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Shipping Timelines Three 1720-1740

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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1720s

1720: Bering establishes that America (North) is a single, separate continent. (Item from Philippe Godard and Tugdual de Kerros, 1772: The French Annexation of New Holland. The Tale of Louis De Saint Alouarn. (Translated by Odette Margot, Myra Stanbury and Sue Baxter.) Perth, Museum of Western Australia, 2008., p. 26.

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

1730s if not 1720s, Contractor, beers to military, Ambrose Page (died 1743). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who are contractors to government)

Contractor, military and government finances to Holland, Germany, Austria and Piedmont. John Gore, (1689-1773). (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who were contractors to government)

1737: Convict contractor to America, James Forward (active by 1737) or Jonathan Forward (1680-1760 died in Carolina). Later on the scene came Jonathan Forward Sydenham, either a son or a nephew of Jonathan Forward. (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who were contractors to government)
Jonathan Forward was married to Susannah Waple, daughter of Thomas and Sarah of St Leonard’s, Shoreditch, London. Susannah was one of four children and had a wealthy tobacco-trader brother, Osmond Waple of Maryland, (died 1717), who remains little-known. She also had another brother, William Henry Waple, who by 1721 worked with her convict contractor husband, as given in Schmidt.
See Frederick Hall Schmidt, British Convict Servant Labor in Colonial Virginia. College of William and Mary, Dissertations, Theses and Masters Projects, Arts and Sciences, PhD. thesis, Dept. History, 1976. Paper 1539623697 (https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd or https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-vm9x-jr96.) Re W. H. Waple, page 34, note 3.)
E-mail of 24-8-2021 re Waple and convict contractor Jonathan Forward from independent UK golfing journalist Andy Waple, tel 0114 230 8293 mobile 0773036554 at: andy.waple@me.com. @andywaple.
Notes for Jonathan Forward: On 25-8-2021 Waple sends an email that Forward, an English tobacco trader, used Commander Robert Hayes, ship Thomas and Diana 170 tons crew? owners ? (His own wikipedia page.) In 1721 a co-convict-contractor is William Henry Walpole. In 1721 he partnered with Thomas Fodor of London, in 1727 with Christopher Weatherall, in 1731 with James Forward, in 1741 with John Elling, in 1742 with a team of Thomas Hodgson of London and Jonathan Flower, then with Andrew Reid and Henry Kennan of London. In 1748 is Andrew Reid and John Stewart both of London. In 1764 is Jonathan Forward Sydenham and John Doe of London. In 1764 is Jonathan Forward Sydenham and Moses Israel Fonseca to 1768. In 1727 or so one John Greatorex did costs of convicts taken to Liverpool. For 1761-1763 arises a UK national archives item, re Jonathan Sydenham and Thomas Hodgson and John Holloway (of Mansell St London and Jonathan Forward Sydenham and John Doe). Had business with Jonathan Sydenham of Va and London (married a Virginia girl Mary Morton) and Capt Joseph Barnes. He once used a Captain Stevenson. He once in 1723 used ship the Anne Capt Thomas Wrangham. He had an attorney in London William Loney and used a Captain Loney who conducted fraud re tobacco qualities and retired to Hatton Garden, costing Forward about 1400 pounds. He finished convict contracting from 1718 in 1739 and began as a tobacco-and-slave merchant. He is mentioned in a website Early American Crime which gives attention to Convict Transportation to the American Colonies. He employed Darby Lux 1. He has a nephew Edward Stephenson. He loses his contract-to-transport mysteriously in 1739, maybe due to Andrew Reid who was a friend unnamed of Secretary to Treasury, Walpole. But Forward continued in the business to 1747, and had sent his business to John Sydenham his agent in Virginia and to Thomas Hodgson, one of Forward´s former agents. Forward died wealthy.
Follows some info from an emailer on Jonathan Forward Sydenham, verbatim: Note for Jonathan Forward Sydenham, active about 1765 - This man dealt with Landon Carter, see Greene on Diary of Carter, p. 800, p. 813. See Coldham, 1992, Emigrants in Chains. Follows from e-mailer of 22 Sep 2004, Ms. Page Nichols at: page@darenc.com - Dan, Thank you for this article. It answers a lot of my questions. Recently, I was reviewing some old family documents from my mother and those housed at UNC which contains a number of letters to and from my gggg grandfather Captain John Wilcox and Jonathan Sydenham. Captain Wilcox had the ship Lukey. The relationship between these two appeared to be just more than business as Mr. Sydenham informs Capt. Wilcox of the death of his son and continues to tell him that all the arrangements were handled by Mr. Jennings. Then looking over an entirely different branch of ancestors I noticed that many carried the middle name Sydenham. Little did I know that the Virginia Hubard family (who married a Mortan/Morton) was also related to this same family. It would be the granddaugher of Capt. John Wilcox who would married into this same Hubard family some 50 years later (1804). I also recognized many other names such as James Russell who wrote often to Capt. Wilcox inquiring about the shipping business and prices of tobacco and requesting advice on the market and how it worked. Among the receipts are many bills for a club in Amherst, Virginia for a number of Lee family names. Your article also ties these family names in and makes those connections to the Maryland families. I beleive that Captain Wilcox mentions that in years when the tobacco crops fail, it is always advisable to trade in slaves to compensate for the lack of mercantile [business]. There was also a Captain Rawlins mentioned in these letters. Other surnames in these letters during this time frame were: Jennings, Hill, Jones, Churchill, Miller, Cary, Carter, McCulloch, George Seaton, William Loving, Zach. Taliaferro, William Nichols, Frances Baker, Joseph Dillard, Lunsford Lomac, Joseph Dillard, John Loving, John Digges, Robert Curry, Richard Henry Lee, Robert Jackson, Charles Graham, Maximillion Robinson, John Stinson, Philip Rootes, James Blair, Thomas Nelson, William Cabell, William Hoseley, John Rose, Robert Curry, Clem Nicholson, Charles Graham, Capt. William Rawling (Rawlins), Col. George Lee, W. John Simple, Frances Baker, etc. Thank you again, Sincerely, Page Nichols Message Follows --
Jonathan Forward. Some of Forward's other colonial factors were William Blewitt and/or Charles Delafaye. He was at Fenchurch Street, Cheapside. This man had a grandson named Edward Stephenson; which might propose a link with Stephenson of the Bristol convict contractors? (See Coldham 1992, Emigrants in Chains. He had regular ships to London. Africa and southern American colonies, delivered slaves. This man and or Jonathan Forward Sydenham partnered for convict transportations with William Henry Waple, Thomas Fodor, Christopher Wetherall, James Forward, John Elling, Thomas Hodgson, Moses Israel Fonseca, John Doe of London, There is a Jonathan Flower Sydenham, (?).
From: george anikis on 14 Aug 2009 -Mr. Byrnes: Under your list of Convict Contractors to North America, for 1749 is listed "Jonathan Forward Sydenham. Nephew of Jonathan Forward". Do you have a source for this reference as Forward's nephew? According to my research, Jonathan Sydenham arrived in Virginia's Northern Neck in 1738 at what became Leedstown as Forward's agent. In 1739 Sydenham married Mary Morton, a member of a prominent Northern Neck family. He purchased several hundred acres on the Rappahannock River and was instrumental in establishing Leedstown where he opened an ordinary. He was appointed a sheriff in 1743; a post he held till he left the colony. He returned to London in 1748 and left his affairs in the hands of William Jordan, his wife's step-father and thus his father-in law. If Sydenham's son was Forward's nephew, it implies that Sydenham was a widower when he arrived in Virginia. It would be logical to assume that Forward would send a relative to attend to his affairs. Any information you can provide will be appreciated. Thank you for your time and attention. I live in the State of Maryland in the U.S. Sincerely, George Anikis

1730s: Contractor, military, Mason of Mason and Simpson of Jamaica. (From MNP's specialist sub-lists on merchants who were contractors to government)

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).)

1738: France has taken relatively little interest in "The Great Southland" but in 1738 there sails Bouvet de Lozier to explore the South Atlantic and the south Indian Ocean for the Compagnie des Indes. He does see snow-covered highlands in the South Atlantic in 1739 at latitude 56 degrees south. (Item from Philippe Godard and Tugdual de Kerros, 1772: The French Annexation of New Holland: The Tale of Louis De Saint Alouarn. (Translated by Odette Margot, Myra Stanbury and Sue Baxter.) Perth, Museum of Western Australia, 2008., p. 2, p. 26.

1742: Englishman Christopher Middleton makes some search for any North-West Passage from Europe by America to China or the Indies, or a passage from the Atlantic to the North Pacific. (Item from Philippe Godard and Tugdual de Kerros, 1772: The French Annexation of New Holland: The Tale of Louis De Saint Alouarn. (Translated by Odette Margot, Myra Stanbury and Sue Baxter.) Perth, Museum of Western Australia, 2008., p. 26.

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) -- Contractor, financial services to government, Samuel Touchet/Tuchet (1705-1773).

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 government)

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 government)

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