Erasmus Bedloo
| Erasmus Bedloo | |
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| Person | Erasmus Bedloo |
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| First name | Erasmus |
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| Last name | Bedloo |
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| Occupation | Merchant |
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| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Erasmus Bedlowe |
| Has signoff text | Erasmus Bedloo |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res town | London |
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| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1632 |
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| First deposition age | 23 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.633r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Nov 3 1655 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
| Ship classification | |
| Type of ship | N/A |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Erasmus Bedloo (alt. Bedlowe) (b. ca. 1632; d. ?>1655). Merchant.
Born in Yorkshire ca. 1632, but lived in Amsterdam, possibly with his father, Isaac Bedlowe, for most of the ten years between 1645 and 1655. ("Hee is an English man, borne in Yorkshire, and hath lived for the most part of theise tenn yeares last in Amsterdam and hath bin in that space somtimes to and againe in England".)[1]
His father was Isaac Bedloo (alt. Bedlowe; Bedlow)
Resided in 1655 in London.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Twenty-three year old Erasmus Bedloo deposed on November 3rd 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.[2] He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Thomas Bourse and others in the cause of "The claime of Thomas Bourse and others for their goods in the Liesde (Cornelius Martisen master)".[3] Thomas Bedloo attested in his evidence to knowing a number of Amsterdam merchants engaged in the Amsterdam to Saint-Malo trade.
In a High Court of Admiralty deposition dated January 1658 William Rushley and Erasmus Bedlowe, described as "both English men, and subiects of this Commonwealth", were stated to be owners of two vessels, the eighteen or twenty ton burthen Mary (Master: Nathaniell Stukely) and the fifty ton burthen Endeavour (Master: John Welch).[4] The two vesseks were fitted out with a commission of marque from the Lord Protector in May 1657 to go into the River of Bremer to take ships and goods belonging to Spain.[5]
