On 6th September 1623 Thomas Papillon Merchant was born to David Papillon and Anne Marie Calandrini at Roehampton, Surrey.
On 30th October 1651 Thomas Papillon Merchant [aged 28] and Jane Broadnax were married at Canterbury Cathedral [Map].
On 27th July 1658 [his daughter] Elizabeth Papillon was born to Thomas Papillon Merchant [aged 34] and [his wife] Jane Broadnax. She married Edward Ward and had issue.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 24th August 1668. So to dinner, and then to the office again, where all the afternoon till night, we met to discourse upon the alterations which are propounded to be made in the draft of the victualler's contract which we did lately make, and then we being up comes Mr. Child [aged 37], Papillion [aged 44] and Littleton, his partners, to discourse upon the matter with me, which I did, and spent all the evening with them at the office, and so, they being gone, I to supper and talk with my wife, and so to bed.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 23rd April 1669. Going to rise, without saying anything, my wife stopped me; and, after a little angry talk, did tell me how she spent all day yesterday with M. Batelier and her sweetheart, and seeing a play at the New Nursery, which is set up at the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was formerly the King's house [Map]. So that I was mightily pleased again, and rose a with great content; and so by water to White Hall, and there to the Council-Chamber, and heard two or three causes: among others, that of the complaint of Sir Philip Howard [aged 38] and Watson, the inventors, as they pretend, of the business of varnishing and lackerworke, against the Company of Painters, who take upon them to do the same thing; where I saw a great instance of the weakness of a young Counsel not used to such an audience, against the Solicitor-General and two more able Counsel used to it. Though he had the right of, his side, and did prevail for what he pretended to against the rest, yet it was with much disadvantage and hazard. Here, also I heard Mr. Papillion [aged 45] make his defence to the King [aged 38], against some complaints of the Farmers of Excise; but it was so weak, and done only by his own seeking, that it was to his injury more than profit, and made his case the worse, being ill managed, and in a cause against the King.
In 1689 Thomas Papillon Merchant [aged 65] was appointed Commissioner for Victualling the Navy which post he held until 1699.
In 1698 [his wife] Jane Broadnax died.
On 5th May 1702 Thomas Papillon Merchant [aged 78] died.
[his father] David Papillon and [his mother] Anne Marie Calandrini were married.