Silver Ship Witnesses - by Geography

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Spanish witnesses and others living in Spanish West Indies


Witnesses

Roderigo Alonzo - living in Cadiz; merchant
Manuell Corea - living in Varinas/Varines; merchant; passenger on the Salvador
Antonio Estevan de Balderas - living in Limma; borne at Madrid, Spain[1]
John Mexia de Herrera - living in Limma; born at Temblick in the territories of the Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
John de la Barona - living in Limma; merchant; born Segovia in Spain
Thomas Sanchez Durissa - living in Peru; born in Spain

Others

ffrancisco da Cairodye [alt. Coiradye] - living in Vera Cruz in New Spaine for 13 years; "liveth at Saint Austins place in Vera Cruz"[2]; "native of Biskay in Spaine"; "one of the Treasurers of and for the King [of Spain] att Vera Cruz"[3]
Lewis ffernandez Angell - living at Caracas in Spanish West Indies; born in Spain; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz


Spanish witnesses and others living in Spain


Witnesses

Pedro Arangel [alt. Arangevil; Aranqual] - living in Cadiz; lives "his house is in Saint ffrancis Street [Cadiz]; "a Biskayer by birth"[4]
Thomas Sanchez de Vacar [alt. Thomas Sanchez de Vicar] - living in Cadiz; born at Valladolid in Nova Castilia, Spain]; merchant
Anthonio Da La Rosa [alt. Antonio Ala (sic) Rosa] - living in Sevile; mariner [CHECK NOT LIVING IN WEST INDIES]; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
Thomas Juan [alt. Thomas John] - living in Cadiz; mariner; passenger on the Salvador
Francisco Lopez [alt. ffrancisco Lopez] - living in Sevile; merchant, aged 21
ffrancisco Lopez - living in Grenada; merchant
Domingo Padellas [alt, Domingo Padilla} - living in Saint Lucar; merchant
John Baptista Sabino - living in Cadiz; merchant; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
Michael Perry Severino - living in Saint Lucar; merchant
Thomas Swann - living in Cadiz; mariner


John [?Stoten] [?Papa] - living at Saint Lucar; merchant; usually trades in wines; subject of King of Spain; Francisco de Bois knew him to be living there for ?XXX years;[5] "borne in the Towne of [?Nora] within the principality and dominion of [?Leige] and that he is a batchelor"[6]
Don Pedro Seravier - living at Saint Lucar; sold wines at Saint Lucar to John [?Stoten] [?Papa] in the presence of Francisco de Bois[7]
John Ximines - living at?; "an Indian"; sold tobacco at ?Saint Lucar to John [?Stoten] [?Papa] in the presence of Francisco de Bois[8]

Other

Pedro ffrancisco - living in Xeres; merchant
William Jansen - living in Sevill; "by the Port of Sevill"; merchant and factor for Edward Peters in Antwerp[9] [IS HE FLANDRIAN?]
Peter Johnson [alt. Janson; Peter Jansen Clomp] - living at Cadiz; barkman/barkier (carrying goods to ships in Bay of Cadiz)
John Lamotte - living in Cadiz; "in the stret de Juan de los Santos in Cadiz"; merchant; factor for Edward Peters in Antwerp; batchelor[10] [IS HE FLANDRIAN?]
Daniell de Leon - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; secondary sources he was a Flemish merchant resident in Seville as early as 1637, and appears to have been naturalised in Spain
ffrancis Machado - living in Port Saint Mary near Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
[?Trocato] Millenes - living at Cadiz; claimant
fferdinando Numez [alt. Nunez] - living at Sevile; merchant, owner of goods in the Salvador
Anthony Rodriques - living at Cadiz; passenger on the Sampson from Cadiz
Symon ffonseca Pyna [alt. Pina; Symaon da ffonseca Pyna] - living in Madrid; claimant

Canaries

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

Hamburger witnesses and others living at Cadiz


Others

ffrederick Bevia (alt. ffrederick Bevin) - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Sampson [NEED TO CONFIRM HAMBURG SUBJECT AND LIVING AT CADIZ]
John de Windt - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Sampson [NEED TO CONFIRM HAMBURG SUBJECT AND LIVING AT CADIZ]
William Jansen - living in ?; "a Hanburger"[11]
John Roopke, Ropke - ?living in Cadiz; native of Hamburg; merchant stranger at ?Cadiz/Sevill for last six years.[12]
Daniel Sloyer [the younger] - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Salvador of Hamburg
Vincent van Campen (alt. Vincent del Camp) - ?living in Cadiz; part-owner of the Saint George of Hamburg and the Sampson of Lübeck


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


Witnesses

ffrancois du Boys [alt. Francisco de Bois] - living in Cadiz; merchant; deposed on June 9th 1653;[13] "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"[14]
Guillermo Crombeen [alt. William Crombeen] - living in Cadiz; merchant
Diego Maestre - merchant; servant of Flandrian merchant in ?Cadiz/?Sevile, Hjeronimo Brudgmans; "Diego Maestre who laded the moneys interrate [in Cadiz] a fflandrian]"[15] Roland Baetens mentions in a footnote "Diego Maestre ( = de Meester, jij heeft eeem zuster Catherina te Brugge)"[16]
ffrancis de la Sierpe - living at Cadiz; factor of George Bosscaert and James [Puiquett/Pinquett], merchants trading together from Antwerp with Cadiz; factor for George Bosschaert since Bosschaert returned from Cadiz to Antwerp ca. June 1651;[17] "commonly accompted a Dunquirker borne";[18] living in Cadiz for at least seven years[19]

Others

Hjeronimo Brudgmans [alt. Hieronimo Brudgmans; Jeronimo Brudgmans] - living "in Saint Nicholas Street in Sevill";[20] claimant; merchant; factor of his mother Anne Muyntinx, who lived in Antwerp
Jacques Bassiliers - ?living in Cadiz or Sevill; son of Joanna Vanden Bergue[21]
John Lamotte - living in Cadiz; "of Bridges in fflanders"[22]
Gerrard Ryper - living in Cadiz; factor of John Smeesters in Antwerp; "lived for theise 7. yeares last at Cadiz in Spaine"[23]; factor also of John Bollart of Antwerp [IMG_2953]


Witnesses and others living in Flanders and Brabant


Witnesses

Joos Arnoult of Dunkerke - living in Dunkirk; merchant
ffrancisco Boesdonck - living in Antwerp; merchant; servant, cashier and book keeper of Antwerp merchant James [?Puiquet]; had lived with his master for four and a half years when deposed.[24]
George Boschaert [alt. Boscaert; Bosschaert; Boschart]- living in Antwerp; lived in Cadiz until two years before June 1653, when moved to Antwerp;[25]; Adrian Valzolio (cashier of James [?Puiquet] stated that Bossch lived in Cadiz for four years before he returned to Antwerp[26]; merchant; claimant; claimant also for silver in the Morning Star; "dwelleth neere the Exchange in Antwerp"[27] [28]; "a Hamburger by birth" (sic)[29]
Philipp de La [?Surpe] - living in Dunkirk; merchant
Adrian Valzolio - living in Antwerp; merchant; living in George Bosschaert's house in Antwerp as cashier; had been at Cadiz in 1652 "at the time of the said lading being imployed thither from Antwerp by the said Boschaert to looke after his businesse there"[30]; "a Brabanter by birth, borne at Loven, and liveth at Antwerp with Mr Boschaert"[31]
Lorenzo da Veloes - living in Dunkirk; merchant
John Hanschen - living in Antwerp; merchant; servant of Adrian Goldsmith
Anthony Lewis - living in Antwerp; cashier and book keeper of the Antwerp merchant Edward Peters[32]
John Moller [signs as "Juan Moller"] - living in Antwerp; servant and cashier of Antwerp merchant George Bosschaert; born in Hamburg, but now living in Antwerp with George Boschaert[33]; lived in Spaine with George Boschaet when "yonge".[34]
John Vervoort - living in Antwerp; cashier and bookekeeper to John Smeesters/Smesters, merchant[35]

Others

Christian Aelst - living in Antwerp; claimant; working with Hjeronimo Brudgmans, a Flandrian in Cadiz
Andrew Annaka[?ch] [alt. Hamekach; Annarkach] - living in Antwerp; claimant; merchant; Flandrian by birth
Peter Annaka[?ch] [alt. Hamekach; Annarkach] - living in Antwerp; claimant; merchant; Flandrian by birth
Cornelius Basseliers [alt. Basseleirs] - Living in Antwerp; deceased; claimant
John Bollart - living at Antwerp
Ann Brudgmans - living in Antwerp; claimant; daughter and heir of Anne Muyntinx
Margaret Brudgmans - living in Antwerp; claimant; daughter and heir of Anne Muyntinx
Peter de Cock [alt. Peter Cock] - living in Ghent (of which a native); merchant; cousin of London merchant Peter Mathews
[Mr ?Didemans] - living at Ypers or Rysesell[36]
[Gillis/Gilles] de Nemay - living in Antwerp; recipient of bills of lading sent by land from Cadiz by Laurenzo de Veles
Adrian Goldsmith - living in Antwerp; mentioned in case brought by Christopher Boone; merchant
Peter Hustin - living at Cambray[37]
William La Rousseau - living in Antwerp; mentioned in case brought by Christopher Boone; publique notary
Peter [?Lams] - living at Ostend, later at Dunkirk; George Bosschaert and partner "made use of his [Lams] name for the more comodious taking up the said plate by him to be sent to Antwerp, and that in regard of the said Peters dwelling in Ostend where the said shipp [the XXX] was to have arived".[38]; "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[39]
Anne Muytinx/Muitinx - living in Antwerp; claimant; "a native of fflanders an inhabitant of Antwerpe and a subiect of the King of Spaine"[40]; deceased; mother of Hjeronimo Brudgmans (Sevill merchant); traded in her own name between Antwerp and Cadiz, using her son as her Spanish factor
Edward Peters - living at Antwerp; formerly living at Dover; merchant; claimant
James [?Pinquett/Puiquett/Puiquet/Puignet/Pincquett] - living in Antwerp; merchant trading together with fellow Antwerp merchant George Bosschaert; "a married man dwelleth neere the [?Vesten] over against the [?Hartastreete] in Antwerp".[41]
Johanna Vanden Bergue - ?living in Antwerp; claimant; widow of Cornelius Basseliers; Flandrian by birth


Witnesses and others living in Hamburg


Witnesses

Joachim Beene - living in Hamburg; mariner
Christian Cloppenburgh - living in Hamburg; "his howse upp in the Sandtin Hamburgh";[42] mariner; master of the Salvador
Hendrick Grusse - living sometimes at Hamburg and sometimes at Vemar in the Jurisdiction of the Duke of Holsteyn; mariner & stiersman of the Salvador
John Martinsendorp [alt. John Martenson-Dorp; John Martindorp] - living in Hamburg; mariner; master of the Saint George
Hance Ramke [alt. Hans Ramkey] - living in Hamburg; mariner
Henry Slegar - living in Hamburg; mariner
Michael van Lubkin - living in Hamburg; mariner
Henrick Vett - living in Hamburg; mariner; brother-in-law of John Martindorp

Others

Albert Balthazar Beerents - living at Hamburg; insurer of 2,000 li flemmish money on one of the three Silver Ships[43]
Jacob Elers - living at [?Barnestey] about four miles from Hamburg; cabin boy in the Sampson
John Moller - living in Hamburg; shipwright; master shipwright of the Saint George
Daniel Sloyer [the elder] - living in Hamburg; deceased; merchant
Franz Sloyer - ?living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador
Widow Sloyer - living in Hamburg; widow of Daniel Sloyer [the elder] and mother of Daniel Sloyer [the younger] and Franz Sloyer [TBC]
Peter Tam - living in Hamburg; mariner

Daniell Brandes - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[44]
Jernonimus Switger [alt. Jerome Switger] - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador;[45] The Staatarchiv 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.[46]
Jerom Peterson - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[47]
Henderick Hambrooke - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[48]
John Baptista Juncker - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[49]
Vincent Clingeburgh - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[50]
Derrick Rourke - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[51]
Gerrit Bowmaster - living in Hamburg; merchant; part-owner of the Salvador[52]

John de Windt/Vindt - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
ffrederick [?Bevan] - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
Daniell de Leon - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck; secondary sources he was a Flemish merchant resident in Seville as early as 1637, and appears to have been naturalised in Spain
- 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..."[53]
- "el dicho Daniel de Leon, mercader flamenco, ..."[54]
- "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."<re>Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schoone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Letteren, ?Issues 1-2; Issue ?70 (1971), p.44</ref>
ffrancisco [?Pennincg?r] - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
Don Joseph - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
ffrancisco Peralti - location unknown, possibly Hamburg, Lübeck or Spain; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck
[Cornelius Leman] - location unknown, possibly Hamburg or Lübeck; ; ?merchant; new part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck (share acquired from deceased Peter [?XXXX]
Peter [?XXX] - location unknown, possibly Hamburg or Lübeck; deceased; ?merchant; part-owner of the Sampson of Lübeck

Abraham de Bois - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of the Saint George
Decloffe Classoft [alt. Dittelof Classoft] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of the Saint George
Mathys Heyndrick [alt. Mathys Hendricx] - ?living in Hamburger; burger and subject of Hamburg; part-owner of the Saint George


Witnesses and others living in Lübeck


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Witnesses and others living in Genoa


Jacomo Maria - living in Genoa; merchant; correspondent of Vincent Vvan Campen[55]
[?Thomaso] Van Harten - living in Genoa; merchant; correspondent of Vincent Vvan Campen[56]


Witnesses and others living in London


Witnesses

William Astell - living in Allhallowes Barking, London; surgeon
John Bacon - living in Saint Giles Cripplegate, London; mariner
Benjamin Bathurst - living in London; merchant
Robert Demetrius - living in London; merchant
Antonio Fernandez Caravashall/Caravashell - living in London; merchant
John Gover - living in London; merchant; working in London prize Office in Bishopsgate Street
Magdalena Hendricks - living in the Minories, near London; wife of Abraham Johnson
Abraham Johnson - living in precinct of Saint Catherins near the Tower of London; sailemaker
Roger Kilvert - living in London; merchant
William Pembridge - living in Saint Magnus, London; haberdasher
Stephen Puckle - living in Eastsmithfield, near London; merchant
James Stanier - living in London; merchant
ffrancis Thoris - living in London; merchant
Roger Thorpe - living in London; Customs House waiter
William Turner - living in Blackfriars, London; Prize Commission waiter
Giles Vandeputt - living in Saint Martins Orgar, London; merchant
John Wilmott - living in London; merchant

Others

Paul Marrier - living in Southampton; correspondent of XXX[57]
Mr Richoult - living in London; contacted by Edward Peters from Antwerp to secure restitution of his silver

  1. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2910]
  2. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2667]
  3. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2655; 2667]
  4. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2667]
  5. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  6. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1969]
  7. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  8. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  9. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7r
  10. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7r
  11. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.2v
  12. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2655; 2658]
  13. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1968]
  14. ↑ [IMG_117_07_1969]
  15. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2661]
  16. ↑ Roland Baetens, De nazomer van Antwerpens welvaart. De diaspora en het handelhuis De Groote tijdens de eerste helft der 17de eeuw, vol. 1 [TBC] (XXXX, 1976), p.170
  17. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2938]
  18. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.172r Annotate
  19. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2939]
  20. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2663]
  21. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2668]
  22. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.2v
  23. ↑ [[XX IMG_118_07_2022
  24. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2943}
  25. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2938]
  26. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.> IMG_118)07_2948]
  27. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2940]
  28. ↑ For background see online article: Georges Bosschart (1625-1678), Heer van BOOM
  29. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7v}
  30. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2946}
  31. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2949}
  32. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.1r
  33. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2939; 2940]
  34. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2941}
  35. ↑ XX IMG_118_07_3019
  36. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2943}
  37. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2943}
  38. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2939}
  39. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2948}
  40. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2661]
  41. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2940}
  42. ↑ [HCA 13/69 f.? IMG_118_07_2671]
  43. ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 15 f.7v
  44. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  45. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  46. ↑ [XXX]
  47. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  48. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  49. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  50. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  51. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  52. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.735v
  53. ↑ Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Orto y ocaso de Sevilla (Sevilla, 1991), p.179
  54. ↑ José María Oliva Melgar, El monopolio de Indias en el siglo XVII y la economía andaluza, la oportunidad que nunca existió (Huelva, 2004), p.115
  55. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.419v
  56. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.419v
  57. ↑ [XXX IMG_118_07_3021]]

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