta Vila Vilar in list of C17th Seville merchants as "757. LOPEZ DE BOLAÑOS, Fernando: 1637-1640; 1642, 1647, 1651, 1653-1657."

Pedro Calvo - living at Cadiz; factor of Paulus Cobrisse, merchant of Bruges in Flanders; John de Losa Barona deposed in September 1653 that "Pedro Navarro and Pedro Calvo are Spaniards inhabitants of Cadiz where by common repute they have lived all their tyme"

Nicholas Carasso - living at Cadiz; ?factor of Paulus Cobrisse, merchant of Bruges in Flanders

Juan [?Calonsesa] - living at Cadiz; Spanish factor of Robert [?Scorion], claimant for silver in the Saint John Baptist

Anthony Chavez [alt. Anthony de Chavez] - living at Sevile; merchant and assentista of the King of Spain; claimant for cochineale in the Salvador; known to the deponent Antonio Estevan de Balderas for twenty-five years

Laurance darlez - present at Cadiz; possibly Spanish; possibly a merchant

Manuel Dias - living at ?; claimant for tobacco on the ship the Salvador

Juan Esćon [alt. Juan Escon; Jhouan Exon] - living at ?Cadiz; possible brother-in-law or father-in-law of Vincent Von Kampen [alt. von Campen; Vicente del Campo]; Archivo General de Indias metadata for Informaciones y licencias de pasajeros a Indias (1651, 1653) for Juan Escon states "Expediente de información y licencia de pasajero a indias de Juan Escon, mercader, natural y vecino de Cádiz, hijo de Juan Escon y de Margarita Enríquez. Fecha licencia Casa Contratación"

Juan Antonio del Camp y Escon - living at ?; son of Vincent del Campo and Juana Escon according to Archivo General de Indias metadata for nformaciones y licencias de pasajeros a Indias, 1678

Susana Esćon [alt. Susana Escon] - living at ?Cadiz; probable wife of Vincent von Kampen

ffrancisco Lopez da ffonseca - living in ?Spain; a Spaniard according to John Martinsdorp; laded baggs of woolonto the Saint George

Pedro ffrancisco - living in Xeres; merchant

ffrancisco Garcia Guerera [alt. poss. Francisco Guerrero] - living at Seville; claimant for goods in the Sampson and Salvador; usually trade and deal in sending hides and other West Indian commodities into fflanders from Seville; married and a native subject of Spain; possibly mentioned in Enriqueta Vila Vilar in list of C17th Seville merchants as "612. GUERRERO, Francisco: 1653, 1655."

Peter Johnson [alt. Janson; Peter Jansen Clomp] - living at Cadiz; barkman/barkier (carrying goods to ships in Bay of Cadiz)

ffrancis Machado - living in Port Saint Mary near Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz; Baetens (1976) mentions a "Jorge Rodrigues Mercado" in a kist of merchants and goods by year ("Jorge Rodrigues Mercado Vlaams lijnwaad 1643")

Alomzo da Syera Bargas [?Machuca] - living at Cadiz; native of and born at Cadiz

[?Trocato] Millenes - living at Cadiz; claimant

Lopez de Molina - living at Cadiz; "a native of Cadiz, and liveth there in the Hiarra street"; one of four factors in Cadiz and Sevile of John Bollart, merchant of Antwerp (the others being Gerard Ryper in Cadiz, John Baptista in Sevile and Pedro de Zoleta in Cadiz)

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

John Baptista Montolia [or Montobia]; Jean Baptista Munteva [alt. Muntova] - living at Cadiz; merchant; 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"; a "Merchant Agent" at Cadiz for the King of Spain

Pedro Navarro - living at Cadiz; agent (with Pedro Calvo) of Paulus Cobrisse of Antwerp; John de Losa Barona deposed in September 1653 that "Pedro Navarro and Pedro Calvo are Spaniards inhabitants of Cadiz where by common repute they have lived all their tyme"

ffrancisco Antonio [?Neimans] - living at Cadiz; [NEED TO CONFIRM SPANISH]; loaded silver coins on board the Morning Starr for the accounts of Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin [alt. Hille wer den Ven]

fferdinando Numez [alt. Nunez; Munez] - living at Seville; merchant, owner of goods in the Salvador; Antonio Estevan de Balderas stated that "fferdinando Nunez he hath knowne 25 yeares, and he was and is a native and Inhabitant of Sevil and so accounted!; mentioned in Enriqueta Vila Vilar in list of C17th Seville merchants as "986. NUÑEZ, Fernando: 1651, 1655, 1659"

Nicholas [?Paulo] - living at ?Cadiz; "an officer or agent of and for the Treasury of the Santo Crusado"

ffranco Pellayes - living at Cadiz; "ffranco Pellayes was and is an Inhabitant of Cadiz and there liveth with his wife and family and is a native thereof and Subiect of the King of Spaine And saith that the sayd Pellays of this deponents knowledge was Captaine or Comander of the shipp that brought the tobaccoes from the West Indies"

ffrancisco Peralti [alt. ffrancis Peralti] - living in Spain; native of Spain and always living in Spain according to Otto George; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; possibly the same man or related to him is "Joseph Fran[cisco] de Peralta, who is listed by Anne Blondé as one of two Mayordomos in Sevile for 1651 "Joseph Fran[cisco] de Peralta; Gutierres Mahuysse"

Blaza da La Pina [Blases de la Pyna] - living at Sevile; claimant for bags of wool in the Salvador; "a Spaniard a subiect of the King of Spayne a merchant Inhabitant of Sevill in Spayne and that he hath bene 30 yeares and upwards, and was and is a merchant of good ranke using to trade betweene Spaine and fflanders"; Antonio Estevan de Balderas stated that Blases de la Pyna was "an ancyent acquaintance of this deponent from his youth"; "Mercaderes que assistieron a la junta que, presidida por Bartolomé Morquecho, se celebró el 4 de junio de 1637 para aprestar una armada de veinte mil toneladas (A.I. Indiferente, 759):...Blas de la Peña...Daniel de León..."

Bernardo Armandaris, a young merchant of Pamplona in Spain, deposed in July 1650 that goods were laden on board the ship the Prince, presumably at the Canaries, bound from the Canaries for Amsterdam. "Blas de lapena of Sevill by his factor there laded aboard the said shipp within the said time 496 hides marked as in the margin of the said schedule, and consigned them to Jacob del Monte of Amsterdam"

Anthony Rodriques - living at Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz"

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

The Alcada [?Sackes] - [?an] Officer of the King of Spaine, empowered to inspect wools sent by barques from Sevile to Cadiz to be laden into the Morning Starr and sent to Flanders

Don Pedro Seravier - living at Saint Lucar; sold wines at Saint Lucar to John [?Stoten] [?Papa] in the presence of Francisco de Bois

Alonso da ?Spinola - living at Cadiz; a Spaniard according to John Martinsdorp; laded canasters of tobaccoe onto the Saint George; Baetens (1976) mentions a "Franco Spinola" and appears to provide detail regarding the family "Spinola"

Alonso da Torres - living at Cadiz; a Spaniard according to John Martinsdorp; laded cochenela onto the Saint George

John Ximines - living at?; "an Indian"; sold tobacco at ?Saint Lucar to John [?Stoten] [?Papa] in the presence of Francisco de Bois

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Spanish witnesses and others living in the Canaries

Witnesses

Pasquall Andrada - living in Teneriffa; born at Garachicho in Teneriffa; servant of Don Antonio da Ponte, merchant; had been in Spanish West Indies with his master, and witnessed his master purchasing silver at Havana; witness

Others

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Spanish witnesses and others living in Madrid and Valladolid

Witnesses

Antonio Estevan de [?valdero] - "of Madrid"; merchant; aged thirty seaven

Thomas Sanchez Dorissa - ?living at Valladolid; ?merchant; witness

Others

Domingo Centurion - living at Madrid; assentista [keeper of the King's revenues] 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 or factor" of the King of Spain, "consigned to Jacques Swarez att Ostend"; Michael Van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starr, understood as of January 1653 that Dominigo Centurione was "a Spaniard liveing at Madrid, and Councellor to his Catholique Majestie and his Principall ffactor or Agent for the sending of goods wares and merchandizes from Spaine into fflanders for the supply of his said Majesties occasions there" Michael Van Lubkin understood Centurione to be a Spaniard, rather than Flandrian.

Heyres of George Etton - living at Madrid

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

Symon ffonseca Pyna [alt. Pina; Symaon da ffonseca Pyna] - living in Madrid; claimant; Anthonio Estevan de Balderas, native of Madrid, but living at Lima in Peru, deposed that "Symon da ffonseca Pyna was and is a Spaniard and merchant of Madrid and there lives and keepes his howse and family and doth use to trade much for Cadiz to fflanders for sylver and hath his agents and factors in both those places for that purpose"

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Spanish witnesses and others living in Flanders and Brabant

Witnesses

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Others

Jaspar Lorenzo - living at Antwerp; by fame and report a native of Madrid; merchant; claimant for moneys in the Sampson and the Salvador

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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

Others

Leonardo Mottet - living in ?London; younger brother of Egido Mottett

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Hamburger witnesses and others living at Cadiz, San Lucars and Sevile

Others

Vincent van Campen [alt. Vincent del Campo; Vincent von Kampen; Vincent von Kampe; Vincenz von Kampen; Viçente del Canpo (sic)] - 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"; Paulus Cobrisse stated in June 1653 that "the habitations of the sayd severall persons of this deponents knowledge have bene and are as followeth, videlicet Vincent Van Campen John de Windts and ffrederick Bevia have for theis eighteene yeares or thereabouts bene inhabitants of Cadize in Spayne. Daniel da Leon and Don Joseph ffrancisco Peralti inhabitants of Sevill for eighteene yeares, ffrancisco Panninq Robert Jacomo and Cornelius Leman inhabitants of Sevill for eight yeares past"

"Vincent dal Campo" was owner of a one sixteenth part of the Amsterdam built but largely Hamburg owned ship the Saint John the Baptist (Master: Derrick Heytman), which was seized by the English in 1653, returning from Malaga. Other Hamburg merchant owners of the ship resident in Spain were Daniel Leon and ffrancis Panniq (sic), who each had a thirty-second share, together with "Christofer Bussel" ("a Hamburger living at Malaga"). Testimony shows this ship was involved in Mediterranean and Cadiz trade with Ostend and Dunkirk. See: All locations: owners of the Saint John Baptist

William Jansen [alt. William Janson; William Johnson] - living in Seville; "by the Port of Sevill"; merchant and factor for Edward Peters in Antwerp (as is also Geraerl Ryper) ; "by common repute William Jansen is by birth an Hamburgher, and hath many yeares lived with his wife and family in Cadiz; "a Hamburger"

Antonio de Leon - living possibly at Sevile; identified together with "ffrancisco Panninck" by Francis Thoris, former bookkeeper to Anthony Upton in Sevile, as an agent in Spain of Adrian Goldsmith, a Hamburg merchant in Antwerp; speculatively he was related to the Hamburg born, but Spanish resident merchant, Daniel de Leon.

Daniell de Leon - living at Sevile, but probably born in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; Paulus Cobrisse stated in June 1653 that "the habitations of the sayd severall persons of this deponents knowledge have bene and are as followeth, videlicet Vincent Van Campen John de Windts and ffrederick Bevia have for theis eighteene yeares or thereabouts bene inhabitants of Cadize in Spayne. Daniel da Leon and Don Joseph ffrancisco Peralti inhabitants of Sevill for eighteene yeares, ffrancisco Panninq Robert Jacomo and Cornelius Leman inhabitants of Sevill for eight yeares past"

Secondary sources state he was a Flemish merchant resident in Seville as early as 1637, and appears to have been naturalised in Spain; however, archival metadata for the content of a record from the Archivo General de Indias dated 1650 states "Expediente de información y licencia de pasajero a Indias de Daniel de León, mercader, natural de Hamburgo y vecino de Sevilla, hijo de Joaquín Suitquer y de Margarita Brandes, a Tierra Firme. Incluye relación mercadurías" [Information file and license passenger Indies Daniel de Leon, merchant, born in Hamburg and resident of Seville, son of Joaquin Suitger and Margarita Brandes, to the mainland. It includes merchandises relationship]. Taken at face value, Daniel de Leon is therefore an adopted Spanish name for the son of [CHECK] the Hamburg merchant Joachim Suitger and Margarita Brandes [probably also from a Hamburg family].

“DANIEL, LEÓN.- “De nación alemán, vecino de Sevilla; exceptuado en dicha fecha de la anulaciónde naturalezas por estar casado con natural, tener blenes raices y haber servido a S.M. con barcos para lievar bastimentos al ejércíto de Cataluña”

Otto George, master of the Sampson, confirmed that "Vincent van Campen, Daniel Lione, and ffrancis Panninck were and are all natives of Hamborow", although each of them, together with John de Windt Robert Jacomo and Cornelis Lemmons "have longe lived in Spaine namely every one at least fifteene yeares and the others more".

The London merchant John Wilmott confirmed that Daniel de Leon and ffrancisco Paninque were located at Sevile, stating in support of a claim made by the former Sevile resident Christopher Boone that: "the sayd Christopher Boone did in the yeares 1653 and 1654 by his Agents Mr Anthony Upton and Company deliver to Daniel de Leon and ffrancisco Paninque Agents of the arlate Adrian Goldsmith at Sivill or his use and Accompt goods and effects of a very great value"

Interestingly, there is another record from the Archivo General de Indias, dated 1671, for an Isidro Carlos Antonio de León "mercader, vecino de Cádiz, hijo de David Brandes y de Susana Antonia León. A secondary source, citing a Spanish primary source, states "Enrique Lepin, casado con Susanna Antonia de León, hija de Daniel de León y Beatriz Beruben (AGI Indil. 596 B. Hay ottos varios analogos)."

For what it is worth, a Daniel Brandes appears in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg in an entry dated 1631, recording a loan made by David Brandes as a shipowner to Peter Tamm ["15.02.1631: 1400 Reichstaler, Daniel Brandes als Schiffsreeder des Peter Tamm, rückzahlbar nach 1 Jahr nebst 84 Reichstalern".; Moreover, Jorun Poettering identifies "Daniel Brandes & Jeronimus Schnitker" in business together [NEED TO LOOK AT CONTEXT IN BOOK] Martin Reissmann, possibly from the same source as Poettering, states "Daniel Brandes und Jeronymus (sic) Schnitker vertrauten - ebenfalls 1645 - eine Ladung von 45 Tönnchen „Kaufmannschaft" im Wert ..."; Reissmann has a different spelling of Schnitker in a table titled 'Handelsfirmen mit Umsätzen von mehr als 100 000 Mk' in which he lists "Brandes Daniel u. Schnitquer (sic) Jeronymus...".

David Molanstein [alt. Molenstein; Mollenstein - Michael Perry Severino deposed in June 1653 ins upport of a claim made by George Boschaert; he named David Molanstein to be one of three factors or agents of Bosschaert living in Cadiz, the other two being Maximilian da [?Hogha] and ffrancis de la Sierpe. Whereas da [?Hogha] was, acording to Perry Severino, from Ipres, and ffrancis de la Sierpe from Dunkirk, he stated "the said David Molanstein of Hamburgh"

Juan Motte - living at Sevile, but born in Hamburg; former servant and cashier to Hamburg merchant Arnold Woulters, when Woulters was living in Sevile; Juan Motte stated in December 1653, in support of a claim by Arnold Woulters for silver shipped on the Angell Michael at San Lucar for Woulters account in Hamburg, that "Arnold Woulters was and is an Hamburgher borne and for such commonly accounted this deponent himselfe being a native of the same place And further saith that the sayd Arnold Woulters in the sayd moneth of November 1652 and att the tyme of the lading of the sayd sylver and money respectively as aforesaid and for six yeares before or thereabouts was and is an inhabitant of Hamburgh. and that for about 11 yeares next before he lived in Sevilia in Spayne as a merchant stranger this deponent being his servant and cashier for the reatest part of the sayd 11 yeares. And that the producent for about 6 or 7 yeares last past hath bene and is burgher of Hamburgh, and for all his tyme hath bene and is a subiect of the free State of Hamburgh"; interestingly Juan Motte was the cousin german of Arnold Woulters, saying " he is by birth an Hamburgher and an Inhabitant of Sevilia in Spaine. and is the producents [Arnold Woulter] cousin german"

ffrancisco [?Pennincg?r] [alt. Francisco Panique; ffrancisco Paninque; ffrancis Panniq; ffrancisco Panninck] - living in Spain for at least fifteen years prior to November 1652, but native of Hamburg, according to Otto George; resident in Sevile; merchant and factor; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; Paulus Cobrisse stated in June 1653 that "the habitations of the sayd severall persons of this deponents knowledge have bene and are as followeth, videlicet Vincent Van Campen John de Windts and ffrederick Bevia have for theis eighteene yeares or thereabouts bene inhabitants of Cadize in Spayne. Daniel da Leon and Don Joseph ffrancisco Peralti inhabitants of Sevill for eighteene yeares, ffrancisco Panninq Robert Jacomo and Cornelius Leman inhabitants of Sevill for eight yeares past"

Antonio Domínguez Ortiz identified a "Francisco Panique" as being naturalised [CHECK CORRECTLY TRANSLATED] in Spain in 1654, followed in 1656 by "Juan de Bint o Vint". Georges Scelle identifies a "Francisco Panique" as a "créole espagnol" in the context of the Assentio for trading of slaves.

There is a record in the Archivo General de Indias within the folder containing Pleitos de la casa de contratacion identifying a Francisco Panique and Gabriel de León as residents of Sevilla in a lawsuit dated 1657 brought by a fellow Sevilla resident Luis Fernández de Luna.; mentioned in Enriqueta Vila Vilar in list of C17th Seville merchants as "1078. PANIQUE, Francisco: 1651, 1654-1656; 1660" There is a further reference in the Archivo General de Indias, dated 1658, stating "Autos del capitán Luis Fernández de Luna, con Francisco Panique y Daniel de León, vecino de Sevilla, sobre que le pagasen lo que le restaban deber del precio en que les había vendido la nao 'La Bendición de Dios y San Antonio', a que salió el Hospital y Convento de la Paz, de la Orden de San Juan de Dios, como cesionario del referido LuisFernández de Luna"

A Hans Panninck "Kaufman in Hamburg" is listed against the year 1504 in a German secondary source.. A "Michel Paninck" is described with others as "Hamburger Reedern" in a Danzig archival record dating from 1551 or court case between the FDanziger Rat and an Englishman, in a case concerning non-payment of tolls.

Francis Thoris, the former book keeper to the English merchant and factor in Sevile, Anthony Upton, was the Sevile correspondent of Christopher Boone back in London. Thoris stated that "Antonio de Leon and ffrancisco Panninck" were the Spanish agents (possibly based in Sevile) of Adrian Goldsmith and made a bargain with Anthony Upton in Sevile on behalf of Goldsmith. The London merchant John Wilmott confirmed that Daniel de Leon and ffrancisco Paninque were located at Sevile, stating in support of a claim made by the former Sevile resident Christopher Boone that: "the sayd Christopher Boone did in the yeares 1653 and 1654 by his Agents Mr Anthony Upton and Company deliver to Daniel de Leon and ffrancisco Paninque Agents of the arlate Adrian Goldsmith at Sivill or his use and Accompt goods and effects of a very great value" Anne Blondé lists as Mayordomos in Sevile for 1647 "Francisco Pannique (sic), Roberto Jacome" and for 1649 "Francisco Paninque, Roberto Jacome"

John Scrother - living at San Lucars;

John Stootenpape, a San Lucar resident factor, stated in November 1653 that he had known John Scrother to have resided at San Lucars for six or seven years and to have acted as factor for the Hamburg merchant Hans Lemmerman and other Hamburg merchants John Stootenpape added that John Scrother was "a batchelor and a Hamburgher borne"; Stootepape stated that "residing at Saint Lucar in Spaine and familiarly acquainted and daily conversing with the allate John Scrother, hee this deponent heard him severall times say and declare That according to letters of advise which hee had received over land from Hamburgh from the allate widow and heires of Hance Lemmerman deceased, hee did expect the arrivall of the shipp the Black Cock allate (whereof John ffransen Haen was Master) laden with pipestaves and clapboards for the accompt of the said widdow and heires, and by them consigned to the said John Scrother their ffactor or Agent to be by him sold or disposed of to their best advantage"; John Scrother was also San Lucar factor for Hamburg merchants John Baptista Hertogh and Cornelis de Hertogh

Peter Scholenburgh deposed in March 1653 that John Scrother loaded goods on board the Black Cock for the account of the two Hertoghs

John Scrother made his own claim in the English Admiralty Court for sherry he had laded on the Black Cock. Hamburg merchant, Jacob Wigandi, also deposed a few months later, in November 1653, in support of John Scrother's claim on the Blacke Cock. Wigandi stated that "John Scrother is a Hamburger borne, and hath for 5. yeares last past of this deponents knowledge of him by correspondence resided as a ffactor for Hamborough merchants at Saint Lucar in Spaine, by meanes of which his residence hee was and is a subject of the king of Spaine, and in that regard caused the bill of lading predeposed to be made in the pretended name of Diederick Cordes a burgher of hamborough, purposely to ffree the said wines from the ffrench"

The Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in November 1653 that John Scrother was "a Hamburger borne, and hath for 5. yeares last past of this deponents knowledge of him by correspondence resided as a ffactor for Hamborough Merchants at Saint Lucar in Spaine, by meanes of which his residence hee was and is a subject of the king of Spaine"

John Roopke [alt. Ropke] - living in Sevile; native of Hamburg; merchant stranger at Sevile for last six years; John Martinsdorp, master of the Saint George, stated that "John Ropke arlate was and is a native of Hamburgh and for all his tyme till within six yeares now past hath dwelt att Hamburgh, and for theis six yeares or thereabouts hath lived att Sevill in Spaine as a merchant stranger, which this deponent knoweth being an Hamburgher and well acquainted with the sayd John Roopke"' Speculatively John Roopke (alt. Ropke) may be related to Daniel Ropke, merchant of Hamburg

Joachim Schaez - living at Cadiz; laded silver into the Morning Starre at Cadiz as an agent of the Antwerp merchant Augustine Lambert, together with ffrancisco de la Sierpe [alt Seirpe]; Michaell Van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starre, claimed to know him and stated that he was "an Hamburgher"

Joachim Schaer - living probably at San Luar; known to San Lucar resident Juan Stuten Paep to be lving at San Lucar for eight years (as of late 1653); Schaer was a factor for Hamburg merchant Conrado Esser, who lived at San Lucar himself from ca. 1641 to ca. 1650, before returning to Hamburg; Juan Stuten Paep stated that "Schaer is an Hamburgher and for about eight yeares hath lived att Saint Lucar where his howse is upon or neare the Strand. and he lived before all his tyme by repute att Hamburgh, where the producent allsoe liveth as aforesayd in his howse neare the Mill bridge"; Juan Stuten Paep added that "about two yeares now past the sayd Joachim Schaer receyved in severall shipps from Hamburgh and fflanders severall quantities of linnen cloth wax and other goods the particulars whereof names of the shipps wherein they were so sent or value of the sayd goods he knoweth not; and the sayd Joachim Schaer hath told this deponent that he had generall order to remitt the sayd goods in sylver to the producent upon all fair opportunityes"

Daniel Sloyer [the younger] - living in Cadiz; lived "neare to the Torreon in Cadize"; Hamburg born; his father was the Hamburg merchant Daniel Sloyer [the elder], who lived in Hamburg and was deceased by late 1652, leaving his widow in Hamburg, and Daniel the younger's brother, Franz Sloyer. Daniel Sloyer the younger had part-ownership of the Saint George with his brother ffrancis [alt. Franz] Sloyer;

For research suggsestions see: Sloyer/Schloyer family

John Wouters - living at Sevile; "a hamburger by birth" according to John Martinsdorp; speculatively, John Wouters may be related to Arnold Woulters of Hamburg, who made a claim for silver in the Morning Star in December 1653

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Italian witnesses and others living at Cadiz, San Lucars and Sevile

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Andrew Spinola - living at Sevile; possibly an Italian according to John Martinsdorp; laded bales of wool onto the Saint George

[?Cipriano ?Zquini] - living at Cadiz; an Italian according to John Martinsdorp; laded bales of wool onto the Saint George

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Irish witnesses and others living at Cadiz, San Lucars and Sevile

Thomas Marten - living in Spain (Cadiz) and then in London, but from Galloway, Ireland; merchant factor; witness in September 1653 in claim of his father Dominick Martin, a Galloway resident merchant, for silver laded by Thomas Martin at Cadiz into the Sampson, the Salvador and the Saint George; did not sail as a passenger in the Silver ships, but was specially requested by his father to come to London to depose in the Admiralty Court; Deposing in support of his father's claim for silver in the three silver ships, Thomas Marten stated that he "being a bachelor hath noe fixed abode att present but as a merchant resideth sometymes in Ireland, sometymes in England, and in fflanders or Spaine" and stressed his economic independence from his father "having a stock of his owne separate from his sayd fathers estate"<r4ef>HCA 13/69 Silver 9 f.3r</ref>

Thomas Marten was in Bilbao in June 1653, presumably on his way to London, when he witnessed Cornelis Jacobson, master of the Saint Peter sign bills of lading for silver coins on behalf of their lader ffrancis Bodkin, factor at Bilboa for John Bodkin

Also a witness in October 1653 in the case if the Saint Peter (Master: Cornelius Jacobson) seized by the English ship the Handmaid, describing himself then as "of Gallaway in Ireland merchant aged five and twenty yeares" The ship appears to have been sailing from Bilboa to Nantes in France, when it was seized by the English. Thomas Martin stated that "he is an Irishman, and is not bound as he beleiveth to discover his conscience in poynt of religion, and is a merchant factor without a settled aboad, and from the yeare 1642. to 1646. lived in fflanders. from 1646. to 1652 in the beginning thereof lived in Holland and Zealand. and from April 1652. to July 1653 in Spain, from whence he came in July last and in the same month arrived in London, and here hath resided ever since"

In a further deposition relating to Irish owned silver on the Saint Peter, Thomas Martin stated in October 1653: "he was borne at Gallaway in Ireland, and beleives he is not bound to answer or declare what religion he professes; and saith that in the yeares 1543. 1644. 1645. 1646. he lived at Iypre and Lisle in fflanders, and in the yeares 1647. 1648. 1649. 1650. 1651. and about one moneth 1652. in Holland and Zealand, sometymes att Middleburgh, sometymes att Amsterdam and since Aprill 1652. to July 1653. in Spaine sometymes att Cadiz sometymes att Bilboa, from whence he came in July last, and came to this citty in the same month, and hath since here resided."

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Irish witnesses and others living at Bilbao

ffrancis Bodkin - Living at Bilbao, but born in Galloway, Ireland; "a subiect of the Commonwealth";factor and correspondent at Bilboa in 1653 of father John Bodkin; Thomas Martin stated that he "hath knowne ffrancis Bodkin in the bills of lading mentioned from a child, and he now resides in Bilbao and so hath done for theis 6 yeares or thereabouts, and before att Gallaway from his childhood" Thomas Martin added that ffrancis Bodkin "is a factor for English and Irish merchants and not for ffrench or Dutch merchants", but admitted that the "Saint Peter was att the tyme of her seizure in the possession of Dutch men subiects of of the States of the United Provinces and her Company were most of them subiects of the sayd States" "Mr ffrancis Bodkin" appears in a later Admiralty Court case described, with "Mr William Skerret" as "both Irishmen" and owners of a ship named the Mary Magdalen, which was seized by a private English man of war In July 1653 carrying wine and Brandy from Nantes supposedly to Ostend.

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Flandrian and Brabanter and Liege witnesses and others living at Cadiz, San Lucars and Sevile

Witnesses

ffrancois du Boys [alt. Francisco de Bois] - living in Cadiz, and before that at Saint Lucar; aged thirty; merchant; deposed on June 9th 1653; "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"

Michael Perry Severino, himself a resident of San Lucars in Spain, stated that "ffrancis du Boyes liveth in Cadize and so hath done for eight yeares or thereabouts and his howse is neere to the Dutch shambles there"; Joost Arnould, a merchant of Dunkirk, was in Cadiz in September 1652 and stated that ffrancois du Boys' house "is neer the ffranciscan street in Cadiz"; Du Bois himself stated "he this deponent is ffrancis du Bois interrate and lives in Cadiz neere to the fflemmish shambles there and there hath lived eight yeares and upwards, and four yeares before att Saint Lucar in Spaine, and was borne att Teneramunde in fflanders, ... and is the factor of Cezar de Haze"; Diego Maistre stated in XX that "ffrancis du Boys hath his howse and family over against the shambles neere unto the new street in Cadiz"

A recent University of Ghent masters thesis by Thomas Lambrecht identifies "(1500-1641) Familie Du Bois under the heading "Gekende heren en vrouwes van Overmere en Uitbergen"

Guillermo Crombeen [alt. William Crombeen] [signs "Guilleimo Crombeen"] - living in Cadiz; merchant; deposed multiple times; was "cashier unto one Francisco [?Pallays] captaine of a Spanish Frigott named the Nostra Seignora del Rosario" and was present at [?Marachais] in the West Indies in or about the moneth of December Anno Domini 1651"; "of Courtricke in Flanders...aged twentie fower yeares"; brother of Nicholas Crombeene; William Crombeene bought tobacco on behalf of his brother Nicholas and laded onto the Salvador; though stating he lives in Cadiz

Diego Maestre [alt. Diego Maistre; Don Diego Maestre; de Meester] - living at Sevile, but born in Bridges, Flanders; merchant; servant of Flandrian merchant in Seville, Hjeronimo Brudgmans; "Diego Maestre who laded the moneys interrate [in Cadiz] a fflandrian]" Diego Mestre himself states "he is a native of Bridge in fflanders liveth at Sevill and is a servant of the sayd Hjeronimo [Brudgmans] in the way of merchandize"

Roland Baetens mentions in a footnote "Diego Maestre ( = de Meester, jij heeft eeem zuster Catherina te Brugge)"; Diego Mestre, or Don Diego Mestre, appears to have been the son of "Don Toussain de Meester" and "Magdalena Aernouts", both born in Bruges [Brugge].

There is a contemporary report of a visit to Bruges in 1676 by "Pedro-Ignatio Van de Velde, alias del Campo...in opdracht van Don Diego Maestre, kapitein van Sevilla, om de dokumenten van zijn [Don Diego Maestre] adeldom te verzamelen"; a modern source states "Don Diego Maestre, son of Toussain de Meester of Bruges, became a naturalised citizen of Seville in 1683". Pedro-Igantio Van de Velde, alias del Campo, was the brother of Jacobus Van de Velde (alias Don Diego del Camp), both of whom were the sons of Diego Maester's sister, Catherine de Meester, and her husband Gabriel Van de Velde (b.1621, d.1658)

There is a portrait of "Don Diego Maestre" by "Bartolome Esteban Murillo" at "Colección viuda de Maestre en Sevilla (Sevilla)"; a catalogue of XX lists "461. DON DIEGO MAESTRE. D. Nicolas Maestre, Seville. A portrait of Captain Diego Maestre. Full length, life-size. Companion to No. 480. 2.01X1.06. This portrait and its companion are said to have been painted for, and they still remain in the possession of the Maestre family." and "480. DONA MARIA FELICES. Don Nicolas Maestre, Seville. Portrait of a lady. Full length, life-size. Companion to No. 461. 2.01X1.06." For genealogical nformation on the Maestre family see : APARICIO Y APARICIO, Edgar Juan, Marqués de Vistabella, La Familia Maestre, en: Revista de la Academia Guatemalteca de Estudios Genealógicos, Heráldicos e Históricos Nº 5-6, Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción, 1971-1972, pp. 362-363.

A modern secondary source on the Maestre family states: "Los MAESTRE proceden de Flandes; su fundador en España, fue el capitán Diego Maestre830, quien se estableció en Sevilla durante el reinado de Carlos II y en dicha ciudad fundó dos Mayorazgos, fue caballero veinticuatro de Sevilla y obtuvo Ejecutoria de Hidalguía ante la Real Chancillería de Granada. Los Maestre tuvieron su Casa Palacio en Sevilla, en la calle de San Isidoro, y en la iglesia parroquial, bajo la advocación de dicho santo, fundaron la Capilla, hasta la fecha conocida por la del Cristo de la Sangre, que a su vez fue enterramiento de los miembros de esta estirpe. El capitán Diego Maestre casó en primeras nupcias con doña Ana Mahieu y Medina y en segundas nupcias con doña María Felices Medina. Del primer matrimonio nació don Juan Antonio Maestre y Mahieu, de cuyo matrimonio con doña Josefa Mahieu o Mahius nació don Francisco Javier Maestre y Mahieu, quien casó con doña Ignacia María Fuentes y García Rebollar, de cuyo matrimonio nació don Juan Antonio Maestre y Fuentes, quien casó con doña Narcisa Tous de Monsalve y Fernández de Henestrosa831, siendo padres de doña Ignacia Maestre y Tous de Monsalve, abuela materna del doctor Montúfar."

A modern genealogical source states that Don Diego Maestre was born "Jacques de Meester" in 1628 and died in 1701. This birth date of 1628 is consistent with the age of twenty-four which Doego Mestre gives in 1653 when he is deposed in the English High Court of Admiralty. The source states that his father, Toussain de Meester, died in 1652, and that his mother, Madeleine Aernouts, died in 1659. The source states that he had an elder sister named Catherine de Meester (b. 1623, d.1697), who married Gabriel van der Velde (b.1621, d.1658) on August 9th 1653.

The modern genealogical source states that Jacques (Don Diego Maistre) de Meester married twice. Firstly, on May 26th 1662 in Sevile with Ana Mahuiz y de Medina MAHUIZ (b.1642, d.1665). By this first marriage he had one son named Juan Antonio Maestre y Mahuiz MAESTRE (b.1665, d.1710). Secondly, on June 16th 1666 in Sevile, with Maria de Felices y Medina de FELICES (b.1638, d.1701). By the second marriage he had two sons (1) José Felipe Maestre y Felices MAESTRE (b.1667 d.1729) (2) Pablo Francisco Maestre y Felices MAESTRE (b.1668 d.1686)

The same genealogical source describes Jaques de Meester's father, Toussain de Meester, as "Marguillier de l'église Notre-Dame à Bruges. Charpentier. Page du grand-duc de Toscane", and states that he was born and died in Bruges. Toussain de Meester's father is given as Jean de Meester, voir poliorcètes 1533-1608 (Ingénieur au service de l'Archiduc Albert), and his mother as Anne Drion (d.1602). Jacques de Meester's mother is named as Madeleine Arnouts, who is stated to be the daughter of Jan Aernouts and Adriana Keller.

John [?Stoten Papa] [alt. Stootenpape; Juan Stueten Paep] - living at Saint Lucar, but born at Neer in the principality of Liege; John Stueten Paep stated in late 1653 that "he was borne att Nair in Lakeland and liveth as a merchant stranger sometymes in Spayne sometymes in fflanders as occasion offerrs without any fixed abode"; merchant; usually trades in wines; subject of King of Spain; Francisco de Bois knew him to be living there for ?XXX years; "borne in the Towne of [?Nora] within the principality and dominion of [?Leige] and that he is a batchelor"

"John Stootenpape" was a witness in a separate case concerning the claim of the widow and heirs of Hans Lemmerman, a Hamburg merchant, for their goods in the Black Cock. In his deposition in November 1653 this case, John Stootenpape described himself as a "native of Neer in the Principalitie of Liege or Luyck Merchant aged 33. yeares", and stated that he had been resident in Saint Lucars in Spain "in or about the moneth of January 1652 (new style) and for some moneths before and since" and also in August, September and October 1652; Stootenpape stated in November 1653 that although a native of the principlality of Liege "he hath lived at Saint Lucar aforesaid for the most part of twelve yeares last pastXXX

Nicholas Witman - living at Cadiz; a flandrian according to John Martinsdorp

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"

Hjeronimo Brudgmans [alt. Hieronimo Brudgmans; Jeronimo Brudgmans; Geronimo Brugmans; Jeronimus Brugmans] - living "in Saint Nicholas Street in Sevill"; claimant; merchant; factor of his mother Anne Muyntinx, who lived in Antwerp; "Jeronimo Brudgmans for theise eight yeares now past or thereabouts hath lived and inhabited and still doth live and inhabit att Sevill in Spaine"

See metadata for a document dated June 28th 1683: "Copy tot den protocolle der stadt Antwerpen", "Copye van de fondatie gedaen bij ons vader saligh in St. Jacobs kercke ten lasten vant selve capittel". Voor schepenen van Antwerpen compareerden; Michiel Peeters, Jan Baptista Peeters, Michiel Moens, weduwnaar van Anna Maria Peeters als afgevaardigde van zijn 4 kinderen, Catharina Peeters echtgenote van Constant de Weerdt en Adriano Goijvaertsen vande Graeff, allen erfgenamen van wijlen Eduard Peeters voor de 1e partij en Hieronimus Brugmans, afgevaardigde van de Collegiale kercke van Sint Jacob en het Capittel van Canonicken van St. Jacob als 2de partij. Verdeling van de gelden zoals o.a. renten en obligaties." (Item: P.2/44.0.0); there appears to be a secondary reference to "BRUGMANS, BRUGHMANS, Hiëronimus, Gerinimo, Jeronimus, licentiaat rechten, kanunnick en koordeken Sint-Jacobskerk"; imployed Diego Maestre as his servant

Jacques Bassiliers - living in Cadiz or Sevill; son of Joanna Vanden Bergue

Peter Claesson - living at ?Cadiz; factor of George [da] Etton Head, together with Domingo Antonio [NEED TO CONFIRM FLANDRIAN]

David Clinckard [alt. Clinckart; Clinckert; Klinckart; Klinker; Klincker] - living at Sevile; flemmish; factor for James Pincquett, and laded silver on the Morning Starr in early 1653 for him; ffrancisco Boesdonck stated that "David Clinckart" was "of Bruges in fflanders" and that he had been in Spain for ten years, though he also makes reference to Clincart having been in Mr Pinquett's house in Antwerp in the last four years; Adrian Van Zolio de Yonge of Louvaine in Flanders staed in August 1653 identified "Pieter Jansen de Yonge and David Klincker ffactors to the arlate James Pinquett" lading silver into the ship the Morning Starr at Cadiz

William Cornelison - living at Cadiz; laded silver on board the Sampson on behalf of Simon da ffonseca Pyna; "intimate friend and acquaintance" of Lorenzo de Veles, a thirty-eight year old merchant of Dunkirk, Flanders; Lorenzo de Veles stated that "William Cornelison meant as he beleiveth in this interrogatorie by William Pomelir is a fflandrian borne and for 5 yeares last past of this deponents knowledge and many yeares more by repute hath lived with his family att Cadiz and his house is in a little land there called [?los] [?padas] de las [?Comedas]"

Giles Diensart [alt. Dieusaert] - living at Sevile; Adrian Valzolio, cashier to George Boschaert, deposed that "the said producents gave order to the said ffrancis de la Sierpe that hee should drawe the moneys upon them by the way of Sevill for repayment unto him and satisfaction for the said silver and plate, which order this deponent sawe and was acquainted with, and accordingly the said ffrancis drew the same upon them by the way of Sevill by Giles and Michael Diensaert, and the said producents accepted the said bills of exchange and have since paid the same, as this deponent hath found and seene by the said bills at Antwerp upon his retourne thither"

See Inventaris, NEHA Bijzondere Collecties 471: 2.5 Trade: 2.5.110.1 Proceeds from a shipment of oil from San Lucar to Amsterdam and then through Bruges to Ypres for account of Gillis Diensaert sr, Joseph Vercauteren and Gillis Diensaert jr., 1649

See IB 176, brief aan G. Dieusart, 12 mei 1650 and IB 28, brief van Dieusart, juli 1658

See "...actum desen iiij. Novembre 1685. waeren onderteeckent...Philype de Pape...Gillis Dieusart..."

See "Catalogue De tous les Gouverneurs de la Table des Pauvres de cette Egise, depuis la Réconciliation de la Ville de Bruges avec le Rois d'Espagne l'an 1584...Messieurs...1676...Gilles Dieusaert..."

Michael Diensart [alt. Dieusaert] - living at Sevile; Adrian Valzolio, cashier to George Boschaert, deposed that "the said producents gave order to the said ffrancis de la Sierpe that hee should drawe the moneys upon them by the way of Sevill for repayment unto him and satisfaction for the said silver and plate, which order this deponent sawe and was acquainted with, and accordingly the said ffrancis drew the same upon them by the way of Sevill by Giles and Michael Diensaert, and the said producents accepted the said bills of exchange and have since paid the same, as this deponent hath found and seene by the said bills at Antwerp upon his retourne thither"

Elias [?Ertwegh] - living at Cadiz; factor of Edward Peters; laded goods together with John Lamotte at Cadiz for Edward Peters in the Saint John Evangelist; Anthony Lois, cashier and book keeper of Edward Peters, stated that Elias Ertwegh was "of Dunquirke", and that he had known him for six years by correspondency

Maximilian da Hogha - living at Cadiz; merchant; factor of James Pinquet, merchant of Antwerp; John Moller stated that "while this deponent lived in Cadiz as aforesaid the said Maximilian da [?Hogha] lived neere the place dela Candelaria, and ffrancis dela Sierpe neere Saint Phillips in Cadiz, but since as hee hath heard they have removed their dwellings to other places of the towne"

Pedro Hulee - living at Cadiz, but also at Carthagena; merchant; claimant for money, silver and tobacco on the ships the Sampson, the Salvador and the Saint George; Manuel Correa deposed in August 1653 that "hath knowne the interrate Pedro Hulee in the sayd Indies and Cadiz in Spaine for theise three yeares now past"; Correa also stated that "the sayd Pedro de Hulee is accounted to be a native of Antwerp in fflanders and to be an Inhabitant of Cadiz in Spayne, and a subiect of the King of Spaine"; Hulee procured goods in the West Indies and returned to Cadiz in the Spanish galleons; he admitted that the bills of lading were falsely made out in the name of Charles Vinck of Antwerpe, and claimed that neverthlesless they were Hulee's; Thomas Juan stated that "the sayd Pedro Hulee liveth in the Newstreet in Cadiz"

Peter Johnson the younger [alt. Peter Janson de Yonge; Peter Jansen de Yonghe; Peter Janson 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"; John Moller, George Boschaert's cashier in Antwerp, had lived in Vcadiz and knew ffrancis de la Sierpe. He stated in XXX 1653 that "when this deponent lived at and came from Cales as aforesaid about two yeares since the said ffrancis de la Sierpe dwelt there neare Saint Philips and Peter Johnson the yonger in the fflemish streete and kept their families there"

"Peter Janson de Yonge" was also factor at Cadiz for George Boschaert's partner James Pincquett, and laded silver for him on the Morning Starr in early 1653; 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 In a separate claim, Michaell Van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starre, stated he signed all his bills of lading "on shore in the house of Peter Janson the younger in Cadiz"; ffrancisco Boesdonck, cashier and book keeper of Antwerp merchant James Pincquett, stated in August 1653 that "Peter Janson de yonge and David Klinker (sic) have for about 10. yeares last resided in Spaine", and was clear that "Peter Janson de Yonge is a Native of Iperen in fflanders"; Adrian Van Zolio de Yonge of Louvaine in Flanders staed in August 1653 identified "Pieter Jansen de Yonge and David Klincker ffactors to the arlate James Pinquett" lading silver into the ship the Morning Starr at Cadiz

Hermann Lamottee - possibly residing at Cadiz with his brother John Lamotte; filled out bills of lading for goods shipped from Cadiz to Edward Peters in the Saint John Evangelist; "one Herman Lamotte brother to the said John Lamotte"

John Lamotte [alt. John La Motte] - living in Cadiz; "in the stret de Juan de los Santos in Cadiz"; merchant; "the said Lamotte a batchelor"; factor for Edward Peters in Antwerp (other factors of Edward Peeters in Cadiz were William Jansen and Peter Lois; batchelor; factor also for John Smeesters in Antwerp (together with a second factor, Gerard Ryper); John Vervoort, John Smeesters' cashier and book keeper in Antwerp, stated "John Lamotte is a native of Brudges in fflanders and hath lived at Cadiz in Spaine for all 6 [years] or more of the time this deponent hath knowne him"; John Vervoort mentions an unnamed "brother of the said John Lamotte", who had filled out two bills of lading instead of John Lamotte, and with whose hand John Vervoort was also familiar with; this brother is later named by Anthony Lois, cashier and book keeper of Edward Peters, as " one Herman Lamotte brother to the said John Lamotte"

Jacinto Neimannt - living at Cadiz; factor and correspondent of John Moller, merchant of Antwerp (and former, or possibly current, cashier of George Boschaert); George Boschaert stated that "Jacinto Neimannt hee saith was borne att Bruges in fflandres and liveth as a factor at Cadiz", and is a bachelor

Giles de Ruela - living at Cadiz; believed by Michaell Van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starre, to be "a fflandrian by birth"

Gerrard Ryper [alt. Riper; Geraerl Ryper; Gerart Ryper] - living in Cadiz "in the Saint ffrancis street"; but born in Antwerp; John Vervoort stated "Gerard Ryper being a married man"; factor of John Smeesters in Antwerp; "lived for theise 7. yeares last at Cadiz in Spaine"; also of John Bollart of Antwerp; factor also for Edward Peters (as was William Jansen); "by common repute the sayd Gerarl Ryper is by birth an Antwerper and hath lived in Cadiz 13: or 14 yeares"

Pedro Van de Wyer deposed in November 1653 that "Gerard Ryper is an Antwerper borne, and hath [?lived] at Cadiz in the Saint ffrancis street and other streets there for about [?XX] yeares last past and about 3 yeares last past was married there"

ffrancis de la Sierpe [alt. de la Seirpe] - living at Cadiz; probably born in Dunkirk, but a long term resident of Spain; 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; "commonly accompted a Dunquirker borne"; living in Cadiz for at least seven years; living at Cadiz for at least last twelve yeares "his howse is neere the ffranciscans College or Cloyster"; John Moller, George Boschaert's cashier in Antwerp, had lived in Vcadiz and knew ffrancis de la Sierpe. He stated in XXX 1653 that "when this deponent lived at and came from Cales as aforesaid about two yeares since the said ffrancis de la Sierpe dwelt there neare Saint Philips and Peter Johnson the yonger in the fflemish streete and kept their families there"

However, John de Vos states that "ffrancisco de La Seirpe...was and is a Spaniard and a subiect of the King of Spaine"; Laded silver into the Morning Starre at Cadiz as an agent of the Antwerp merchant Augustine Lambert, together with Joachim Schaerz; Michaell van Lubkin, like John de Vos, claims to have known "ffrancisco de la Seirpe" and states that he is "a Spaniard and soe accompted", whereas Joachim Schaez was "an Hamburgher"; The London merchant Peter Mathewes, brother of Baldwin Mathewes, merchant of Ghent in Flanders, stated that he "hath knowne the interrate francisco del La [?Swirpe] for about 9. or 10. yeares last by the like correspondencie in merchandizing affaires". Moreover, according to Peter Mathewes "La [?Sierpe] is commonly accompted a dunquirker borne, and hath for all or most of the time interrate lived at Cadiz in Spaine". Robert Demetrius, apprentice and cashier of London merchant James Stanier, is alone in stating that "ffrancisco de la Sierpe...is by report a fflandrian borne att Ostend"

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 [Kortrijk] in fflanders, and of this deponents knowledge lived sixteene yeares next before his death in Spaine

John de Windt [alt. John de Vint; Juan de Vint; Jan de Wint; Joan de Vint; ?Julio 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"; a "Merchant Agent" at Cadiz for the King of Spain; "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". Identified by Beatriz Cárceles de Gea as "Joan de Vint"; according to Otto George John de Windt was a native of "Cortrijke in fflannders"

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Witnesses and others living in Flanders and Brabant

Witnesses

Joos Arnoult of Dunkerke - living in Dunkirk; merchant; aged twenty-nine or thirty; witness; Joos Arnout testified in support of the claim of ffrancis du Boys for silver he consigned to Jacques Hoys in Ostend for du Boys' own account that " he this deponent being att Cadize arlate in the moneth of September 1652, did there see in the possession of the arlate ffrancis du Bois whom this deponent hath knowne for four yeares or thereabouts, nineteene baggs of peices of eight some whereof were Peru moneyes, and some of them Mexico and being in all five thousand Pattac[oXXes] or Ryalls of eight, more or lesse"

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.

The name Francisco Boesdonck appears in a "Liste des jurés de la chambre des tonlieux d'anvers": "1667. 6. Octobre. HENDRIK MOENS, marchand, nommé erflaet en remplacement de Ambrosius Aynscum. Ses collègues étaient: Jaques Kemp. Guillaume de Haze, Balthazar Fairment, Hendrick van Uff[?et], Thomas Courtois, Francisco Boesdonck, C. Bosschaert et Eduard Peeters. (Registre 340, fo.140-142. Aquits de la Chambre des Comptes, liasse 1826. fo.233.)" There are two further entries of interest: "1668. 16 mars. LOUIS DE CANDELE; il succéda à Francisco Boesdonck, décédé. (Reg.340, fo 176 vo 177)." and "1669. 5 novembre. FRANÇOIS BOESDONCK; il succède à Nicholas vander Borcht, démissionnaire. (Reg. 340, fo 149 vo 151)."

Baetens (1976) mentions ffrancisco Boesdonck once, in a list immediately prceeding the name "Jacques Pinquett" ("Hij begartigde aldaar niet enkel zijn eigen zaken, maar trad tevens op voor verschillende Antwerpse kooplieded: Herman Cornelissen, wed. Nic. van der Borcht, Ignatio Carena, Franc. Boesdonck, Jacques Pinquett, Dionisio van der Vorst, Alonso Palma Carillo..."

George da Boyes [alt. George du Bois] - probably living at Antwerp (according to Joos Arnoult), though John Martinsdorp believed him to be living at Cadiz ; Joos Arnout, a twenty-nine year old Dunkirk merchant, deposed in support of a claim George du Bois made for brasselette wood and sasaperilla, which du Bois had purchased from sale of Flandrian laces. Arnoult stated thathe had "knowne the producent George du Bois for eleaven yeares last past or thereabouts, who is accompted and generally reputed for a fflandrian borne, and a subject of the King of Spaine" and further that "hee hath knowne the said producent an inhabitant with his wife and family at Antwerpe for theise fower yeares last or thereabouts" and that du Bois had "driven a constant trade from fflanders to Cadiz in Spaine for goods and merchandizes"; Francis du Bois, a thirty year old merchant resident in Cadiz stated that George du Bois "liveth in the Coper street at Antwerpe where hee hath lived with his family for two yeares last past of this deponents knowledge". Francis du Bois confirmed Joos Arnout's testimony, stating that George du Bois "as and is a merchant of Antwerpe and a native of fflanders and a subiect to the King of Spaine". He added that George du Bois "hath for ten yeares last past driven a constant trade to Saint Lucar and Cadiz in Spaine for goods and merchandize and within these two yeares last past hath sent divers goods and merchandize thither for his own a ccompt and had and hath factors residing there"; Interestingly the Cadiz resident merchant Francis du Bois (born in Dendermonde in Flanders) stated he was not of kin to George du Bois.

Paulus Cobrisse [alt. Paul Cobrisse; Paul Cobrysse; Pauwels Cobrysse] - living in Bridges in fflanders; "merchant aged eight and thirty yeares"; deponent; stated he was personally in Cadiz in 1647 and saw the Sampson arrive there "then a new shipp"

James Stanier, Paylus Cobrisse's London correspondent stated that "Paulus Cobrisse was by common repute borne in fflanders, and for these 12 yeares last past of the knowledge of this deponent being his correspondent hath bene a merchant of great accompt living att present in Bridges, and so hath done five or six yeares now past and before that for six or 7 yeares he lived in Spaine and was and is a subiect of the King of Spaine"

John Mexia da Herreya ws resident in Limma in Peru and deposed in September 1653 that "he hath knowne the arlate Paulus Cobrisse for about five yeares last past for all which tyme he hath had his agents factors and correspondents in Cadiz Saint Lucar and the Indies arlate, by whom he hath trucked and bartered in the sayd places merchanises of fflanders and other parts for moneyes sylver and plate, which hath bene in that tyme procured for him by them and sent to him in fflanders where he liveth being by common reputation a merchant and inhabitant of Bridges"

Juan de Losa Barrona had spent much of his forty year life in Lima in Peru and had been a correspondent of Paylus Cobrisse from Lima for the last eight years when he deposed in support of Cobrisse in October 1653. He ststed that "Paulus Cobrisse was and is a fflandrian borne and a merchant of Bridges, and there hath lived for twenty yeares and upwards and indeed by common repute for all his tyme, and is a subiect of the King of Spaine and a merchant of good ranke and account and so reputed, And for these 8 yeares now past of this deponents knowledge hath driven a constant trade in merchandizeing betwixt fflanders Cadiz, Saint Lucar and other places in Spaine, and likewise to the Indies, and hath had his Agents and Correspondents in the sayd places respectively"

According to modern genealogical sources, Paul or Paulus Cobrisse (also known as Don Paulo) was the son of Joost Cobrisse and Anna Boels, and married Anna de Meulenaere on April 7th 1660 in the church of St Donaes, Brugge. The marriage date of 1660 looks to be an error since a daughter "Joanna Maria Cobrisse" is stated by the same source to be "geboren circa 1650 te Spanje".

An extensive genealogy of the Cobrysse family of Bruges was published in 1864. According to this source, Paul's father Josse or Joost Cobrysse was born in 1557 in Bruges, married Anne Boels in 1603, and died in 1642. The same source states that Paul was their fourth child and gives a short profile: "PAUL COBRYSSE, seigneur d'Aerzeele, fut chef-homme de la ville de Bruges en 1653, conseiller en 1654, échevin en 1657, 58, 60, 65, 72, et bourgmestre en 1662, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, gouverneur de l'école Bogaerde en 1651 et en 1665 tuteur de l'hôpital de la Potterie où voit son portrait. Il éposa en Avril 1660 ANNE DE MEULENAERE, dite van Belle, fille de Pierre, seigneur de Kemps et maïeur héréditaire d'Alost, et de Marguerite van Volden (tome IV, page 61). PAUL COBRYSSE mourut selon les uns en 1665 et selon d'autres le 9 Octobre 1675 ou le 9 Octobre 1677 d'après un manuscrit concernant sa famille, et fut enterré en l'église des Pauvres Claires. Il ne laissa qu'une fille bâtarde Jeanne-Pauline, aliis Françoise Cobrysse, née en Espagne et mariée à Charles Cobrysse, fils de Jean et de Jacqueline de Smidt. PAUL COBRYSSE fit un testament par lequel il légua une bourse de mariage à tous les descendans tant du nom de Cobrysse que de celui de sa mère Anne Boels. Nous trouvons à ce sujet, dans un manuscrit concernant la famille Cobrysse, ce qui suit...Ce testament fut signé le 30 Septembre 1675 en présence de Jean Heyns et de G. de Ham."

Antonio Cuppens [alt. Coppens] – living at Dunkerke in fflanders; chyrurgeon and purser of the ship the John Evangelist; "native and inhabitant of Duinkerk"; laded silver on the Saint John Evangelist for James Lordell on April 19th 1653 [presumably new style]; as purser of the Saint John Evangelist first came aboard the ship at Dunkirk, "about the tenth day of ffebruary last past" 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" ; ship was bound for Dunkirk

John Hanschen - living in Antwerp; merchant; servant of Adrian Goldsmith; possibly same as "Joan Hanschen" in archival metadata "Current account for Gabriel Muys y Joan Hanschen in Sevilla, 1665-1670"

Anthony Lewis [Anthonie Lois] - living in Antwerp; cashier and book keeper of the Antwerp merchant Edward Peters; aged thirty; Anthony Lois stated that "hee is an Antwerper borne and inhabitant there and a domestique servant to the said producent [Edward Peters]"

John de Pachter - living at Bridges in Flanders; cooper on the ship the Angell Michael; aged twenty-one in December 1652; deponent

John Popeliers – living at Antwerp; "Booke-keeper to the said John Bollart"; "being accomptant or booke keeper" to John Bollart; aged 25 years; known John Bollart for 8 years and Gerald Riper (sic) for 6 years; deponent

Francis Rubbens – living at Antwerp; servant to John Bollart; Francis Rubbens reported he was "by the said producent employed to keepe his journall booke, wherein and whereby hee is well acquainted with the trade and negotiation of the said producent"

Philipp de La [?Sierpe] [alt. ?Surpe; ?Suirpe] - living in Dunkirk; merchant; deponent in support of claim of Balwyn Mathews, an English merchant, for his silver; aged twenty three in early 1653; stated he had lived in Dunkirk for last fifteen years

Adrian Valzolio the younger - living in Antwerp; merchant; aged twenty-five in June 1653; 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"; "a Brabanter by birth, borne at Loven, and liveth at Antwerp with Mr Boschaert"; lived with George Boscaert "about six yeares last" [as of April 1653], including four years with him in Spain; Adrian Valzolio calls himself "the younger" in a deposition of March 29th 1653 on behalf of George Boscaert for his plate and silver in the Morning Star

There is evidence of a Valzolio family of Liege, with links to Louvain (Leuven) in the early and mid-C17th, which, given Adrian Valzolio the younger's stated birth place of Loven (i.e. Leuven), may be his family. The reference includes mention of an Adrien Valzolio, "dit Adriani" "mort le 19 Janvier 1644". The source, which dates from 1720, states "Cette Famille de Valzolio tire son origine de Turin, Capitale du Piémont. Un certificat des Rois d'Armes de Brabant du mois d'Août 1678, nous apprend qu'elle est tres-ancienne & reputée pour noble, par les alliances qu'elles a faites avec les Famille di Vischa, di Monte, di Giodda, di Lomelli, &c.".

The Valzolio family archive is located in Archives de l'Etat à Liège.

An interesting record exists in the Archivo General de Indias in Sevile of an "Adrián Vauseul de Valzolio" from 1642. The archival metadata state: "Expediente de información y licencia de pasajero a Indias de Adrián Vauseul de Valzolio, mercader, natural de Lovaina, hijo de Huberto y de Ana Logier, con su cajero Nicolás Naquens, natural de Amberes (Bélgica), hijo de Juan Naquens y de Magdalena Namones, a Nueva España. Incluye copia registro de mercaderías."

This Archivo General de Indias record identifying Adrian Valzolio's parents as Hubert and Anne Logier matches to modern genealogical data, which give Hubert Valzolio "banquier" (b.1550, Poirino, Piedmont, d.?) and Anne Logier (b.1555, d.1616), and having seven children, the seventh being Adrian (b.1601, Valenciennes, d.?). The same genealogical source does not identify a son Adrian of Adrian Valzolio (b.1601, d.?). However, one of Adrian's brothers, Jérôme Valzolio (b. 1589, Valenciennes, d.1660) is shown as having twelve children, including a son "Adrien Valzolio" (b.1620, d.?). A further Spanish record in the same Archivo General de Indias, from 1656, may refer to Adrian Valzolio the younger. The archival metadata state "-Número 2.- Autos del año 1656. En 4 ramos:... 3. Autos de Adrián Vauseul de Valzolio, flamenco, con el prior y cónsules de Sevilla, sobre que le abone la cantidad con que sirvió al Rey por su carta de naturaleza, que se suspendió, a petición del Consulado."

John Vervoort - living in Antwerp; cashier and bookekeeper to John Smeesters/Smesters, merchant; aged twenty-five in October 1653; John Vervoort stated in October 1653 that he was "cashier and booke keeper to the said producent, and having so been for 7. yeares last past or thereabouts"

John de Vos - claiming to live at Ostend; mariner; commander of the Saint John Evangelist in early 1653.; De Vos states that he "was borne at Newport in fflanders and dwelleth at Ostend"; aged forty-seven in September 1653

Interestingly, John de Vos, quite clearly the same man, appeared again as a deponent in the English High Court of Admiralty in August 1657 "of the parish of Saint Buttolphs Algate London Mariner aged 52 yeeres or thereabouts". He "made oath upon the holy Evangelists" and stated that he was master of a ship called the Golden ffox of London, which he claimed to have sold in July 1657 to Peter Vandeputt and Lucas Lucy, London merchants.

In yet a further deposition, from April 1659, identified as "Jan de Vos of London mariner, master of the ffox aged 53 years", Jan or John de Vos stated that he knew a John Tilly, an Irishman, from the time they had lived near to each other in Dover, and also from visiting him at Tilly's house in Amsterdam. He stated that he was "borne at Niewport in fflanders" and "hath lived and kept his ffamily for theise tenne yeeres last at Middleboro Amsterdam and London"..

This evidence raises the question as to whether John de Vos lied in 1653, when he claimed that his then ship the Saint John Evangelist was of Ostend, rather than of a port in the United Provinces. Marie de Vos, the forty three year old wife of Jan de Vos, also gave evidence in the English High Court of Admiralty in 1659 and also stated that "for theise tenne yeeres last hath lived in Middleborow, Amsterdam and London", omitting, as did her husband to state that she or he had been living in Ostend in 1653.

Peter vander Wyer [alt. Pedro vander Wyer; Pedro van de Weyer; Petrus vanden Weyer; sieur Pedro de Weyer] - living at Dunquirke, but born in Spain, where his father and mother lived in Sevile; son of Peter vander Wyer [the elder], merchant of Antwerp (deceased), and of Sarah Smitsartsa [alt. Smetsarta], widow of Peter vander Wyer [the elder]; interestingly Peter vander Wyer (the younger) deposed that "hee this deponent is a native of Sevill in Spania, and nowe an inhabitant of Dunquirke" and referred in his deposition to his father's house being in Spain, where John Bollart (Peter vander Wyer the younger's former master) had formerly resided for a considerable time. In this connection see Baetens (1976), who states "Ferdinande is bedrijvig te Cadiz, Igantius, Manuel en Jan Baptist te Sevilla, waar de lastste in 1932 inwoont bij Peter van de Wayer en Jan Bollaert"

The CSPD makes reference on December 9th 1651 to "The petition of Peter Vander Wyer and Hen. Vander Gyne, concerning the Peacock, late the Golden Eagle, with the letter of Council annexed, referred to the Admiralty Committee, to speak with the parties pretending an interest in the ship about employing her in the service, and report", and then on December 30th 1651 to "The petition of Peter Vander Wyer" referred to the Admiralty Committee", dated December 30th 1651, so prior to the seizure of the Silver Ships; two years later, on June [?XX] of 1653 there is a further reference to "Petition of Simon de Caseres and Pedro Vander Wyer, merchant strangers, to the Council of State, for license to import pitch, tar, hemp, cordage, masts, and deal boards for the service of the State, without incurring any of the penalties under the Act of navigation. With reference thereon to the Admiralty Judges, who are to see their own orders in Caseres' case made good, or certify the state of the business; and note, 8 June, that they are to speak with the Admiralty Commissioners"; there may have been a brother or relative named "Jacomo van de Weyer"

There is a reference to a joint stock involving Peter van der Weyer in HCA 13/65, which is in fact the case mentioned in the CSPD above for 1651. The case is titled "The clayme of Levinus ffranck Hendrick vander [?Geyme [poss. ?Gayne]] Peter Vander Wyer and John Bolart for the ship the Golden Eagle and the respective quantities of money and bullion on board her taken by the Tyger Frigot whereof Captaine Peacocke is commander in the ymediate service of this Comon=wealth". Interestingly, Thomas Tasse, the twenty-six year old Antwerp merchant who first deposes in the claim, states the claimants "Levinus francke Hendricke Vander Geyme and Peeter Vander Wyer were and are merchants inhabiting and liveing in Middleburgh, and the said John Bollart hee saith liveth at Antwerpe in fflanders". This he claimed to know having been at all their houses and to very well know them, and having been their factor aboard the Golden Eagle Tasse recounted joining the ship at Saint Maloes in France, the ship having sailed from Middleburgh, and having letters of credit from the claimants to buy a cargazon at Saint Maloes. The ship sailed thence to Cadiz, arriving safely, where it laded "money and plate" in exchange for the cargo of linnen, and departed allegedly heading for Roscoe in France. The ship appears to have taken on more goods in France and returned to "the Bay of Balls" and to have been seized on its second return to France The ship was seized by Captain Peacock on August 17th 1651 (new style) and brought first to Plymouth and then to London. Tasse states that "Hendricke Vander Geyme and Levinus ffrancke were and are natives of and in the towne of Antwerpe in fflanders but saith they are merchants who live in Middleburgh and for all the tyme arlate did and doe still keepe houses and their families there together with the said Peter Vander Weyer who hee saith was borne at Civill in Spaine and liveth in the same house with the said ffrancke and Vander [?Gyme] in Middleburgh And the said John Bollart hee saith liveth in Antwerpe And all of them hee saith were and are by birth subiects of the King of Spaine....the parents of the said John Bollart were allsoe Inhabitants in Antwerpe untill they removed to Sevill where hee was borne" Allegedly the ship used was built at Ostend and bought new by the claimants. Tasse notes that "Levinus ffrancke Hendricke Vander [?Gayne] and Peter Vander Wyer are ioynt partners together in trade in this present voyage and designe but the said John Bollart doeth trade in this present voyage by himselfe and without any copartnershippe with the rest save only as hee is owner of a quarter part of the said ship and saith the said Bollart hath alsoe a fourth part of the moneyes and bulion which are now claymed [?XXXX] aboard her at the time of the sizure thereof and the other three parts of the said ship and goods hee saith doe th ioyntly belong unto the said three owners thereof named in the beginning of this deposition"

Others

Christian Aelst - living in Antwerp; merchant; claimant for silver on the Saint George and the Salvador; working with Hjeronimo Brudgmans, a Flandrian in Cadiz; "Christian Aelst liveth in the street Kiddorp in Antwerp, and Hjeronimo Brudgmans in Saint Nicholas Street in Sevill, and are subiects of the King of Spaine"; Diego Maestre, servant in Sevile to Hjeronimo Brudgmans, stated that "Christian Aelst is an officer of the King of Spaines mint att Antwerp where he hath his wife children and family"

A "senor Christian Aelst" is mentioned together with a "Diego Maestre" in a secondary source in what appears to be a letter from "Jesus Maria. Sevilla a 20 de Abril 1660"

The name "Christiaen Aelst" appears in a document catalogued as "Priviléges des monnayeurs au XViie siècle" which starts "Lyste vande ordinarische officiers vande Munte van Syne Majesteyt, residerende binnen de stadt van Antwerpen, ende nyet wesende onder die provoste ende gesworene vande Munte aldaer ende henitende gelycke vrydomme ende exemptie" and contains seventeen names, including "Gilles van Craywinckel, raedt ende generaele meester-ordinaris; Nicholaes de Groot, greffier vande voorschreve generaele meesters.." and continues "Boven dese syn nocht eenige raden ende generaele meesters-extraordinaris, de welcke syn genietende de voorschreve vrydom vuyt crachte van henne patente, te weten: Jan van Hencxthoven, Joris Vequemans, Hendrick van Hillewerven, Christiaen Aelst." The list appears to be dated August 24th 1654.

Speculatively, a book on "Ruben's textiles" states "Christiaen Aelst obtained his merchandise from 750 laceworkers around 1650 and in the same period Dirick Atenborch had work for a further 300 women..."; the same source appears to be used in Alfons K. L. Thijs (1987), in which Christiaen Aelst is described as a "kantkoopman" (lace merchant). The source is cited as "Footnote 93: Pk.1015 (16-2-1655, C.Aelst). T.1118 (16-2-1655). T.1117 (ca.1655). J.DENUNCÉ, Brieven en..."

John Alvarez - mentioned by Lorenzo de Vels in deposition in support of Simon da ffonseca Pyna; not clear if living in Ostend or Antwerp

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; widow of Cornelius Basseliers was Joanna van den Bergue

John Bollart [alt. John Bolart; Jean Bolarts; John Bollard; Jan Bollaert; Jan Bolaert; sieur Jan Bolaert; Joan Bollaert; Joannis Bollaert; Bolarte] – “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]; Jan Popeliers was book keeper and accountant to John Bolalrt and had known him personally for ten years; Francis Rubbens of Antwerp, servant to John Bollart, stated that "John Bollart for ten yeares last or there abouts hath lived with his family in the ffuyle street in Antwerp"; Bollart's four factors in Spain who laded silver for his account were "Gerrard Riper Lopez de Molina, John Baptista and Peter de Zoletta"; Peter vander Wyer, a Dunquirke merchant, was a former servant in John Bollart's Antwerp counting house and deposed that Bollart had "lived formerly longe in this deponents fathers house in Spaine"; Vander Wyer also stated that John Bollart had been a big exporter of silver to Dover and London in the late 1630s and early 1640s. See Baetens (1976) who states "Ferdinande is bedrijvig te Cadiz, Igantius, Manuel en Jan Baptist te Sevilla, waar de lastste in 1932 inwoont bij Peter van de Wayer en Jan Bollaert"

Baetens (1976) lists a "Jean Jacques Bollart en Cie." and a "Gillis Bollart" and a "Gio Bollart". Baetens also lists a "Jacob Bollaert te Lissabon" in connection with "zijn vader Jacques Bollaert", and a "Jan Bollaert" and a "F.Bollaert"

Jaques de Brower [alt. Jacques de Brower] - living at Dunkirk; Anthony Lois, cashier and book keeper of Edward Peters, was very knowledgeable of the affairs of John Smeesters, with whom Edward Peters was related. Lois stated that "hee well knoweth the interrate Jaques de Brower one of the magistrates of Duinquirke and correspondent to the said producent"

Ann Brudgmans - living in Antwerp; claimant; daughter and heir of Anne Muyntinx

Margaret Brudgmans - living in Antwerp; claimant; daughter and heir of Anne Muyntinx

John Budiere [alt. John Budieiere] - Living at Lisle in fflanders; merchant; claimant for one bag of silver containing peeces of eight in the Saint John Evangelist; John de Vos, master of the Saint John Baptist stated that he "well knoweth the arlate John Budeire and hath soe done by the space of theise sixteene yeares or thereabouts dureing all which tyme hee hath bin and still is a merchant of fflannders and a man that hath driven and still doth drive a great trade from fflanders to Mallaga and other parts of Spania where hee hath his factors and correspondents resident accordingly"

Nicholas [?Budeveir] [alt. Nicholas ?Budieere; Nicholas ?Budeere] - Living at Lisle in fflanders; John de Vos, master of the Saint John Evangelist, stated that he "hath bin and att present is a Merchant dwelling at Lisle in fflannders and a subiect of the King of Spaine and a man who for all or the greatest part of the said tyme hath driven and now doeth drive a great and a constant trade to Mallaga Cadiz and other parts in Spaine where hee hath his correspondents remaining accordingly"; claimant for silver laded at cadiz in the Saint John Evangelist

Peter de Cock [alt. Peter Cock] - living in Ghent (of which a native); merchant; cousin of London merchant Peter Mathews; claimant, as in "The clayme of Peter de [?Coecke] of Ghan and Baldwin Mathewes English man for theire moneys laden in the ship Saint John Evangelist whereof John de Vos is comander taken by some of the ships of this Comon wealth"; The London merchant Peter Mathewes, brother of Baldwin Mathewes, stated in January 1655 that "Peter de Cock was and is this deponents cousin, and a native, as hee beleeveth of the Citie of Gant in fflanders where hee hath by and of this deponents knowledge resided and inhabited for about 12. yeares last past, and was and is a Subject of the king of Spaine" Moreover, Peter Mathewes stated that he had and did hold "correspondence in trade" with Peter de Cock

College of Jesus in Antwerpe - located in Antwerp; claimant for silver in the Saint George

Nicholas Crombeene [alt. Crombeen] - living in Flanders; "accounted a subject of the Kinge of Spaine; merchant; claimant; his brother, William Crombeen, purchased tobacco in the Spanish West Indies and brought it to Cadiz, where he laded the tobacco onto the Salvadore for Nicholas Crombeene's account

Lionel [?Curran?X] [alt. Coram] - living at ?Ostend; silver shipped in the Sampson to Lionel [?Curran?X] at Ostend by Hjeronimo Brudgmans from Cadiz on the account of Nicholas Pauslo, an officer or agent of and for the Treasury of the Santo Crusado; Nicholas Paulo "a factor for the Treasury of Madrid of which
Treasury the sayd Heires of George da Etton heard were and are the principall masters and mannagers" shipped shilver from Cadiz to Ostend "consigned to Lionel Coram a merchant of Antwerpe a correspondent
of the foresayd Heires of Etton heard"

Christopher Deinsart [alt. Diensaert; Dansaert] - living at ?; claimant for silver in the Morning Starre; see Inventaris, NEHA Bijzondere Collecties 471: 2.5 Trade: 2.5.110.1 Proceeds from a shipment of oil from San Lucar to Amsterdam and then through Bruges to Ypres for account of Gillis Diensaert sr, Joseph Vercauteren and Gillis Diensaert jr., 1649

[Mr ?Didemans] - living at Ypers or Rysesell

Jaques Van Eycke [alt.Jacques van Eyck] - living at ?; claimant for silver in the Saint John Evangelist; speculatively Jaques van Eyck was alderman, "tresorier" (1642-44) and burgemeester of Antwerp [ADD REFERENCES]; speculatively there is a reference in a footnote in Alfons K. L. Thijs (1987): "Footnote 51. Jacques van Eyck zond in 1651 Levantzijde, die hij te Antwerpen had laten bereiden en verven, naar cadiz, in de hoop daar voor zulke koopwaar een afzetmarkt te vinden. Pk.1015 (29-7-1651)"

Dionisio ffaulconier - living at Ostend; merchant; consignee on behalf of George Boschaert, merchant of Antwerp, of silver sent from Boschaert's three factors in Cadiz; John Moller, George Boschaert's Antwerp cashier, stated that "Dionisio ffalconier, Philip da Paep and Peter Lams arlate to whom the said silver and plate predeposed was and is consigned by the said bills of lading to be delivered, were and are fflandrians"

Lewis da ffonseca - living at Antwerp; claimant for silver in the Salvador

Nicholas da Grant [alt. Nicholas Grant; poss Nicholas de Groote] - living at Antwerp; recipient of a letter of advice from Michael Perry Severino (according to ffrancis du Boys); Diego Maistre, a young Sevile based merchant, stated in support of the claim of Michael Perry Severino for his silver that "Nicholas de Groote arlate is commonly reputed to be a merchant of Antwerpe and is a correspondent of the producent"; Maistre also stated that Michael Perry Severino consigned his silver to Nicholas de Groote, not himself planning to go speedily to Ostend

Andrea Hannekaerts - living in Flanders; claimant with Pedro Hannekerts (also of Flanders) for four bags of Peru pieces of eight, proceed from a chest of bone lace sold by Antonio da Ponte in the Spanish West Indies for Mexico money, and changed into Peru pieces of eight at Cadiz

Pedro Hannekaerts - living in Flanders; claimant with Andrea Hannekerts (also of Flanders) for four bags of Peru pieces of eight, proceed from a chest of bone lace sold by Antonio da Ponte in the Spanish West Indies for Mexico money, and changed into Peru pieces of eight at Cadiz

Cesar da Haze - living at Antwerp; merchant; claimant for money or plate in the Saint George; ffrancis du Bois deposed in September 1653 that "Cesar da Haze was borne by common fame att Antwerpe in Brabant, and there by like common fame hath lived all his tyme, and for 12 yeares last past of the certaine knowledge of this deponent"; Juan Stueten Paep deposed that "Cesar da Hase liveth in the Keysar straet att Antwerpe"

George da Etton Heard [alt. George Etton Heard] - living at ??Antwerp; claimant

Abraham van Hembeck(s) [alt. van Hembecque; van Hembeecq; Van Hembecque] – living at Antwerp; merchant; 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"; Lorenzo de Velos has known him for 8 years last; Diego Maistre stated in September 1653 that "Abraham Van Hembecque a merchant inhabitant
of Antwerpe and a subiect of the King of Spaine (who by common reputation is a fflandrian borne and for 20 yeares and upwards hath lived att Antwerpe) hath for theis eight yeares past bene a great trader from fflanders to Cadiz and Saint Lucar for moneys sylver and foods and for that purpose hath had and still hath his factors and correspondents att Cadiz whither within the sayd tyme he hath sent severall good quantityes of the merchandizes of fflanders"

Cornelius Hillewervin [alt. Hille wer den Ven] - living at Antwerp; merchant; claimant; Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin are "merchants of great quality residing at Antwerpe and drive a great trade to Cadiz and Saint Lucar in Spaine where they have their factors that receyve goods for their accompt out of fflanders and England and make them returnes in moneyes and sylver"; claimant also for silver in the Morning Star; According to Michael van Lubkin, master of the Morning Star, Cornelius and Henry Hille wer den Ven were fflandrians by birth and merchants of Antwerp

Henry Hillewervin [alt. Hille wer den Ven] - living at Antwerp; merchant; claimant; Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin are "merchants of great quality residing at Antwerpe and drive a great trade to Cadiz and Saint Lucar in Spaine where they have their factors that receyve goods for their accompt out of fflanders and England and make them returnes in moneyes and sylver"; claimant also for silver in the Morning Star; According to Michael van Lubkin, master of the Morning Star, Cornelius and Henry Hille wer den Ven were fflandrians by birth and merchants of Antwerp

Jacques Hoyes [alt. Hoys; Hoyse] - living at Dunkirk, but formerly at Ostend; factor of ffrancisco du Boys; Miguel Severino Perry stated that "hath well knowne the arlate Jacques Hoys for theis two yeares now past or thereabouts, and saith he liveth now at Dunkerke but formerly lived att Ostend and is a native of fflanders and a subiect of the King of Spaine. And further saith that of this deponents knowledge the sayd Jacques Hoyes for theis two yeares and upwards hath done busines as a ffactor for the sayd ffrancisco Boys"; Joost Arnoult, a merchant of Dunkirk, deposing in support of the claim of ffrancois du Boys, stated that "knoweth and is well acquainted with Jacques Hoyse arlate and so hath bene for seven yeares or thereabouts and saith he is a native of fflanders, and hath lived for the most part att Ostend but lately removed to Duinkerk, and is a subiect of the King of Spaine. And further saith that of the certaine knowledge of this deponent for theis four yeares now past or thereabouts there hath bene and is correspondency betweene the producent and the sayd de Hoyse, who hath done and still doth busines for the producent by way of factorage, and hath often receyved goods consigned to him from the sayd producent to and for the proper use and Accompt of him the sayd producent"

Peter Hustin - living at Cambray

Robert Laman - living at Antwerp; acted for Peter Mathewes, Arnold Beake and William Moore concerning a shipment of silver by ffrancisco de la Sierpe from Cadiz in 1652.

Augustine Lambert - living at Antwerp; merchant; claimant for silver in the Morning Starre; stated by Michaell Van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starre, to be "a fflandrian by birth and habitation"

Peter Lams - living at Ostend, later at Dunkirk; John de Vos states that Peter Lams lived at Bruges, but this may be a different man; 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".; "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; consignment of silver sent by ffrancisco de la Sierpe from Cadiz to Robert Leman in Antwerp was to be received by Peter Lams in Ostend John de Vos, master of the Saint John Evangelist stated that he had known Peter Lams "by the space of these sixteene yeares last past and upwards dureing all which tyme hee hath lived in Bruges in fflanders from whence hee hath dureing the said tyme driven a great trade to Mallaga Cadiz and other Parts of Spania where hee hath factors and correspondents resident for that purpose" An undated archival reference from the Archief van de Raad van Vlaanderen (Rijksarchief te Gent) mentions a "Pieter Lams (Duinkerken)" There is also an "Abstract of money drawn by Alderman Edward Backwell on Thomas Sergeant and Peeter Lams, Jun 1660-Aug 1661" in documents in the Nottinghamshire Archives relating to the Governorship of Dunkirk.

John Moller, George Boschaert's Antwerp cashier, stated that "Dionisio ffalconier, Philip da Paep and Peter Lams arlate to whom the said silver and plate predeposed was and is consigned by the said bills of lading to be delivered, were and are fflandrians"

Pedro Michelson - living at Antwerp; claimant; check whether this man is related to or was partner of Pedro van der Weyer or Jon Bollart

Anne Muytinx [alt Ann Muitinx; Muytinck; Muijtinck; Meutinck] - living in Antwerp; claimant; "a native of fflanders an inhabitant of Antwerpe and a subiect of the King of Spaine"; deceased; mother of Hjeronimo Brudgmans (Sevill merchant) and of Ann and Margaret Brudgmans, the two daughters being her heirs; traded in her own name between Antwerp and Cadiz, using her son as her Spanish factor; died after the departure of the Sampson from Cadiz in early October 1652, with silver for her account

See Inventaris, NEHA Bijzondere Collecties 471: 2.5 Trade: 2.5.97.1 Current account by the late Herman Bruchart, agent in jewellery in London, to Pieter Muijtinck, merchant in Antwerp, 1623-1630, as is stated before notary Guyot on 9 December 1639.; Robert Steiner, Die Meuting in Augsburg (Augsburg, 1978)

[Gillis/Gilles] de Nemay - living in Antwerp; recipient of bills of lading sent by land from Cadiz by Laurenzo de Veles

Philip da Paep - living at Ostend; merchant; consignee on behalf of George Boschaert, merchant of Antwerp, of silver sent from Boschaert's three factors in Cadiz; John Moller, George Boschaert's Antwerp cashier, stated that "Dionisio ffalconier, Philip da Paep and Peter Lams arlate to whom the said silver and plate predeposed was and is consigned by the said bills of lading to be delivered, were and are fflandrians"

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

Edward Peters [alt. Eduart Peeters; Eduard Peeters; Eduardo Peeters] - living at Antwerp; formerly living at Dover for sixteen years; merchant; claimant; George Boschaert, an Antwerp merchant, stated he "hath personally knowne him with his family in the Kitdorp in Antwerp and formerly in Antwerp and Dover"; born ca. 1612, died ca. 1678 (aged ca. sixty-six).

Anthony Lewis (alt. Lois). cashier and book keeper of Edward Peeters, stated Peeters was "a merchant of Antwerpe, who for theise five or 6 yeares last past of this deponents certaine knowledge hath driven a constant trade to Cadiz Saint Lucar and other parts of Spaine for silver and other goods and merchandizes, and for the expedition of his affaires in those parts, hee hath diverese agents ffactors or correspondents residing there"; Lewis expanded on this, stating he "hath credibly heard, and perceived by the bookes of accompts of the said producent that hee hath lived some 16. yeares or thereabouts in Dover in England, and during such his residence here did receive returnes of very considerable quantities of silver from Spayne into this nation, and by the same meanes of this deponents [?owne] knowledge hath observed that the said producent for 20. yeres last past and upwards hath beene a very great trader for silver, bullion and coyne, and for such commonly knowne"

Edward Peeters return from Dover to Antwerp can be dated to around 1646 or 1647, that is six or seven years before George Boschaert's deposition in support oof Peeters in November 1653. In this deposition Boschaert stated "the said Edward Peters the producent in this cause hath formerly lived at Dover in England, from which place hee traded into Spaine for sylver, and caused severall great quantities of sylver and bullion to be imported into this Nation this deponent then holding correspondency with him. And that for about 6. or 7. yeares last past the said producent hath lived at Antwerp where hee now liveth, and is there bburgher and a Subject of the King of Spaine"

John Vervoort listed three factors for Edward Peeters in Spain - "William Jansen John Lamotte, and one Peter Lois ffactors and agents of the said producent"

Edward Peters appears in the published calendar of the English High Court of Admiralty records from 1637-1638: "Edward Peters of Dover, co. Kent, merchant, aged 25. Signature. John Baptist Nicholas of the same, merchant, aged 22. Signature.". Edward Peters also appears in the Calendar of State Papers Domestic in an undated entry, possibly from 1636, in a "Petition of Edward Peters of Dover, merchant, to the King" regarding two bars of silver which Peters had been desired by letters of advice from John de la Barre, merchant of London, to receive from William Ledgent, which had arrived from San Lucar. Peters received the silver, but subsequently James Baudoin, another London merchant, demanded the same and attached Ledgent out of the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports, and had judgement against him. Whereupon Ledgent attached Peters out of the same Court of Admiralty for receiving the goods without authority from Baudoin. The petitioner sought to restore the bars of silver to Ledgent.

The firm or name of "Ed. Peeters" and "Peeters" appears a number of times in Baetens (1976). These references should be followed up. For example, "...de firma G. van [?X]enen en Peeters, die in 1643 ophield te bestaan. Vier jaar later volgde Ed. Peeters zijn vroegere compagnon naaer Antwerpen om er een eigen handel te beginnen."; "...Meerts plaats hebben op naam van de gebroeders Kuysten uit Amsterdam, Ed. Peeters uit Dover of Jan Bapt. Jonckers uit Hamburg..."

The name Eduart Peeters appears in a "Liste des jures de la chambre des tonlieux d'anvers": "1667. 6. Octobre. HENDRIK MOENS, marchand, nommé erflaet en remplacement de Ambrosius Aynscum. Ses collègues étaient: Jaques Kemp. Guillaume de Haze, Balthazar Fairment, Hendrick van Uff[?et], Thomas Courtois, Francisco Boesdonck, C. Bosschaert et Eduard Peeters. (Registre 340, fo.140-142. Aquits de la Chambre des Comptes, liasse 1826. fo.233.)", and also "1678. 18 nov. EGIDIUS PEEREBOOM; il succède à Eduart Peeters, décédé. (Reg. 343, fo 168 vo)." There is a substantial archive of material for "familie PEETERS d'AERTSELAER" inventoried on the digital resource "Heemkundige Kring Jan Vleminck" which includes records of an "Eduardo Peeters" who died ca. 1679 or 1680. This may be the same man as "Edward Peters [alt. Eduart Peeters]", claimant for silver in the Silver Ships. This requires further investigation.

If the match is correct, then the following facts can be established from the inventory metadata: Eduardo Peeters' wife was named Anna Govaertsen vanden Graeff [alt. van der Graef] and predeceased him. Eduardo Peeters' testament was drawn up on September 5th 1678 by the Antwerp notary Ambrose Sybille, with beneficiaries including his sons Michiel and Jan Baptist Peeters and the "kapel van O.L.Vrouw van de St. Jacobskerk" in Antwerp (Item: P.1/68.0.0). Heirs of Eduardo Peeters and his wife were listed in 1680 as "Jan Baptist Peeters, Catharina Peeters, echtgenote van Constantinus Deweerdt, Maria Theresia Peeters" (Item: P.1/4.0.0).

An inventory of houses and land owned by the deceased Eduard Peeters was drawn up and sworn in 1680 by Philip de Swert and Jean vanden Eynde ("een inventaris en waardebepaling opgemaakt van huizen, gronden gelegen te Lillo, Antwerpen, Zandvliet, Oorderen welke eigendom waren van bovenvermelde Eduard Peeters" (Item: P.1/70.0.0). An undated inventory exists for all movable and immovable property, papers and documents found in the house of the deceased Eduard Peeters, which was drawn up by the Antwerp notary Ambrose Sybille. The metadata of the record are: "Inventaris van alle roerende en onroerende goederen, papieren en documenten gevonden in het sterfhuis van wijlen Eduard Peeters, echtgenoot van wijlen Anna Govaertsen vanden Graeff. Deze inventaris werd opgemaakt door notaris Ambrosius Sybille uit Antwerpen. De erfgenamen waren zijn vijf kinderen" (Item: P.1/117.0.0). Land and property from the estate oof Eduard Peeters was distributed in 1680 according to a legal document: "Verdeling van landen en goederen afkomstig uit de nalatenschap van Eduard Peeters. Bij de opgegeven stukken grond staat de geschatte waarde bijgeschreven. Cavel A, landen onder Ekeren voor de kinderen van Anna Maria Peeters en Michiel Moens. Cavel B,landen onder Kapellen en Ettenhoven voor Michiel Moens. Cavel C, landen onder Ettenhoven voor Maria Theresia Peeters. Cavel D, landen onder Ettenhoven voor Catharina Peeters, echtgenote van Constant de Weerdt. Cavel E, landen onder Zandvliet, Lillo, Oorderen en Ettenhoven voor Jan Baptiste Peeters. De akte werd opgesteld voot Jan Baptiste Greijns en Jacobus Anthonis de Witte, schepenen van Antwerpen." (Item: P.2/26.0.0, dated January 24th 1680) Cash sums not yet distributed from the estate of Eduard Peeters are calculated and listed in a document dated June 5th 1683 and signed by "Michiel Peeters, Adrianus Goijvaertsen vanden Graef en Juffr. Maria Theresia Peeters" (Item: P.1/87.0.0). Separtaely, there is mention in a modern secondary source of "3345. Inventaris van het sterfhuis van EDUARDO PEETERS, erflater van de knoninklijke toikamer, weduwnaar van ANNA GOVAERTSSEN VAN DEN GRAEFF (1678, 22 november)"

Roughly two years before his death "Eduardus Peeters" (also called "Eduard Peeters" in the same record) gave money to the Lady Chapel (O.L.Vrouw kapel) in the "Collegiale kerk van St. Jacob te Antwerpen" to provide funds to build a tomb in the chapel for the famil Peeters. ("Voor notaris Anthonij de Pieters, residerende te Antwerpen zijn verschenen: Martinus Diltens, Godefridus Lans en Michiel Lodewijcx, kapelmeesters van de O.L.Vrouw kapel in de Collegiale kerk van St. Jacob te Antwerpen en Eduardus Peeters. Eduard Peeters schenkt de som van 2.000 Carolus gulden aan de bovenvermelde kapel, geld dat nodig is om aan deze kapel een grafkelder aan te bouwen waarin later de familie Peeters begraven zou kunnen worden") (Item: P.3/63.0.0, dated August 24th 1678) A subsequent letter from Constantinus de Weerdt, stadssecretaris van Antwerpen, dated 1683, refers to the caoital in the "fondatie van wijlen Eduard Peeters" given to the "Collegiale kerk van St. Jacob te Antwerpen." (Item: P.3/74.0.0, dated 1683)

A modern family tree shows "Anna Maria Peeters, décédée avant 28 juin 1683; Parents: Eduard PEETERS †1678; Anna GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF †/1678; Frères et sœurs: (1) F Catharina PEETERS †1722/ (2) H Jan Baptist PEETERS, jonker †1686 (3) F Maria Theresia PEETERS †1679/ (4) F Anna Maria PEETERS †/1683 (5) H Michiel PEETERS †1729", with "Anna Maria Peeters" marying "Michiel Moenes (1646-1705), and having four children).

This family tree does not show the date of the marrieage of Eduard Peeters and Anna Govaertsen van de Grraf, but it appears to have been in March 1648. A document in the familiearchieven in the digital resource heemkundige kring jan vleminck has the metadata: "Houwelijckxsche voorwaerde van dhr Eduardo Peeters met jouffr Anna Govaertsen vande Graeff, 3 meert 1648". Notaris was Gijsbrecht de Coninck uit Antwerpen. In de akte worden verder nog vermeld: Jan Govaertsen vande Graeff gehuwd met Anna Moons, haar ouders, Adriaan en Michiel Moens, Jan Smeesters en Jan van Dienoir." (Item: P.1/122.0.0

The parents of Eduard Peeters are shown as unknown, but the parents of "Anna GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF" are identified as father: Jan GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF and mother: Anna MOENS, (ook MOONS), with four children: (1) F Anna GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF †/1678 (2) H Adriaen GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF †1700/ (3) F Constantia GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF †1708 (4) F Maria GOYVAERTSEN VAN DE GRAEF

Michiel Peeters, the younger son of Eduard Peeters and Anna Goyvaertsen van de Graef, is shown as "Décédé le 14 mars 1729", with the note "Ridder, wonende in het huis "De Sikkel" op het Kipdorp te Antwerpen (1714)". He is shown as "Marié en 1683 avec Maria Josepha VAN EELEN †ca 1702", with whom he had five children. The genealogical record of Michiel Peeters draws heavily on the familie-archief Peeters d'Aertselaer. The marriage contract between Michiel Peeters and Maria Josepha van Eelen was dated February 10th 1683 witnessed by Michiel Peeters' maternal uncle (Adriaen Goijvaertsen vanden Graeff), who is described as "bouwmeester van Antwerpen" and "Jan van Eelen" wiho is descibed as "Ridder" (Item: P.3/41.0.0)

Adrianus Govaertsen van de Graeff [alt. Adriano Goijvaertsen vanden graeff] is mentioned in connection with the will of Jan Baptista Peeters, one of the sons of Eduard Peeters, and may have been the brother of Eduard Peeter's wife Anna Govaertsen vand de[r} Graeff (Item: P.1/15.0.0, dated June 6th 1686; also item: P.1/2.0.0, dated August 16th 1680). Separately "Adrian Govaertse van der Graef" and "Adriaen Govaertsen van der Graef" are mentioned in documents relating to Lillo-Zuidland. The testament of "Adriaen Goyvaerts vande Graeff" is dated October 6th 1700 and was made at the same time as that of his sister "Constantia Goijvaertsen vanden Graeff". The metadata for the document read: "Beiden maken hun testament. Begunstigden zijn: de kerk van O.L.Vrouw te Antwerpen, de kapel van het Allerheiligste Sacrament van de O.L.Vrouw kerk, de kinderen van Anna Goijvaertsen vande Graeff, zuster van Constantia, echtgenote van Eduard Peeters, de zes voorkinderen va wijlen Herman Cornelis. Het betreft hier gronden en eigendommen in Edegem, Antwerpen in de polders van Lillo" (Item: P.3/19.0.0)

Jan [alt. Joan] Baptista Peeters was deceased by 1686, with a "testament van wijlen Jonkr Jan bapt Peeter op 18 mey 1686" (Item: P.1/16.0.0), and posthumous inventory of all goods and income of Jan Baptista Peeters (Item: P.1/14.0.0). Jan Baptisa Peeters bequeathed to his brother Michiel Peeters "een hoeve met landerijen, meubelen en toebehoren gelgen onder Deurne met een oppervlakte van 24 bunder" (Item: P.1/16.0.0, dated May 18th 1686). Jan Baptista Peeters appears to have made his will on May 18th 1686 before the notary "Emanuel Henrique Peres", and to have died on May 19th 1686 (Item: P.1/19.0.0). Jan Baptista Peeters' brother Michiel Peeters is listed as executor. A deceased sister, Anna Maria Peeters, wife of Michiel Moens, is also named (Item: P.1/18.0.0).

Trade related records include a letter dated July 13th 1656: "Briefje aan Eduard Peeters vanwege Andria Mensen. Deze verwittigd de heer Peeters ervan dat: "onder Mons melchior robijn is een camer tapisserije historie van celadon in twee packen die cost drij hondert en vijfenseventich pond als die sal weesen tot Ue gerustheijt ..." (Item: P.1/52.0.0). A further letter dated July 4th 1656 records a payment of interest, probably by Eduard Peeters, to Jan Lieven: "De heer Marcelis, gevolmachtigde voor Jan Lievens, bekent ontvangen te hebben uit handen van Peeters, vermoedelijk Eduard, de som van 235 gulden over drie jaren verloop tegen vier ten honderd van 1963 gulden" (Item: P.1/60.0.0). An undated note records a debt owed by Eduard Peeters to the widow of Abraham van Hembeecq (a name also mentioned in the Silver Ship litigation) (Item: P.1/71.0.0). A separate record identified the widow of Abraham van Hembeecq as "Maria van Gommenberghe" (Item: P.1/91.0.0). An inventory and list of prices for goods made for "Heer Peeters" [Mr. Peeters] is dated August 2nd 1678 (Item: P.1/88.0.0). There is an undated acount made for "Eduard Peeters" "voor o.a. de aankoop van stukken grond, zaaigoed, een zeil, een vierde paart op een octrooi van land onder Lillo" (Item: P.1/89.0.0). There is an undated list of debtors owing money to "Heer Peeters" (Item: P.1/92.0.0). A record dated July 17th 1666 details ladnd bought by "Heer Peeters" (Item: P.1/93.0.0). A series of records in the 1650s and 1660s report rental paid by "Eduard Peeters" to the children of "Juan Ferdinandus De Sanvictores" and "Magdalena de Vergnis" "op het huis 'Den Prince Cardinael' gestaan in de Vuijlstraet te Antwerpen" (for example, 6 months rental, recorded in 1658, Item: P.1/96.0.0). The sums were collected by Juan de Hemus [alt Henus, Hermus] on behalf of the children, whose names appear to have been "Anthonij en Maria Brigitta de Sanvictores." (Item: P.1/104.0.0). A record dated January 13th 1660 has the metadata: "Quitantie van F 281.8 voor Eduard Peeters als Proprietaris van den Prins Cardinael in de Vuijlstraete in dato 13 Janny 1660". Voor schepen van Antwerpen zijn gekomen Marinus de Vooght en Catharina Gelthoft die verklaren ontvangen te hebben uit handen van Eduard Peeters de som van 281 gulden acht stuivers met daarboven een rente van 25 gulden" (Item: P.1/110.0.0).

For background on parish or community with which the Peeters family was associated see Aartselaar

James [?Pinquett/Puiquett/Puiquet/Puignet/Pincquett] - living in Antwerp; described as a "fflandrian"; merchant trading together with fellow Antwerp merchant George Bosschaert; "a married man dwelleth neere the [?Vesten] over against the [?Hartastreete] in Antwerp".

ffrancisco Boesdonck, the cashier and book keeper of James Pinquett described Pinquett "having for theise 6. yeares last past or thereabouts lived in the Hopland over against the [?Nayle/?Vayle] street in Antwerpe and there kept his wife and family, and did formerly dwell in the street called the Meer at Antwerpe for about 10. yeares before"

John Moller, cashier of James Pinquet's friend and commercial partner George Bosschaert stated that "hee well knoweth that the said Pinquet hath for the said seaven yeares space bin a merchant that hath driven and still driveth a greate trade to Cadiz and Saint Lucars for plate, moneys and other goods, this deponent both at Cadiz and at Antwerp seeing and observing such his traffique and dealing"; John Moller added that "while this deponent was soe at Cadiz hee observed that the said Mr Pinquet corresponded with Maximilian da [?hogha] and ffrancis de la Sierpe, merchants and factors there, but cheifly with the said Maximilian da [?hogha], and that hee used to send them goods from fflanders, and to have the retournes thereof in plate, moneys and other goods, but principally in plate and money and such correspondance and trade this deponent hath observed him to keepe with them ever since his this deponents said comming to Antwerp"

Adrian Valzolio deposed in 1653 that "James Pinquet was and is a fflandrian borne at a place neere [?Conman] neere lile otherwise called Rissell in fflanders in the dominion of the king eof Spaine" and added that "James Pinquet hath lived tenn yeares or thereabouts last of this deponents sight and knowledge in Antwerp, where the said Boschaert hath dwelt about two yeares last and before that for 4 yeares at Cadiz in Spaine for all which time this deponent hath dwelt with him in the said places"

William La Rousseau [alt. Guilhaume Rousseau] - living in Antwerp; mentioned in case brought by Christopher Boone; publique notary; a "Guilhaume Rousseau, notary in Antwerp" is mentioned in a secondary source in the context of a notarial instrument dated September 28th 1621.

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

John Smeesters [alt. Jan Smeesters; Smesters; Smoosters; Jean S'meesters; Jan S'Meesters] - living in Antwerp; merchant; John Vervoort was his cashier and bookekeeper; According to John Vervoort "John Smeesters hath bin and at present is a merchant of Antwerp who hath driven and doeth drive a trade to Cadiz in Spaine for moneyes and other goods, and had and hath his factors and correspondents residing [?in] there to whom hee hath within the said time of seaven yeares sent severall goods and merchandizes from Ostend and Dunquirke in fflanders to be by then sould bartered away or disposed of for silver moneyes and other goods"; Gerard Ryper and John Lamotte were factors of John Smeesters in Spain; Anthony Lois, a thirty year old Antwerp merchant, deposed in October 1653 deposed that "John Smeesters interrate is an Antwerper borne, and hath lived there in the broadstreet for 6 yeares last of this deponents knowledge and by relation many yeares before"

John Vervoort, Edward Peeters' cashier and book keeper, stated in October 1653 that "Smeesters is an Antwerper borne, and hath lived there with his familie for 7. yeares last in the broad street"; Vervoort described Mr Edward Peters as "a familiar friend and kinsman" of John Smeesters; In a separate deposition John Vervoort went further and stated that Smeesters was "an intimate friend correspondent and a kinsman" of Edward Peters

Possible reference to purchase by Jan Smeesters and his possible wife Maria van Vissenaquen of a house called the "Sint Jan Baptist" in the "Lange Gasthuisstraat" in Antwerpen, December 1st 1623 (1 december 1623. JAN KIEFFEL en zijn vrouw AGATHA VAN DER BORCHT verkopen aan JAN SMEESTERS en zijn vrouw MARIA VAN VISSENAQUEN het huis “Sint Jan Baptist” in de Lange Gasthuisstraat. Bron: Schepenbrief Rijksarchief Antwerpen.; consistent with the above reference is one in a French language account of the nobility of the Pays-Bas, referring to a Lucas van Opmeer, who was an alderman of Antwerp prior to his death in 1659: "Il avait épousé Marie S'MEESTERS, morte le 4 mai 1655, fille de Jean S'MEEESTERS, échevin d'Anvers, et de Marie VAN VISSENAKEN"

Assuming the 1623 purchase of the Antwerp house was by a married Jan Smeesters, and that this is the same man as "John Smeesters" of the Silver ship litigation, a 1627 reference to a Jan Smeesters delivering goods from Calais may be again the same man ("João de Paz und André de Azevedo liessen 1627 von Juan Smeesters aus Calais in Hondschoote 120 Stück „sargas de anascote" aufkaufen, sie in zwei Schiffen nach Hamburg an Gonzalo Cardoso senden, der sie ...

Denuncé (1934) mentions a Signor Jan Smeesters in connection with Cadiz ("Wy hebben al hier een casse gepackt om op Cales te senden aen Sigr Jan Smeesters om aen Ul te senden met dese schepen die op ladinge liggen..."

Baetens also makes several references to Jan Smeesters

Stols (1971) in his Personenregister states "504. SMEESTERS. Juan Smeesters te ANTWERPEN ca 1642 in de handel op Spanje. A.H.N.M., IT., 3810, 2."

Sarah Smitsartsa [alt. Sara Smetsarta] - living at Antwerp for eight years, and previously in Sevile in Spain; widow of Peter Vander Wyer of Antwerp, deceased; claimant for silver on Salvador; mother of deponent Pedro Van de Wyer, merchant of Dunkirk; had been trading on her own account for three years prior to November 1653, so her husband Peter Vander Wyer presumably died ca. mid/late 1650; Pedro Van de Wyer deposed in November 1653 that "Gerard Ryper is an Antwerper borne, and hath [?lived] at Cadiz in the Saint ffrancis street and other streets there for about [?XX] yeares last past and about 3 yeares last past was married there"; Pedro Van de Weyer deposed in November 1653 that his mother Sarah Smitsarta "is an Antwerper borne and hath lived upon the Moor for about 8 yeares last past, and formerly dwelt at [?XXXX] in Spaine; Michael Perry Severino, a twenty-eight year old merchant of Saint Lucar, stated in November 1653 that "hath well knowne the producent Sara Smetsarta arlate, and hath so done for theise 14. yeares last past or thereabouts and saith that for all the time shee the said deponent hath bin and now is a subject of the king of Spaine, and hath formerly lived at Sevill in Spaine and since at Antwerp in Brabant where shee dwelleth at present"

John Estava Spinola [alt. John Stevan Spinola; Jan Stefano Spinola] - living at Antwerp; merchant; consignee of twenty-nine sacks of wool loaded on the Sampson at Cadiz belonging to the King of Spain; Lucas Wrede, stiersman of the Morning Starr, stated he is "commonly accompted a subiect of the King of Spaine and a merchant of fflanders, driving a great trade for silver betwixt that country and Spania"

Baetens (1976) mentions a "Jan Stefano Spinola" in a list of accounting entries ("1669 Jan Stefano Spinola + 97,062"); Baetens has a section on the Spinola family, which appears to have been a wealthy Antwerp family. Other entries include "In 1646-1647 behoorde Jan Stefano Spinola met Louis Malo, Jan Paulo Dorchi en Francisco Grimaldi als Italianen en o.m. Adam Diaz Sollis en Franciscus Lopes Franco als Portugezen tot het bankiersconsortium dat de financiering van de Spaanse legermacht in de Nederlanden in handen hield."; these Baetens references need to be followed up.

Bert Timmermans (2008), drawing on Baetens and other sources, includes "Jan Stefano Spinola" in a list of household wealth. Timmermans also includes the same merchant in an overview of leading households amongst merchant families, 1650-1678

Julia Zunckel (1997) has identified the firm of "Giovanni Battista Spinola, Aurelio Cattaneo and Gerolamo Lomellino" as "im letzten Drittel des 16. Jahrhunderts das grösste Handelshaus Antwerpens" and adds "1620-1640 zählte die Unternehmung des Jan Stefano Spinola (mit über 100.000 Pfund fläm...."; Zunckel comments on the close structural links of the Genoese armsdealers in Antwerp and connects it to the Spanish trade in a reference which needs to be followed up: "Footnote 52: In Bezug auf die engen strukturellen Verknüpfungen der Genueser Rüstungshändler in Antwerpen sei an dieser Stelle nur auf die enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Grimaldi, Spinola, Serra and Sivori im Iberiengeschäft und auf die verwandtschaftlichen Verbindungen zwischen Spinola, Jorge und Sivori, die Verschwägerung zwischen den Dochi und Maggioli sowie zwischen Maggioli, Moneglia und..."

Jacquez Suarez [alt. Swarez] - living at Antwerp; factor of the King of Spain at Antwerp

Jasper de Surmount - living at Tornay in Flanders; claimant of silver in the Saint John Evanglist

Johanna Vanden Bergue - ?living in Antwerp; claimant; widow of Cornelius Basseliers; Flandrian by birth

Widdoe and heires of Simon Diaz [?Vaez] - mentioned by Lorenzo de Vels in deposition in support of Simon da ffonseca Pyna; not clear if living in Ostend or Antwerp

Charles Vinck - living at Antwerp; unclear if a real or fictitious merchant; Manuel Correa deposed in August 1653 in support of a claim of Pedro Hulee, merchant of Cadiz, but borne in Antwerp, who had returned from the Spanish West Indies that "the arlate Pedro Hulee told this deponent att Cadiz that notwithstanding the bills of lading for the sayd moneys plate and tobacco were in the bills of Lading entred and drawne for the accompt and risco of the arlate Charles Vinck of Antwerpe yet the same were really and truly for the accompt of himselfe the sayd Pedro Hulee and upon his sole adventure,. And this deponent beleeveth that the same were so laden for his use accompt and risco being bought and procured by him in the Indies, and by him the sayd Hulee brought from the sayd Indies to Cadiz as aforesayd"; Note also a Peter Vinck, merchant, living in Hamburg

Pedro van der Wyer – living at Dunquirke in fflanders; merchant; aged 26 years; son of Sarah Smitsartsa [alt. Smetsarta] and Peter Vander Wyer, merchant of Antwerp, deceased

Petrus vanden Weyer - possible name for the older of the two Peter van der Weyers

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Baldwin Mathewes - living at Ghent in Flanders, later in London; claimant with Peter de Cock for silver in the Saint John Baptist (sic); The London merchant Peter Mathewes, brother to Baldwin Mathewes, stated in January 1654 that "Baldwin Mathewes hath for most of the time interrate been a traveller and hath remained in severall parts beyond the seas, and now liveth in this City of London Baldwin Mathewes may have been in partnership with, and related in marriage to, Peter de Cock [alt de Coecke], a merchant of Ghent. Peter Mathewes describes "letters of advise from the said Baldwin Mathewes from Gant intimating and importing That severall parcells of fflanders linnen were by his and his said copartners order sent from fflanders to Spaine for their accompt, and beleeveth the silver in question to be the proceed thereof"

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Hamburgers living in Flanders and Brabant

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George Boschaert [alt. Boscaert; Bosschaert; Bosschart; Boschart; Boscart; Boscaart; Buschart; Boeschart; Jorge Boscarte; Joris]- living in Antwerp; lived in Cadiz until two years before June 1653, when moved to Antwerp;; merchant; claimant; claimant also for silver in the Morning Star; "dwelleth neere the Exchange in Antwerp" According to van Lubken, Boschaert "left in his place [at Cadiz] and to doe his affaires as his factor Peter Johnson the younger"; "a Hamburger by birth" and a bachelor in April 1653; John Moller, cashier to George Boschaert, stated that Boschaert "ever since his comming from cales hath dwelt neare the Exchange in Antwerp"

Adrian Valzolio (cashier of James [?Puiquet] stated that Bosschaert lived in Cadiz for four years before he returned to Antwerp; 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; Michael Perry Severinio stated in June 1653 that "hee hath well knowne the producent George Boscaart for theis twelve yeares last past and knoweth that for all the time arlate the said producent did and still doth drive a constant trade betwixt Antwerp and Cales and Saint Lucars for silver and plate"

Michael Perry Severino added that "for tenn or eleaven yeares at the least of this deponents said knowledge of him, hee the said producent lived in Cadiz, and since for two yeares or thereabouts having left his habitation there hee hath dwelt at Antwerp and while hee soe dwelt at Cadiz this deponent dwellt in Saint Lucars (where hee still dwelleth) and hath taken up many goods for the said producent comming from fflanders to Saint Lucars for the said producents accompt and hath sent them to him to Cadiz, and since his departure from Cadiz as aforesaid, this deponent having intimate acquaintance with his correspondents and agents at Cales well knoweth of his continuation of his said trade there for silver"; Michael Perry Severino stated that George Boschaert had three factors or agents at cadiz, since his move to Antwerp: "Maximilian da [?hopgha], David [?Molenstein], and ffrancis de la Sierpe"

John Moller reported that "hee hath heard hee [Editor: George Boschaert] lived twelve yeares in Cadiz before hee came to live in Antwerp"; in a separate deposition, John Moller stated in May 1653 that "George Boschaert was and is a Hamburger borne and a merchant of good accompt and for such commonly reputed, and for theise seaven yeares last hath lived in Cadiz and Antwerpe of this deponents knowledge, and as hee heard had lived in Cadiz for seaven yeares space before that, and saith by such habitation hee was and is the subiect of the kinge of Spaine"

For a C19th genealogical profile of the family see 'Notice généalogique sur la famille Bosschaert, de Bosschaert, ou Bosschaerts' in J.S.F.J.L. de Heckenrode, Complément au Nobiliare des Pays-Bas et du Comté de Bourgoyne, vol. 2 (Gand, 1866), pp.243-259. This article, written in French, states "George Bosscharts" was "natif de la ville de Graban, au pays et duché de mecklembourg, en Allemagne". It names George Boschaert's wife as "une des filles de Guillaume d'ESPOMEREAUX, dit VAN HOVE, écuyer, vivant plus ancien échevin et trésorier, et, en 1665, second bourgmestre d'Anvers, - et de Catherine VAN HOVE, dame d'Altena." States Georges Bosscharts "fut anobli par lettres patentes du roi Charles II, dépéchées à Madrid le 16 décembre 1665. Il fut crée chevalier par autres lettres en date du 7 octobre 1670, avec permission de faire supporter ses armes de deux lions d'or, et de changer le bourlet en une couronne, - et ce en considération de ce qu'il, durant les dernières guerres, avait levé et entretenu à ses frais deux soldats dans le régiment de la ville Anvers, et par ordre du marquis de Castel Rodrigo, gouverneur et capitaine-général des Pays-Bas et Bourgogne du roi, fourni des grosses sommes de deniers pur la levée de deux régiments d'infanterie d'Allemagne."

For a modern version of the family and genealogical background see online article: Georges Bosschart (1625-1678), Heer van BOOM

For Hamburg records of the family see "'Niederländische Armen-Vorsteher: 1592. Wouter Boschart; 1596. Wouter Boschart; 1618. Pieter Jonckers; 1641. Wouter Boschart; 1647. Jean Batta Joncker; 1650. Adrian Joncker; 1654. Dirich Boschart"

For research suggestions in Antwerp see: George Boschaert (b.ca 1620-25; d. 1678) alt. Jorge Boscarte

For research suggestions in Hamburg see: Buschaert family

Adrian Goldsmith [alt. Adriaen Goltsmit] - living in Antwerp, but earlier at Sevile, and believed to be a Hamburger; mentioned in case brought by Christopher Boone [ADD REFERENCE]; merchant; according to Derrick Heytman, master of the Saint John Baptist Adrian Goldsmith was a Hamburger, who had lived for a long time in Spain, and who had moved to Antwerp in early 1652. This is possible, since in a later claim from 1655 ("The claime of Adrian Goldsmith of Antwerp and others for goods in the Hare in the feild, John Kein Master"), the London merchant, John Nicolas, had been an assurer for goods of Adrian Goldsmith on the ship and stated in a deposition in support of this claim that he had seen a letter, prior to his subscription to the assurance policy "that the said goods were laden for the accompt of Mr Goldsmith of Antwerp and (as hee remembreth) other friends of hamborowe"

Derrick Heytman also stated that Adrian Goldsmith owned six sixteenth parts of the Saint John Baptist in 1653, the other owners being "G[?e]romus Snitger of Hamburgh owner of a 16th part, Daniel Brands of the same of a 16th part... Daniel Leon and ffrancis Panniq two hamburgers of Sevill each a 32th part. Vincent dal Campo a hamburger living at Cales owner of a sixteenth part, Christofer Bussel a Hamburger living at Malaga a 16th part, Maurice Halman, George [?Gryp] and company of Malaga all Hamburgers an 8th part, Boldwin Coleman of Gant an eighth part" Derrick Heytman stated specifically in November 1653 of Adrian Goldsmith that he "hath not lived above a yeare and a halfe last or thereabouts at Antwerp, having longe before lived in Spaine"

The connection between Adrian Goldsmith and known Hamburg merchants and factors is reinforced by the testimony of Francis Thoris, the former book keeper to the English merchant and factor in Sevile, Anthony Upton, who was the Sevile correspondent of Christopher Boone back in London. Thoris stated that "Antonio de Leon and ffrancisco Panninck" were the Spanish agents (possibly based in Sevile) of Adrian Goldsmith and made a bargain with Anthony Upton in Sevile on behalf of Goldsmith.; "Testimony by Adriaen Goltsmit insurer to Cornelis Cock on cargo in the ship Prins Willem, sailing from Middelburg to Biscay, which stranded in England. Most merchandise was sold in Zealand, 1656."

John Moller [signs as "Juan Moller"] [Possibly related to John Moller, George Boschaert's cashier] - living at Antwerp, had lived in Cadiz in Spain for five years and now in Antwerp with George Boschaert for two years; servant and cashier of Antwerp merchant George Bosschaert; "John Moller is an Hamburgher by birth and liveth att Antwerp"; lived in Spaine with George Boschaet when "yonge".; Hamburg Mariner Michael van Lubken had known John Moller "by the space of eight yeares last past and upwards...for all the tyme allegate hee the said Moller hath bin and att present is a person that tradeth from fflanders into Spaine for plate and silver", with correspondents at Cadiz and Saint Lucar;

See: "Conrado Moller, 1642-6-28: Expediente de información y licencia de pasajero a indias de Conrado Moller, mercader, natural de Hamburgo (Alemania) y vecino de Sevilla, hijo de Juan Moller y de Catalina Moller, a Nueva España. Incluye Relación de Mercaderías. Fecha de la licencia"; speculatively, the "John Mollers" (there may be an elder and a younger) may be related to the family of Johann Moller (b.?, d.1606) identified as one of the Hamburg Oberälter; see also Wikipedia entry: 'Moller vom Baum'

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Witnesses and others living in Amsterdam and elsewhere in United Netherlands

Other

Mr Coymans [Probably Balthazar or Johannes Coymans] - living in the Keysars or Cesars gracht in Amsterdam; merchant; Abraham Johnson, a witness for the Commonwealth in the Silver ships litigation, and a former long term resident of Amsterdam, stated that Otto George “delivered silver to one living at the signe of the Grave van Buren neere the old church in Amsterdam the the name of which person there living hee remembreth not, alsoe to Mr Coymans living in the Keisars or Cesars gracht, Adrian Poulson living in the [?Strasse] market, Mr Webster on the Keisars gracht, and to Mr Vanderstraten dwelling on the Heeres gracht in Amsterdam”

Jacob del Monte - living at Amsterdam; consignee of goods at Amsterdam from Sevile merchant Blas de La Pena; Bernardo Armandaris, a young merchant of Pamplona in Spain, deposed in July 1650 that goods were laden on board the ship the Prince, presumably at the Canaries, bound from the Canaries for Amsterdam. "Blas de lapena of Sevill by his factor there laded aboard the said shipp within the said time 496 hides marked as in the margin of the said schedule, and consigned them to Jacob del Monte of Amsterdam"

Adrian Poulson - living in the [?Strasse market] in Amsterdam; ?merchant; has not yet been identified; Abraham Johnson, a witness for the Commonwealth in the Silver ships litigation, and a former long term resident of Amsterdam, stated that Otto George “delivered silver to one living at the signe of the Grave van Buren neere the old church in Amsterdam the the name of which person there living hee remembreth not, alsoe to Mr Coymans living in the Keisars or Cesars gracht, Adrian Poulson living in the [?Strasse] market, Mr Webster on the Keisars gracht, and to Mr Vanderstraten dwelling on the Heeres gracht in Amsterdam”

Bernardo Ras - living at Amsterdam; "Bernardo Ras and Companie" were the Amsterdam factors of the Lemmermann family of Hamburg, and were to receive goods shipped from San Lucar to Amsterdam in the Black Cock in 1653

Mr Vanderstraten [Probably Jan van der Straaten] - living in the Keysars or Cesars gracht in Amsterdam; merchant; Abraham Johnson, a witness for the Commonwealth in the Silver ships litigation, and a former long term resident of Amsterdam, stated that Otto George “delivered silver to one living at the signe of the Grave van Buren neere the old church in Amsterdam the the name of which person there living hee remembreth not, alsoe to Mr Coymans living in the Keisars or Cesars gracht, Adrian Poulson living in the [?Strasse] market, Mr Webster on the Keisars gracht, and to Mr Vanderstraten dwelling on the Heeres gracht in Amsterdam”

Joachim Verpoorten - living at Amsterdam as a merchant stranger; correspondent of Hamburg born but San Lucar resident merchant John Scrother (and possibly of the Lemmerman family in Hamburg); possibly a Hamburgher, or at least of German origin; Jacob Wigandi stated that "in the moneth of October 1652. arlate and for some yeares before and to this present there was and is communication and correspondence in the way of trade between the arlate John Scrother and Joachim Verpoorten a ffactor or Merchant stranger residing at Amsterdam who was and is named in the bills of lading predeposed"

Joachim Verpoorten may have been related to Philip Verpoorten, a Hamburg merchant, resident at Hamburg. Philip van Dunhem, Hamburg master of the ship the Saint Mary, identified in November 1653 "Arnold Belties and Philip Verpoorten burghers and merchants of Hamborough" having taken his ship to freight by charter party with the ship owners for a voyage from Hamburg to Archangell in Muscovie to lade Russian leather to be transported to Ligorne"; Kotilaine (2005) identifies the Beltgens, Verpoorten, Tobias Homait (?), Peter Pot, Johann Hasse, and Franz De la calle, as a group of Hamburg merchants who in 1653 took over all caviar trade with Russia for a two-year period. Kotilaine adds that "Philipp Verpoorten and Arnold Beltgens leased the Musovite government's caviar monopoly around 1670, a position they held until 1678" and that "Verpoorten also leased the salmon monopoly with Butenant who, in addition, took part in a mast monopoly." The key to Hamburg merchant involvement in the Russian caviar and salmon trade, according to Kotilaine, was "the importance of Hamburg shipping between Russia and the Mediterranean", which benefitted fromHamburg merchants naturally enjoying "a comparative advantage over the Dutch in trade with Spain"

Kellenbenz (1954) devotes considerable space to the Verpoorten family. For example, he identifies the firm of Jacob and Johann Verpoorten as active in trade between Hamburg and San Lucar in the first decade of the C17th. He states that "Adrian Verpoortens Erbe übernahm die Firma Jacob und Johann Verpoorten, die 1612 aus Lucar Ingwer einführte."; Kellenbenz' work on the Verpoorten connection with Hamburg/Spanish trade merits following up.

Mr Webster - living on the Keisarsgracht in Amsterdam; has not yet been identified; Abraham Johnson, a witness for the Commonwealth in the Silver ships litigation, and a former long term resident of Amsterdam, stated that Otto George “delivered silver to one living at the signe of the Grave van Buren neere the old church in Amsterdam the the name of which person there living hee remembreth not, alsoe to Mr Coymans living in the Keisars or Cesars gracht, Adrian Poulson living in the [?Strasse] market, Mr Webster on the Keisars gracht, and to Mr Vanderstraten dwelling on the Heeres gracht in Amsterdam”

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Witnesses and others living in France

Witnesses

Other

Augustine Baden Roope - living at Caen in France; named on bill of lading for goods shipped in 1653 the Redd Lyon from Hamburg to Caen

Jacques ffarmanel - living at Rouen; correspondent of George Boschaert, merchant of Antwerp

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Witnesses and others living in Hamburg

Witnesses

Nicholas van Aspren [alt. Nicholas van Asperen; Nicholas van ?Esteren] - living at Hamburg; purser of the Salvador; aged 38 yeares; "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"; described himself in a deposition of XXX as a mariner and "under steersman" of the Salvador; described himself in deposition of Dec. 3rd 1652 as "purser and understiersman" of the Salvador; “a native of [?ffinmeren in Holsteyn and liveth in Hamburgh”; deponent

Joachim Beene - living in Hamburg; mariner; aged thirty-four; deponent; master of the Three Kings (a Hamburg ship purchased in Middleburgh in Zealand in which the Hamburg merchant Franz Sloyer also had a share); Joachim Beene stated in a deposition regarding the Three Kings that "he this rendent was and is an Hamburgher borne and hath a wife and family there now liveing"

Jacob Van Brooke - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the Saint John Baptist; aged forty when deposed in the English Admiralty court in May 1653

Christian Cloppenburgh - living in Hamburg with his wife and family; "his howse upp in the sandt in Hamburgh"; mariner; master of the Salvador; deponent; John Martinsdorp, master of the Saint George, stated "hath bene acquainted well with Christian Cloppenburgh for 15 yeares or thereabouts, and with John Ropke for 9 yeares or thereabouts and saith the sayd Cloppenberghs howse is upon the sand att Hamburgh"

Claes Colbrandt - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the Patriarcke Jacob

Peter van Dunhem - living at Hamburg; master of the ship the Saint Mary of Hamburg; aged forty-three in November 1653

Otto George [alt. Otto Jorge; Ottavio Jorge, used to sign bills of lading at Cadiz] - living at Lubeck; deceased at end 1653 or early 1654; master of the Sampson; born in Lunnenberg; stated in November 1652 that he "liveth at present at Lubeck and hath soe donne for theise nine yeares last and before that two yeares at [?Luckstat] in Danmarke Aged thirty-seven at the time of his deposition in November 1652. Married, with wife and family living in Lubeck. Gave personal answers on March 29th 1653 to "a certaine pretensed additionall allegation made in the acts of the Courte and admitted against him on the behalfe of the Keepers of the liberty of England". In these answers he refers to "his this respondents answeares preconfessed made to the former allegation made in the acts of Courte the eleaventh of March 1652" and refers to his removal of silver from his ship the Sampson for "necessary uses", which was done prior to the ommissioners of Dutch Prizes installing waiters on his ship.; Hamburg mariner Joachim Beene stated in November 1654 that "the arlate Otto George in the moneths of November or December in the yeare 1653. last past being sick and diseased did of this deponents certaine knowledge imbarque himselfe in the shipp the Neptune of Hamborough, Martin Holst Master for Hamborough with an intention to goe to Lubeck, wher as this deponent hath since understood, hee not long after did arrive, and after such his arrivall dyed there, and was there buried in the quality of a free burgher and citizen of Lubeck"

Jacob Elers - living at [?Barnestey] about four miles from Hamburg; cabin boy in the Sampson

Jacob Gevers - living at Hamburg; mariner; master of the ship the Wheele of ffortune

Hendrick Grube [alt. Grusse] - living sometimes at Hamburg and sometimes at Vemar in the Jurisdiction of the Duke of Holsteyn; mariner & stiersman of the Salvador; deponent

John Hey - living at Hamburg; mariner; master of the ship the Goulden Mill; aged thirty eight when deposed in November 1653

Peter Huckfelt - living at Hamburg; mariner; purser of the Sampson; purser of the Sampson for about two years, and first came aboard her at Genoa; Huckfelt stated that "he is a native and Inhabitant of Hamburgh"

Michael van Lubkin [alt. van Lubken] - living in Hamburg; mariner; "he was borne and is an inhabitant of Hamburgh"; master and commander of the Morning Star "about five yeares" [as of April 7th 1653]; deponent

Hendrick Luck - living at Hamburg; mariner; master of the ship the Saint Paul of Hamburg

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; John Martins dorp] - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the Saint George; deponent; gave his first deposition on January 3rd 1653; part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; aged fifty-two; John Martinsdorp was also a part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Fortune (Master: Berent [?Vordunke], together with " Adrian Yonker Dirrick [?Dabbler] and Berent [?Vordunke]"; In giving the ownership of the Fortune, the deponent providing this information, himself the master of the Hamburg ship the Mercury explicitly refers to "Jan Martinsdorp Master of the Saint George one of the 3 Sylver ships"; John Martins stated that "hee was borne at Hamburgh and hath lived there all his time, and hath bin a maried man and kept his wife and familie there about twenty yeares last"

John Menke - living at Hamburg; mariner' master of the ship the Leaping Hartl; aged forty-two in November 1653; John Menke deposed in November 1653 that he was "borne att a small village named Ritsbattle neere to Hamburgh and under the Jurisdiction of the free state of Hamburgh and saith that for theis twelve yeares now last past he hath lived and kept his howse wife and family in the sayd Citty of Hamburgh where his wife and howse and family now are; was constituted master of the Leaping Hart at Hamburg ca. May 1653 (seven months before his deposition); John Menke stated that "the owners of the sayd shipp [the Leaping Hart] were and are all Hamburghers and there videlicet att Hamburgh now dwell and have lived and inhabited for this 26 yeares last past and indeed all their tymes respectively. and their names and inter[?ests] therein were and are as followeth videlicet. Augustin Hendricksonwas and is owner of one eighth part of the sayd shipp the Loeping Hart, Harman Hendrickson of one 16th part. Simon Cornelison Prophet of one 16th part. and Bartall Yonkall was and is owner of one halfe of the sayd shipp and Peter Wield and his brother whose name att present he remembreth not were and are owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp. and saith that the sayd present owners bought their sayd respective parts and shares therein about 7 monethes now past att Hamburgh of and from the foresaid Peter Bruyer and his brother and they and this deponent payd for the whole shipp five thousand markes Lubeckes"

Henry Van Nelsen - living at Hamburg; ?mariner; aged sixty-three in November 1653; deposed in litigation over the Hamburg ship the Redd Lyon

Hendrick Papa - living at Hamburg; mariner and stiersman of the boyer the Dove (Master: Otto Papa), which was seized by Scots in spring 1656, and freed by the English; ship carrying wheat for Abraham Stockman and company from Hamburg to Mr Jucas Jacobs in London

Hance Ramke [alt. Hans Ramkey] - living in Hamburg; mariner; deponent

Claus van Roston - living at Hamburg; mariner; master of the ship the Brewer and owner of one eighth part of the ship, with remaining seven eighth parts owned by Hamburg resident George Luyders

Henry Slegar - living in Hamburg; mariner; deponent

Peter Scholenburg - living at Hamburg; mariner [ADD DETAILS]

Gaspar Tam [alt. Jaspar Tam] - of Hamborough; purser of the shipp the Goulden Sunn of Hamburgh (master: Peter Tam); aged 24 yeares; deponent; nephew of the Hamburg mariner Peter Tam; Gaspar Tam stated that "Peter Tam hath lived in the [?Skeers] brooke in Hamborough with his family for ten yeares last and upwards" and for the same time Gaspar Tam's "settled abode", being a batchelor "hath bin in his ffathers house in the same street or place in Hamborough"

Roderigo Vasmer [signed "Rodrigo Vasmar"] - living at Hamburg; merchant; aged forty-seven; deponent

Henrick Vett - living in Hamburg; mariner on the Morning Starre; brother-in-law of John Martindorp; deponent

Joachim Warner - living at Hamburg; mariner; master and part-owner of the Saint John Baptist or John Baptista

Jacob Wigandi - living at Hamborough; native of Hamburg; merchant; aged twenty-five in November 1653; deposed in support of claime of the widdowe of Hance Lemmermann, of John Lemmerman, and Thomas Lemmerman ifor goods in the ship the Black Cock

John Wittigrove - living at Hamburg; mariner; witness

Lucas Wrede - living at Hamburg; mariner; witness

Cornelius Yarrickson - living at Hamburg; mariner; master of the ship the Peter, which was seized by a private English man of war in October 1652 en route from Hamburg to Normandy with a lading of wool and seacoal

Others

Albert Anquelman [alt. Ankelman; Anckelmann] - living at Hamburg; merchant; consignee of 16 bars of silver in the Wheele of ffortune

The German Wikipedia entry on "Anckelmann" states "Die Familie Anckelmann ist eine hanseatische und sächsische Kaufmanns-, Rats- und Gelehrtenfamilie des 16. bis 19. Jahrhunderts."

Friedrich Georg Buek identifies a "Tolen Anckelmann" (b.1469, d.1540) as one of the Hamburg Oberälter and as the son of a migrant from Schwäbisch Hall. One of Tolen Anckelmann's sons, Caspar Anckelmann (b.?, d. 1615), married three times, with his second and third wives bearing five and eight children respectively. Of these children by his second and third marriages, Caspar, Joachim, Eberhard and Diedrich had children, whereas Albert, Vincent and Johann Ernst died childless; It is possible that the childless Albert Anckelmann is the "Albert Anquelman" who was the consignee of silver in the Wheele of ffortune; see also"'Bauhoffs=Bürger': 1661: Joachim Anckelmann"; see "Die Herren Juraten der Kirche St. Petri:... 1641 Dietr. Ankelmann, gestorben 1643, 9. März"

A well researched modern history of the Anckelmann family groups the three childless male children of Capar Anckelmann and provides some basic dates: "Albert (b.1603, d.1680), Vincent (b.ca. 1605), und Johann Ernst (b. ca. 1606) Anckelmann" and states "dass sie alle längere Zeit gelebt haben sollen, aber schliesslich unverheiratet in Hamburg gestorben sein. Wir dürfen annehmen, dass sie Kaufleute wurden und ihre "Lehr-und Wanderjahre" in spanischen Niederlassungen oder bei Geschäftspartnern des Handelshauses Anckelmann verbrachten. Noch von einem weiteren Anckelmann wissen wir über Verbindungen über Sevilla. Alberto Rodrigo...der Sohn des 1633 verstorbenen Caspar Anckelmann...und Halbneffe der drei, der dort wie ausgeführt eine Witwe heiratet und als Katholik start (s.o.)";

Albert Balthazar Beerents [alt. Behrens] - living at Hamburg; insurer of 2,000 li flemmish money on one of the three Silver Ships

Arnold Belties - living at hamburg; merchant; Philip van Dunhem, Hamburg master of the ship the Saint Mary, identified in November 1653 "Arnold Belties and Philip Verpoorten burghers and merchants of Hamborough" having taken his ship to freight by charter party with the ship owners for a voyage from Hamburg to Archangell in Muscovie to lade Russian leather to be transported to Ligorne"

Abraham de Bois [alt. Abraham du Bois; Abraham de Boyes] - living in Hamburg; burger and subject of Hamburg; deceased; original part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George 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. Roland Baetens writes in a footnote that "Abraham du Bois was te Hamburg uitgegroeid tot een vermogendste kooplieden". Reinhard Löhmann identifies a link between the du Bois and Wolters families of Hamburg, with Jacoba du Bois, daughter of Abraham du Bois, marrying Liebert Wolters in 1641. 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. A genealogical source is consistent with Reinhard Löhmann, giving the parents of Jakoba du Bois (b.1622, Köln Rhein) as Abraham du Bois and Barbara Boudewein, and giving Jakoba's husband as Liebert Wolters (b.1607, Stade, Niedersachsen, m.1641, Hamburg, d.1664). The same source gives the father of Abraham du Bois as "Louis Bois", of Amsterdam, and his mother as Gertrude Bellevord. Roland Baetens identifies Abraham du Bois as the receipient in Hamburg in 1632 of 60,000 dukaten sent from Venice by the widow of Alvise du Bois' partner [?XXX] Hureau. See Du Bois family

Lawrence de Bois [alt. Louis du Bois; Lovis du Bois; Lewis du Bois] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; "liveth in the [?Nantrem] where his father Abram (sic) de Bois aforesayd dwelt" See Du Bois family Segar Splinter, master of the Hamburg ship the Saint Mary, stated that "Lewis du Bois" and "Abraham Vande Luffell", were citizens and inhabitants of Hamburg, and that he had known them to be such for seven years. They were owners of the Saint Mary, which they laded for their joint account with diverse stuffs, horses and pipestaves, bound from Hamburg to Lisbon, to be delivered to their Lisbon agents or correspondents Peter Hassche and Martin [?Beverbergh] Splinter states that Lewis du Bois is a married man and dwells "in the Nantraen street", whereas Vande Luffell is a bacherlor and swells "in the groote Barker street", both in Hamburg. Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others.; Baetens mentions "Lewis en Abraham du Bois".

Gerrit Bowmaster [alt. Garret Boormaster] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador

Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others.

Hance Heytman, master of the Sampson of Hamburg [not the same ship as Otto George's Sampson of Lubeck] listed "Garret Booremaster" as the owner of one quarter of that ship, which had been built in Lubeck in 1636 and purchased new by Heytman on behalf of Hamburg owners ("Garret Booremaster, Hendrick Cordes his heires, John Eykehoff, Matthias Heyndrick, Hendrick Heytman, and hee this deponent all Hamburgers and natives and dwellers there all their times have bin and are the true and lawfull owners of the said shipp the Sampson of Hamburgh and of her tackle and furniture, namely the said Garret Booremaster of a fourth and each of the said other persons of an eighth part thereof"

Kellenbenz (1954) devotes several pages to the Burmeister family, which he states was active in the Spanish and Portuguese trade from the C17th. He identifies a Gerhard Burmeister, a Gerdt Burmeister and a Gise Burmeister. He states "Die grosse Firma Groenendael & Verpoorten sowie Gise Burmeister schickten ihre Frachten an Gerdt Burmeister bzw. Christoffer Meyer. Die Burmeister, schon im 16. Jahrhundert im hamburgischen Iberienhandel tätig...". Kellenbenz tentatively identifes three brothers, Peter, Gise and Gerdt Burmeister, together with a sister Catharina, who married Christian Holst. Kellenbenz states that from 1620 onwards Gise Burmeister worked "mit der grossen Firma Groenendel & Verpoorten zusammen".

Daniell Brandes [alt. Daniel Brandes; Danyell Brands; Danyel Brands; Brandt; Brandts; D. Brandes] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador

Roland Baetens makes reference to a firm or partnership of "Brandes-Snutquer, die als inkoopcommissionair optrad." Baetens also lists the firm "D.Brandes en J.Snutquer" against Danzig.. In a footnote, Baetens makes reference to two letters from D. Brandes, the first dated 18th October 1654 and the second dated 31st January 1655, giving the source as the Antwerp Insolventen Boedelskamer

John Hey, master of the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill (with a crew of 14 men and boys) stated in a deposition in the English High Court of Admiralty that his ship was "fraighted upon Charter partie by Jerome Snitcher and Daniel Brandts Merchants and Burghers of Hamborough" for a voyage from Hamburg to Malaga and back in 1653, carrying goods for the two merchants, together with other Hamburg merchants.

Peter van Dunhem, master and part-owner of the Lubeck built ship the Saint Mary of Hamburg stated in the English High Court of Admiralty that "Daniel Brandts" was owner of a one eighth part in his ship. The complete list of owners was "Henry Selm, Daniel Brandts, Wilkin Wrede, Philip Collin[?s] Derrick Thooneman, Balthazar Pauland ffrans van Bremen Gregorie Harman", together with Peter van Dunhem and his brother-in-law ffrancis [?Meynke]. The ship was returning from a voyage from Archangel to Ligorne and Venice (touching also at Cadiz) when she was seized, having previously come from Lisbon to Hamburg carrying salt and sugar.

In two further cases in the English High Court of Admiralty, "David Brandt" was part-owner of the ship the Saint John Baptist, and "Daniel Brandes and Jeronimo Snitger marchants of Hamborough" were consignees of "one barr of silver weighing one hundred fourtie one marjes two ounces" in the ship the Wheele of ffortune

Finally, the case of the seizure in November 1653 of the Hamburg ship the Saint Michaell also knowne as the Angell Michaell, led to a claim by "Danyell Brands and Jeronimo Snitger for theire silver", which had been laden on the ship. Peter Scholenburgh, mate of the seized ship, deposed in support of the claim. A forty-four year old Hamburg mariner, he stated that "hee hath beene a neere neighbour to the producents Danyell Brand and Jeronimo Snitgar for many yeares And well knoweth for theis twenty yeares past or thereabouts the said producents respectively have driven a constant and usuall trade from Hamborowe to Saint Lucar Cadiz and other Ports and places in Spayne for silver and other merchandizes which hee knoweth for that he this deponent hath bin imployed by them in voyages from Hamborowe to Spayne and from thence hath brought home goods wares and merchandizes and others of this deponents knowledge have brought silver from Spayne to Hamborowe for theire accompt and soe much is generally knowne in Hamborowe amongst such as knowe the producents and each of them"

Joachim van Campen - living at Hamburg; merchant; "sonne of Pardon van Campen"; consignee of three pieces of silver in the Wheele of ffortune

Pardon von Campen [alt. Paridom von Kampe] - ?living at Hamburg; father of Joachim van Campen; Herman Kellenbenz mentioned "einen Paridom von Kampe in San Lucar, der mit Daniel Schloier in Hamburg in Geschäftsverbindung stand"; Kellenbenz states that the Hamburg "von Kampe" was active in the "Tuchhandel" at the end of the C16th, identifying the two brothers Joachim von Kampe and Paridom von Kampe; see 'Bauhoffs=Bürger': 1669: Paridom von Kampe"; appears in records of Hamburg Sanct Petri-kirche: "Paridom von Kampe, war hier 1595 Jurat, 1597 Oberalter, 1607 Senator, 1613 Kirchspielsherr und starb 1617"; "Paridom" was a common name in the von Kampe family, with a "Paridom vom Kampe" (b.1626, m.1666, d.1691) son of father Eberhard vom Kampe, and a "Paridom von Kampen" (b.1580, m. 1619 and 1630, d.?) son of Joachim vom Kampe

Pedro da Campo [?vieta] - purser of the Sampson; Pasquall Andrada, servant of Don Antonio da Ponte, stated that "the purser of the sayd shipps name was Pedro da Campo, and was as this deponent beleiveth an Hamburger"

Decloffe Classoft [alt. Dittelof Classoft; Detliffe Classoft; Detliff Classoff] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; lives "in the Dyck street"

Vincent Clingeburgh [alt. Klingenbergh; Klingenberg] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; probably the "Vincent Klingenberg" mentioned as active in the Hamburg-Iberian trade in the study by Martin Reissman (1975) of Hamburg merchants in C17th. Reissman identified him as the son of a brewer, born in 1615. 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"), and that Vincent Klingenberg became a director of the Danish Guinea Company in Glückstadt in 1660. See Klingenberg (alt. Kligenbergh; Clingenburgh) family "Vincent [?Clinlenbergh], Cornelius de Hartegh and Christian Laurens" was one of the principal owners of a cargo of wine and oil shipped from Cadiz to Hamburg circa 1662 or early 1653 in the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill

Derrick Cordes - living at Hamburg; merchant

Diederick Cordes - living at Hamburg; merchant; XX stated in support of the claim of Hamburg born but San Lucar resident merchant John Scrother that "Diederick Cordes who is a native; a merchant of great quality and burgher of Hamborough, where hee hath held his constant residence so long as this deponent can remember; under whose borrowed name the goods in question are consigned, hath according to a publique instrument which hee this deponent is ready to produce under the seale of Hamborough publiquely declared upon solemn oath before the magistrates there that the said wynes doe not at all belong unto him the said Diederick Cordes but to the said producent"

Duart Nunez da Costa [Duarte Nunez da Costa] - living at Hamburg; merchant; "Duert Nunez da Costa and Company" freighted the ship the Saint Peter (Master: Daniel Straetman) at Hamburg, bound for Madera

Hendrick Cordes - living at Hamburg; merchant; [ADD DATA]

Manuell Derrickson - living at Hamburg; Daniel Mexia, describing himself as a London merchant, deposed in February 1656 that "hee hath corresponded with the producent Manuell Derrickson as living at Hambrowe for theise thirteene yeeres last or thereabouts, and that for about nine of the first yeares of that time this deponent living in Brazil corresponded with the said Manuell living in hamborowe, and that about foure yeares since this deponent comming from Brazil to Hamborowe and fflushing there for some space, hee sawe and there became personally acquainted with the said Manuel and sawe and well knoweth that hee was and is a burger or citizen of Hamburgh and a subiect of that free State where hee liveth and driveth a greate trade in merchandizes, and was then a married man and kept house with his wife and familie there And for a freeman and burger of Hamborough and a subiect of that free State"; plausibly, but without concrete evidence, Daniel Mexia (aged thirty-three in February 1656) ws related to "John Mexia de Herrera" (aged thirty-four in May 1653); Simon da Casseres, a Madrid born Spanish merchant, living in London, stated "hee well knoweth the producent Manuel Derrickson, and hath soe donne for these twenty yeares last past and upwards this deponent having for the most part of that space lived in Hamborough, where hee saith the said Manuel hath for all the said time dwelt, and kept house there, being there married, and was and is a merchant of good accompt, and an inhabitant and subiect of the free state of Hamborough, and for such commonly accompted, which hee knoweth being well and familiarly acquainted with him and having bin there very often in his house and had dealing with him in the way of Merchandize"; Simon da Casseres added that "the said Manuel derickson as hee taketh it is a Portuguese by birth"

Daniel Dorville - living at Hamburg; merchant; John Boomgarden (or as he signed himself, Johan Baumgarten), a twenty-one year old merchant from Thooren [Thorn] in Prussia, deposed on December 1653 that "about two moneths agoe being arrived at Hamborough was there lodged in the house of one Mr Daniel Dorville a merchant of Hamborough, and Cozen to the arlate John Dorville, and that this deponent by [?such] meanes came acquainted with the said John Dorvile and his ffather who is a very aged and decrepit person, and saith That according to common report there the said Dorvilles for many yeares last past
have bin and still are Burghers and Merchants of great quality and esteeme in that City, and Subjects of that free State"

John Dorville - living at Hamburg; merchant; had a brother in Roen who acted as a factor for various Hamburg merchants

Conrade Esser [alt. Conrado Esser] - living at Hamburg; merchant; Juan Stuten Paep deposed in October 1653 that he had known Conrado Esser to be a merchant and inhabitant of Hamburg for the last twelve years, saying " Conrade Esser did drive a constant trade from Saint Lucar and Cadiz in Spaine to Dunkerke Ostend and other parts for plateand sylver and hath for all the sayd tyme had his Agemts att and in the sayd places for the management of the sayd trade, which he knoweth by the correspondencyes he this deponent hath with the Agent or factor of the sayd Conrade Esser, residing at Saint Lucar"; Stuten Paep added that Conrado Esser had lived in Hamburg for the last three years "and for nyne yeares before did live in Saint Lucar in Spaine as a merchant stranger where this deponent knew him and was well acquainted with him"; Joachim Schear was Conrado Esser's factor at Saint Lucar

Gabriell [?Esmitt] - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; claimant for silver on the Angell Michaell; Peter Scholenburg deposed that "hee knoweth one Gabriel Esmitt or Smit whoe is a Hamburger by byrth by common reputation whoe hath ived some tymes in Spayne [?which] [?hee] [?believeth] [??is] Gabriel Esmitt interrogated"

Abraham Eylars - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; part-owner of the Saint John Baptist

Lodowick ?fraulus - living at Hamburg; merchant; Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in support of the claim of the Lemmermann family for goods in the Black Cock that "there is insurance made of 600: li flemmish by Peter [?Vinck] of 600: li fflemish by frans Sloyer, of 600: li flemmish by Jurian Scothering, and of 800: li flemmish by Lodowick [?fraulus] all merchants and subiects of Hamburgh"

Harman Geerts - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; had a coal house or warehouse in Hamburg; Cornelius Yarrickson, the Hamburg resident master of the ship the Peter, deposed in December 1653 that he saw wool and coals at Hamburg "in the quiet possession of the sayd owners before the lading thereof, that is to say the sayd wooll in the howse or warehowse of the sayd Peter Hubrecht att Hamburgh, and the sayd coales in the cole howse or warehouse of Harman Geerts att Hamburgh for the use and accompt of the sayd owners"

Jacob Gevers - living at Hamburg; mariner; master of the Wheele of ffortune

Henry Greeve – living at Hamburg; "Native of [?ffinmeren] in [?Holsteyn] dwelling att Hamburgh mariner"; former steersman on the Salvador, travelling on her to Cadiz

Henderick Hambrooke [alt. poss. Hinrich Hambrock] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; possibly the son of Hamburg citizen Jakob Hambrock (der Ältere), who had four sons: Johann, Christian, Jakob und Hinrich Hambrock. Jakob Hambrock (der Ältere) may himself have been the son of Hans Hambrock, a Hamburg merchant.

Arnoul van Hassdonck [alt. Arent van Haesdonck; Arnold van Haesdonck; Arnout van Haesdonck; Hasedunk] - living at Hamburg; merchant; Michael Perry Severino stated that "some of the bills of lading for sylver laden by this deponent [for Aelst and Brudgmans] wherein the same is colourably entred for the accompt of Arnoul van Haasdonck of Hamburgh the better to preserve his sylver from the French were found aboard the shipp Salvador"; John Hey, master of the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill (with a crew of 14 men and boys) stated that his ship was "fraighted upon Charter partie by Jerome Snitcher and Daniel Brandts merchants and burghers of Hamborough" for a voyage from Hamburg to Mallega and back in 1653, carrying goods for the two merchants, together with other Hamburg merchants; the owners of the Goulden Mill were: "John Scrothering Peter van Sprechels Peter Guldenhair, Arent van Haesdonck and the widdow of John Hartmann[?sson] late master of the said shipp all Hamburghers and natives of that place"

Kellenbenz (1954) profiles the family of "Die Hasedunk oder van Haesdonck"; possible son of Arnout van Haesdonck is Cornelis van Haesdonck (b.1608, Hamburg; bur.1681, Amsterdam Oude Lutherse Kerk); see Portret van Cornelis van Haesdonck 1640, by Salomon Jacobsz. Savery

See Inventaris, NEHA Bijzondere Collecties 471: 2.5 Trade: 2.5.100.12 Invoice for Baltasar de Groot by Arnold van Haesdonck in Hamburg concerning trade in diamonds in 1650, 1654.

Austin Hendrickson - living at Hamburg; part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Leaping Hart; John Menke stated that "the owners of the sayd shipp [the Leaping Hart] were and are all Hamburghers and there videlicet att Hamburgh now dwell and have lived and inhabited for this 26 yeares last past and indeed all their tymes respectively. and their names and inter[?ests] therein were and are as followeth videlicet. Augustin Hendricksonwas and is owner of one eighth part of the sayd shipp the Loeping Hart, Harman Hendrickson of one 16th part. Simon Cornelison Prophet of one 16th part. and Bartall Yonkall was and is owner of one halfe of the sayd shipp and Peter Wield and his brother whose name att present he remembreth not were and are owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp. and saith that the sayd present owners bought their sayd respective parts and shares therein about 7 monethes now past att Hamburgh of and from the foresaid Peter Bruyer and his brother and they and this deponent payd for the whole shipp five thousand markes Lubeckes"

Hendrick Hendrickson - living at Hamburg; part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Leaping Hart; John Menke stated that "the owners of the sayd shipp [the Leaping Hart] were and are all Hamburghers and there videlicet att Hamburgh now dwell and have lived and inhabited for this 26 yeares last past and indeed all their tymes respectively. and their names and inter[?ests] therein were and are as followeth videlicet. Augustin Hendricksonwas and is owner of one eighth part of the sayd shipp the Loeping Hart, Harman Hendrickson of one 16th part. Simon Cornelison Prophet of one 16th part. and Bartall Yonkall was and is owner of one halfe of the sayd shipp and Peter Wield and his brother whose name att present he remembreth not were and are owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp. and saith that the sayd present owners bought their sayd respective parts and shares therein about 7 monethes now past att Hamburgh of and from the foresaid Peter Bruyer and his brother and they and this deponent payd for the whole shipp five thousand markes Lubeckes"

Cornelis de Hertogh - living at Hamburg; merchant; claimant for silver in the Angel Michael (Master: John Lowe); "Clayme of Cornelis de Hertogh and John} Baptista da Hertogh of Hamborough"; Peter Scholenburg, stiersman of the Angel Michael, deposing in early 1653, had known both men for fifteen years as cresident in Hamburg and said they had "for [?divers] yeares last past the producents and each of them respectively have driven trade to Saint Lucar Cadiz and other places in Spayne and from thence caused to be transported divers wares moneyes and merchandizes to Hamborowe and have exported from Hamborowe to Saint Lucar and Cadiz and other parts and places in Spayne severall goods warees and merchandizes"

John Baptista de Hertogh - living at Hamburg; merchant; claimant for silver in the Angel Michael (Master: John Lowe); "Clayme of Cornelis de Hertogh and John} Baptista da Hertogh of Hamborough"; Peter Scholenburg, stiersman of the Angel Michael, deposing in early 1653, had known both men for fifteen years as cresident in Hamburg and said they had "for [?divers] yeares last past the producents and each of them respectively have driven trade to Saint Lucar Cadiz and other places in Spayne and from thence caused to be transported divers wares moneyes and merchandizes to Hamborowe and have exported from Hamborowe to Saint Lucar and Cadiz and other parts and places in Spayne severall goods warees and merchandizes"

Mathys Heyndrick [alt. Mathys Hendricx; Matthias Heydenryck] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of the Saint George; Hance Heytman, master of the Sampson of Hamburg [not the same ship as Otto George's Sampson of Lubeck] listed "Matthias Heyndrick" as the owner of one eighth of that ship, which had been built in Lubeck in 1636 and purchased new by Heytman on behalf of Hamburg owners ("Garret Booremaster, Hendrick Cordes his heires, John Eykehoff, Matthias Heyndrick, Hendrick Heytman, and hee this deponent all Hamburgers and natives and dwellers there all their times have bin and are the true and lawfull owners of the said shipp the Sampson of Hamburgh and of her tackle and furniture, namely the said Garret Booremaster of a fourth and each of the said other persons of an eighth part thereof"; The master of the Hamburg vessel, Thomas Andreison, was himself from Hamburg and described "Arnolt van Haesdonck of the [?Wantram] in Hamburgh of middle age and browne complexion, and whitish hair"

Joachim [?Helt] [CHECK ALSO "VON HOLTE] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George

Peter Hubrecht - living at Hamburg; one of two owners of the the ship the Peter (Master: Cornelius Yarreckson), which was seized by a private English man of war in October 1652 en route from Hamburg to Normandy with a lading of wool and seacoal; the other owner was Hendrick Sutfeild, also of Hamburg

[?Paridom ?Instram] – purser of the Saint George [CHECK LOCATION]

Adrian Juncker [alt. Adrian Yoncker; Adrian Yonker] - living at Hamburg; merchant; "Adrian Yoncker"

"Banco-Bürger: 1654: Adrian Juncker"; see "Niederländische Armen-Vorsteher: 1592. Wouter Boschart; 1596. Wouter Boschart; 1618. Pieter Jonckers; 1641. Wouter Boschart; 1647. Jean Batta Joncker; 1650. Adrian Joncker; 1654. Dirich Boschart"

John Baptista Juncker [alt. Jonckers; Joncker; Yonckher] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; Claes Colbrandt, the Hamburg resident master of the Patriarcke Jacob stated that John Baptista Yunker (sic) lived "in Green street"

Roland Baetens identifies two letters addressed to J.B.Jonckers in the Antwerpen Insolventen Boeken, from 1646 and 1647 [CHECK SPELLING] See Juncker family There appears to have been a related merchant, Adrian Juncker.

"John Baptista Younker" and "Adrian Yonker" were both owners of one eighth parts in the Hamburg ship the Mercury (Master: John [?Detrye]), together with Bartall [?Beakman] (one eighth), Anna da Greave (four eighth parts and a one sixteenth part), and the master of the Mercury (one sixteenth part); Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptunes owners as including "Adrian Juncker [alt. Yoncker; Yohncker]" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others. "Adrian Yonckher" shipped 60 fatts of raisings on board the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill from Mallaga to Hamburg in early 1653; see "Niederländische Armen-Vorsteher: 1592. Wouter Boschart; 1596. Wouter Boschart; 1618. Pieter Jonckers; 1641. Wouter Boschart; 1647. Jean Batta Joncker; 1650. Adrian Joncker; 1654. Dirich Boschart"

Michael Joachinson [alt. Jochinson] - living at Hamburg; master of the ship the Redd Lyon; Hamburg resident Henry Van Nelsen deposed in November 1653 that Michael Joachinson was "a Burgher and inhabitant of Hamborough and a Subject of that free state for theise 7. yeares last past or thereabouts", and that he had been the owner of the Redd Lyon for the last two years

Hance Lemmerman [alt. Hans Lemmerman; Lemmermann] - living at Hamburg; merchant; deceased by November 1653; had goods in the ship the Black Cock; Jacob Wigandi deposed in November 1653 that "Hans Lemmerman deceased was according to common report a Native of the Citie of Hamborough and Subject of that ffree State untill his death, and for such commonly reputed and taken, and that for severall yeares before his death hee was a Merchant well knowne to drive a great trade in Spaine, which trade is since his death continued by the said producents of the deponents certaine knowledge, and the said John Lemmerman Thomas Lemmerman and Hanse Lemmerman were and are the naturall and lawfull Children of the said Hans Lemmerman deceased, and for such well knowne and generally accompted at Hamborough aforesaid, and are heires to the said deceased"; Jacob Wigandi stated of all the Lemmermann family that he knew them all well and that "they have all of them lived in the Grim in Hamborough"

Hanse Lemmermann [the younger] - living at Hamburg; one of the children and heirs of Hance Lemmerman (deceased by November 1653); Jacob Wigandi stated of all the Lemmermann family that he knew them all well and that "they have all of them lived in the Grim in Hamborough"

Katherine Lemmermann - living at Hamburg; widow or relict of Hance lemmerman [the elder] (deceased by November 1653); Jacob Wigandi stated of all the Lemmermann family that he knew them all well and that "they have all of them lived in the Grim in Hamborough"

John Lemmermann - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; had goods in the ship the Black Cock; one of the children and heirs of Hance Lemmerman (deceased by November 1653); Jacob Wigandi stated of all the Lemmermann family that he knew them all well and that "they have all of them lived in the Grim in Hamborough"

Thomas Lemmermann - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; had goods in the ship the Black Cock; one of the children and heirs of Hance Lemmerman (deceased by November 1653); Jacob Wigandi stated of all the Lemmermann family that he knew them all well and that "they have all of them lived in the Grim in Hamborough"

George Luyders - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; owner of seven eighth parts of the ship the Brewer, with remaining one eighth part owned by her master, Claus van Roton

John Moller - living in Hamburg; shipwright; master shipwright of the Saint George

Hendrick Momma - living at Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Crowne Imperiall

Clé Lesger (1995) states that Hendrick Momma was part of a large family, located at different port cities; relatives included Willem Momma, Mattis Momma and Guillaume Momma; Clé Lesger shows a table which includesCaspar Bruyn (Amerdam), Hendrick Momma (Hamburg), Daniel Brandes (Vasteras), Willem Momma (Nyköping), Isaac Kock (Avesta) Nicolas Presse en Herman Lodovichs (Danzig)

J. Römelingh (1986) in a review of Swedish archives identifies primary source material on Jacob Momma from the 1640s to 1660s

Leos Müller (1998) profile sthe Momma and Reenstiernas families and the Momma-Reenstiernas' iron trade

Lupen Nunez - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; part-owner of the Saint John Baptist

Otto Papa - probably living at Hamburg; skipper of the boyer the Dove (Master: Otto Papa), which was seized by Scots in spring 1656, and freed by the English; ship carrying wheat for Abraham Stockman and company from Hamburg to Mr Jucas Jacobs in London

Christopher Peterson - possibly living at Hamburg; claimant in dispute in English Admiralty Court between Roger Kilvert and Christopher Peterson regarding canary wines laden on the ship the Speranza or Hope; Hamburg born, but London resident merchant, John Lemkuell acted for him in the Admiralty Court, and if successful in getting ship restored, would have remitted funds overseas and received a customary provision; Jacob Vanderlacke named by John Lemkuell as Peterson's broker in London, who "doeth his businesse for him in and about this Cittye"

Jerom Peterson [alt. Jerome Peterson; Jeronymus Petersen] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; 'Bauhoffs=Bürger': 1648: Jeronymus Petersen"

Simon Cornelison Prophet - living at Hamburg; part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Leaping Hart; John Menke stated that "the owners of the sayd shipp [the Leaping Hart] were and are all Hamburghers and there videlicet att Hamburgh now dwell and have lived and inhabited for this 26 yeares last past and indeed all their tymes respectively. and their names and inter[?ests] therein were and are as followeth videlicet. Augustin Hendricksonwas and is owner of one eighth part of the sayd shipp the Loeping Hart, Harman Hendrickson of one 16th part. Simon Cornelison Prophet of one 16th part. and Bartall Yonkall was and is owner of one halfe of the sayd shipp and Peter Wield and his brother whose name att present he remembreth not were and are owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp. and saith that the sayd present owners bought their sayd respective parts and shares therein about 7 monethes now past att Hamburgh of and from the foresaid Peter Bruyer and his brother and they and this deponent payd for the whole shipp five thousand markes Lubeckes"

Hieronimus Reynstorp the elder - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; part-owner of the Saint John Baptist; "Born um 1580 in Hamburg
Died nach 1661 in Hamburg; Ehegatte: (1) Elisabeth van Kampe (m. ca. 1612, d. before 1628) Ehegate: (2) Cäcilia Winstman (b. 14.06.1607; m. 1628; d. 11.03.1679); Vater: Hieronymus Reinstorp; Mutter: Anna Wickhorst; Kinder: Elizabeth Reinstorp (b. 1631, Hamburg; d. 1706, Hamburg"

Hieronimus Reynstorp the younger - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; part-owner of the Saint John Baptist

Daniel Ropke - living at Hamburg; merchant; note an "Augustine Baden Roope", living at Caen, who was a consignee of goods sent from Hamburg to Caen by Hendrick Sutfeild and Peter Hubrecht

Derrick Rourke [alt. Derrick Rubke] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one sixteenth part-owner of the Salvador; named by Otto George, master of the Salvador as "Derrick Rubke"

Joachim Scharr - living at Hamburg; ?merchant; "Clayme of Joachim Scharr of Hamborowe for one thousand and fower hundred peeces of eight on board the Angell Michael"; Peter Scholeburg stated that "albeit the arlate Joachim Scharr for some tyme last lived as a merchant stranger in Spayne yett hath beene commonly reputed to be a subiect of the ffree State of Hamborowe"

Heyn Scoebach - living at Hamburg; Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in support of the claim of the Lemmermann family for goods in the Black Cock that "part of the goods sent from Hamborough as is predeposed, were sent by Heyn [?Scoebach] and Henry Scrother and other Hamborough shippers"

Jurian Scothering - living at hamburg; merchant; Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in support of the claim of the Lemmermann family for goods in the Black Cock that "there is insurance made of 600: li flemmish by Peter [?Vinck] of 600: li fflemish by frans Sloyer, of 600: li flemmish by Jurian Scothering, and of 800: li flemmish by Lodowick [?fraulus] all merchants and subiects of Hamburgh"

Henry Scrother - living at Hamburg; described by Hambrug merchant Jacob Wigandi in November 1653 as a Hamburg "shipper"; speculatively Henry Scrother is related to John Scrother, the Hamburg born factor of Hamburg merchant Hance Lemmermann (deceased), in support of whose claim in the English Admiralty Court Jacob Wigandi deposes, mentioning both John Scrother and Henry Scrother

Daniel Sloyer [the elder] - living in Hamburg; deceased; merchant; one of the original part-owners of the Saint George of Hamburg, with a one eighth share; deceased

Daniel Sloyer the elder appears to have died in Hamburg in early 1652, based on the testimony of Peter Scholenburg, the steersman of the ship the Angel Michael. Scholenburg deposed in March 1652 in support of the "clayme of the widdowe and heyres of Danyel Sloyer} deceased for the silver laden for their accompt aboard the shipp the Angell Michael". He stated that "hee well knew the arlate Danyel Sloyer whilest he lived whoe departed this life att Hamborow about twelve moneth since". He went on to say that he "knoweth likewise his wydowe the producent in this cause beinge the respondents neere neighbour in Hamborowe where shee liveth with her children and family"; Scholenburg also stated that at the time of Daniel Sloyer's death he "did dwell att the time predeposed in the [?Ruynsmarkett] in Hamborowe"

Scholenburg noted that "the said Danyell Sloyer whilest hee lived and untill his death was a merchant of good worth and accompt in Hamborowe and for many yeares before and untill the tyme of his death which was about a yeares since hee was and hath beene commonly knowne and noted to have driven a great trade and to have dealt much into Spayne for Silver and other wares and merchandizes which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent hath seene the said Danyell Sloyer and hath carryed letters and donne businesse for him there And sayeth the said trade was and still is contynudd by the Wydowe Scloyer arlate for and on the behalfe of her selfe and the heyres of her said husband deceassed"

Hermann Kellenbenz identifies the Schloier or Sloyer family in the Holland and Spanish trade ("Die Schloier oder Schloyer betätigen sich in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts als Reeder in der Holland-..."; Kellenbenz identifies two Schloier family members active in 1605, of whom Daniel appeared the stronger ("Von den beiden Schloier, die 1905 als "Junioren" bezeichnet wurden und die damals schon für sich Geschäfte machten, war offenbar Daniel der tatkräftigere, erfolgreiche.."

For research suggestions see: Sloyer/Schloyer family

ffrancis Sloyer [alt. Franz Sloyer; Franciscus Schloyer] - living in Hamburg; merchant; "liveth in Saint Katharine Street in the house where his father Daniell Sloyer dwelt"; part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George with his brother Daniel Sloyer [the younger]

Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others.

"ffrancis Sloyer merchant of Hamborough" was the consignee in the ship the Wheele of ffortune of "one barr No. 75 alloy 2326 weighing ninetie three markes and one ounce marked F."

Also part-owner of the ship the Three Kings, which was allegedly purchased in Middleburgh in Zealand by Joachim [alt. Joochym] Beene, master of the Three Kings, on behalf of Beene and Sloyer

Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in support of the claim of the Lemmermann family for goods in the Black Cock that "there is insurance made of 600: li flemmish by Peter [?Vinck] of 600: li fflemish by frans Sloyer, of 600: li flemmish by Jurian Scothering, and of 800: li flemmish by Lodowick [?fraulus] all merchants and subiects of Hamburgh"

For research suggestions see: Sloyer/Schloyer family

Widow Sloyer - living in Hamburg; widow of Daniel Sloyer [the elder] and mother of Daniel Sloyer [the younger] and Franz Sloyer [TBC]

Abraham Stockman - living in Hamburg; merchant

Born 1596, Hamburg; married twice; died April 24th 1669, Altona; father Samuel Stockman (b. Antwerp) and mother Louis Noe (b. Antwerp); married (1) Dina Jacons, by whom he had five children; married (2) Amarens Siks, by whom he had one child; A secondary source states the Stockman family was "a Mennonite family formerly in the congregation of Hamburg-Altona Germany" and that Abraham Stockman, like his father, was for a number of years a deacon of the Hamburg Mennonite church;

Insurer of the Saint John Evangelist; insurer with John Baptista Juncker, Peter Finx, and Duarte Esteves de Pina of one of the Silver ships [ADD REFERENCE]; freighter and possibly the owner of the ship the Dove, which was seized in spring 1656 en route from Hamburg to London, carrying a cargo of wheat from "Abraham Stockman and company" to Mr Lucas Jacobs

Hendrick Sutfeild - living at Hamburg; one of two owners of the the ship the Peter (Master: Cornelius Yarreckson), which was seized by a private English man of war in October 1652 en route from Hamburg to Normandy with a lading of wool and seacoal; the other owner was Peter Hubrecht, also of Hamburg

Jernonimus Switger [alt. Jerome Switger; Jeronimo Snitquer; Geronimo Snitquer; J. Snutquer; Jeronymus Schnitker; Jeronymus Schnitquer; Hieronymus Schnitker; Schnittker] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador

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. Jonathan Israel identifies Duarte Esteves de Pina as a Hamburg based Sephardic Jew, citing an archival source from 1651 in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Admiralitätskollegium.

John Hey, master of the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill (with a crew of 14 men and boys) stated that his ship was "fraighted upon Charter partie by Jerome Snitcher and Daniel Brandts Merchants and Burghers of Hamborough" for a voyage from Hamburg to Mallega and back in 1653, carrying goods for the two merchants, together with other Hamburg merchants. The owners of the ship were: "John Scrothering Peter van Sprechels Peter Guldenhair, Arent van Haesdonck and the widdow of John Hartmann[?sson] late Master of the said shipp all Hamburghers and Natives of that place"; "Daniel Brandes and Jeronimo Snitger marchants of Hamborough" were consignees of "one barr of silver weighing one hundred fourtie one marjes two ounces" in the ship the Wheele of ffortune; 'Bauhoffs=Bürger': 1649: Jeronymus Schnitger"

Roland Baetens makes reference to a firm or partnership of "Brandes-Snutquer, die als inkoopcommissionair optrad." Baetens also lists the firm "D.Brandes en J.Snutquer" against Danzig. See Schwitger (alt.Snitquer, Snutquer family)

"Borsteher des Pocken=hauses...81 Hieronimus Schnitker den 11. Mai Anno 1658. In Stelle Herr Niclas [?S]ilm, so zu Rathe er[?f]ohren, erwehlet Anno 72."

The eponymous son of the merchant Jeronimus Schnitker was born in 1648, and met an untimely end, executed by the City of Hamburg.

Peter Tam - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the ship the Goulden Sunn of Hamburg in 1653; Gaspar Tam stated that "Peter Tam hath lived in the [?Skeers] brooke in Hamborough with his family for ten yeares last and upwards" and for the same time Gaspar Tam's "settled abode", being a batchelor "hath bin in his ffathers house in the same street or place in Hamborough"; Henry Greeve stated that "Peter Tam for all the time of this deponents knowledge of him as aforesaid hath kept his house and family upon the Skipp [?BXXXX] bridge at Hamburgh"; Michael van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starre and Hamburg resident, stated in November 1653 "Peter Tam was and is by common report a Hamburger borne, and hath lived at Hamburgh for about 20. yeares of this deponents knowledge"; Peter Tam had money in the Salvador and made a claim for this; Henry Greeve stated in October 1653 that "for about 11 yeares last past this deponent hath well knowne the arlate Peter Tamm a citizen and inhabitant of and in Hamborough and a subject of that free state, and saith that the said producent is commonly and generally accompted a native of that citie, Which hee deposeth having lived and belonged to Hamborough for about 12. yeares last past"

Gaspar Tam (as reported by Michael Van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starr) was the cousin of and purser to Peter Tam. According to Van Lubkin gaspar [alt. Jaspar] Tam sold part of a cago of goods at Cadiz which his uncle had brought from Geno. This cargo consisted of "paper and bedsteads and other comodities and that with the proceed thereof hee had procured foure hundred fiftie six peeces of eight
which hee said hee had laden on board and sent away in the shipp the Salvador (Christian Cloppenburgh Master)"

Daniel Brandes appears in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg in an entry dated 1631, recording a loan made by David Brandes as a shipowner to Peter Tamm ["15.02.1631: 1400 Reichstaler, Daniel Brandes als Schiffsreeder des Peter Tamm, rückzahlbar nach 1 Jahr nebst 84 Reichstalern"

Batens (1976) mentiones Peter Tams many times

John Temmincke [alt Temminck] - living in Hamburg; merchant; claimant in May 1653 for goods in the ship the Saint John Baptist (master: Jacob Van Brooke of Hamburg); Jacob Van Brooke, master of the Saint John Baptist, stated in May 1653 that he had known John Temmincke for the last twenty years, and that "John Temminck hath bene and at present is a merchant of good esteeme and quality in Hamborough from whence within these twelve monethes last past of this deponents knowledge hee hath used to trade french commodityes and to that purpose hath his factors or correspondents there resident; Jacob Van Brooke mentioned that Temmincke had correspondents at Bayon and other places in France; John Temmnincke's long term Bayon factor was Nicolas Van Elen, whom Jacob Van Broke believed to be Flandrian born and only a merchant stranger in Bayon

Speculatively, see the Hamburg born individual Adriaen Engelbertsz Temminch (b. 1635, Hamburg; d. 1688, Amsterdam); see also a Dutch record dated 1670 in which th e first party was "Johan Temminck, koopman te Hamburg, en zijn vrouw Elisabeth Wismans", the second party was "Adriaen Temminck Engelbrechts, koopman binnen Amsterdam voor zichzelf en als gemachtigde van zijn broeder Henrick Temminck Engelberts, mede procuratie van zijn zuster en zwager, respectievelijk Engelbert Temminck en zijn vrouw Elisabeth Boots, alsmede van Michel Capijn en zijn vrouw Barnardina Temminck", the third party was "Samuel Lois, koopman te Rotterdam als behuwd vader, tevens als momber over de onmondige kinderen van Coenraet Temminck", the fourth party was "Nicolaes de Gijselaer, koopman te Amsterdam, als oom en testamentaire momber over de onmondige kinderen van wijlen Jacob Temminck en zijn vrouw Cornelia de Gijselaer en Adriaen Temminck Jacobszoon en zijn vrouw Geertruijt van der Hage", the fifth party was "Adriaen Temminck Aernouts en Jan de Vreede en zijn vrouw Barnardina Temminck Aernouts", and the final sixth party was "Cornelia Nicolai, weduwe van wijlen Pieter Temminck als moeder en voogdesse over haar kinderen"

Speculatively, but plausibly see also a Staatsarchiv Hambur record of legal proceedings in the REichskammergericht, dated 1631 and 1645-1653, concerning Hamburg and Bordeaux. The plaintiff was Johann Temminck "Kaufmann und Bürger zu Hamburg, sowie Jacob Rouloffs und Jacques Taquet als Vormünder der Kinder des Engelbert Temminck, Kaufmann in Hamburg (Beklagter)". The defendants were "Johann Lüders, Kaufmann in Lübeck (Kläger) und als Nebenbeklagter der Rat der Stadt Hamburg". The dispute concerned goods in a ship seized by the Bordeaux merchant Magnus Arndes (Arents). The plaintiffs alleged that the goods belonged to their lender ("Schuldner") "Hans Brockes (der Ältere) in Lübeck". The defendants claimed the goods belonged to "Matthäus Rodde, Marcus Tiedemann, Hans Brockes (der Ältere) und Heinrich Spangenberg". The archival records include "Konnossement von 1631 des David Grotefedder, Schiffer aus Lübeck, über eine Partie Roggen und Weizen, die auf seinem Schiff "Jonas" von Lübeck nach Bordeaux transportiert werden sollte; Konnossement von 1631 des Hans Reimers, Schiffer aus Lübeck, über eine Partie Roggen, Draht und Kupfer, die auf seinem Schiff "St. Jacob" von Lübeck nach Bordeaux transportiert werden sollte; "Commissionsbrief" (Frachtbrief) des Hans Brockes (der Ältere) an Magnus Arndes in Bordeaux 1631; Abrechnungen und Briefe der beteiligten Kaufleute, u.a. des Hans Brockes (der Jüngere) in Bordeaux, aus der Zeit 1631-1635 (passim)"

Philip Verpoorten - living at Hamburg; merchant; may have been related to Joachim Verpoorten, a merchant, resident at Amsterdam, who was correspondent to Hamburg born, but San Lucar resident and merchant, John Scrother, and possibly to the Lemmerman family in Hamburg. Philip van Dunhem, Hamburg master of the ship the Saint Mary, identified in November 1653 "Arnold Belties and Philip Verpoorten burghers and merchants of Hamborough" having taken his ship to freight by charter party with the ship owners for a voyage from Hamburg to Archangell in Muscovie to lade Russian leather to be transported to Ligorne"

Peter Vinck - living at Hamburg; merchant; Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in support of the claim of the Lemmermann family for goods in the Black Cock that "there is insurance made of 600: li flemmish by Peter [?Vinck] of 600: li fflemish by frans Sloyer, of 600: li flemmish by Jurian Scothering, and of 800: li flemmish by Lodowick [?fraulus] all merchants and subiects of Hamburgh"

ffrancis Wallich - living at Hamburg; merchant; Hermann Kellenbenz mentions the family "Die Wallich", including a reference to "Franz Wallich" in his study of entrepreneurs in the Portuguese and Spanish trade 1590-1625

Peter Wield - living at Hamburg; part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Leaping Hart; John Menke stated that "the owners of the sayd shipp [the Leaping Hart] were and are all Hamburghers and there videlicet att Hamburgh now dwell and have lived and inhabited for this 26 yeares last past and indeed all their tymes respectively. and their names and inter[?ests] therein were and are as followeth videlicet. Augustin Hendricksonwas and is owner of one eighth part of the sayd shipp the Loeping Hart, Harman Hendrickson of one 16th part. Simon Cornelison Prophet of one 16th part. and Bartall Yonkall was and is owner of one halfe of the sayd shipp and Peter Wield and his brother whose name att present he remembreth not were and are owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp. and saith that the sayd present owners bought their sayd respective parts and shares therein about 7 monethes now past att Hamburgh of and from the foresaid Peter Bruyer and his brother and they and this deponent payd for the whole shipp five thousand markes Lubeckes"

Arnold Woulters [alt. Wolters; Wouters - living at Hamburg; merchant; claimant for silver in the Angell Michael, laded by his factor at San Lucar, which was to be transported from San Lucar to Hamburg for his account; Juan Motte, who despite his name was himself of Hamburg birth though resident in Sevile, stated in December 1653 that "Arnold Woulters was and is an Hamburgher borne and for such commonly accounted this deponent himselfe being a native of the same place And further saith that the sayd Arnold Woulters in the sayd moneth of November 1652 and att the tyme of the lading of the sayd sylver and money respectively as aforesaid and for six yeares before or thereabouts was and is an inhabitant of Hamburgh. and that for about 11 yeares next before he lived in Sevilia in Spayne as a merchant stranger this deponent being his servant and cashier for the greatest part of the sayd 11 yeares. And that the producent for about 6 or 7 yeares last past hath bene and is burgher of Hamburgh, and for all his tyme hath bene and is a subiect of the free State of Hamburgh"

An entry in the CSPD, 1654-55, reads: "11. Order on petition of Arnold Woulters, merchant of Hamburgh, - stating that he having a parcel of silver value 220 1., laden on his account in Spain in the St. Michael, and consigned to him at Hamburg, the ship was taken by a Commonwealth vessel, but discharged in the Admiralty Court as a free vessel, with her lading, the silver excepted; yet that on the petitioner's claiming the silver, the Admiralty Court ordered the Prize Goods' Commissioners to restore it, but they were unable to do so, as it had been coined in the Mint; - that Capt. Hatsell and Mr. Jessop examine how much the silver, originally in pieces of eight, amounts to in money, and report."

Arnold Wolters (sic) appears in a Reichaskammergericht dispute spanning the years 1629 to 1663; the archival metadata state: "Kläger: Ferdinand Feust, Kaufmann in Hamburg (Kläger).- Beklagter: Niclas von der Willigen, Jürgen Lüders und Hans Berenberg als Schiedsleute in den Streit des Klägers mit Arnold Wolters und Gabriel Marselis (der Ältere), Kaufleute in Hamburg (Beklagter) sowie als Nebenbeklagter der Rat der Stadt Hamburg und Jacques Martin(i), Gläubiger des Klägers und französischer Konsul in Hamburg"; the documents relating to the above legal case include "Geschäftsbriefe und Abrechnungen von 1629-1633 des Klägers, Arnold Wolters und Jacques Budier (der Ältere)";

See Reinhard Lohmann, Die Familie Wolters in Hamburg während des 17: Jhs (XXXX, 1969)

Bartall Yonkall [alt. Yonkell] - living at Hamburg; part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Leaping Hart; John Menke stated that "the owners of the sayd shipp [the Leaping Hart] were and are all Hamburghers and there videlicet att Hamburgh now dwell and have lived and inhabited for this 26 yeares last past and indeed all their tymes respectively. and their names and inter[?ests] therein were and are as followeth videlicet. Augustin Hendricksonwas and is owner of one eighth part of the sayd shipp the Loeping Hart, Harman Hendrickson of one 16th part. Simon Cornelison Prophet of one 16th part. and Bartall Yonkall was and is owner of one halfe of the sayd shipp and Peter Wield and his brother whose name att present he remembreth not were and are owners of one eighth part of the sayd shipp. and saith that the sayd present owners bought their sayd respective parts and shares therein about 7 monethes now past att Hamburgh of and from the foresaid Peter Bruyer and his brother and they and this deponent payd for the whole shipp five thousand markes Lubeckes"

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Witnesses and others living in Lübeck

Witnesses

Peter [?Haedt - "of Lubeck"; mariner; stiersman of the ship the Sampson; witness
Hendrick Peel - "of Lubeck"; mariner; boatswaine of the ship the Sampson; witness
Peter Rokes - living at Lubeck, but born in Hamburg; stiersman of the Golden Grape of Danzig; aged orty-three in Nov 1654; "a seafaring person for
32 yeares last past"; "hee is a native of hamborough, and hath lived in and been a Bourgher of Lubeck for about 22. yeares last past"
Thomas Warland - "of Lubeck"; mariner; boatswaine of the ship the Salvador; witness

Others

Antonio Wessell - living at Lubeck; sold the ship the Sampson to Otto George in 1647

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Witnesses and others living in other German speaking areas

Witnesses

Gaspar Cordes - "of Lunenburg"; cook of the ship the Sampson; aged twenty-four in Dec. 1652; witness; first boarded the Sampson in August 1652, when she lay at Cadiz

Heinrick Grouve - living at Vimar in Holsteinland; mariner; steersman of the Salvador of Hamburg; aged thirty; came on board the Salvador at Cadiz; deponent in support of the claimant Conrade Esser, Hamburg merchant, who was formerly at San Lucar in Spain

John Holdewicke - living at Breame [?Bremen]; sailer; aged twenty-two in July 1657; deposed, together with Hendrick Papa, in support of claim for restoration of the Hamburg owned boyer the Dove, which had been seized by the Scots and rescued by the English in spring 1657 en route from Hamburg to London with a cargo of wheat

Jurian Martinson- lving at Flensburg in Holstein; aged thirty-four in Nov 1654; "of fflintzborough in holsteinland"

Abraham Vergensis - living at Danzig; merchant; Hamburg merchant Jacob Wigandi stated in November 1653 in support of a cliam by the Lemmermann family of Hamburg for goods on the ship the Black Cock that "hee hath by correspondency and personally knowne the interrate Abraham Vergensis for about 5 yeares last past, who is a High German and a married man, and hath lived in Dansicke for all that time, and many yeares before, as this deponent hath credibly heard"

Others

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Witnesses and others living in Norway

Witnesses

Erasmus Jacobson - "of ffrederick stat Norway"; sailor; one of the company of the Sampson; witness

Others

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Witnesses and others living in Genoa

Witnesses

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Others

Jacomo Maria - living in Genoa; merchant; correspondent of Vincent van Campen

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

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Witnesses and others living in London and surrounds

Witnesses

Daniell Arthur - living in London, but born in Limerick in Ireland; twenty-five years old in September 1653; merchant; witness in the claim of Dominick Martin of Galloway in Ireland for his silver; London factor of Dominick Martin; was requested by Dominick Marten to seek assurers on the London Exchange for Marten's silver in the Salvador, the Sampson, and the Saint George [CHECK THAT THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY "DANIEL ARCHER]

William Astell - living in Allhallowes Barking, London; surgeon; deponent for the Commonwealth

John Bacon - living in Saint Giles Cripplegate, London; mariner

Thomas Barker – living in Saint Nicholas Lane London; clothworker; born at Essex, but lives in London; deponent; packed goods for James Lordell, merchant of London, to be sent to Spain (such as perpetuanas and Norwich stuffes)

Benjamin Bathurst - living in London; merchant

Simon da Casseres - living at London; merchant; aged forty-five in February 1656; Simon da Casseres stated that "hee well knoweth the producent Manuel Derrickson, and hath soe donne for these twenty yeares last past and upwards this deponent having for the most part of that space lived in Hamborough"; Da casseres he added that "hee this deponent was borne at Madrid in Spaine and hath for the last seven yeares dwelt in Hamberough, till lately that hee came to London, and saving a little space of that time that he was at the Barbada's"

Richard Clarke - living in Allhallowes the Greate; clothworker; aged fifty-four; deponent for the Commonwealth; waiter on the ship the Sampson in the River Thames for the Commissioners for Prize Goods

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; deponent for the Commonwealth

Derrick Hoast - living at Mortlake in Surrey; aged sixty-four years; witness

Abraham Johnson - living in precinct of Saint Catherins near the Tower of London; sailemaker; deponent for the Commonwealth

Roger Kilvert - living in London; merchant

Ezechiel Lampen - living in Saint Andrewes Undershaft, London; merchant; apprentice for the last three years and more to Mr James Stanier of London, merchant, who was a correspondent of Antwerp merchants Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin; aged twenty in May 1654; Ezekiel Lampen deposed in September 1656, aged twenty-two, together with the twenty-five year old merchant Robert Demetrius, in a separate case concerning the ship the Saint Philip, which was to go from Amsterdam to Ireland with a lading of fish for the London merchants "Peter Vandeput, James Stanier, Roger Hatton, and Ralph Lee". Lampen and Demetrius stated they were "servants to Mr James Stanier aforesaid, and writing in his counting house and keeping his bookes and cash have seene his letters of dispatch touching his the order given for his said buying the said shipp, and the answers thereunto from Amsterdam, and the bills of exchange aforesaid"

John Lemkuell [alt. Lemkuele] - living at London; merchant; acted as agent in London for a number of |Hamburg merchants; deposed in the case of the ship the ffortune of Hamburg (Master: David Beck, of Hamburg), freighted by three English merchants in September 1653 to carry wines from Rouen or Sherrant in France to London or Dunkirk

John Marshall - living at Shadwell in Stepney; mariner; aged sixty-five; deponent for the Commonwealth; put on the ship the Sampson by the Commissioners for Prize Goods two months before his deposition

Daniel Mexia - living at London; claimed to be from Portugal, though arguably was related to John Mexia de Herrera", who was a Spaniard; stated in February 1656 that "hee is a native of Portugall, and that for theise seaven yeares last hee hath lived In Brazill, Portugall and Amsterdam saving some smale space that hee was at Hamborowe and hath bin here in London about seaven or eight monethes"

William Pembridge - living in Saint Magnus, London; haberdasher; deponent for the Commonwealth

John Perrin - living at ffeversham in Kent; mariner; aged thirty-two; borne at ffeversham; a tale of woe involving his capture on the ship the Peter, part of a squadron under Captain Jackett, bound for Guinea and the Barbadoes. Coming to Santo Domingo he claims the ship was betrayed to the Spanish by a Portuguese, who was her master, and that he spent four years in detention labouring for the Spaniards. For his labour helping to build the Spanish ship the Nostra Seniora della Rosaria he received one potaccio of tobacco, and took it with him to Cadiz. Unable to afford his passage home to England on an English ship, he claims that he was constrainedto obtain his passage on the Salvador bound for Ostend, only for his ship to be captured by the English and his tobacco seized

Stephen Puckle - living in Eastsmithfield, near London; merchant; deponent for the Commonwealth

James Stanier - living in London; merchant; aged forty-six years/forty-eight; correspondent of Paulus Cobrisse and has known him for twelve years and upwards

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

Others

Daniel Archer - living in London, but born an Irishman; requested that Thomas Martin depose in the case of the Saint Peter, involving the Irish claimant John Bodkin. Thomas Martin had heard that Daniel Archer "hath bene about a yeare and an halfe in England, and was in ffrance about 6 yeares agoe, but when hee came last from thence this Rendent knoweth not

Arnold Beake - living in London; merchant; claimant for silver in the Salvador together with Peter Mathewes and William Moore.

Michael Castaele [alt. Castel; Mr Castell] - living at Saint Olaves Hartstreet London in February 1654; Castell stated that "hee is an English man borne at Canterbury"; merchant; aged sixty-six in February 1654, and aged sixty-eight in July 1655;

Mathew Jansen - living at London; a ffeathermaker; John Smeesters, an Antwerp based claimant for silver, received bills of lading in Antwerp from Cadiz and sent them on to Mathew Jansen, a feather maker in London, to be sent on to the proctor, Mr Smith

James Lordell – living in London; merchant; claimant; traded to Saint Lucar and Cadiz in last two years with factors there; had silver on the the Saint John Evangelist, laded at Cadiz April 19th 1653 [presumably new style]; Thomas Barker, a London clothworker, deposed in support of James Lordell that "he very
well knoweth th aarlate James Lordell and so hath done for theis twelve yeares and upwards for and during all which tyme of the knowledge of this deponent he hath traded and still doth trade to Cadiz and Saint Lucar in Spaine for sylver and other goods, and saith he is an English a (sic) man, a merchant Inhabitant of London"

Paul Marrier - living in Southampton; correspondent of XXX

Peter Mathewes - living in London; merchant; claimant for silver in the Salvador together with Arnold Beake and William Moore.

William Moore - living in London; merchant; claimant for silver in the Salvador together with Peter Mathewes and Arnold Beake.

Mr Richoult - living in London; contacted by Edward Peters from Antwerp to secure restitution of his silver

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Witnesses and others living in Ireland

Witnesses

Nicholas Blaake - living in Galloway, Ireland; merchant; neighbour in Galloway of Dominick Marten

Others

John Bodkin - Living at Galloway; "an Irishman borne and so accounted and in June [1653] last and for many years before and since the sayd tyme was and is an inhabitant of Galloway in Ireland and hath his wife children and family there, and was and is a subiect of this Commonwealth living under the protection thereof and so accounted"; travelled as a merchant, sending a letter in summer 1653 from Nantes to his son ffrancis Bodkin who was at Bilboa; claimant for silver in the Saint Peter; "hath his habitation in Gallaway and there was borne and hath lived from his childhood. and hath his wife and family there and otherwise negatively saving he beleiveth he was att Nantes upon his merchandizing affaires about June last"; Thoms Martin, when deposed in October 1653, stated that he had known John Bodkin since his childhood

William ffagan - living at Corke in Ireland; merchant; claimant for silver in the Saint Peter

John de Witt Jasperson - living at Limerick in Ireland for two last years

Dominick Marten - living in Galloway, Ireland; father of Thomas Marten; claimant for silver in the Sampson and the Saint George Travelled to London in late 1652, prior to news of seizure of the three Silver ships

David Richford - living at Limmerick in Ireland; merchant; claimant for silver in the Saint Peter

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All locations: Owners of the Silver Ships

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All locations: Owners of the Salvador of Hamburg

Gerrit Bowmaster [alt. Garret Boormaster] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others.; Hance Heytman, master of the Sampson of Hamburg [not the same ship as Otto George's Sampson of Lubeck] listed "Garret Booremaster" as the owner of one quarter of that ship, which had been built in Lubeck in 1636 and purchased new by Heytman on behalf of Hamburg owners ("Garret Booremaster, Hendrick Cordes his heires, John Eykehoff, Matthias Heyndrick, Hendrick Heytman, and hee this deponent all Hamburgers and natives and dwellers there all their times have bin and are the true and lawfull owners of the said shipp the Sampson of Hamburgh and of her tackle and furniture, namely the said Garret Booremaster of a fourth and each of the said other persons of an eighth part thereof"

John Martenson Dorp, master of the Saint George, deposed in support of the owners of the Salvador. He stated "that the names birth and habitation of the respective owners of the Salvador he hath formely specifyed. And saith that the sayd Jerome Peterson dwelleth in [?Grimme] street in Hamburg. Dan[?iell] Brandts in the Toll brudgh (sic). Jeremy Sniter (sic) in the Dyck street Jan Baptista Yonker in the Hreen street. Girald Bormaster in the Kaerwedder. Henrick Hambrock in the Saint Katharine street Vincent Clinburgh in the Huckstar. Dirick Roopke in the fforzetting, and Christian Cloppenburgh up in the Sand. all of them in Hamburgh aforesayd"

Title page from 'Wahrhaffte Deduction-Schrift/Worinnen der Ursprung des/von denen beyden Executirten Lordt Jastram und Hieronymus Schnitker...' (Hamburg, 1687). Refers to the eponymous son of Hieronymous Schnitker (b.1648, executed 1687)

Daniell Brandes [alt. Daniel Brandes; Danyell Brands; Danyel Brands; Brandt; Brandts; D. Brandes] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador

Roland Baetens makes reference to a firm or partnership of "Brandes-Snutquer, die als inkoopcommissionair optrad." Baetens also lists the firm "D.Brandes en J.Snutquer" against Danzig.. In a footnote, Baetens makes reference to two letters from D. Brandes, the first dated 18th October 1654 and the second dated 31st January 1655, giving the source as the Antwerp Insolventen Boedelskamer

John Hey, master of the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill (with a crew of 14 men and boys) stated in a deposition in the English High Court of Admiralty that his ship was "fraighted upon Charter partie by Jerome Snitcher and Daniel Brandts Merchants and Burghers of Hamborough" for a voyage from Hamburg to Malaga and back in 1653, carrying goods for the two merchants, together with other Hamburg merchants.

Peter van Dunhem, master and part-owner of the Lubeck built ship the Saint Mary of Hamburg stated in the English High Court of Admiralty that "Daniel Brandts" was owner of a one eighth part in his ship. The complete list of owners was "Henry Selm, Daniel Brandts, Wilkin Wrede, Philip Collin[?s] Derrick Thooneman, Balthazar Pauland ffrans van Bremen Gregorie Harman", together with Peter van Dunhem and his brother-in-law ffrancis [?Meynke]. The ship was returning from a voyage from Archangel to Ligorne and Venice (touching also at Cadiz) when she was seized, having previously come from Lisbon to Hamburg carrying salt and sugar.

In two further cases in the English High Court of Admiralty, "David Brandt" was part-owner of the ship the Saint John Baptist, and "Daniel Brandes and Jeronimo Snitger marchants of Hamborough" were consignees of "one barr of silver weighing one hundred fourtie one marjes two ounces" in the ship the Wheele of ffortune

Finally, the case of the seizure in November 1653 of the Hamburg ship the Saint Michaell also knowne as the Angell Michaell, led to a claim by "Danyell Brands and Jeronimo Snitger for theire silver", which had been laden on the ship. Peter Scholenburgh, mate of the seized ship, deposed in support of the claim. A forty-four year old Hamburg mariner, he stated that "hee hath beene a neere neighbour to the producents Danyell Brand and Jeronimo Snitgar for many yeares And well knoweth for theis twenty yeares past or thereabouts the said producents respectively have driven a constant and usuall trade from Hamborowe to Saint Lucar Cadiz and other Ports and places in Spayne for silver and other merchandizes which hee knoweth for that he this deponent hath bin imployed by them in voyages from Hamborowe to Spayne and from thence hath brought home goods wares and merchandizes and others of this deponents knowledge have brought silver from Spayne to Hamborowe for theire accompt and soe much is generally knowne in Hamborowe amongst such as knowe the producents and each of them"

Vincent Clingeburgh [alt. Klingenbergh; Klingenberg] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; probably the "Vincent Klingenberg" mentioned as active in the Hamburg-Iberian trade in the study by Martin Reissman (1975) of Hamburg merchants in C17th. Reissman identified him as the son of a brewer, born in 1615. 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"), and that Vincent Klingenberg became a director of the Danish Guinea Company in Glückstadt in 1660. See Klingenberg (alt. Kligenbergh; Clingenburgh) family "Vincent [?Clinlenbergh], Cornelius de Hartegh and Christian Laurens" was one of the principal owners of a cargo of wine and oil shipped from Cadiz to Hamburg circa 1662 or early 1653 in the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill

Christian Cloppenburgh - living in Hamburg; master of the Salvador and one sixteenth part-owner of her; aged forty-two in November 1652 ; supervised the building of the Salvador at Hamburgh in 1647 for her current owners, and has been master of the same ship since her building; born in Hamburg, with a father from Hamburg; married man for about fifteen years, with wife and family in Hamburg

Henderick Hambrooke [alt. poss. Hinrich Hambrock] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; possibly the son of Hamburg citizen Jakob Hambrock (der Ältere), who had four sons: Johann, Christian, Jakob und Hinrich Hambrock. Jakob Hambrock (der Ältere) may himself have been the son of Hans Hambrock, a Hamburg merchant.

John Baptista Juncker [alt. Jonckers; Joncker; Yonckher] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador Roland Baetens identifies two letters addressed to J.B.Jonckers in the Antwerpen Insolventen Boeken, from 1646 and 1647 [CHECK SPELLING] See Juncker family There appears to have been a related merchant, Adrian Juncker. "John Baptista Younker" and "Adrian Yonker" were both owners of one eighth parts in the Hamburg ship the Mercury (Master: John [?Detrye]), together with Bartall [?Beakman] (one eighth), Anna da Greave (four eighth parts and a one sixteenth part), and the master of the Mercury (one sixteenth part); Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others. !Adrian Yonckher" shipped 60 fatts of raisings on board the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill from Mallaga to Hamburg in early 1653

Jerom Peterson [alt. Jerome Peterson] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador

Derrick Rourke [alt. Derrick Rubke] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one sixteenth part-owner of the Salvador; named by Otto George, master of the Salvador as "Derrick Rubke"

Jernonimus Switger [alt. Jerome Switger; Jeronimo Snitquer; Geronimo Snitquer; J. Snutquer; Jeronymus Schnitker; Jeronymus Schnitquer; Hieronymus Schnitker] - living in Hamburg; merchant; one eighth part-owner of the Salvador ; 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. Jonathan Israel identifies Duarte Esteves de Pina as a Hamburg based Sephardic Jew, citing an archival source from 1651 in the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Admiralitätskollegium. Roland Baetens makes reference to a firm or partnership of "Brandes-Snutquer, die als inkoopcommissionair optrad." Baetens also lists the firm "D.Brandes en J.Snutquer" against Danzig. See Schwitger (alt.Snitquer, Snutquer family) The eponymous son of the merchant Jeronimus Schnitker was born in 1648, and met an untimely end, executed by the City of Hamburg. John Hey, master of the Hamburg ship the Goulden Mill (with a crew of 14 men and boys) stated that his ship was "fraighted upon Charter partie by Jerome Snitcher and Daniel Brandts Merchants and Burghers of Hamborough" for a voyage from Hamburg to Mallega and back in 1653, carrying goods for the two merchants, together with other Hamburg merchants. The owners of the ship were: "John Scrothering Peter van Sprechels Peter Guldenhair, Arent van Haesdonck and the widdow of John Hartmann[?sson] late Master of the said shipp all Hamburghers and Natives of that place"; "Daniel Brandes and Jeronimo Snitger marchants of Hamborough" were consignees of "one barr of silver weighing one hundred fourtie one marjes two ounces" in the ship the Wheele of ffortune

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Abraham de Bois [alt. Abraham du Bois; Abraham de Boyes] - living in Hamburg; burger and subject of Hamburg; deceased; original part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George 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. Roland Baetens writes in a footnote that "Abraham du Bois was te Hamburg uitgegroeid tot een vermogendste kooplieden". Reinhard Löhmann identifies a link between the du Bois and Wolters families of Hamburg, with Jacoba du Bois, daughter of Abraham du Bois, marrying Liebert Wolters in 1641. 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. A genealogical source is consistent with Reinhard Löhmann, giving the parents of Jakoba du Bois (b.1622, Köln Rhein) as Abraham du Bois and Barbara Boudewein, and giving Jakoba's husband as Liebert Wolters (b.1607, Stade, Niedersachsen, m.1641, Hamburg, d.1664). The same source gives the father of Abraham du Bois as "Louis Bois", of Amsterdam, and his mother as Gertrude Bellevord. Roland Baetens identifies Abraham du Bois as the receipient in Hamburg in 1632 of 60,000 dukaten sent from Venice by the widow of Alvise du Bois' partner [?XXX] Hureau. See Du Bois family

Lawrence de Bois [alt. Louis du Bois; Lovis du Bois; Lewis du Bois] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; "liveth in the [?Nantrem] where his father Abram (sic) de Bois aforesayd dwelt" See Du Bois family Segar Splinter, master of the Hamburg ship the Saint Mary, stated that "Lewis du Bois" and "Abraham Vande Luffell", were citizens and inhabitants of Hamburg, and that he had known them to be such for seven years. They were owners of the Saint Mary, which they laded for their joint account with diverse stuffs, horses and pipestaves, bound from Hamburg to Lisbon, to be delivered to their Lisbon agents or correspondents Peter Hassche and Martin [?Beverbergh] Splinter states that Lewis du Bois is a married man and dwells "in the Nantraen street", whereas Vande Luffell is a bacherlor and swells "in the groote Barker street", both in Hamburg. Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others.

Vincent van Campen - part-owner of two eighths of the Saint George; lives "in Porto de Sivillia in Cadize" See Von Kampen (alt. von Kampe; van Campen; del Campo family and Vincent van Campen (alt. Vincent von Campen; Vicente del Campo)

Decloffe Classoft [alt. Dittelof Classoft; Detliffe Classoft; Detliff Classoff] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; lives "in the Dyck street"

Joachim [?Helt] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George

Mathys Heyndrick [alt. Mathys Hendricx; Matthias Heydenryck] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of the Saint George; Hance Heytman, master of the Sampson of Hamburg [not the same ship as Otto George's Sampson of Lubeck] listed "Matthias Heyndrick" as the owner of one eighth of that ship, which had been built in Lubeck in 1636 and purchased new by Heytman on behalf of Hamburg owners ("Garret Booremaster, Hendrick Cordes his heires, John Eykehoff, Matthias Heyndrick, Hendrick Heytman, and hee this deponent all Hamburgers and natives and dwellers there all their times have bin and are the true and lawfull owners of the said shipp the Sampson of Hamburgh and of her tackle and furniture, namely the said Garret Booremaster of a fourth and each of the said other persons of an eighth part thereof"

John Martins [alt. John Martinsdorp; Jan Martinsdorp] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George; master of the same ship; aged fifty-two; John Martinsdorp was also a part-owner of the Hamburg ship the Fortune (Master: Berent [?Vordunke], together with " Adrian Yonker Dirrick [?Dabbler] and Berent [?Vordunke]"; In giving the ownership of the Fortune, the deponent providing this information, himself the master of the Hamburg ship the Mercury explicitly refers to "Jan Martinsdorp Master of the Saint George one of the 3 Sylver ships"; John Martins stated that "hee was borne at Hamburgh and hath lived there all his time, and hath bin a maried man and kept his wife and familie there about twenty yeares last"

Daniel Sloyer [the elder] - one of the original part-owners of the Saint George of Hamburg, with a one eighth share; deceased See Sloyer/Schloyer family; Daniel Sloyer the elder appears to have died in Hamburg in early 1652, based on the testimony of Peter Scholenburg, the steersman of the ship the Angel Michael. Scholenburg deposed in March 1652 in support of the "clayme of the widdowe and heyres of Danyel Sloyer} deceased for the silver laden for their accompt aboard the shipp the Angell Michael". He stated that "hee well knew the arlate Danyel Sloyer whilest he lived whoe departed this life att Hamborow about twelve moneth since". He went on to say that he "knoweth likewise his wydowe the producent in this cause beinge the respondents neere neighbour in Hamborowe where shee liveth with her children and family"; Scholenburg also stated that at the time of Daniel Sloyer's death he "did dwell att the time predeposed in the [?Ruynsmarkett] in Hamborowe"; Scholenburg noted that "the said Danyell Sloyer whilest hee lived and untill his death was a merchant of good worth and accompt in Hamborowe and for many yeares before and untill the tyme of his death which was about a yeares since hee was and hath beene commonly knowne and noted to have driven a great trade and to have dealt much into Spayne for Silver and other wares and merchandizes which hee knoweth for that hee this deponent hath seene the said Danyell Sloyer and hath carryed letters and donne businesse for him there And sayeth the said trade was and still is contynudd by the Wydowe Scloyer arlate for and on the behalfe of her selfe and the heyres of her said husband deceassed"

Daniel Sloyer [the younger] - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George with his brother ffrancis [alt. Franz] Sloyer; lives "neare to the Torreon in Cadize" See Sloyer/Schloyer family

ffrancis Sloyer - part-owner of one eighth of the Saint George with his brother Daniel Sloyer [the younger]; "liveth in Saint Katharine Street in the house where his father Daniell Sloyer dwelt" See Sloyer/Schloyer family Martin Holst, master of the Lubeck built but Hamburg owned ship the Neptune, listed the Neptune's owners as including "Adrian Juncker" (possibly the brother of John Baptist Jouncker), "Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster", together with "ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes" and others.; "ffrancis Sloyer merchant of Hamborough" was the consignee in the ship the Wheele of ffortune of "one barr No. 75 alloy 2326 weighing ninetie three markes and one ounce marked F."

John Martins [dorp] gave considerable detail of the ownership of the Saint George in his deposition in the English High Court of Admiralty dated January 3rd 1653: "that Daniel Sloyer is owner of an eighth part of the said shipp the Saint George and of her tackle and furniture, Abraham de Boyes of an eighth part, Detliff Classoff of an eighth part Vincent Van Campen of a quarter part, and hee this deponent of an eighth part. And that they were and are all Hamburgers and subiects of that State. And all or the most part of them borne there and having dwelt there as longe as this deponent can well remember namely for fourtie yeares last or thereabouts, saving the said Vincent van Campen who hath lived longe namely about twenty yeares at Cales, but was borne at hamborough aforesaid."

"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 after 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 them severally 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..."

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All locations: Owners of the Sampson of Lübeck

ffrederick Bevia (alt. ffrederick Bevin; Fadrique Bevia; Fadrique Beuven; ffrederico Bevia) - living in Cadiz; native of Spain and always living in Spain according to Otto George; 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 the Saint ffrancis street in Cadize"; Identifed by Maria Guadalupe Carrasco González as "Fadrique Bevia"; Possibly the same man as identified by Jonathan Irvine Israel as "Fadrique Beuven"., and by Beatriz Cárceles de Gea as "Fadrique Bevan"

Vincent van Campen - living in Spain for at least fifteen years prior to November 1652 according to Otto George

Otto George [alt. Ottavio Jorge, used to sign bills of lading at Cadiz] - living at Lubeck; deceased at end 1653 or early 1654; master of the Sampson; born in Lunnenberg; stated in November 1652 that he "liveth at present at Lubeck and hath soe donne for theise nine yeares last and before that two yeares at [?Luckstat] in Danmarke; Recorded as aged thirty-seven at the time of his deposition in November 1652, but as thirty-nine in June 1653, at the time of a second deposition.; Married, with wife and family living in Lubeck.

Gave personal answers on March 29th 1653 to "a certaine pretensed additionall allegation made in the acts of the Courte and admitted against him on the behalfe of the Keepers of the liberty of England". In these answers he refers to "his this respondents answeares preconfessed made to the former allegation made in the acts of Courte the eleaventh of March 1652" and refers to his removal of silver from his ship the Sampson for "ncessary uses", which was done prior to the ommissioners of Dutch Prizes installing waiters on his ship.; Hamburg mariner Joachim Beene stated in November 1654 that "the arlate Otto George in the moneths of November or december in the yeare 1653. last past being sick and diseased did of this deponents certaine knowledge imbarque himselfe in the shipp the Neptune of Hamborough, Martin Holst Master for Hamborough with an intention to goe to Lubeck, wher as this deponent hath since understood, hee not long after did arrive, and after such his arrivall dyed there, and was there buried in the quality of a free burgher and citizen of Lubeck"

Robert Jacomo - native of [?Rijssell] according to Otto George; living in Spain for at least fifteen years prior to November 1652 according to Otto George and Robert Wilmott; Paulus Cobrisse thought Robert Jacomo was borne "att Ryssell in fflanders"

Cornelius Leman [alt. Cornelius Leyman; Cornelis Lemmons] - living in Spain for at least fifteen years prior to November 1652 according to Otto George; native of Antwerp according to Otto George; ?merchant; new part-owner of one eighth share of the Sampson of Lübeck, having acquired the share acquired from the heirs of the deceased Peter Vander Bergh [alt Vanderbeck]; LOrenzo de Veles stated in response to a cross interrogatory that "since the yeare 1647. the interrate Cornelius Leman did buy one eighth part of the sayd shipp, formerly belonging to one Peter Vandeberke[?s]"

Daniell de Leon [alt. Daniel da Lione - 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; however, Otto George, master of the Sampson states he was a native of Hamburg who had lived at least fifteen years 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..."
- "el dicho Daniel de Leon, mercader flamenco, ..."
- "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."
Don Joseph - living in Spain; native of Spain and always living in Spain according to Otto George; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
ffrancisco [?Pennincg?r] [alt. Francisco Panique; ffrancisco Panninck] - living in Spain for at least fifteen years prior to November 1652, but native of Hamburg, according to Otto George; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; Antonio Domínguez Ortiz identified a "Francisco Panique" as being naturalised [CHECK CORRECTLY TRANSLATED] in Spain in 1654, followed in 1656 by "Juan de Bint o Vint". Georges Scelle identifies a "Francisco Panique" as a "créole espagnol" in the context of the Assentio for trading of slaves. There is a record in the Archivo General de Indias within the folder containing Pleitos de la casa de contratacion identifying a Francisco Panique and Gabriel de León as residents of Sevilla in a lawsuit dated 1657 brought by a fellow Sevilla resident Luis Fernández de Luna.; mentioned in Enriqueta Vila Vilar in list of C17th Seville merchants as "1078. PANIQUE, Francisco: 1651, 1654-1656; 1660" A Hans Panninck "Kaufman in Hamburg" is listed against the year 1504 in a German secondary source.. A "Michel Paninck" is described with others as "Hamburger Reedern" in a Danzig archival record dating from 1551 or court case between the FDanziger Rat and an Englishman, in a case concerning non-payment of tolls.

ffrancisco Peralti [alt. ffrancis Peralti] - living in Spain; native of Spain and always living in Spain according to Otto George; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; possibly the same man or related to him is "Joseph Fran[cisco] de Peralta, who is listed by Anne Blondé as one of two Mayordomos in Sevile for 1651 "Joseph Fran[cisco] de Peralta; Gutierres Mahuysse"

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 [Kortrijk] in fflanders, and of this deponents knowledge lived sixteene yeares next before his death in Spaine

John de Windt [alt. John de Vint; Juan de Vint; Jan de Wint; Joan de Vint] - living in Cadiz; living in Spain for at least fifteen years prior to November 1652 according to Otto George; native of "of Cortrijke in fflannders" according to Otto George; 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"; a "Merchant Agent" at Cadiz for the King of Spain; "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". Michael van Lubkin, master of the Morning Starr, descibes John de Windt as a merchant of Cadiz and correspondent to Dominigo Centurione. Van Lubkin states that Dominigo Centurione "who is commonly accompted and reputed an assistenta and one of the Council of the King of Spain" together with John de Windt casued one hundred and thirty bags of Spanish wooll to be laden onto the Morning Starr at Cadiz in January 1653 to be transported to Dunquerke and "there to be delivered to the factor of Jaques Suarez Citizen of Antwerp" Van Lubkin, like Otto George, understood John de Windt to be born a Flandrian, and knew him well in Cadiz, describing him as "a merchant and burgher of Cadiz, and married there"; Identified by Beatriz Cárceles de Gea as "Joan de Vint"

Otto George gave considerable detail of the ownership of the Sampson in his deposition in the English High Court of Admiralty dated November 30th 1652: "his owners were and are all Spaniards and Dutch, and this deponent a Lubecker, namely Vincent Van Campen of Cadiz in Spaine owner of an eighth part, John de Windt of the same owner of an eighth part and ffrederico Bevia of the same of an eighth part Daniel da Lione and ffrancis Peralti of the same ioyntly of an eighth part Robert [?Jacomo] of the same of an eighth part, Cornelis [?Lemans] of the same of an eighth part and hee this deponent of Lubeck of an eighth part, and saith the said Vincent van Campen, daniel Lione, and ffrancis Panninck were and are all natives of Hamborow and John de Windt of Cortrijke in fflannders and this deponent of [?XXXX] in [?Lunenberg] and that hee this deponent liveth at present at Lubeck and hath soe donne for theise nine yeares last and before that two yeares at [?Luckstat] in Danmarke, and further that the said Robert [?Jacomo] was and is a native of [?Rijssell] and Cornelis [?Lemons] of Antwerp, and that the said Vincent van Campen, Daniel Lione, ffrancisco Panninck, John de Windt Robert Jacomo and Cornelis Lemmons have longe lived in Spaine namely every one at least fifteene yeares and the others more and that the said ffrederick Bevia, don Joseph and ffrancisco Peralti were and are Spaniards borne and there dwelling all their times, and that about five yeares since namely in the yeare 1647 this deponent on behalfe of his said owners bought the said shipp at Lubeck of Antonio Wessell a Lubecker, and paid for the same with their moneys, saving one Peter van den Berck was then owner of the part of the said Cornelius Lemmon, who upon the said Peters death bought the said part, and saith the said Peter was alsoe a native of Cortrick and lived longe in Spaine, and died about two yeares since And upon the said buying the said shipp as aforesaid by this deponent the said Antonio Wessell made him a bill of sale thereof to the use of his said owners."

Peter Naedt, the 70 year old steersman of the Sampson, was a Lubecker and had been present at the building of the Sampson. He statedhad been stated that "the shipp the Sampson arlate was built at Lubeck about seaven yeares since, this deponent living and being then there and seeing her on the stocks, which her building was begun in the yeare 1645 and finished in the yeare 1646 or thereabouts, which hee knoweth being master of her upon her said finishing, and saith that Antonio Wesel of Lubeck who caused her to be built not being able to pay for her, presently sold her to the arlate Otto Otto George who bought her for the arlate Vincent Van Campen John de Windt, ffrederick Bevia, daniell da Leon, ffrancis Panninck Don Josephs and ffrancis Peralti, Robert Jacomo, Peter Vanderb[?erck] and himselfe and [?him] for her with their moneys"

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All locations: owners of the Neptune

Martin Holst, the thirty-three year old master of the ship the Neptune was a Hamburg resident. He deposed in October 1653 that he had knowne "the sayd shipp .7. yeares, from the tyme of her first building and saith she was built at Lubeck by the order and direction of this deponent att the Costs of himselfe and other the Owners thereof whose names hereafter follow.

To the .3. hee saith that Albert Bearnes, Adrian Juncker and this Rendent were and are Owners severally of one eighth parte of the sayd shippe And Gryst Boremaster, Grete Burmaster, ffrancis Sloyer, Lewis du Boyes Roches Stubbe were and are Owners severally of one .16.th part of the sayd shipp and Christian Holst was and is Owner of 2 eighth parts and 1 sixteenth part of the sayd shipp, And saith the said Owners were all Natives of Hamburgh and there doe live and have lived all their tymes respectively."

Martin Holst listed the owners of the goods and lading on the ship, saying "the names of so many of them as [?formerly] he remembreth were and are, John and George Scrothering, Jan Baptista [?Youncker] Adrian Jonker, Paul Langerman, Michael [?Engles], Cornelius de [?XXX] Michael [?Hup], [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] da Hartough, and John Jacob [?HEvenar]."

Joachim Schouldt, one of the mariners of the Neptune stated that "in the monethes of March Aprill May June July and August 1653 last past and before and since the arlate Lewis du Boyes, Adrian
Yonker. Gerdt Boremaster, Guis Boremaster, Christian Holst Martin Holst and Company all Inhabitants of Hamburgh were and are lawfull Owners and Proprietors of the sayd shipp the Neptune whereof Martin Holst aforesayd is master and of her tackle and furniture, and so accounted which he knoweth being an inhabitant of Hamburgh and one of the Mariners of the sayd shipps company"

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All locations: owners of the Saint John Baptist

Derrick Heytman, the thirty-nine year old master of the ship the Saint John Baptist was a Hamburg resident. He deposed in November 1653 regarding the owners of his ship, which had been seized en route from Malaga supposedly to Duinquirke. He stated that: "shee was never at hamborough since this deponent hath bin master of her, but being bought at Amsterdam in May last ws two yeares by her [?nowe] owners went thence to Ostend, thence to Cadiz, thence to Malaga, thence to dunquirke, thence in summer last into the downes and received goods from London, and dover and went therewith to Cales and dischardged the same and thence went to Malaga and comming there too soone for the vintage, met with order from his owners to goe to [?Alicant] and take in salt for ballast, which hee did and [?when XX] [?to] Malaga and there received his lading of fruite, woolls, mulasses and some pipes of oile, and saith all the said voyages were upon freights by severall persons and that from Amsterdam to Ostend shee went in ballast and there laded [?peace] goods for severall merchants of fflanders and Brabant, and that this last voyage from Cales to Malaga hee went in his ballast of [?sand]"

Heytman further stated that: "the said shipp being built at Amsterdam about three yeares since and this deponent put master of her from the first building and hath soe continued, and there being at the first some holland owners with hamburgers, and they disagreeing, the hamburgers (her present owners) bought her wholely by themselves in May last was two yeares, and that they live in severall place, and for their names, parts and place of aboad hee sith the same were and are as followeth videlicet G[?e]romus Snitger of hamburgh owner of a 16th part, daniel Brands of the same of a 16th part, Adrian Goldsmith a hamburger living at Antwerp owner of six sixteenth parts, daniel Leon and ffrancis panniq two hamburgers of Sevill each a 32th part. Vincent dal Campo a hamburger living at Cales owner of a sixteenth part, Christofer Bussel a hamburger living at Malaga a 16th part, Maurice halman, George [?Gryp] and company of Malaga all hamburgers an 8th part, Boldwin Coleman of Gant an eighth part; And saith the sauid shipp [?XXXX] cost 13200 gilders. And that the said persons have dwellt severall yeares in the said severall places, only Adrian Goldsmith hath not lived above a yeare and a halfe last or thereabouts at Antwerp, having longe before lived in Spaine"

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All locations: Crew of the Silver Ships

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All locations: Crew of the Salvador of Hamburg

Nicholas van Aspren [alt. Nicholas van Asperen] - living at Hamburg; purser of the Salvador; aged 38 yeares; "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"; described himself in a deposition of XXX as a mariner and "under steersman" of the Salvador; described himself in deposition of Dec. 3rd 1652 as "purser and understiersman" of the Salvador; deponent

Nicholas van [?Esteren] – purser of the Salvadore; “a native of [?ffinmeren in Holsteyn and liveth in Hamburgh”

Christian Cloppenburgh - living in Hamburg; "his howse upp in the Sandtin Hamburgh"; mariner; master of the Salvador; deponent

Carsten Franck - ships carpenter on the Salvadore

Henry Greeve – living at Hamburg; mariner; former steersman on the Salvador, travelling on her to Cadiz

Hendrick Grube [alt. Grusse] - living sometimes at Hamburg and sometimes at Vemar in the Jurisdiction of the Duke of Holsteyn; bachelor; mariner & stiersman of the Salvador; deponent; "owner and proprietor of one of the sayd butts of sack laden for the acccompt of the Mariners of the shipp (i.e. the Salvador) videlicet of the butt of sack marked C.L."

Hance Ramke - formerly a member of the company of the Salvadore; forty year old mariner of Hamburg

Henry Slegar - member of the company of the Salvadore at the time of her seizure; twenty-three year old sailor of Hamburg

Michael [?Sresas] - Quarter Master of the Salvador; of [?Vallenie] in Pomerland; aged twenty-nine; witness

Thomas Warland - "of Lubeck"; mariner; boatswaine of the ship the Salvador; witness

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All locations: Crew of the Saint George of Hamburg

[?Paridom ?Instram] – purser of the Saint George [CHECK LOCATION]

John Lowers - member of the crew of the Saint George; twenty-six year old mariner of Masterland in Norway

John Martinsendorp [alt. John Martenson-Dorp; John Martindorp; John Martins dorp] - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the Saint George; deponent; gave his first deposition on January 3rd 1653

Henrick Vett - formerly a member of the crew of the Saint George. A thirty-six year old mariner of Hamburg. Brother-in-law of John Martindorp, the ship's captain. Witnessed the ships's building at Hamburg in 1642. Appears to have kept the books for the ship for the last 19 months prior to his deposition in the English Admiralty Court in November 1654.

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All locations: Crew of the Sampson of Lübeck

Pedro da Campo [?vieta] - purser of the Sampson; Pasquall Andrada, servant of Don Antonio da Ponte, stated that "the purser of the sayd shipps name was Pedro da Campo, and was as this deponent beleiveth an Hamburger"

Gaspar Cordes - "of Lunenburg"; cook of the ship the Sampson; aged twenty-four in Dec. 1652; witness; first boarded the Sampson in August 1652, when she lay at Cadiz

Jacob Elers - cabin boy on the Sampson; "of [?Barnestey] about foure miles from Hamburg, late Cabbin-boy of the said shipp the Sampson, aged 17 yeares; came on board at Genoa as the stiersman's boy, but at Cadiz was made captain's boy after Otto George's previous cabin boy left

Otto George [alt. Ottavio George] - master of the Sampson of Lubeck

Peter [?Haedt - "of Lubeck"; mariner; stiersman of the ship the Sampson; witness

Peter Huckfelt - living at Hamburg; mariner; purser of the Sampson; purser of the Sampson for about two years, and first came aboard her at Genoa

Erasmus Jacobson - "of ffrederick stat Norway"; sailor; one of the company of the Sampson; aged twenty-six; came on board the ship at Toulon; witness

Joachim Pesler of der [?Meuble] in Prussia, Chirurgeon and late Chirurgeon of the said shipp the Sampson aged 36 yeares; came onboard the ship at Genoa as a passenger, but the existing ship's surgeon leaving, he was hired by Otto George for ten months at a fixed rate; gripes about not being paid

Hendrick Peel - "of Lubeck"; mariner; boatswaine of the ship the Sampson; witness

Unamed carpenter - alleged by Joachim Pesler to have been involved in stealing silver on the Sampson

Unnamed steward - alleged by Joachim Pesler to have been involved in stealing silver on the Sampson

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All locations: Passengers on the Silver Ships

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All locations: Passengers on the Salvador of Hamburg

Manuell Corea [alt. Mannuell Corea] - living in Varinas/Varines; merchant; passenger on the Salvador; aged thirty-four

Thomas Juan [alt. Thomas John] - living in Cadiz; mariner; passenger on the Salvador; aged about 40 yeares; according to Manuel Corea, Thomas Juan was gunner of the ship the Nostra Seignior Del Rosario, in which Juan brought tobacco on his own account, which was subsequently laden into the Salvador; stated he was born at Cadiz and had lived there constantly.

Jan Stuten Pape - passenger on the Salvador [IMG_118_07_2592]

Michael Perry Severino - living at San Lucars in Spain; merchant; passenger on the Salvador; aged twenty-eight

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All locations: Passengers on the Saint George of Hamburg

Juan de Losa Barona - living at Limma in the West Indies; merchant; aged forty; passenger on the Saint George from Cadiz; born in the city of Segovia in Spain; witness

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All locations: Passengers on the Sampson of Lübeck

Roderigo Alonzo – living at Cadiz; merchant; deponent; passenger on the Sampson; "borne att Bexer in Spaine eight leagues from Cadiz and is an Inhabitant of Cadiz"

Lewis ffernandez Angell - living at Caracas in Spanish West Indies; according to [Don] Antonio de Ponte, Lewis ffernandez Angell had been "an Inhabitant of Caracas in the West Indies under the Jurisdiction of the sayd king of [?Spayne] sixteene yeares now past as this deponent hath heard, and for eight last past of this deponents knowledge"; born in Spain; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz on which he had laded thirteen bars of silver; claimant

ffrancis Machado - living in Port Saint Mary near Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz

Antonio da Ponte [alt. Don Antonio de Ponte] - "of Garachicho in the Island of Tenariffa", but appears to have lived in Caracas in the West Indies for eight years where he knew Lewis ffernandez Angell, prior to returning to Cadiz in 1552 in the Saint John Baptist via Havana; merchant; aged twenty-nine in May 1653; witness; passenger from Cadiz in the Sampson; signs his name "Don Antonio deponte guzman y Castilla"

Anthony Rodriques - living at Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz

Anthonio Da La Rosa [alt. Antonio Ala (sic) Rosa] - living in Seville; mariner [CHECK NOT LIVING IN WEST INDIES]; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz

John Baptista Sabino - passenger in the Sampson from Cadiz (according to Manuel Correa [TBC])

Lorenzo de Veles - passenger on the Sampson; merchant of Flanders

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