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Patrick Rattray ( - fl. c. 1703)

Captain and shipmaster trading in Jamaica. He collected and sourced objects for James Petiver and might have maintained his own collection. Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Jamaica, West Indies
 Relationships: Patrick Rattray was a friend of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)

 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics.
as Mentions or references - James Petiver: promoter of natural science, c.1663–1718.
as Mentions or references - James Petiver's 'Kind Friends' and 'Curious Persons' in the Atlantic World: Commerce, Colonialism, and Collecting.
 References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 121. Echinus spatagus Jamaicensis. Found there by my Hearty Friend Mr. Patrick Rattray.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 509. Papilio caudatus Jamaicensis nigrescens, utrinque ex viridi aureo splendidè striatus. Mr. Patrick Rattray brought me this some time since from Jamaica.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 837. Pectunculus Jamaicensis striis ferè muricatis. P. tenuis modo ruber, modo citrinus, striis nunc ex parte, nunc ex toto muricatis List. H. C. l. 3. Tab. 322. Fig. 159. Mr. Rattry and Mr. Skeen, Surgeons, have brought me this shell from Jamaica, I have also had it from Carolina. It differs in magnitude. I have it of the bigness of Dr. Lister's Figure, and others much less.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 845. Trochus Barbadensis magnus, ex albo nigroque undatus. T. maximus lævis & nigro maculatus, List. H. C. l. 4. s. 8. Tab. 640. Fig. 30. an Bonan. 117. Fig. 29, 30. id. Ital. Mr. Rattery brought me this from Jamaica. Capt. Bond from the River Messisippi, and Mr. Graves from the Bahama Islands.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 8. Tellinæ affinis JAMAIC. lunulata. cuneo productiore. This my old Friend Mr Patrick Rattry brought me amongst a parcel of other Shells from Jamaica.