“Another prominent supporter of the Massachusetts Bay Company”138

“Engaged in extensive trading with the colonies. He was an incorporator of the first Massachusetts company and patentee of large tracts of land.”142

“Samuel was probably the largest ship owner of his day and was the first to refuse to pay the tax of tonnage and poundage. As a result, his property was seized and he himself thrown into prison for sixteen years by the Star Chamber Court. In 1641 the Long Parliament voted him over ten thousand pounds damages and resolved that he should be further recompensed for his personal suffering, but this was never paid.”148

“...one of the original patentees of lands in Massachusetts in 1628, and an officer in the company; was an alderman of London, and M.P., in 1640-41; took the covenant in 1643; in 1646 was appointed commissioner for the kingdom of England for the conservation of peace with Scotland.”147

A monument to Samuel Vassall stands in Kings Chapel, Boston MA.139

Seems an extensive supporter of the slave trade. Needs more research.1