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Gallesio Franco
1669–1672Captain of the ships of the Grillo and Lomellini asiento. On 1 September 1671 the ship La Concordia Dorada, commanded by Franco Gallesio, arrived in Caracas with 259 enslaved people; the captain declared that he had left Curaçao on 1 August 1671 and that there had been no deaths during the voyage. In Caracas the enslaved people were handed over to the factor don Juan Antonio Blanco. Two years earlier the same commander had landed enslaved people in the port of Cartagena, after embarking them at Curaçao and Portobelo on the ship S. Nicolò da Tolentino. Between 1669 and 1672 he transported a total of 1,205 enslaved people to the ports of Veracruz and Portobelo.
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Before entering the service of Grillo and Lomellini he had served in the Armada Real and in the naval squadron of the Prince of Montesarchio. He began his career representing Grillo and Lomellini in Cádiz, where he supervised the work of other factors and organised the city's naval resources. In 1667, on the initiative of Ambrogio Lomellini, he left for the Indies as a factor; having reached Cartagena de Indias, he began to sail with the company's ships in the Caribbean. Between 1671 and 1672 he transported 1,563 enslaved people between the ports of Curaçao, Portobelo, Veracruz and Cartagena, always aboard the Santa Cruz.