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Colin Greenstreet +
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[[File:Historia_Insectorum_Generalis_J_Swa … [[File:Historia_Insectorum_Generalis_J_Swammerdam_1669_Mosquito_Wikipedia_200114.jpg, thumbnail, 450, "Mosquito, from Historia Insectorum Generalis, J Swammerdam, 1669")]]
<u>[Simon] Tonison Bleau</u> [Spelling of "Tonison" is unclear]
A Dutch boy, purportedly from Amsterdam. His identity and character were highly disputed amongst deponents in the English Admiralty Court case concerning the ship the ''Hope'' (1659).
A generous interpretation of the data suggests that Simon Tonison Bleau was a seventeen year old Dutch boy, at the time of the Admiralty Court case (early 1659) which dealt with the Dutch built, and Anglo-Dutch owned ship, the ''Hope'', on an illegal trading voyage to the Spanish West Indies.
Tonison Bleau himself claimed to have been duped by a Scotchman in Amsterdam, who took him to a tavern, at the age of twelve, where he allegedly got him drunk and whisked him off to the Spanish West Indies.
A real sob story:
"''somewhat<br />
above five yeeres since, a Scotch man at Amsterdam enquiring for<br />
a house which this deponent knew, got this deponent upon promise of rewarding<br />
him to show it him, which this deponent did, and therein (being a victualling<br />
house) the said Scotchman made much of this deponent and gave him soe<br />
much brandewine, wine and beere that hee made this deponent quite drunck,<br />
and being soe, caused this deponent to be carried aboard a shipp, wherein<br />
hee saith hee was carried first to Tobago neere Barbados, thence this deponent was carried to<br />
Trinidad, and thence to Margarita, thence to Comanagat[XC], and soe<br />
to Comana, where at last hee met with the said shipp ''hope'', and cannot<br />
write or reade''"
[Deposition of Simon To[?m]son Bleau of Amsterdam Sailor, aged seaventeene<br />
yeares, [[HCA 13/73 f.139r Annotate#head-7792b396c165940a2ef3372031f6dbb64b71233e|HCA 13/73 f.139r]2ef3372031f6dbb64b71233e|HCA 13/73 f.139r] +
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<u>Comana</u>
Simon Tonison B … <u>Comana</u>
Simon Tonison Bleau boarded the ''Hope'' at the port of Comana, on what is now the Venezuelan coast.
Click here for [https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=207879955198622961243.0004e7e7581b00aaae19f&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=8.494105,-45.878906&spn=72.872876,114.169922&source=embed Google Interactive Map: Spanish West Indies, 1650s]
[[File:Comana_Hope_Map_210114.PNG|thumbnail|700px|none|English ventures in the Spanish West Indies, late 1650s, mentioned in English Admiralty Court]]
<u>Matansa</u>
Mantansa [alt. Matanza, Matanzas] was one of two towns founded by the Spanish in the C17th on what is now Cuba, the other being Santa Clara.UNIQ345687beb72eeb3b-ref-000019E3-QINU Mantanzas was built on the San Juan river, and lies on the northwestern shore of Cuba, on the Bahia de Matanzas.UNIQ345687beb72eeb3b-ref-000019E6-QINU
<u>West India Company of Zealand</u>
[[File:Het_West_Indisch_Huys_Amsterdam_1655_Wikipedia_200114l.png|thumbnail|450px|none|Het West Indisch Huys Amsterdam, 1655]]
Text of the [http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westind.asp Charter of the Dutch West India Company : 1621]<br />
- Yale Law School: Lillian Goldman Law Library: The Avalon project - Documents in law, history,and diplomacy - Documents in law, history,and diplomacy +
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'''TNA'''
[[Tools: PROB 11/306/348 Will o … '''TNA'''
[[Tools: PROB 11/306/348 Will of Gowen Paynter%2C Merchant of London 26 November 1661|PROB 11/306/348 Will of Gowen Paynter, Merchant of London 26 November 1661]]<br />
- SEE: [http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/5111/40611_310350-00051/780634?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dCanturburyPrerogativeCourt%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26so%3d3%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dms_r_db%26gsfn%3dgowen%26gsln%3dpaynter%26msddy%3d1661%26uidh%3d6i3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults Ancestry Digital Image] [requires membership]
[[Tools: PROB 11/397/549 Will of John Paige of London 30 December 1689|PROB 11/397/549 Will of John Paige of London 30 December 1689]]<br />
- SEE [http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/5111/40611_310603-00073/797461?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dCanturburyPrerogativeCourt%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26so%3d3%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dms_r_db%26gsfn%3djohn%26gsln%3dpaige%26msddy%3d1689%26uidh%3d6i3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults Ancestry Digital Image] [requires membership]<br />
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'''Web resources'''
Web resources recommended by [http://www.history.brookes.ac.uk/staff/prof.asp?ID=592 Dr Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University]:
[http://www.firstpersonwritings.eu/netherlands/netherlands_project.htm First person writings in European context]
[http://www.egodocument.net/egodocument/ Center for the study of Egodocuments and History]
- [http://www.egodocument.net/egodocument/egodocuments-1814.html Inventory of egodocuments up to 1814, pts 1-4]<br />
** [http://www.egodocument.net/archievenlijst-tot1814.html List of Dutch archives and links to these archives]
** [http://www.egodocument.net/pdf/Egodocuments_in_the_Netherlands.pdf Rudolf Dekker, Egodocuments in the Netherlands (PDF)]
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- [http://www.egodocument.net/egodocument/travel-journals.html Travel journals up to 1814, pts 1-4]
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'''Archival material'''
[[File:DWIC_Archives_Location_UNESCO_P3_210114.PNG|thumbnail|500px|none|UNESCO Memory of the World Register: Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) Archives, Sec 3.1, p.3]]
UNESCO Memory of the World Register: '''Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) Archives'''<br />
- Netherlands, Brazil, Ghana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, United Kingdom, United States<br />
- [http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/nomination_forms/Netherlands%20DWIC.pdf PDF viewer: Archival description and location]
[[File:DWIC_Archives_Description_UNESCO_P3_210114.PNG|thumbnail|500px|none|UNESCO Memory of the World Register: Dutch West India Company (Westindische Compagnie) Archives, Sec 3:2 Extract, p.3]]ompagnie) Archives, Sec 3:2 Extract, p.3]] +
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[https://archive.org/stream/mosquitoesnort … [https://archive.org/stream/mosquitoesnorth04knabgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Leland O. Howard, Harrison G. Dyar, Frederick Knab, The mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies, vol. 2, plates (Washington D.C., 1912)]
[http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/enlarge/t0043 Richard Mount and Page, A New and Correct Draught of the Bay of Matanzas. On ye North side of ye Island Cuba, done from a Survey by Robt. Pearson; 12 x 9.5 inches. London (1732)]<br />
- From the the English Pilot, Fourth Book, published by Mount and Page<br />
- Image available from Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., California, USA
[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=564 G.F. Steckley (ed.), The letters of John Paige, London merchant, 1648-58 (London, 1984)]<br />
- BHOL edition(London, 1984)]<br />
- BHOL edition +
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To the 17th hee saith that<br />
Joh … To the 17th hee saith that<br />
John Lopez hath lived here in this City for theise six yeeres last<br />
saving such time as hee hath bin in voyages upon the Account of English<br />
men, which hee knoweth having frequented his Company in this City for that time
To the 18th and 19th hee saith that while the said ship ''hope'' was at<br />
Comana the said voyage the arlate Simon To[?n]son Bleau came on board to<br />
the said Mr Lopez, and desired him for Gods sake to take him
on board the said ship for hee was almost starved, and eaten up<br />
with mosquitoes, and lice, and Promised to doe what hee could; And<br />
the said Mr Lopez seeing him in such a Condition did for pitty<br />
Take him on board, but soone after hee was received on board<br />
hee became a very Lewd, wicked swearing fellowe, and given<br />
much to lying stealing and pilfering and the like, and saith that noe Credit<br />
was or is to be given to him, and further that hee was much given to quarreling<br />
and Put him in minde of his swearing and wickednes, the said<br />
To[?n]ison Bleau oftentimes threaten that hee would be the Death of them that<br />
Corrected him, And saith that after the arrivall of the said ship at<br />
Milford haven, the said Tonison went on shore, and there bought<br />
him a great knife, and meeting this deponent in Milford, he pulled<br />
out his knife, and held it in his hand, and told this deponent in the<br />
Dutch Language (which this deponent well understandeth) that that<br />
knife should be the Death of three of the ships Company<br />
though the next tree was his Gallowes, and about a fortnight<br />
after this deponent Goeing on shore, met with the said Tonison Bleau<br />
who told this deponent that in regard hee could not kill those rougues<br />
(meaning three of the said ships Company) hee would bee<br />
revenged of them in another Kind, for hee would Informe<br />
and sweare that the ship and goods belonged to Spaniards though<br />
the Divell fetched him for it, and doe them all the mischeife<br />
that ever hee could to be revenged of them, or to that effect, And<br />
further hee cannot depose, saving the said Tonison Bleau would<br />
Bragg and say in the voyage that hee had robbed his ffather and mother<br />
of all their monyes, and came away from them, and sold himselfe<br />
to the west India Company of Zealand to goe to the west Indias,/
To the 20th hee saith that, hee verily beleeveth that neither the said<br />
John Lopez nor any of the said ships during the said voyage did Teare Throwe<br />
over board, or make away any papers or writings Concerning<br />
the said ship or voyage, And saith that as the ship the ''hope''<br />
was sailing by the Island of Lundee the said Lopez and<br />
this Deponent and Company Espying two ships and thinking them to be Spanish men<br />
of warr the said Mr Lopez hid the factory of the outwards<br />
and homeward Cargo And further hee cannot depose./.
To the 21th hee saith that the said Mr Lopez giving out at the said Spanish west<br />
Indias that the ship was bound for Spaine, (which hee did meerely to Carry on the<br />
foresaid designe) there were a packet of Letters given him (the said Lopez)<br />
from on board another shpip there riding which were to be sent into Spaine, which the said Lopez durst not refuse to accept<br />
lest hee should thereby bee discovered, and after hee had received them being<br />
loath to throwe them over board left them at Matansa where the sais ship<br />
touched in her course homewards./.
To the 22th hee saith that there were not any weapons or ammunition carried<br />
out in the said ship the said voyage more then for the said ships use, neither did the<br />
said Mr Lopez dispose or barter away any weapons or armes whatsoever in<br />
the said Indyes saving two Pistolls which hee gave, as Presents there, for to Procure<br />
License and Trade there, And further cannot depose./:
(Toe there, And further cannot depose./:
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