Category Archives: COLONIAL TRADE

Selected Excerpts from Latimer’s History of the Merchant Venturers Guild of Bristol, U. K., Part 1

Posted on April 21, 2015 by vikingsandvirginians

Over eleven decades ago, an important history of the Merchant Venturers Guild of Bristol, U. K., was published in England. I will be excerpting relevant passages that I believe will prove useful in developing insights into the ancestsral family history … Continue reading →

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Ancestral Families and the Colonial Trade (1648-1670)

Posted on September 28, 2013 by vikingsandvirginians

1651 From the periodical Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: 1321. TOBACCO GROWING IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The announcement recently made by the Government of their intention to permit domestic experiments to be made in tobacco culture may render the following facts interesting to Gloucestershire agriculturists. Tobacco … Continue reading →

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Ancestral Families and the Colonial Trade (1638-1647)

Posted on August 23, 2013 by vikingsandvirginians

1638 William Saunders, 12 September 1638, licenses to sell tobacco in Ingworth & Feering, Essex. Merchant charged 70 shillings. Feering is a village in Essex, England. Situated between Colchester and Witham, Feering has close ties with its geographically conjoined neighbour, Kelvedon. Ingworth is a village and a civil … Continue reading →

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Ancestral Families and the Colonial Trade (1633-1637)

Posted on August 18, 2013 by vikingsandvirginians

1633-1637  “Tobacco prices briefly recovered . . ” Pecquet, Cato Jorunal, ibid. 1633 Thomas Sanders, 22 May 1633, imported 200 pounds if tobacco on the ship Lyon. [WHB -The ship Lyon was associated with several voyages to Massachusetts carrying pilgrims from England. It … Continue reading →

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Ancestral Families and the English-Colonial Trade (1612-1632)

Posted on July 15, 2013 by vikingsandvirginians

[WHB notes: In a previous post, Saunders in Gloucestershire and Bristol in Late Medieval Times, I presented, among alternative hypotheses, the possibility that the offices awarded to Thomas Saunders, heir to the large Charlwood Estate in Surrey, by King Henry IV (Bolingbroke), in … Continue reading →

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