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|Person=William Whitfeild
|First name=William
|Last name=Whitfeild
|Occupation=Mariner
|Associated with ship(s)=Saint Salvador (Master: N/A),
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=Wiilliam Whitfeild
|Has signoff text=R
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1615
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.178v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Nov 24 1657
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
William Whitfeild (b. ca. 1615; d. ?). Mariner.

One of the ship the ''Saint Salvador'', riding in the River tHames.

Probably a common man, though not explicitly stated.

Resident in 1657 in Wapping.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-two year old William Whitfeild deposed on Nov 24th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.178v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.178v]]</ref> He was examined on a libel in the case of "Paine and company against Cooke".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.178r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.178r]]</ref>

William Whitfeild stated that he knew Joseph Paine, the master of the ship the ''William Bonadventure'', and that the ''Bonadventure'' had ridden in the River Thames over against Bell wharf for a month or more. This "hee knoweth for that hee this deponent had laine there for the most part of that time in the shipp the ''Saint Salvador'', to which hee belonged and which lay next on the off aside of the ''William Bonadventure''".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.178r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.178r]]</ref>

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