Captaine Thomas Ewens - Revision history

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 '''January 1655'''
-Forty-six year old Captaine Thomas Ewens deposed om January 17th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of the "Claime of the said Captaine Andrew Rand for his goods in the ''Nostra Seniora da Rosario''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.54r]]</ref>
+Forty-six year old Captaine Thomas Ewens deposed on January 17th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of the "Claime of the said Captaine Andrew Rand for his goods in the ''Nostra Seniora da Rosario''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.54r]]</ref>
 Thomas Ewens stated that he was at Bahia de Tadas las Santos in Brazil in June and July 1650, with his ship the ''Scipio'', of which he was commander. Also at that port were Andrew Rand, who was commander of the ship the ''Thomas and Lucy'' and George Wheeler, who was commander of a Portuguese ship called the ''Nostra Senora da Rosario''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.54r]]</ref>

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 The will of Thomas Ewens is dated October 8th 1664 and proved on February 4th 1667<ref>PROB 11/323/163 Will of Thomas Ewen, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 04 February 1667</ref>
-The widow of Charles Conyers, who is mentioned by Sir William Ryder in his correspondence with Sir George Oxenden, may have married Captain Thomas Ewens' twenty-seven year olf son, also named Thomas Ewen, who styled himself a gentleman and bachelor. The marriage took place in December 1667.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/allegationsforma23ches#page/142/mode/2up Joseph Lemuel Chester, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1558-1699: also, for those issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1679 (London, 1886), p. 143]</ref>
+The widow of Charles Conyers, who is mentioned by Sir William Ryder in his correspondence with Sir George Oxenden, may have married Captain Thomas Ewens' twenty-seven year old son, also named Thomas Ewen, who styled himself a gentleman and bachelor. The marriage took place in December 1667.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/allegationsforma23ches#page/142/mode/2up Joseph Lemuel Chester, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1558-1699: also, for those issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1679 (London, 1886), p. 143]</ref>
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==

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 |Occupation=Mariner
 |Mariner occupation=Commander, Master
 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown

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 |Death year=1667
 |Probate date=February 4, 1667
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.688v Annotate, HCA 13/71 f.276v Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Jan 17 1655, Nov 9 1655, Jul 1 1656

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 |Probate date=February 4, 1667
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.688v Annotate, HCA 13/71 f.276v Annotate,
-|Deposition date(s)=Jan 17 1655. Nov 9 1655, Jul 1 1656
+|Deposition date(s)=Jan 17 1655, Nov 9 1655, Jul 1 1656
 |Has infobox completed=Yes
 |Has synthesis completed=No

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 '''1659'''
-Thomas Pinshurst, a thirty-five year old shipwright of Redriff in Surrey, deposed on March 8th 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an alleagtion in the cause of "Humfrey ffosse John Tucker and Charles Howgate late mariners of the shipp the ''Scipio'' against Thomas Ewen the captaine thereo".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.76v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.76v]]</ref> The case concerned a dispute between some former mariners of the ''Scipio'' for unpaid pay. Pinshurst had been carpenter's mate in the ''Scipio'', and claimed that when hired he was told the voyage was for the Mediteranean and not for Brazil. Pinshurst himseelf had settled a former dispute with Ewens and said "hee is paid all his wages for the voyage in question according to an arbitration made betweene the sayd Ewens and this deponent thereabout soe that hee intendeth noe suite against Ewens whosoever prevaileth in this cause".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.77v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.77v]]</ref>
+Thomas Pinshurst, a thirty-five year old shipwright of Redriff in Surrey, deposed on March 8th 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "Humfrey ffosse John Tucker and Charles Howgate late mariners of the shipp the ''Scipio'' against Thomas Ewen the captaine thereo".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.76v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.76v]]</ref> The case concerned a dispute between some former mariners of the ''Scipio'' for unpaid pay. Pinshurst had been carpenter's mate in the ''Scipio'', and claimed that when hired he was told the voyage was for the Mediteranean and not for Brazil. Pinshurst himseelf had settled a former dispute with Ewens and said "hee is paid all his wages for the voyage in question according to an arbitration made betweene the sayd Ewens and this deponent thereabout soe that hee intendeth noe suite against Ewens whosoever prevaileth in this cause".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.77v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.77v]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

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 |Literacy=Signature
 |Has opening text=Captaine Thomas Ewens
-|Has signoff text=Tho Ewens
+|Has signoff text=Tho: Ewens
 |Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
 |Language skills=English language,
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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1609
-|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate,
+|Death year=1667
-|Deposition date(s)=Jan 17 1655
+|Probate date=February 4, 1667
 |Has infobox completed=Yes
 |Has synthesis completed=No
 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
 }}
 ==Biographical synthesis==
-Captaine Thomas Ewens (b. ca. 1609; d. poss. ca. 1667). Mariner.
+Captaine Thomas Ewens (alt. Thomas Ewens; Thomas Ewen) (b. ca. 1609; d. poss. ca. 1667). Mariner.
-Commander of the ship the ''Scipio''.
+Commander of the ship the ''Scipio'' in between 1648 and 1651, and possibly outside this period.
-Resident in 1655 in Limehouse in parish of Stepney.
+Resident in 1655 and 1656 in Limehouse in parish of Stepney.
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 Forty-six year old Captaine Thomas Ewens deposed om January 17th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of the "Claime of the said Captaine Andrew Rand for his goods in the ''Nostra Seniora da Rosario''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.54r]]</ref>
 Thomas Ewens stated that he was at Bahia de Tadas las Santos in Brazil in June and July 1650, with his ship the ''Scipio'', of which he was commander. Also at that port were Andrew Rand, who was commander of the ship the ''Thomas and Lucy'' and George Wheeler, who was commander of a Portuguese ship called the ''Nostra Senora da Rosario''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.54r]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==
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 PROB 11/323/163 Will of Thomas Ewen, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 04 February 1667