Notes on HCA 13/67 depositions

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The claime of Adrian Goldsmith and company for the shipp the Morning Starr Henry Lawreson Veger Master

• Owners of the ship were Adrian Goldsmith (1/2); Giles Billet ("in right of Vincent Clingenbergh of Hamborough), and Phillip da Papa of the rest; Henry Lawreson Veger Master (of Ostend) (1/16)
• NOTE: Philip da Papa may well be "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"
• Henry Lawreson Veger described Adrian Goldsmith as a "merchant of Antwerp", saying he dwelled there with his wife and family for the last two years; Veger described Gilles Billet as an inhabitant at Gant for the last 20 months, and that "Phillip da Papa dwelt formerly at Dunquirke but hath lived at Ostend ever since the ffrench tooke Dunquirke which was about 6 yeares since". Phillip a Papa had rnow returned to Dunkirk since its recapture by the Spanish.
• July 1652 owners of the Morning Starr set out and imployed her from Ostend for Mallega, "and to touch by the way at Biscay a porte of Spaine thereabouts to put men ashore that were transported from fflanders for the service of the Kinge of Spaine"
• Took in a lading of wine and fruite at Mallega and returned for Ostend in Flanders
• Seized by the English in her course for Ostend

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• Veger was born in North Holland, but had come to dwell in Ostend about a year ago; "Adrian Goldsmith is commonly accompted a native of Hamburgh, and the said da Papa and Billet of fflanders"
• Morninfg Starr was Hollands built and bought from Zealanders at Middleburgh two years earlier (May 1651), Adrian Goldsmith handling the payment for the ship
• Veger took possession of the ship after purchase, which was then lying at Amsterdam

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• Andreas Massa and Charles [?Van damma], Mallaga merchants, were Adrian Goldsmith's factors there,"and doe live in Mallaga in the same house where the said Adrian for many yeares lived, and which hee (as this deponent hath heard) gave over unto them"
• Veger described the loading of the ship at Mallaga by Goldsmoth's factors and said "there was then newes at Mallega of eigt or tenn ffrench shipps comming from deep in ffrance, in which regard the said factors at Mallega tooke the bills of lading for the same as to be delivered unto Daniel Brands and Jeronimo Snitger marchants of Hamborough for the preservation tereof from the ffrench as they declared"
• "the said Adrian Goldsmith was and is a marchant of Antwerp and borne at hamborowe"

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• Veger had known Andreas Massa and Charles Vandamma for a yeare last "and saith the said Massa is a hamburger and Charles Vandamma an Antwerpian by birth, and that the said Massa is a widower and the said Vandamma (as hee beleveth) a batchellour"

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The claime of Adrian Goldsmith Walter Boschaert of Antwerp, and others of Lisle and Gant for goods in the Morning Starr

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The clayme of Vincent Klingenbergh mrchant of hamborough for his goods in the Morning Starr

• Veger stated "he hath knowne the sayd Vincent Klingenbergh for these fower yeares last past during which tyme hee hath bin and still is a married man and hath kept his wife and family and lived himselfe in Hamborough arlate"

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John Penryn, a Faversham mariner, who had been held prisoner by the Spanish deposed that "he hath knowne the interrate Manuell Corea for theis three yeares lastpast or thereabouts within which tiyme this rendent sayeth That hee hath bene att the said producents house att Barinas in the West India where he hath a wife and family and a greate many Negroes which are his Slaves and worke in his Plantation of Tobacchoe"

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• Penryn added "the Tobachoe predisposed was of the foresaid Manuell Correa his owne Plantation which he caused to be sent by Land from Varinas to Marachado and there to be laden and sent for Cadiz"

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• Thomas Juan stated "hee was present at Marachaio afforesaid and sawe the said Tobaccho laden aboard the said shipp the Nostra Seignora del Rosario afforesaid ny the said producent [Mauel Correa] himselfe"