The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Nathaniel Maidstone ( - fl. 1723)

An East India Company factor who participated in a trade journey to China in 1698. He supplied Sloane with objects from Antigua, which Maidstone may or may not have visited and was a source of plants and seeds from India and China for both Sloane and Petiver (Pickering, 66 and passim). He also contributed a woodpecker to Sloane's museum (Jarvis and Cooper). According Kusukawa, he is possibly the "Maidstone" referenced as a source coins entering Courten's collection (Kusukawa, 16 n.69) Other biography: https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000400711 Relevant locations: Visited China, Asia
 Relationships: Nathaniel Maidstone was a employed by East India Company (1600-)
Nathaniel Maidstone was a source of object(s) for Hans Sloane (1660-1753)

 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Maidstone's Woodpecker - an Unexpected Bird Specimen in the Herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane.
as Mentioned or referenced by - Putting nature in a box: Hans Sloane’s ‘Vegetable Substances’ collection.
as Mentions or references - Appendix I to 'William Courten's list of 'Things Bought' from the Late Seventeenth Century.
 References in Documents: