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 PROB 11/348 Dycer 52-105 Will of Lidia Moyer, Widow of Clapham, Surrey 01 June 1675
 PROB 11/373 Drax 52-101 Will of Samuel Moyer of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 03 August 1683

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-Daughters of my said sonne Lawrence Moyer shall be paid unto them severally when they shall respectively attaine their severall and respective ages of Seaventeene yeares or dayes of Marriage ffirst severally happening
+Daughters of my said sonne Lawrence Moyer shall be paid unto them severally when they shall respectively attaine their severall and respective ages of Seaventeene yeares or dayes of Marriage ffirst severally happening  And it is my further will and mind That in case either of my said Grandchildren Martha or Lydia Moyer shall depart this life before the said Age of Seaventeen yeares or day of marriage: That then the part and share of her deceasing shall be and goe unto the survivo:r or them To be paid unto her with her other Legacies And in case of both their deceases before the age of Seaventeen yeares or day of Marriage Then my will and mind is That both their Legacies by me herein before to them given shall be and goe unto their ffather my said sonne Lawrence Moyer And whereas I have ffoure hundred Adventure in the Joynt Stock of the Royal Affrican Company Now I give and bequeath the same and all profitts and dividents that shall be made thereof unto my said sonne Samuell Moyer
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 PROB 11/373 Drax 52-101 Will of Samuel Moyer of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 03 August 1683
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-'''Leigh in Essex & the Moyer family'''
+===Leigh in Essex & the Moyer family===
 In the early seventeenth century a number of important mariner and merchant families lived in Leigh and neighbouring Eastwood, in the county of Essex.  Also living in Leigh was the cleric and author of the ''Pilgrimage'', Samuel Purchas.<ref>Samuel  Purchas, ''Purchase his Pilgrimage or Relations of the world and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered from the Creation to this present'', vol. 1, and ''Hakluytus Poshumus;  or Puchas his Pilgrimes, containing the History of the World in Sea-Voyages, and Land Travels by Englishmen and others'', vols. 2-5 (5 vols, London, 1613-1625)</ref> According to a genealogical study of the Purchas family, the families included "the Moyers, the Salmons, the Goodlads, the Haddocks, the Bonners, the Harrises, the Hares, the Cockes, Richard Hare, and many others..." The study cites Camden as stating that Leigh was “well stocked with lusty seamen” in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.<ref>H.W.King, 'A sketch of the genealogy of the Purchas family', in ''Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society'', vol. 4 (Colchester, 1869), p. 169.  The accompanying footnotes refer to Lawrence Moyer, mariner, whose grandson was Samuel Moyer, and whose family was subsequently connected to the Heathcotes; Robert Salman "a wealthy Merchant and Mariner, afterwards Master of the Trinity House", who died in 1641 and was buried in Leigh; William Goodlad of Leigh "Chief Commander of the Greenland Fleet" for twenty years, who was also Master of the Trinity House, and who died in 1639 and was buried in Leigh. "Ten or twelve of his family [Goodlad], all mariners, were contemporary with Purchas"; Captain Richard Haddock, a Master Mariner, who was a contemporary of Purchas; the maritime family of the Bonners at Leigh in the time of Purchas; Richard Harris of Leigh, an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who was buried at Leigh in 1628; the Hare family of Leigh, several of whom were mariners; Abraham Cocke of Limehouse, who had a disasterous expedition to the River Plate in the reign of Elizabeth; and Richard Chester, Esq., of Leigh, mariner, Elder Brother of the Trinity House, and Master of the Society in 1615, who was buried in 1632 in Leigh (Ibid, p.169)</ref>
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 There was a close relationship between the Moyer family and maritime and merchant activities from the mid-sixteenth century and for the subsequent one hundred and fifty years.  The earliest Moyer mariner reference is in 1550 to a James Moyer, who appears separately in related manorial records described as a "mariner" and a "yeoman."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>   Ninety years later, Lawrence Moyer, brother of our Samuel Moyer, is described as a mariner, the same occupation as his and Samuel’s father, Captain James Moyer.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  Both Lawrence and James commanded major ships.  Lawrence commanded the ''Hercules'' in 1643, a 468 ton, 128 man, 28 gun ship, and James commanded the ''Royal Merchant'' in the late 1620-1636/37 period, a ship which is variously described as of 500 or 600 tons, which he part owned.<ref>''Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts'', vol. 42 (XXXX, 1964), p. 46; John Rowland Powell, ''The navy in the civil war'' (XXXX, 1962), p. 200</ref>  Lawrence Moyer commanded the ''Hercules'' as a parliamentary ship, and in late June 1643 was instrumental in preventing the surrender of the city of Hull to royalist forces by landing the crew of the Hercules in Hull, securing the city and arresting Captain Hotham.<ref>K.J.Allison (ed.), ‘Hull in the 16th and 17th centuries’, in ''History of the County of York  East Riding'', vol. 1: 'The city of Kingston upon Hull' (London, 1969), pp. 90-171, viewed at BHOL, 09/09/10</ref>
-'''Moyer links to Trinity House'''
+===Moyer links to Trinity House===
 Various members of the Moyer family occupied positions in the Trinity House at Deptford Strond: Samuel’s father, James Moyer, was reportedly an Elder Brother, as was Samuel himself.  Lawrence Moyer, Samuel’s brother, appears as one of the four wardens in a secondary source listing restoration Trinity House personnel.<ref>Joseph Cotton, ''Memoir on the origin and incorporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strand'' (London, 1818), p. 177</ref>   In addition the list records George, Duke of Albermarle as the Master, and includes amongst the eight assistants Sir William Batten, and Sir George Oxenden’s two associates Nicholas Hurlestone and [[MRP: Sir William Ryder|Sir William Ryder]].  Nicholas Hurlestone, as it appears from James Moyer senior's will, James Moyer senior's son-in-law, and thus a brother-in-law of Lawrence and samuell Moyer.  The list of restoration Trinity House personnel also includes as assistants Alexander Bence (probably the elder, who was merchant of London linked to Aldeburgh, and who was the father of Aaron Mico’s partner in 1657, Alexander Bence Jun.) and John Steevens, who may, speculatively, have been the captain of the ''Dove'', with whom Nathaniel Temms and William Noke connived an attempted interloping voyage in the early 1650s.  There may have been a request by Charles II in 1662 to eject Lawrence from his position as warden and/or elder, but details and any success are currently unclear.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
-'''Lawrence Moyer [senior]'''
+===Lawrence Moyer [senior]===
 Samuel Moyer’s grandfather was Lawrence Moyer (?XXXX-after 1583, bef. 1597), also reputedly a mariner.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
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 Samuel Moyer’s father was James Moyer [senior] (c. 1585<ref>Cambridge County Archives, Huntingdon: CON 3/5/11/12</ref> -1636/37<ref>PROB 11/176 Lee 1-51 Will of James Moyer, Mariner of Tower Wharf, Middlesex 02 March 1638 </ref>),  a master mariner of considerable prominence.  He was the eldest son of Lawrence Moyer, who had died when James was just twelve years old.<ref>Cambridge County Archives, Huntingdon: CON 3/5/11/12</ref>  He appears on a 1627 list of grants of marque as master of the ''Royal Merchant'', which is described as a ship of 600 tons,<ref>''Calendar of State Papers, Domestic series, of the reign of Charles I'', vol. 3 (London, 1859), p. 302</ref> and in a secondary source reporting a London shipping list of 1629 as being master of a ship of 500 tons (probably the same ship).<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  James Moyer was engaged in the Levant trade and was buried at Smyrna in March 1636/7.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
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 James Moyer [senior] appears to have had a younger brother, Samuel Moyer, also a mariner, to whom James sold “Messuages and 3 crofts or closes called Paperells with apps. in Pritwell” in 1611, when both men were described as of Lee, Essex, "maryner."<ref>Cambridge County Archive, Huntingdon: CON 3/5/11/13</ref>  James Moyer senior’s brother Samuel predeceased him, dying ca. 1618, leaving a son, Robert who was sixteen at his father’s death (our Samuel Moyer’s cousin).<ref>Cambridge County Archives, Huntingdon:  CON 3/5/11/14  </ref>   In 1650 this Robert Moyer sold a very short term lease on the Paperells land in Pritwell, which had come to him via his father.<ref>Cambridge County Archives, Huntingdon: CON 3/5/11/19 19/20</ref>
-'''Samuel Moyer & his brothers'''
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 Samuel Moyer had three brothers, Lawrence, who appears to have been the eldest, William, and James.<ref>PROB 11/373 Drax 52–101 Will of Samuel Moyer of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 03 August 1683 </ref>  James was also a merchant, and predeceased Samuel, dying in 1661.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  According to a secondary report of his tomb at Leigh he died on May 9th in Redriff, aged forty-four.<ref> Charles Raymond Booth Barrett, ''The Trinity house of Deptford Strond'' (XXXX, 1893), p. 145</ref>   Lawrence and William survived Samuel, with Lawrence probably dying ca. 1685.<ref>PROB 11/380 Cann 52–107 Will of Lawrence Moyer of Lowlayton, Essex 30 September 1685 </ref>  A secondary source, reporting his grave inscription at Lee,  records Lawrence as aged seventy-seven at death, putting his year of birth at ca. 1608.<ref>G.G. Harris (ed.), 'Transactions', vol. 2: 1635, in ''Trinity House of Deptford Transactions, 1609-35'', London Record Society 19 (XXXX, 1982), pp. 143-153, viewed at BHOL, 09/09/10</ref>  This would make him roughly two years older than his brother Samuel, who was born ca, 1610, and would make the last two brothers, William and James, the younger brothers.
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 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.  The Seaventh day of Aprill Anno Dmi 1682 And in the ffoure and Thirtieth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God King of England x:r I Samuel Moyer the Elder of the parish of S:t Giles Cripplegate in the County of Midds Esquire being somewhat indisposed in Body But of sound and perfect mind and memory (Almighty God be praised) Doe make and declare my Last will and Testament as followeth
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 NOW I doe declare that the same with what I shall $now
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 now give him and his Three daughters my deare Grandchildren more Than his full proporccon of my estate, And therefore as for my present Adventure of Three Thousand and Two hundred pounds principall money paid into the Joynt Stock of the said East India Company in my owne name I dispose as followeth (That is to say)
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 Daughters of my said sonne Lawrence Moyer shall be paid unto them severally when they shall respectively attaine their severall and respective ages of Seaventeene yeares or dayes of Marriage ffirst severally happening

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 PROB 11/144 Byrde 66-118 Will of Richard Goodlad or Godlad, Mariner of Leigh, Essex 08 December 1624
 PROB 11/182 Coventry 1-53 Will of William Goodlad, Mariner of Leigh, Essex 13 March 1640 ['Chief Commander of the Greenland Fleet' for twenty years, who was also Master of the Trinity House, and who died in 1639 and was buried in Leigh]
-PROB 11/279 Wootton 363-416 Will of Nathaniell Goodlad of Rotherhithe, Surrey 	22 July 1658 [Possibly James Moyer senior's brother-in-law, who was one of the overseers' of James Moyer senior's will]
+PROB 11/279 Wootton 363-416 Will of Nathaniell Goodlad of Rotherhithe, Surrey 22 July 1658 [Possibly James Moyer senior's brother-in-law, who was one of the overseers' of James Moyer senior's will]
 PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of William Goodlad, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 20 June 1676
 PROB 11/388 Foot 90-132 Will of Richard Goodlad, Commander of the good Ship Adventure 22 October 1687
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 PROB 11/399 Dyke 45-90 Will of Richard Goodlad, Merchant Tailor of Saint Dionis Backchurch, City of London 23 June 1690
 PROB 11/417 XXXX Will of Richard Goodlad, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 07 November 1693

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 '''Leigh in Essex & the Moyer family'''
-In the early C17th a number of important mariner and merchant families lived in Leigh and neighbouring Eastwood, in the county of Essex.  Also living in Leigh was the cleric and author of the ''Pilgrimage'', Samuel Purchas.<ref>Samuel  Purchas, ''Purchase his Pilgrimage or Relations of the world and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered from the Creation to this present'', vol. 1, and ''Hakluytus Poshumus;  or Puchas his Pilgrimes, containing the History of the World in Sea-Voyages, and Land Travels by Englishmen and others'', vols. 2-5 (5 vols, London, 1613-1625)</ref> According to a genealogical study of the Purchas family, the families included "the Moyers, the Salmons, the Goodlads, the Haddocks, the Bonners, the Harrises, the Hares, the Cockes, Richard Hare, and many others..." The study cites Camden as stating that Leigh was “well stocked with lusty seamen” in the C16th and C17th.<ref>H.W.King, 'A sketch of the genealogy of the Purchas family', in ''Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society'', vol. 4 (Colchester, 1869), p. 169.  The accompanying footnotes refer to Lawrence Moyer, mariner, whose grandson was Samuel Moyer, and whose family was subsequently connected to the Heathcotes; Robert Salman "a wealthy Merchant and Mariner, afterwards Master of the Trinity House", who died in 1641 and was buried in Leigh; William Goodlad of Leigh "Chief Commander of the Greenland Fleet" for twenty years, who was also Master of the Trinity House, and who died in 1639 and was buried in Leigh. "Ten or twelve of his family [Goodlad], all mariners, were contemporary with Purchas"; Captain Richard Haddock, a Master Mariner, who was a contemporary of Purchas; the maritime family of the Bonners at Leigh in the time of Purchas; Richard Harris of Leigh, an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who was buried at Leigh in 1628; the Hare family of Leigh, several of whom were mariners; Abraham Cocke of Limehouse, who had a disasterous expedition to the River Plate in the reign of Elizabeth; and Richard Chester, Esq., of Leigh, mariner, Elder Brother of the Trinity House, and Master of the Society in 1615, who was buried in 1632 in Leigh (Ibid, p.169)</ref>
+In the early seventeenth century a number of important mariner and merchant families lived in Leigh and neighbouring Eastwood, in the county of Essex.  Also living in Leigh was the cleric and author of the ''Pilgrimage'', Samuel Purchas.<ref>Samuel  Purchas, ''Purchase his Pilgrimage or Relations of the world and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered from the Creation to this present'', vol. 1, and ''Hakluytus Poshumus;  or Puchas his Pilgrimes, containing the History of the World in Sea-Voyages, and Land Travels by Englishmen and others'', vols. 2-5 (5 vols, London, 1613-1625)</ref> According to a genealogical study of the Purchas family, the families included "the Moyers, the Salmons, the Goodlads, the Haddocks, the Bonners, the Harrises, the Hares, the Cockes, Richard Hare, and many others..." The study cites Camden as stating that Leigh was “well stocked with lusty seamen” in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.<ref>H.W.King, 'A sketch of the genealogy of the Purchas family', in ''Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society'', vol. 4 (Colchester, 1869), p. 169.  The accompanying footnotes refer to Lawrence Moyer, mariner, whose grandson was Samuel Moyer, and whose family was subsequently connected to the Heathcotes; Robert Salman "a wealthy Merchant and Mariner, afterwards Master of the Trinity House", who died in 1641 and was buried in Leigh; William Goodlad of Leigh "Chief Commander of the Greenland Fleet" for twenty years, who was also Master of the Trinity House, and who died in 1639 and was buried in Leigh. "Ten or twelve of his family [Goodlad], all mariners, were contemporary with Purchas"; Captain Richard Haddock, a Master Mariner, who was a contemporary of Purchas; the maritime family of the Bonners at Leigh in the time of Purchas; Richard Harris of Leigh, an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who was buried at Leigh in 1628; the Hare family of Leigh, several of whom were mariners; Abraham Cocke of Limehouse, who had a disasterous expedition to the River Plate in the reign of Elizabeth; and Richard Chester, Esq., of Leigh, mariner, Elder Brother of the Trinity House, and Master of the Society in 1615, who was buried in 1632 in Leigh (Ibid, p.169)</ref>
-Lee is on the north shore of the Thames estuary, just to the east of Benfleet and Canvey island, and about 15 miles downstream of Tilbury and Gravesend.  A local website states that Leigh began as a fishing village, but that by the C16th had become a fairly large and prosperous port with a deepwater channel, known as the Leigh Road.<ref>http://www.oldleigh.com/history.html, viewed 10/09/10</ref>  However, the channel silted up in the C18th and the town’s importance decreased.  The same site states that ships of up to 340 tons have been recorded as built at Lee.
+Lee is on the north shore of the Thames estuary, just to the east of Benfleet and Canvey island, and about fifteen miles downstream of Tilbury and Gravesend.  A local website states that Leigh began as a fishing village, but that by the sixteenth century had become a fairly large and prosperous port with a deepwater channel, known as the Leigh Road.<ref>http://www.oldleigh.com/history.html, viewed 10/09/10</ref>  However, the channel silted up in the eighteenth century and the town’s importance decreased.  The same site states that ships of up to 340 tons have been recorded as built at Lee.
 Manorial records collected by the Heathcote family, who were descendants of Samuel Moyer, and which are now in the Cambridge County archives, Huntingdon, enable the family structure, land holdings, titles and occupations of the Moyer family to be reconstructed surprisingly well.  They show that the Moyer family was in the Leigh area, on the Thames estuary, at least from the 1545, and that they held small amounts of land in several manors in the area as well as being mariners.<ref>Cambridge County Archives, CON 3/5/11  [n.d.]: XXXX: referring to “Laurence Magott & John Mower, quer.” conceeding to another party “3 messuages, 3 gardens, 9a. land & 4a. pasture with apps. in Pryttelwell & Legh.”  DATE?</ref>  The manors they appear in from the mid-C16th are the manors of Prittlewell<ref>Prittlewell is XXX miles from Leigh, now part of Southend</ref> and Mylton Hall.  In the 1650s Samuel Moyer himself appears as lord of the manor of Hawkesbury and also of Pittsea, both in the same area of Essex.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>