HCA 13/72 f.143r Annotate
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to make for Virginia first advise and desire
the sayd Moulson to alter the sayd shipps course and steere for the next
Port shee could make to for preservation of the shipp and her Companyes lives
and her ladeing, and told him that unlesse hee did soe, the shipp and her
ladeing and all their lives would be in eminent danger of perishing,
and seeing hims till refuse to doe soe, then threatened him severall tymes
to shutt him up or make him fast in his Cabbin and carrie the shipp
to the next Convenient port they could gett to, whether hee would or
noe, that soe they might preserve their owne lives and the lives of the
passengers and save the sayd shipp and her ladeing if possible, whereupon
the sayd Moulson seeing the eminent danger the shipp was
in and the great desyre her Company had to make for the
next land did upon Christmas day at night
or on the next day in the morning in the sayd yeare
1654 (being the day arlate) cause the helme of the
shipp to bee borne up, soe as to beare the shipp right before the
winde and they the foresayle to bee begunne to be hoysted, and the
same being in hoysteing the winde was soe terrible that it
blew it away although the same were ballanied at both the yard Armes and the sayd shipp as hee hath predeposed came
in January next after to Antego And further to theise articles
hee cannot depose./
To the 16th and 17th articles hee saith hee as not present at the makeing of the
protest arlate, but knoweth that while this deponent stayed at Antego the arlate
Christopher Kennell Esquire the Governour of Antego and one Captaine Jolly
and some others came aboard the Unitie to take a view of her
but what was done therein hee knoweth not for that hee went presently after
their being aboard from Antego to Mevis And therefore cannot further
depose to these articles./
To the 18th saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose to this article
To the 19th hee cannot depose hee being gone from Antego before the passengers
were disposed of/
To the 20th hee saith hee knoweth that the arlate Jacob Moulson did procure
diver passengers servants in Ireland to goe the voyage in
question, and could not chose but bee at charges thereabout, but what those
Charges did amount to hee knoweth not And further to this article hee
cannot depose/
To 21th hee saith that after this deponents departure from Antego hee went
to Mevis and thense to Saint Christophers, and the Boatswaine and his Mate
and the Chirugion of the shipp Unitie being then at Saint Christophers,
there told this deponent, that they and other the rest of the Unities Company
had complayned against the sayd Moulson before the Governour of Antega for
non payment of their wages, and brought a suite against him there for the same,
and that the sayd Moulson was Condemned to pay the same, but did not XXXX
to
Topics
People
Jacob Moulson
REQUIRES A SHORT PARAGRAPH
- A part-owner of the ship the Unitie of London, of which he was master. His freighters on his disasterous voyage were John Jeffreyes and Richard Llewellin, both merchants of London.
Places
Antigua
View of the English Harbour, Antigua, 1818[1]
Map of the Leeward Islands, 1894
ENTRY REQUIRES EXPANSION
- First colonised by Europeans in 1632, when English men established a settlement. In modern geographical terms, the island is part of the Lesser Antilles in the Eastern Caribbean sea, at the southern end of the Leeward Islands. Tobacco was the first crop cultivated on Europeans on Antego, with the cultivation of sugar introduced in the later C17th.[2]
The master of the Unitie, Jacob Moulson, was frustrated in his attempt to get his storm damaged ship repaired on the island of Antego. The absence of materials andskilled tradesmen amongst the inhabitants, meant that he eventually had to abandon his ship for scrap at Antego:
"1. To the 18th hee saith that of his this deponents sight and knowledge the
2. arlate Jacob Moulson was very desyrous after the Unities Comming to Antego
3. to have gotten her there repayred and fitted to proceede on her voyage to
4. Virginia and did e˹n˺quire after and endeavour to gett materialls to
5. repayre her but by reason shee was soe extreamely battered and torne
6. and shaken with the tempestious weather aforesayd and stood in neede of
7. soe many materialls which could not there bee had and procured hee
8. could not gett matterialls to repayer her with and shee was soe ruinous
9. that hee could gett noe workemen there (though hee endeavoured the same) to
10. undertake the repayre of her by reason whereof shee could not proceede
11. nor was fitt to proceede on her voyage to Virginia, neither would the
12. Mariners of her company adventure any more to sea in her
13. as knowing her to bee altogeather unfitt to ˹goe to˺ sea againe and absolutely
14. refused to adventure any more to Sea in her though the Master were for
15. his part willing to have gone with her and her goods and passengers to Virginia
16. if hee could by any meanes possible have effected the same, and soe declared
17. him selfe to bee before this deponent and divers others of the sayd shipps
18. Company and others then at Antego And further to this article hee cannot
Ships
The Unitie
Sources
Primary sources
John Jeffreyes and Richard llewellin
TNA
C 6/157/10 Short title: Borre v Jeffreyes. Plaintiffs: Christian Borre. Defendants: John Jeffreyes, Richard Michelborne, John Pennett, John Currier, John Lilbourne, Henry Goodhew, [unknown] Vandevalde and others. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: two answers, schedule. 1660
C 6/187/65 Short title: Jeffreys v Lodge. Plaintiffs: John Jeffreys. Defendants: John Lodge, Anne Lodge his wife and Charles Herne. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, three answers, five schedules. 1669
C 6/191/66 Short title: Jeffreys v Dee. Plaintiffs: John Jeffreys. Defendants: Rowland Dee, Sir Robert Viner kt, John Morris and Henry Mosse. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer, six schedules. 1668
PROB 11/386/55 Will of John Jeffreys, Merchant Taylor of London of Browmsgrove, Worcestershire. 13 January 1687
PROB 11/393/270 Will of John Jeffreys. 20 November 1688
Secondary sources
Antigua
- Detail of negro houses and sugar works from a 1821 plan of an Antiguan sugar estate[4]
- Plan lists extensive works and buildings: windmill, boiling house, copper hole shed, curing house, rum cellar, stills and worm cisterns, the Magasys house, overseers rooms, sick-house and laying in room, the great house and out offices, mule penn, cattle penn
- Joan Vinceboons, map titled 'De Eylanded en Vastelanded van West Indien', 1639, showing the location of Antego (Antigua) relative to Virginia and Barbados[5]
- Bibliographical information[6]
- Vere Langford Oliver, The History of the Island of Antigua, One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time, vol. 1 (London, 1899)[7]
- Vere Langford Oliver, The History of the Island of Antigua, One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time, vol. 3 (London, 1899)[8]
View of the entrance to the English Harbour, Antigua, 1818[9]
Topics
Mevis (Nevis)
REQUIRES A SHORT PARAGRAPH
Saint Christophers
REQUIRES A SHORT PARAGRAPH
Christopher Kennell, Esquire, Governor of Antego
- A Captain Gregory Butler wrote to Oliver Cromwell from Jamaica in June 1655, describing a journey he had made in 1654 from Barbados to Saint Christophers in the Leeward islands. His letter includes a mention of Antigua's governor:
"Christopher Kennell, some time a captain in England, under the command of the Honourable Major-General Skippon."[10]
Butler and his party stayed one night in Antigua, departing, having proclaimed the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and having written to:
"Capt. Fountaine to come and serve your highness; judging him fit, who formerly was with Captain Cromwell In the Indies, knowing him to be valiant."[11]
This Captain Fountaine is presumably the "Captaine ffountayne" mentioned in the subsequent deposition of Samuell Church, a twenty-six year old mariner from Writtle in Essex, who had sailed in the Unitie. ffountayne, together with a Captain Jolly, and several ships' carpenters inspected the storm damaged Unitie at at the request of the Unitie's master, Jacob Moulson.
"34. To the 17th hee saith that shortly after the arrivall of the sayd
35. shipp Unitie at Antego the sayd shipp was viewed by Captaine J[olley GUTTER]
36. and Captaine ffountayne Masters of shipps then there and by some
37. shipp Carpenters whose names hee remembreath not, and hee well
38. remembreth that hee heard some of them who soe viewed her saye
39. that shee was soe battered and spoiled that shee was not able
40. or fitt to goe to Sea nor to performe her voyage to Virginia
41. And saith hee beleevth the sayd view was made by the procurance
42. of the sayd Moulson and by authority from the Governour of Ante[go GUTTER]
43. but what certificate ˹was˺ made in writing thereupon hee knoweth
44. not, And further hee cannot depose,/"[12]
Butler had formed a positive view of the islands harbours, but noted that the indigenous peoples of neighbouring islands challenged the European inhabitants:
"This island of Antigua is much molested with the indians of Guadaloupe, Dominica, and St. Vincent, which made me unwilling to entertain any of the inhabitants for soldiers, there not being on the island above twelve hundred men. The place hath very good harbours in it; and, of all the islands formerly possessed by the English, is the best, having store of earth to make saltpetre."[13]
Miscellaneous
Additional Sources
_Captaine Joll(e)y
PROB 11/340/215 Will of Richard Jolley or Jolly, Mariner of Wapping, Middlesex. 24 October 1672
PROB 11/400/63 Will of Thomas Jolly or Jolley, Mariner of Shadwell, Middlesex. Date range: 17 June 1690
Contextual: Antigua
TNA
CO 10/3 The "Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Island of Antigua". Presented to the Public Record Office by the Society of Friends, 4 December 1908. 28 October 1666
CO 700/ANTIGUA2 The Island of Antego. By Herman Moll, Geographer, London. 3/4 inch to 1 mile. 1739
PROB 11/207/483 Will of George Thompson of Antigua. 06 April 1649
PROB 11/209/385 Will of Ralph Webster, Gentleman of Island of Antigua, West Indies. 08 October 1649
PROB 11/305/240 Will of Henry Tyllier of Island of Antigua, West Indies. 19 August 1661
PROB 32/35/24 Holden, John, Stepney, Middx., d. at Antego Inventory. 27 October 1693
Contextual: Nevis
TNA
CO 185/1 Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies: Colonial Office and Predecessors: Nevis Acts. Acts. MS. 01 January 1664 - 31 December 1735
PROB 11/201/454 Will of Daniell Smyth or Smith, Merchant of Nevis, West Indies. 16 August 1647
PROB 11/214/424 Will of Belthazar Sevat or Sevatt, Planter of Island of Nevis. 23 November 1650
PROB 11/235/205 Will of John Scott, Gentleman of Island of Nevis, West Indies. 14 April 1654
PROB 11/257/316 Will of James Hewett, Planter of Island of Nevis. 24 July 1656
PROB 11/281/654 Will of William Burley, Planter of Nevis, West Indies. 16 July 1658
PROB 11/318/448 Will of Thomas Ayson, Merchant of Island of Nevis, West Indies. 11 November 1665
Contextual: Saint Christophers
John Jeffreyes and Richard llewellin
- "John Jeffreys, Esq; of an ancient Family in the County of Brecknock, and in the Parish of Llywel, Merchant of London, deceased Nov. 5. 1688."[14]
- "218 Petition of John Jeffreyes, Esq., to the Committee for Trade and Plantations, [N.D.] Sir William Berkeley seized 20 pipes of wine for the King's service, belonging to petitioner..."[15]
- "..on 7 November, 1694, letters of administration on the English estate of Mary Townsend, widow "late of Newton [Bromswold], alias Higham Ferrers, co. Northampton, but at Virginia deceased," were granted to Geoffrey Jeffreys esq., and John Jeffreys, esq., her "principall creditors... (it was significant) "that Geoffrey Jeffrys should have acted as one of her administrators. For this is the same Mr. "Jeffreyes" who three yeares later, in 1697, acquired the remaining moiety of the manor of Newton Bromswold from Francis Dade and Capt. John Washington, and their respective wives...He and his family, all of whom were eminent London merchants, had long been associated with the affairs of Col. Robert Townsend's half-brother, Col. Cadwaller Jones. In 1690, indeed, part of Col. Cadwaller Jones' plantation in Stafford County was actually occupied by a tenant of "Jeffrie Jeffries and John Jeffries, the heirs and executors of John Jeffries, late of London, Esq., deceased. It should be added that the above-named Virginia holding, as well as the moiety of Newton Bromswold, were apparently vested in Geoffrey Jeffreys at the time of his death in 1709."[16]
