P_10433_1715 – Samuel Collet
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‘Collet’ was given as a co-owner with the the South Sea Co. in two voyages from London to Whydah and Cabinda and then Jamaica in 1725. Samuel Collet became the ‘agent’ of the South Sea Company in Caracas in the late 1720s, granted a new two year license with Jonathan Perrie in November 1729. He has not been traced further to date, but a Samuel Collet was among the assignees of John Lewis of Blackheath, heir of William Lewis of Jamaica; Collet was shown as of Greenwich in 1746 in relation to this case. This Samuel Collet must have been the same man as Samuel Collett of East Greenwich, son-in-law of Richard Lewin of Lee in Kent and executor of the latter’s will in 1736: the will of Samuel Collet citizen and skinner of London formerly of Greenwich but late of Speenham Land was proved 02/06/1773.
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Collet
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C.S. Schmitt 'A tale of two port cities', unpublished MA thesis, University of Utah (2011) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/276264616.pdf shows Samuel Collet sailing from Jamaica to Havana in 1722 to supply wheat to the South Sea Company's factory there, with contraband in his cargo.
V.G. Sorsby, 'British Trade with Spanish America under the Asiento, 1713-45', unpublished PhD thesis, University of London (1975), https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1349550/1/473433.pdf.
Caribbeana Vol VI pt 2; C 11/1086/9.
The Samuel Collet buried at St Katherine Cree 19/09/1756 was probably the Samuel Collett citizen and joyner of Leadenhall Street , whose modest will was proved 16/09/1756: the will appears unconnected but does include a legacy of £5 to Martha Metcalf, a nurse in Greenwich Hospital.
A Jonathan Perrie and Samuel Collett appear in 1737 as parties to litigation in Bothwell v Collett C11/2243/1 and Lascelles v Bothwell C11/2069/31: these might shed further light on the linkage if any between the Samuel Collet of the 1720s slave voyages and the man of Greenwich.
PROB 11/988/255. The will contains no clear link to the South Sea associate or to the Caribbean.
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