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|Person=John Goodman
|First name=John
|Last name=Goodman
|Occupation=Winecooper
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=John Goodman
|Has signoff text=John goodman
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res parish=Saint Mary at Hill
|Res town=London
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1636
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.402r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.425r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Jul 25 1655, Jun 19 1656
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
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==Biographical synthesis==
John Goodman (b.ca. 1635-1637; d.?). Winecooper.

Resident in the parish of Saint Mary Hill in 1655 and in the parish of Saint Catherine Coleman in 1656.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Eighteen year old John Goodman deposed on July 25th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in the case of "Travers against Pomeroy and against lighter of about 200. Tunns whereof the sayd Pomroy is owner and against any other".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.402r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.402r]]</ref> 

Goodman stated that Canary wine belonging to Gyles Travers was unloaded in January 1655 from the ship the ''John and Mary'' (Master: William Webber). The wine was put into a lighter (Master: Thomas Taylor) and carried to Buttolphs Wharf, where the lighter was moored safely and securely all night. The next morning another lighter, with a burthen of eight tons (Master: one Pomeroy), was moored to a ship at Buttolphs Wharf. This lighter allegedly veered into Taylor's lighter, despite being warned, sunk the lighter's boat and then ran foul of the lighter, breaking her hawser and casting her adrift. As a consequence, one pipe of wine worth £30 was staved in and "utterly lost".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.404v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.404v]]</ref>

A year later, on June 19th 1656, but giving his age as twenty-one, John Goodman deposed again in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.425r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.425r]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation in the case of "The Lord Protector against the shipp the ''Saint Paul'' and her lading and against Captaine Philips".

Goodman stated that he was employed by Captaine Isaac Phillips as a winecooper to assist in the unlading of wines from the ''Saint Paul'' and their transport to warehouses. Shortly after the wines were placed in the warehouses, the Commissioners for Prize Goods placed locks on the warehouse doors, prventing Phillips fropm accessing the goods. The wines were kept locked up for two months in considerable heat and were thus damaged. According to Goodman, wines, which on arrival were worth £14 or £15 per tunne were eventually worth no more than the customs due on them.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.425r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.425r]]

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