Richard Bogan

Richard Bogan

Richard Bogan
Person	Richard Bogan
Title
First name	Richard
Middle name(s)
Last name	Bogan
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Occupation	Merchant
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Training	Not apprentice
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Citizen	Unknown
Literacy	Signature
Has opening text	Richard Bogan
Has signoff text	Richard Bogan
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Language skills	English language
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Res town	London
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Res country	England
Birth year	1618
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First deposition age	40
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/72 f.469v Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Aug 6 1658
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Has infobox completed	Yes
Has synthesis completed	Yes
Has HCA evidence completed	No
Has source comment completed	No
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Type of ship	N/A
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

Richard Bogan (alt. Bogon) (b.ca.1618; d.?1690). Merchant.

Richard Bogan gave his residence in his High Court of Admiralty deposition of 1658 as "London".

He is probably the "Richard Bogan Junior" mentioned in the Court Minutes of the English East India Company on October 9th 1635. Bogan was then in Rouen, from whence he had issued a bill of exchange charged upon the then Governor of the English East India Company. The Company had written to him three weeks earlier on September 25th 1635 in Rouen ("Mr. Bogan's son at Rohan"), desiring him to accept bills of esxchange for coral bought for the Company by Signor Philippo Cotanio at Venice, and to charge the same to be paid in London.

There is a House of Lords journal entry dating from 1640 relating to the naturalisation of Richard, Christopher, Ester and Magdalin Bogan. From the entry it is clear that all four subjects of natualisation are the children of a Richard Bogan, merchant of London. Richard Bogan the son had taken an oath of Supremacy and Allegiance in January 1640. The other son, Christopher Bogan, was living in France and was under the age of eighteen at that time. A certificate was provided to show that the two daughters of "Mr. Richard Bogan, in the Parish of St. Peter's Broad-street, did receive the Communion on Christmas-day last."

Richard Bogan the father is likely to be the "Richard Bogan, merchant of London", whose will was proved on April 26th 1650. A further bill of naturalisation, this time in the House of Commons, is recorded in the House Journal for May 20th 1651. The bill mentions, amongst others, "Richard Bogan, Esther Bogan, now Wife of Josia Ricraft, of London, Merchant, Magdalen Bogan".

Josiah Ricraft (b.?1625; d.1688; fl.1645-1679), the husband of Esther Bogan, was a London merchant and author. In a footnote to a letter from Sir John Robinson and Josiah Ricraft to the keeper of Newgate Prison, dated February 5th 1671, Mary Maples Dunn, Richard S. Dunn (1981) give Ricraft's year of birth as 1625. In the footnote he is described as a "Stepney merchant", who "had been a Prebyterian and Parliamentary propagandist in his youth. At the Restoration he renounced his Prebyterianism; her served as a justice of the peace in Stepney throughout the 1670s." J.T.Peacey (2004) gives Joseph Ricraft's year of death as 1688.

A "Richard Bogon" is listed as a merchant in the London Directory of 1677 in "little St, Hellens".

There is a will for a "Richard Bogan, merchant of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, city of London", proven on September 10th 1690, which is a possible match to the subject of this biography.

It is possible that Richard Bogan (d.ca.1690) was the son of Richard Bogan (d.ca.1650). The will of a young merchant, Phillip Williams, written in Livorno and proved on August 22nd 1650, makes reference to "very loving friend M:r Richard Bogan junior now at Pisa", who was to receive £10.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Richard Bogan, aged forty, merchant of London, deposed on August 6th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation exhibited on behalf of the London merchant Antonio Fernandez Caravajal as part of "A buisinesse of examination of wittnesses on the behalfe of Antonio Fernandez Carvajal of London merchant concerning two hundred twenty two chests of sugar, one hundred and thirteene baggs of shumack and forty rolls of tobacco laden on board the shipp the New England Merchant whereof William Parish was Master at Porto Porto in Portugall and there afterwards seized upon by the officers there and unladen out of her againe".

Comment on sources

Definite primary sources

1650

PROB 11/211/855 Will of Richard Bogan, Merchant of London. 26 April 1650

Notes on will of Richard Bogan, Merchant of London. 26 April 1650

- Written on October 17th 1649
- Wife, Hester Bogan
- House in Broadstreete, London, in occupation of Richard Wakeman
- Mentions the Office of Assurance granted him by the late Charles I, which he bequeaths to his son Richard Bogan
- Identifies daughters Hester and Magdalen who are to receive annuities from the proceeds of the Assurance Office
- Refers to poor kindred in Totnes in Devon, where he was born
- Bequeaths his dwelling house "in Broadstreete London" to his son Richard Bogan
- Bequeaths property in Totnes left him by his father to his son Richard Bogan
- Apointed son Richard Bogan and wife Hester Bogan his executors
- Probate was granted to son Richard Bogan, one of the executors

PROB 11/211/854 Will of Hester Bogan, Widow of London 26 April 1650

Notes on will of Hester Bogan, Widow of London 26 April 1650

- Written on December 16th 1649 "being sick" and the "widdowe relict of Richard Bogan"
- Bequeathed a number of jewels detailed in the will
- Bequeathed lands and revenues due "at Blois in the Realme of ffrannce" to son Richard Bogan
- Bequest to one of the ministers of the French church in London
- Mentions cousin Richard Newland
- Leaves the remainder of her estate to her son Richard Bogan and her daughters Hester and Magdalen Bogan, to be equally paid and divided between them
- Probate was granted to son Richard Bogan, one of the executors,; probate date same as for Richard Bogan, her husband

1690

PROB 11/401/94 Will of Richard Bogan, Merchant of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, City of London. 10 September 1690

Notes on Will of Richard Bogan, Merchant of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, City of London. 10 September 1690

Possible primary sources

Date unclear

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1662

"The Parish Register of Richmond, Surrey; Baptisms.... 1662. May 25 Jan dau. of Richard Bogan esqr."