5. MP, Alderman London, Va planter Vassall Samuel-12035 (John II , John I , Progenitor 2012 ) was born on 5 Jun 1586. He was christened in 1586 in Stepney. He died in 1667 in England.
histfam.familysearch,org. www. geni.com. His own wikipedia page. MP. Traded to Massachusetts, Virginia and Carolina. USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family. He has two/twentieths of all Massachusetts Bay in New England. One of his descendants is the "famous Whig hostess" Lady Holland. He has son John who settles in Jamaica and becomes an ancestor of Vassall there. In Moriarty article in JC Brandow he is a clothier, MP for London, active on the side of Parlt. Named in Rowse on Elizabethans/America. He is a Presbyterian City Man. In 1630 he has a plan for a settlement in Virginia. Was later in prisn some time around 1636. Became MP in 1640 a clohier or clothworker. He is involved in John Pym's plans for suppression of the Irish rebellion and annexation of Irish lands. He is a Navy Commissioner of 1642 and a commissioner of plantations in 1643. He is imprisoned for refusing ship money. He imports currants and silks from the East, tobacco hemp and flax from the East Indies and Americas, and with Matthew Cradock is co-founder of Mass Bay Co. He is wholesale clothier. In his middle twenties he becomes merchant and lives in Italy, possibly factor for Abraham Cartwright, draper and member of the Levant Co., East India and Va. comapnies, whose dr he marries. This man has brother-in-law the capt of Mayflower Capt Peter Andrews (sic not Andrewes). See Andrews, Ships Money and Politics, pp. 59-60, p. 193, note 22; it seems this man is owner of the Mayflower, 450 tons Capt Peter Andrews which is not the ship taking folk to America which a website says was owned by Christopher Jones who usually sent her regularly from England to France; heJones was born in Harwich and by 1611 was at Rotherhithe. he part owned Mayflower with John Moore. Mayflower Captain Jones had joined with Speedwell to go to America and set sail from Plymouth in 6 Sep 1620. Jones died March 1622. Newton, Colonising Puritans. In 1648 Brenner has a list for trade to Brazil with license from King of Portugal and owners of ship Concord, being Saml Vassall, Richard Shute, Roger Vivian, Gilbert Morewood, Richard Cranley. By 1637 he is in p/ship for Va planter and provisioning trade with William Chamberlain, Richard Bateson, Edward Wood and George Menefie. By 1640s he is in p/ship with William Vassall in trade to Mass Bay. By 1630s he is in Va and WI tobaco and provisioning trade in p/ship with Richard Bateson and Edward Wood. He is in WI and Va tobacco and provisioning. He is a Presbyterian City Man. He is involved in John Pym's plans for suprression of the Irish rebellion and annexation of Irish lands. He is a Navy Commissioner of 1642 and a commissioner of plantations in 1643. He is imprisoned for refusing ship money. He imports currants and silks from the East, tobacco, hemp and flax from the East Indies and Americas, and with Matthew Cradock is co-founder of Mass Bay Co. .
Samuel married Cartwright Frances-17358 daughter of Levant trader Cartwright Abraham-17359 and Wade Joan-17360. Frances was born in 1630 in active,Brenner.
She had nine children. See Andrews, Ships, Money and Politics, p. 193. Brenner, pp. 134ff. She is named Frances in a http. USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family.
Samuel and Frances had the following children:
+ 16 M i Vassall John Jamaica Planter-58210 was born in 1625. He died on 6 Jul 1688. 17 M ii Vassall Abraham-587825. 18 M iii Vassall Francis-587826. Francis married VBNotknown Alice-587827.
She had four children.19 M iv Vassall William-587828. 20 F v Vassall Mary-587829.
M to Mr Cliffe.21 M vi Vassall Henry-587830. + 22 M vii Vassall Samuel-587831. 23 F viii Vassall Frances-587834.
6. slaver Colonist Mass Bay Co Vassall William-40159 (John II , John I , Progenitor 2012 ) died in 1657 in Circa.
Episcopalian. All the Vassalls were Loyalists. USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family. He goes to Massachusetts in the Winthrop fleet of 1630, probably on the ship Arabella. He is a wealthy and important planter in New England and Barbados, From Chris Codrington and JC Brandow/ article by G. Andrews Moriarty, this man has Will of St Michael's, dated 13 July 1655. he has son John and a dr Judith who is wife of Resolved (sic) White, qv, In 1635 he returns to Plymouth Co and then prospers, then he went back to England and then became rich in Barbados. See also Rowse, Elizabethans/America, pp. 144ff. Andrews, Ships, Money and Politics, p. 60. http://www.lanopalera.net/index.html -
William married King Anna-58434 daughter of King George-4936 and Lorran Jean-57416. Anna was born in 1592 in Eseex England. She was christened in 1612 in active. She died in 1670 in Barbados.
Per Moriarty article. USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family. http://www.lanopalera.net/index.html -
William and Anna had the following children:
24 M i Vassall John-49707 died in 1655 in poste.
In 1661 he is of Scituate but sold his estate and went to West Indies, probably Jma or Barbados, in 1667 he was engaged in settlement of Cape Fear North Carolina and wrote to England wanting help for that colony. USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family.+ 25 F ii wife1 Vassall Judith-12441 was born in 1619. She died in 1670. 26 F iii Vassall Mary-60401 was born in 1624 in Cold Norton, Essex, England.
USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family.Mary married White Nicholas-59214 son of White Progenitor-14035 and WNotknown Miss-78276.
He is a merchant of St Michael's maybe on Barbados?27 F iv Vassall Anne-58231.
USA http on rootsweb.com/ re Vassal family.28 F v Died Young Vassall Anna-52910 was born in 1614. She died in 1614. 29 F vi Vassall Margaret-61128 was born in 1633 in Ratcliffe, Stepney. She died in 1656. Margaret married Hubbard Joshua-60518 son of Hubbard Progenitor-95165 and HNotknown Miss-90257.
Source?+ 30 F vii Vassall Frances-284546 was born in 1623. She died in 1670. 31 M viii Vassall Samuel-284559 was born in 1624 in Cold Norton, Essex, England.
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