HCA 13/72 f.25r Annotate - Revision history

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 Spanish Commissions, and soe to goe thense to the Coast of Guiney
 to take what English shipps they could meet withall, and to his remembrance
-it was then said that one of the owners of the said shipps ˹lived in˺
+it was then said that one of the owners of the said shipps lived in Zealand
 And otherwise hee cannot depose,/

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 |First transcriber=Colin Greenstreet
+|First transcribed=2013/02/27
-|Editorial history=Created 26/04/13, by CSG
+|Editorial history=Edited on 27/04/2013 and on 15/09/2013 by Colin Greenstreet
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 |Transcription=dutch seamen (whose language hee well understand having lived tenn
 yeeres in that citie) and in discourse about Ivory, which this deponent
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 John fenner &#91;SIGNATURE, RH SIDE&#93;
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+&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;&#42;
 The second of May 1657.
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 ''li'' sterling assured upon her, And by the said lettere which this deponent
 nowe showeth and is readie againe to produce is to be seene. ffurther
-that on the eleaventh of ffebruary last hee received another lettere from the
+that on the eleaventh of ffebruary last hee received another letter from the
 said Constant Silvester dated at the Barbadas the 22th of december
 last whereby hee adviseth this deponent in theise words (touching the said
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 They have taken three other shipps alsoe, whereof the Commander
 came home in this shipp. Speake with them about the whole business-
 |People=<u>Henry Colleton</u>
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 <u>Peter Silvester</u>
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 PRO 30/24/48/90 Sir Peter Colleton from Barbados to John Locke, at Little Exeter House, Strand. "I had projects of taking Carolina in our way, and visiting of you there." 1673 May 28
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 hearing a flying report there are two or three dutch men upon the coast
 that have Spanish Commissions, I would have you if possible to get
-li sterling assured upon her, And by the said lettere which this deponent
+''li'' sterling assured upon her, And by the said lettere which this deponent
 nowe showeth and is readie againe to produce is to be seene. ffurther
 that on the eleaventh of ffebruary last hee received another lettere from the

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	['''1656'''] 20 March. Mary Fenn, relict of Robert Fenn of Wapping, Middleez, mariner deceased, and Thomas Bell of London, merchant, executor of the will of the said Robert Fenn, appoints '''Constant Silvester''' and James Richar..."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987),p.314</ref>		['''1656'''] 20 March. Mary Fenn, relict of Robert Fenn of Wapping, Middleez, mariner deceased, and Thomas Bell of London, merchant, executor of the will of the said Robert Fenn, appoints '''Constant Silvester''' and James Richar..."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987),p.314</ref>
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		+	"['''1656'''] Thursday, the 27th of November, 1656.
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		+	Lawrence's, &c. Nat.
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		+	An Act for Naturalizing William Lawrence, Martha Lawrence, Theodora Lawrence, Stephen Tracy, Nathaniel Tracy, Abraham Stock, John Kirk, Mary Kirk, Richard Bogan, '''Peter Silvester, Constant Silvester''', Gidon Harvey, Jacob Lowrvan Slodt, Theodore Haak and Elizabeth his Wife, and Katherine Genne her Daughter, '''Francis Pardini, and John Pardini''', was this Day read the Third time:
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		+	And the Question being put, That the Name of Francis Pardini, do stand in the Bill;
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		+	It passed in the Negative.
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		+	The Question being put, That the Name of John Pardini do stand in the Bill;
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		+	It passed in the Negative.
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		+	Resolved, That these Words, in the * Line of the Bill; viz. "and Daughter;" be put out.
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		+	And the said Bill, so amended, being put to the Question, passed.
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		+	Ordered, That his Highness' Consent be desired to this Bill."<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24511#s3 'House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 27 November 1656', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 459-460,] viewed 04/12/13</ref>

	['''1658'''] 19 October. Certificate that William Trattle, administrator of William Trattle of Barbados, widower deceased, and uncle and guardian of hi orphan chilren Ann, Ralph, katherine and William Trattle, has appointed as attornie Thomas Wardall, '''Contant Silvester''' an Thomas Baldrick, merchant [of Barbados]. (MC 8)."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987),p.399</ref>		['''1658'''] 19 October. Certificate that William Trattle, administrator of William Trattle of Barbados, widower deceased, and uncle and guardian of hi orphan chilren Ann, Ralph, katherine and William Trattle, has appointed as attornie Thomas Wardall, '''Contant Silvester''' an Thomas Baldrick, merchant [of Barbados]. (MC 8)."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987),p.399</ref>

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 - "'''CONSTANT SILVESTER'''. "The last will and Testament of Constant Silvester, of Shelter Island." I doe giveand bequeth to '''my well beloved brother, Peter Silvester''', and to my nephew, Brinley Silvester, the son of '''my brother, Nathaniel Silvester''', all my lands, houses, and meadows upon Shelter Island, with all the appurtenances. To be thus divided,viz. Peter Silvester is to have the farm which I now dwell upon, with all the buildings, and so with that to make up one halfmy land. And my cousin (nephew) Brinley Silvester to have that farm upon which Jacques the Frenchman is now settling,with all the houses, etc., and so with that to make up one half of my land, upon Shelter Island. And the line between the saidfarms shall be equally distant from each house, as they now stand, and to run straight from the west side fronting towardsSouthold, eastward half a mile, and then to vary so as to make an equal division of all the land. Only respect to be had as toquality as well as quantity. And as for my other land which I have, viz., 6 acres on Block Island, and my interest in reversionupon Robins Island, and one lot of Commonage in Southold, with my movable estate, I give the whole to my 5 sisters,Patience, Elizabeth, Mary, Ann, and Mercy, viz., one quarter to my two married sisters, Patience and Mary, and the otherthree quarters to my three unmarried sisters. My brother Peter Silvester, in consideration of my gift, shall pay yearly to my sister Elizabeth, so long as she lives unmarried the sum of €3. If he refuse to do so, then the land is left to my cousin(nephew) Nathaniel, son of my brother Nathaniel Silvester. Makes his brothers Nathaniel and Peter executors."<ref>[http://longislandgenealogy.com/1665-1707.html 'Long Island Wills and Death Notes, 1665-1707', web resource,] viewed 04/12/13</ref>
-<u>Nathaniel XXX</u>
+<u>Nathaniel Silvester</u>
 "Page 395.--NATHANIEL SILVESTER, Shelter Island. "Whereas I am the true owner of one half of all that Island, whereon I now dwell, formerly called Manhanseck Ahequaskeomack, and now Shelter Island, and one half of the joint stock, negroes, etc., and also one half of another island called Robins island. I hereby bequeath to my wife Grizell Silvester, Francis Brinly, James Floyd, Isaac Arnold, Lewis Morris and Daniel Gould, the said one half of the island. Also the other half or such parts as may be due me from '''my brother Constant Silvester and Thomas Middleton''', by reason of the great disbursements made by me, and by reason of the confiscation of one half the island by the Dutch man of War, and the bill of sale given to me.

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 ['''1667'''] "March 5-8. 1437. Minutes of the Council of Barbadoes. Names of members returned this day to the Assembly : Col. Rich. Bayley, Lt.-Col. Wm. Yeamans, Ralph Fretwell, Capt. John Gibbs, John Holder, Edward Binny, Jas. Walwyn, Rich. Evans, Hump. Hooke, John Davis, Rich. Hawkins, Wm. Bate, Capt. John Turner, John Jennings, '''Constant Silvester''', Henry Odiarne, John Frere, Maj. Nath. Kingsland, Lieut.-Col. Symon Lambert, Maj. Sam. Tydcombe, Henry Sweet, and Henry Walrond, who was chosen Speaker, and Henry Arundell, Clerk."<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76509 W. Noel Sainsbury (editor), 'America and West Indies: March 1667', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 451-459], viewed 04/12/13</ref>
-['''1671'''] "'''Constant Silvester' will, dated April 7, 1671''', is abstracted in ''Barbados Records, Wills and  Administrations, 1639-1680'', ed. Sanders, 324  Silvester has been a confusing figure for historians because of his mixed English and Dutch connections..."<ref>Christian J. Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (New York, 2011), FN.56, p.249</ref>
+['''1671'''] "'''Constant Silvester will, dated April 7, 1671''', is abstracted in ''Barbados Records, Wills and  Administrations, 1639-1680'', ed. Sanders, 324  Silvester has been a confusing figure for historians because of his mixed English and Dutch connections..."<ref>Christian J. Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (New York, 2011), FN.56, p.249</ref>
 - "'''CONSTANT SILVESTER'''. "The last will and Testament of Constant Silvester, of Shelter Island." I doe giveand bequeth to '''my well beloved brother, Peter Silvester''', and to my nephew, Brinley Silvester, the son of '''my brother, Nathaniel Silvester''', all my lands, houses, and meadows upon Shelter Island, with all the appurtenances. To be thus divided,viz. Peter Silvester is to have the farm which I now dwell upon, with all the buildings, and so with that to make up one halfmy land. And my cousin (nephew) Brinley Silvester to have that farm upon which Jacques the Frenchman is now settling,with all the houses, etc., and so with that to make up one half of my land, upon Shelter Island. And the line between the saidfarms shall be equally distant from each house, as they now stand, and to run straight from the west side fronting towardsSouthold, eastward half a mile, and then to vary so as to make an equal division of all the land. Only respect to be had as toquality as well as quantity. And as for my other land which I have, viz., 6 acres on Block Island, and my interest in reversionupon Robins Island, and one lot of Commonage in Southold, with my movable estate, I give the whole to my 5 sisters,Patience, Elizabeth, Mary, Ann, and Mercy, viz., one quarter to my two married sisters, Patience and Mary, and the otherthree quarters to my three unmarried sisters. My brother Peter Silvester, in consideration of my gift, shall pay yearly to my sister Elizabeth, so long as she lives unmarried the sum of €3. If he refuse to do so, then the land is left to my cousin(nephew) Nathaniel, son of my brother Nathaniel Silvester. Makes his brothers Nathaniel and Peter executors."<ref>[http://longislandgenealogy.com/1665-1707.html 'Long Island Wills and Death Notes, 1665-1707', web resource,] viewed 04/12/13</ref>

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	['''1671'''] "Constant Silvester' will, dated April 7, 1671, is abstracted in ''Barbados Records, Wills and Administrations, 1639-1680'', ed. Sanders, 324 Silvester has been a confusing figure for historians because of his mixed English and Dutch connections..."<ref>Christian J. Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (New York, 2011), FN.56, p.249</ref>		['''1671'''] "Constant Silvester' will, dated April 7, 1671, is abstracted in ''Barbados Records, Wills and Administrations, 1639-1680'', ed. Sanders, 324 Silvester has been a confusing figure for historians because of his mixed English and Dutch connections..."<ref>Christian J. Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (New York, 2011), FN.56, p.249</ref>
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		+	- "'''CONSTANT SILVESTER'''. "The last will and Testament of Constant Silvester, of Shelter Island." I doe giveand bequeth to '''my well beloved brother, Peter Silvester''', and to my nephew, Brinley Silvester, the son of '''my brother, Nathaniel Silvester''', all my lands, houses, and meadows upon Shelter Island, with all the appurtenances. To be thus divided,viz. Peter Silvester is to have the farm which I now dwell upon, with all the buildings, and so with that to make up one halfmy land. And my cousin (nephew) Brinley Silvester to have that farm upon which Jacques the Frenchman is now settling,with all the houses, etc., and so with that to make up one half of my land, upon Shelter Island. And the line between the saidfarms shall be equally distant from each house, as they now stand, and to run straight from the west side fronting towardsSouthold, eastward half a mile, and then to vary so as to make an equal division of all the land. Only respect to be had as toquality as well as quantity. And as for my other land which I have, viz., 6 acres on Block Island, and my interest in reversionupon Robins Island, and one lot of Commonage in Southold, with my movable estate, I give the whole to my 5 sisters,Patience, Elizabeth, Mary, Ann, and Mercy, viz., one quarter to my two married sisters, Patience and Mary, and the otherthree quarters to my three unmarried sisters. My brother Peter Silvester, in consideration of my gift, shall pay yearly to my sister Elizabeth, so long as she lives unmarried the sum of €3. If he refuse to do so, then the land is left to my cousin(nephew) Nathaniel, son of my brother Nathaniel Silvester. Makes his brothers Nathaniel and Peter executors."<ref>[http://longislandgenealogy.com/1665-1707.html 'Long Island Wills and Death Notes, 1665-1707', web resource,] viewed 04/12/13</ref>

	<u>Nathaniel XXX</u>		<u>Nathaniel XXX</u>