Thomas Alderne
Thomas Alderne (d. 1660) was a London merchant involved in the overseas trade. He lived in Hackney, Middlesex.[1]
Alderne was a puritan and part of the gathered congregation of John Goodwin.[2]
He became a victualler for the Royal Navy working with other London merchants to supply Admiral Robert Blake's fleet following the Battle of the Gabbard in 1653.[3]
Alderne had a business arrangement with Martin Noell and Henry Hatsell, of Plymouth, in the transportation of Royalist prisoners involved in the Penruddock uprising. They were shipped to Barbados, where they were sold goods and chattels for fifteen hundred and fifty pounds of sugar each on 7 May 1656.[4]: 284 Later in July of that year he was appointed to a Committee for managing affairs in Jamaica and the West Indies set up by the English Council of State, alongside Noell, Thomas Povey, Tobias Bridge and others.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Coldham, Peter Wilson (1987). The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607–1660. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com. ISBN 9780806311920.
- ^ Coffey, John (2008). John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-century England. Woodbridge: Tamesis Books. ISBN 9781843834281.
- ^ Wheeler, James Scott (1991). The Administrative, Financial, and Logistical Foundation of British Naval Power 1649–1654 (PDF). Newport, R.I.: Naval War College. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 15, 2021.
- ^ Schomburgk, Robert Hermann (1848). The history of Barbados; comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island; a sketch of the historical events since the settlement; and an account of its geology and natural productions. London, Longman.
- ^ Sainsbury, W. Noel, ed. (1860). America and West Indies: July 1656 | British History Online. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 443–447.