# Jane Papillon > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jane_Papillon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jane_Papillon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Papillon > Source revision: 1341790375 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English letter writer}} {{Infobox person | name = Jane Papillon | image = Jane Papillon born Jane Broadnax died 1698.png | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 18 March 1627 | birth_place = [Godmersham](/source/Godmersham) | death_date = {{death date and age text|12 July 1698|18 March 1627}} | death_place = [London](/source/London) | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation = | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Jane Papillon''' born '''Jane Broadnax''' (16 March 1627 – 12 July 1698) was an [English](/source/Kingdom_of_England) letter writer. ==Life== Papillon was born in [Godmersham](/source/Godmersham) in 1627. She married her cousin, [Thomas Papillon](/source/Thomas_Papillon), on 30 October 1651 despite the objections of her parents, Thomas and Jane Broadnax. Thomas was a merchant and a member of the influential [Mercers Company](/source/Mercers_Company). He would have a fortune in the region of £18,000 in time but he had already had to spend time exiled in France and in Newgate Prison after supporting a rebellion against parliament.{{Cite book |last=Gauci |first=Perry |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-21247 |title=Papillon, Thomas (1623–1702), merchant and politician |date=2004-09-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/21247}} thumb|left|Acrise Place in the 1790s In 1666 [Acrise Place](/source/Acrise_Place) was purchased. Jane managed this property and their home in [Fenchurch Street](/source/Fenchurch_Street). Her husband went to [Breda](/source/Breda) in the Netherlands on behalf of the [East India Company](/source/East_India_Company). Jane wrote to him including detailed records of her management of their households, but also including news of their tenants and local news and events. Her letters of 1667 and 1668 are extant. One of the bits of news is a report of 1,200 Dutch people who had taken [Mersea Island](/source/Mersea_Island) in their county of Kent and were advancing on the town of [Colchester](/source/Colchester). More recent accounts note that there was talk on an invasion and soldiers were sent to defend the area but the invasion never happened.{{Cite web |title=Mersea Island History |url=https://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/mmhistory.php |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=www.merseamuseum.org.uk}} ==Private life== Papillon and her husband had three sons and five daughters. Four of these children survived to be adults.{{Cite book |last=Nebrida |first=Patricia J. |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69097 |title=Papillon [née Broadnax], Jane (1627–1698), letter writer |date=2004-09-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69097}} Her daughter Elizabeth married the judge Sir [Edward Ward](/source/Edward_Ward_(judge)).{{Cite book |last=Menefee |first=Samuel Pyeatt |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28681 |title=Ward, Sir Edward (1638–1714), lawyer and judge |last2=Handley |first2=Stuart |date=2004-09-23 |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28681}} ==Death and legacy== Papillon died in [London](/source/London) in 1698 having already written a letter to her husband to tell him of the birth of their grandchild to their son and his wife.{{Cite book |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/58838a26-dcb2-4e12-ae5e-04c87b9bab62 |title=Letter Mrs Jane Papillon to her husband Thomas Papillon Announcing the birth of a... |date=1698-05-31 |language=English}} Her [funeral sermon](/source/funeral_sermon) was published by her nephew, John Snow, as ''Of Long Life and Old Age''.{{Cite journal |last=Shower |first=John |date=October 2012|title=Of long life and old age a funeral sermon, occasion'd by the death of the much honour'd Mrs. Jane Papillon, who departed this life, July 12th, 1698. AEtat. 72 / by John Shower.|journal=ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk |url=https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/handle/20.500.12024/A60141}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Papillon, Jane}} Category:1627 births Category:1698 deaths Category:People from Godmersham Category:English reporters and correspondents Category:17th-century English writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jane Papillon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Papillon) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Papillon?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.