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This file is devoted to presenting basic Shipping Timeline information in a global perspective for website readers. The items are often sketchy, and some have been extracted from other websites managed by Dan Byrnes. Where possible, ships will have their date-of-departure noted as the compilers believe that a ship's departure date gives some indications of the business plan of the owners, whatever the outcome of the voyage. These Timelines will be added-to intermittently, as new data and new e-mail arrives. Book titles will be entered according to the timeframes they treat.
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Contract, convict transportation, Darby Lux (died 1795). Convict contractor, based in America, convict trade interrupted by 1775-1776.
1720s and later, Governor South Sea Co, John Bristow (1701-1768).
Contract, convict transportation, Darby Lux (died 1795). Convict contractor, based in America, convict trade interrupted by 1775-1776. (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
1720s and later, Governor South Sea Co, John Bristow (1701-1768). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
1720s: Contractor, supplies to Africa Co.'s naval stations, Henry Lascelles (1690-1753). Partner with George Maxwell in the 1740s.
1727: Zeewijk, Dutch, Jan Steyns, Shipwreck. With Sloepie.
1730s if not 1720s, Contractor, beers to military, Ambrose Page (died 1743). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
Contractor, military and government finances to Holland, Germany, Austria and Piedmont. John Gore, (1689-1773). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
1737: Convict contract to America, James Forward (active by 1737) and Jonathan Forward (1680-1760 died in Carolina). Later, Jonathan Forward Sydenham. (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
1730s: Contractor, military, Mason of Mason and Simpson of Jamaica. (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
1730s: Unspecified, Alexander Hume Chief factor EICo at Canton, born Goose Creek, South Carolina, married Anne Schroeder of Clay Hill Enfield. (Hume a son of Hannah Curtis (nil parents) of Mile End London who married Robert Home/Hume (1660-1732).
1743: Contractor brewer, South Sea Company figure, Ambrose Page died 1743. (A name difficult to research)
Date unspecified: Slaver re West Indies, Samuel Tuchet, married to Dorothy Hallows. (A name difficult to research)
1640s, Contractor, naval shipping and in 1680s, similar, Christopher Pett (nd). Also Peter Pett (1610-1672) a Commr Navy. See also shipbuilder Phineas Pett active 1654. Phineas Noah Pett (1570-1647). Later was a naval shipping contractor at Bombay, Warwick Pett (who is hard to trace). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
London alderman Edward Backwell (active 1668), loan agent, bullion merchant, downed by Chas II.
Contractor, Royal financier, Lord Mayor London, Robert Ducie (1575-1634). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
Contractor finance and loans to Charles II, Sir Bart1 John Jacob (1597-1666). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
Contractor, financial services, bullion merchant, remitting to creditors abroad, alderman Edward Backwell, (1668 active) goldsmith. Ruined in 1672 when Chas II closed the Exchqr. (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to goverment)
Below are items still uncollected
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