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NameJohn Poyntz 
[54, His co-article]
[54, His co-article]Birth1606
Deathaft 1683
FatherJohn Poyntz (1577->1617)
MotherAnn Sydenham (->1634)
DNB Main notes for John Poyntz
From Sydenham Poyntz' entry in DNB:
An elder brother, John Poyntz fl. 1660, born in 1606, was active in the civil war in Ireland and England on the parliamentary side (cf. A True Relation of the Taking of Roger Manwaring, Bishop of St. David's, London, 1642, 4to). In 1658 he was captain in the navy, and in 1663 clerk of the revels. He subsequently travelled `in the greatest part of the Caribee Islands and most parts of the continent of America, and almost all his Majesty's foreign plantations;' in 1683 he projected a scheme for the purchase and colonisation of Tobago (cf. The Present Prospect of the ¬ Island of Tobago, London, 1683, 4to, by Captain John Poyntz, and Proposals offered by Capt. John Poyntz); but his plan came to nothing (A Geographical Description of Tobago [1750?], p. 66).
An elder brother, John Poyntz fl. 1660, born in 1606, was active in the civil war in Ireland and England on the parliamentary side (cf. A True Relation of the Taking of Roger Manwaring, Bishop of St. David's, London, 1642, 4to). In 1658 he was captain in the navy, and in 1663 clerk of the revels. He subsequently travelled `in the greatest part of the Caribee Islands and most parts of the continent of America, and almost all his Majesty's foreign plantations;' in 1683 he projected a scheme for the purchase and colonisation of Tobago (cf. The Present Prospect of the ¬ Island of Tobago, London, 1683, 4to, by Captain John Poyntz, and Proposals offered by Capt. John Poyntz); but his plan came to nothing (A Geographical Description of Tobago [1750?], p. 66).