Jean Barbot (1655 - 1712)

Born 25 May 1655 in Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Aunis, France

Ancestors

Husband of Charlotte Suzanne (Drelincourt) Barbot — married 8 Jul 1690 in Savoy Huguenot Church, London, England

Descendants

Died 27 Dec 1712 at age 57 in Southampton, Hampshire, England

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Biography

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Jean Barbot has French origins.

Jean Barbot

• Born: 25 May 1655 ; Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Aunis, France.
• Baptism: 31 May 1655; Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Aunis, France. His baptismal record lists both birth and baptism dates, his father as Jaques Barbot and mother as Loyse Boulommer. His godfather was Jean Barbot and godmother Loyse Betiez ^[1]
• Death: 27 Dec 1712 ; Southampton, Hampshire, England.^[2]
• Burial: recorded as John Barbott, 30 Dec 1712 ; Southampton Holy Rhood, Hampshire, England^[3]

Parents:

• Jacques Barbot 1632 - 1684
• Louise Boulloumer c1633 - 1717

Spouse

• Charlotte Suzanne Drelincourt
• Marriage licence: issued 4 Jul 1690 by the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury. John Barbot, of Lime Street, Lond., Merch', Bach r , ab' 34, & Mrs Charlotte Susanne Drelincourt, of Stepney, Midd., Sp r , abt 24, at own disp. ; at the French Church or Chapel of the Savoy, Midd. ^[4]
• Marriage: Jean Barbot and Charlotte Suzanne Drelincourt were married by licence on 8 Jul 1690 at the French Church of the Savoy in London. ^[5]

Children

• Anne Charlotte Barbot 1691^[6] – 1774
• Jean Timotthe Barbot 1693^[7]– c1694
• Charles Abraham Barbot 1694^[8] - 1695^[9]
• Francoise Marie Barbot 1695^[10] - 1748
• Charles Barbot 1698^[11] –1698 ^[12]
• Simon Laurens Barbot 1699^[13] – aft 1713
• Louise Susanne Barbot 1700^[14]– 1736
• Marianne Barbot 1703^[15] – 1715^[16]
• Jean Jaques Barbot 1705^[17] - 1706.

Life events

• 6 Sep 1671,at St Martin-de-Ré, Aunis, France, Jean Barbot, at the age of 16, was named godfather to his brother Etienne.^[18]
• 22 Oct 1678, Jean sailed from La Rochelle in "Soleil-d'-Afrique". They visited Guinea and America and returned to La Rochelle on 16 Sep 1679.^[19]
• 7 Oct 1681, Jean sailed from La Rochelle, bound for Guinea and America, on the "Joly". In May 1682, he transferred to "L'Emerillon", then to "l'Arc-en-Ciel" on which he arrived at Le Havre 19 Sep 1682.^[20]
• On 2 Jan 1684, at St Martin-de-Ré, Aunis, France, Jean Barbot, a merchant in La Rochelle, was a witness at his father's funeral.^[21]
• In Dec 1684, at St Martin-de-Ré, Aunis, France, Jean Barbot, a merchant, was named godfather to Marianne, daughter of Jean Micheau, merchant in this town, and Anne Blongeron.^[22]
• 22 Oct 1685 - The revocation of the Edict of Nantes led Jean to leave France: he took refuge in England.
• 5 March 1686 NS, the name John Barbot is on a list of denizations in England. This may be a different John Barbot.^[23]
• In 1688 Jean prepared a clean copy of his 'account of Guinea' and sends the manuscript to Amsterdam. He received the manuscript back in 1689.^[24]
• In January 1689/90, a naturalization bill (which included John Barbot, born at St. Martyns of Ré, son of James and Lewize Barbot) did not become an act.^[25]
• On approximately, 1 May 1695 when the London Marriage Duty Assessment lists were compiled, John was living in Oxford Court in St Mary Bothaw, London, England:- John Barbott, merchant, £600 assessed at £1.4.11 for burial and £0.12.00 for birth; Susan Barbott his wife assessed at £0.14.00 for burial; Ann Barbott assessed at 0.14.00 for burial; and 2 servants. ^[26] Their names, but not full details, appear in the index to "London Inhabitants Within the Walls, 1695".^[27]
• 8 Jul 1695, in the Calendar of Treasury Books: - [My Lords order] Jeane Barbot to be paid 190l. out of 1,160l. 7s. 6d. due to the executors of Sir John Trenchard on account of secret service.^[28]
• John was naturalized in England on 7 Mar 1695/96: - John Barbot, born at St. Martin in the Isle of R6, son of James Barbot and Lewise, his wife. ^[29]
• In 1697, Jean with other merchants, financed a voyage to New Calabar in Guinea. It ended in a disastrous shipwreck.
• 13 Jan 1699 the Albion left England for New Calabar in Guinea. The voyage was financed by John with other merchants including one of his brother James (who sailed). Lost many slaves enroute to Barbados and was therefore unprofitable.
• On 11 Jul 1699, Jean Barbot, merchant, was named godfather to his niece Susanne Marie Barbot, daughter of Jacques Barbot and Marie Pare, at the Tabernacle, London.^[30] The information that Jean was godfather came from reading the register transcript.
• in 1702 and 1703 (if not longer), John appears to have maintained a residence in both Oxford Court, St Mary Bothaw, London, England and in Holy Rhood parish, Southampton, Hampshire, England. Land Tax Assessment in 1702 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, Holy Rood parish; Mr Barbut with his wife, mother and 2 children. In 1703 Jno Barbott paid 7/12/- tax in St Mary Bothaw precinct, Vintry, City of London.^[31]
• On 20 Mar 1702/3 John Barbot was mentioned in his brother James' will. James wrote that if his wife Mary had died "I recommend the Care and Education of such child or children to my loving Brother John Barbot; and lastly I do nominate and appoint my said loving wife Mary Barbot, and my said Brother Jno Barbot, Joint Executors of this my Will". When the will was proved in 1719, John was deceased.^[32]
• 1706 - 09, in Southampton, Hampshire, England, John served as an elder and acted as secretary for French church
• 10 Jan 1713 • Southampton, Hampshire, England, Administration by his widow. PRO, PROB 6.89

" The Rev. Stephen Abel Laval was in 1737 pasteur of the united chapels of Castle Street and Berwick Street in London. At that period of his life he brought out his elaborate History of the Reformed Church of France, in six volumes, with an appendix. The preface apologizes for his English, as written by a Frenchman; there are two interesting lists of subscribers' names. He was proud of his connection with the Drelincourts. Charlotte Susanne, daughter of the deceased Pasteur Laurent Drelincourt, eldest brother of the Dean of Armagh, was married in the London French Church, in the Savoy, in 1690, to John Barbot, author of Voyages to Guinea, in Churchill's collection; Charlotte Barbot, her daughter, was Laval's wife, and had to him two children, Daniel and Charlotte Elizabeth."^[33]

Author Jean Barbot

Jean Barbot's book, describing the west coast of Africa, was published posthumously in 1732. It is a bulky folio volume of nearly 600 pages.
In 1981, P.E.H. Hair wrote the following in "A note on Jean Barbot (1655-1713)":- .... two manuscript accounts have recently come to light, both written in French but both preserved in Britain; and these enable us to work out how the printed account was composed.
^[34] The French scholars were Gabriel Debien, Marcel Delafosse and and Thilman and the book was called Diary of a trading voyage in Guinea, Cayenne and the Caribbean made ​​by Jean Barbot in 1678-1679).^[35]

Jean Barbot began writing about his journeys in 1683. In 1992, a book in 2 volumes was published - Barbot on Guinea, The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. This book has an extensive bibliography pp 838-873 in Vol 2. The publisher's blurb explains: - Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous printed sources. The work was interrupted by his flight to England, as a Huguenot refugee, in 1685, and not finished until 1688. When Barbot found that his lengthy French account could not be published, he rewrote it in English, enlarging it even further, and then continually revising it up to his death in 1712. The manuscript was eventually published in 1732. Barbot's book had considerable influence on later European attitudes to Black Africa and the Atlantic slave trade and in modern writings on both subjects is frequently cited as evidence.
The French account serves as the base for the present edition and is presented in English translation but additional material in the later English version is inserted. The edition concentrates on Barbot's original information. He copied much from earlier sources - this derived material is omitted but is identified in the notes. The original material, mainly on Senegal, Sierra Leone, River Sess, Gold Coast and the Calabars, is extensively annotated, not least with comparative references to other sources. Apart from its narrative interest, the edition thus provides a starting point for the critical assessment of a range of early sources on Guinea.
The edition opens with an introductory essay discussing Barbot's life and career and analysing his sources. Barbot provided a large number of his own drawings of topographical and ethnographical features, in particular drawings of almost all of the European forts in Guinea. Many of these illustrations are reproduced.''^[36]

Sources

1. ↑ Family Search. France, Protestant Church Records, 1536-1897, France Charente-Maritime: St-Martin-de-Ré. Baptêmes, mariages, 1648-1659 (Ms 904/1). Image 111 of 180; Societe de L'histoire du Protestantisme Francais (Society of the history of French Protestantism), Paris. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G94N-1C1M?i=110&wc=9WLY-82R%3A1067483304%2C1067487002%2C1067487303&cc=1582585
2. ↑ Hair P E H, Jones A and Law R. Barbot on Guinea, The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1992. Vol 1, p xviii. The footnote gives the source as the parish register - possibly this can be viewed on Find My Past, as it is not on ancestry, or freereg and familysearch just has burial date transcribed.
3. ↑ "England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QRQC-V32M : Mon Nov 13 11:11:01 UTC 2023), Entry for John Barbott, 30 Dec 1712.
4. ↑ Armytage, George J. Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury 1679-1694, v.31. Canterbury, 1890. https://archive.org/details/AllegationsForMarriageLicencesIssuedByTheVicar-generalOfTheArchbishop_424/page/n153/mode/1up?q=barbot
5. ↑ Minet, W & S. Registres des églises de la Savoye, de Spring Gardens, et des Grecs, 1684-1900. Huguenot Society of London, Manchester, Sherratt and Hughes, 1922. https://archive.org/details/registresdesegli26egli/page/131/mode/1up?q=Barbot
6. ↑ "England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XVG-DHP5 : 2 April 2022), Anne Charlotte Barbot, 1691
7. ↑ Threadneedle Street French Huguenot, London, England. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924009239793&view=1up&seq=364&skin=2021&q1=Barbot
8. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5J6-L6T : 4 February 2023), Charles Abraham Barbot, 1694.
9. ↑ London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812. London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/Swi/A/008/Ms04314. ancestry.com
10. ↑ "England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XYQ-WT3Q : 14 April 2022), Françoise Marie Barbot, 1695.
11. ↑ The register transcript has mother as Anne Susanne (sic) and father as Jean; the godmother was Anne Marie Baignoux. Threadneedle Street French Huguenot, London, England. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924009239793&seq=190&q1=Barbot
12. ↑ London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/DUN/281. London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812. ancestry.com
13. ↑ "England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FWR-D3L1 : 25 April 2022), Simon Laurens Barbot, 1699.
14. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5J6-2KK : 20 March 2020), Louise Susanne Barbot, 1700.
15. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5LP-MN7 : 5 February 2023), Marianne Barbot, 1703.
16. ↑ "England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QRW2-HZ3Z : Mon Nov 13 11:45:35 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary Anne Barbott and Barbott, 30 Jun 1715.
17. ↑ Registre des baptesmes, mariages & mortz, et jeusnes : de leglise wallonne et des isles de Jersey, Guernesey, Serq, Origny, &c., établie à Southampton par patente du roy Edouard Sixe et de la reine Elizabeth. https://archive.org/details/registredesbapte04egli/page/73/mode/1up?q=Barbot
18. ↑ France, Protestant Church Records, 1536-1897; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-894J-MWSV?cc=1582585&wc=9WLY-W3G%3A1067483304%2C1067487002%2C1067487313. Image 42 of 64.
19. ↑ Hair P E H, Jones A and Law R. Barbot on Guinea, The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1992, Vol 1, pp cii-ciii.
20. ↑ Ibid, pp ciii-cv
21. ↑ France, Protestant Church Records, 1536-1897; Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures, 1684 (Ms 904/16); image 4 of 140. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G94J-M3G1?i=3&wc=9WLY-W3K%3A1067483304%2C1067487002%2C1067487310&cc=1582585
22. ↑ "France, registres protestants, 1536-1897", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGCK-HB7J : Wed Nov 22 18:27:57 UTC 2023), Entry for Marianne Micheau and Jean Micheau, 29 Dec 1684.
23. ↑ Shaw, WA. Letters of denization and acts of naturalization for aliens in England and Ireland. Lymington and Manchester, Huguenot Society of London, 1911. p 178 . https://archive.org/details/lettersofdenizat1816hugu/page/178/mode/1up?q=Barbot
24. ↑ Ibid, p ci
25. ↑ Shaw, WA. Letters of denization and acts of naturalization for aliens in England and Ireland. Lymington and Manchester, Huguenot Society of London, 1911. p 216. https://archive.org/details/lettersofdenizat1816hugu/page/216/mode/1up?q=Barbot
26. ↑ Corporation of London Record Office, Guildhall, London. CLRO reference: Marriage Assessment No 61, page 3. Researched in 1993. The records are now held at London Metropolitan Archives.
27. ↑ https://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol2/pp12-51#highlight-first
28. ↑ 'Minute book: July 1695, 1-15', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 10, 1693-1696, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1935), pp. 1388-1393. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol10/pp1388-1393 [accessed 9 December 2023].
29. ↑ Shaw, WA. Letters of denization and acts of naturalization for aliens in England and Ireland. Lymington and Manchester, Huguenot Society of London, 1911. p 240.https://archive.org/details/lettersofdenizat1816hugu/page/240/mode/1up?q=Barbot
30. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5LG-562 : 5 February 2023), Susanne Marie Barbot, 1699.
31. ↑ London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692-1932, anestry.com
32. ↑ National Archives, Kew, LOndon. Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, PCC PROB 11 568. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D681584
33. ↑ Agnew, D C A. Protestant Exiles From France: Vol. 2. 1871. p 238 (image 250 of 340). https://ia804509.us.archive.org/9/items/protestantexiles02agneuoft/protestantexiles02agneuoft.pdf
34. ↑ Proceedings of the Huguenot Society , 23 , 1981 , pp . 295-308
35. ↑ "Journal d'un voyage de traite en Guinee a Cayenne et aux Antilles fait par Jean Babot en 1678-1679"; displayed, published and annotated by Gabriel Debien, Marcel Delafosse and Guy Thilmans. Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (Bulletin of the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa), Dakar, 1979, T.40, Series B, no 2, pp. 236-395.
36. ↑ Hair P E H, Jones A and Law R. Barbot on Guinea, The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1992

See Also

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/237280735/Encyclopedia-of-the-Middle-Passage#scribd
• http://www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=Jean%20Barbot
• http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/i-speak-of-africa/first-european-encounters/barbot
• (Article) PEH Hair, "An accomplish'd traveler will take drafts" Barbot's illustrations of Guinea, Annual report of The Hakluyt Society , 1991. 12-20 pages.
• (Article) Robin Law, Jean Barbot as a source for the slave coast of West Africa, History in Africa , Vol. 9, (1982), p. 155-173. Cet article met en garde contre l'utilisation du récit de Jean Barbot, qu'il considère comme utilisant des sources secondaires, comme source historique.
• Toyin Falola, Amanda Warnock, Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, Greenwood Press, 2007. Online in various places e.g. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/18880/1/114.pdf