P_10433_1715 – Samuel Collet

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First name: Samuel

Middle name: /

Last name: Collet

Aliases: Collet,

Primary cohort: London

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Internal migrant: Don't know

Foreign born: Don't know

Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know

Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know

Philanthropy: Don't know

Plantation owner: Don't know

Sources: C.S. Schmitt 'A tale of two port cities', unpublished MA thesis, University of Utah (2011) https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/276264616.pdf shows Samuel Collet sailing from Jamaica to Havana in 1722 to supply wheat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 V.G. Sorsby, 'British Trade with Spanish America under the Asiento, 1713-45', unpublished PhD thesis, University of London (1975), https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1349550/1/473433.pdf.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.