George Putt - Revision history

ColinGreenstreet at 21:19, November 7, 2016

2016-11-07T21:19:33Z

ColinGreenstreet at 22:16, October 28, 2016

2016-10-28T22:16:04Z

ColinGreenstreet at 22:14, October 28, 2016

2016-10-28T22:14:58Z

ColinGreenstreet at 22:11, October 28, 2016

2016-10-28T22:11:33Z

ColinGreenstreet at 20:22, October 27, 2016

2016-10-27T20:22:55Z

ColinGreenstreet at 20:21, October 27, 2016

2016-10-27T20:21:31Z

ColinGreenstreet at 20:21, October 27, 2016

2016-10-27T20:21:02Z

ColinGreenstreet: Created page with "{{Banner}} {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree |Person=George Putt |First name=George |Last name=Putt |Occupation=Mariner |Mariner occupation=Master's mate |Training=Not apprentice |Citi..."

2016-10-27T20:18:02Z

Created page with "{{Banner}} {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree |Person=George Putt |First name=George |Last name=Putt |Occupation=Mariner |Mariner occupation=Master's mate |Training=Not apprentice |Citi..."

New page

{{Banner}}
{{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree
|Person=George Putt
|First name=George
|Last name=Putt
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Master's mate
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=George Putt
|Has signoff text=George Putt
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1607
|First deposition age=48
|Deposition date(s)=Sep 21 1655
|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==
Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Mariner.

Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman''.

Resident in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-eight year old George Putt ddeposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Delavall and Company in the case of "Yaxday (sic) against Delavall and others".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>

Georeg Putt described his ship the ''ffreeman'' falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the ''Mary'', which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ''ffreeman'' called out to the company of the ''Mary'' aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the ''Mary'' a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ''ffreeman'' who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ''ffreeman'' and not the ffreeman upon her the ''ffreeman'' not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp ''Mary'' was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

@@ Line 32: / Line 32: @@
 Master's mate of the ship the ''Virginia Merchant'' (Master: John Lockier) on a voyage to Virginia, from September 1649 to March 1650.<ref>[[HCA 13/63 f.381r Annotate|HCA 13/63 f.381r]]</ref>
-Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman'', a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons, in 1655, which was involved in a collision in the River Thames.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref> The ffreeman had returned from a voyage to Virginia with a lading of tobacco.
+Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman'', a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons, in 1655, which was involved in a collision in the River Thames.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref> The ''ffreeman'' had returned from a voyage to Virginia with a lading of tobacco.
 Resident in 1650 in Shadwell in the parish of Stepney, and in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:14, October 28, 2016
Line 46:		Line 46:

	George Putt described his ship the ''ffreeman'' falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the ''Mary'', which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ''ffreeman'' called out to the company of the ''Mary'' aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the ''Mary'' a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ''ffreeman'' who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ''ffreeman'' and not the ffreeman upon her the ''ffreeman'' not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp ''Mary'' was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate\|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>		George Putt described his ship the ''ffreeman'' falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the ''Mary'', which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ''ffreeman'' called out to the company of the ''Mary'' aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the ''Mary'' a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ''ffreeman'' who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ''ffreeman'' and not the ffreeman upon her the ''ffreeman'' not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp ''Mary'' was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate\|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>
		+
		+	==Strange tale of Virginia Merchant==
		+
		+	Mariner, chief mate and pilot of the ''William and Ralph'' alias the ''Virginia Merchant'', and resident in Shadwell. Mentioned in criminal case as a witness, alongside the passenger, Phillip Stephens.
		+
		+	George Putt's name is also mentioned in the humble petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon. He appears to have criticised the poor victualling of the ship, The humble petition states that: "The sayd Captaine Lockier had not layd in above 6 weekes victualls in his said shipp when she sett saile from Gravesend outward bound; which Mr George Putt cheife Mate and pilot of the said Shippe taking notice of, asked the said Captaine why he had soe slenderly victualled the shipp telling him, it would not serve halfe way; he replyed that he would take in more victualls at the Downes which he did not at all performe notwithstanding there were 35 seaman and above 130 passengers neere upon 200 persons in all in the said Shippe, whereof 62 passengers and 4 Seamen by reason of the want of provisions were starved to death before the shipp came to Virginia."<ref>[[Tools: Cannibal tales#head-7792b396c165940a2ef3372031f6dbb64b71233e\|Petitio Prescilla Lockyer, September 28th 1650, HCA 15/5 f.99 ]]</ref>
		+
		+	Colonel Henry Norwood, in his account of the voyage, refers to George Putt as "mate Putts", calling him "a stout seaman".
		+
		+	Norwood describes Putt's strength of character in adversity:
		+
		+	"''Mate Putt was then on the watch, and did not want his apprehension of what did soon ensue, which in all likelihood was to end in our utter perdition; for about the hours of twelve or one at night, we heard and felt a mighty sea break on our fore-ship, which made such an inundation on the deck where the mate was walking, that he retired back with all diligence up to his knees in water, with short ejaculations of prayers in his mouth, supposing the ship was foundering, and at the last gasp. This looked like a stroke of death in every seaman's opinion: the ship stood stock still, with her head under water, seeming to bore her way into the sea. My two comrades and myself lay on our platform, sharing liberally in the general consternation. We took a short leave of each other, men, women, and children. All assaulted with the fresh terror of death, made a most dolorous outcry throughout the ship, whilst mate Putts perceiving the deck almost freed of water, called out aloud for hands to pump. This we thought a lightning before death, but gave me occasion (as having the best sea legs) to look and learn the subject of this astonishing alarm, which proved to arise from no less cause than the loss of our forecastle, with six guns, and our anchors (all but one that was fastened to a cable) together with our two cooks, whereof one was recovered by a strange providence.''"<ref>[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=J1025.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1 Colonel Norwood, A Voyage to Virginia (1649), in Tracts and Other Paper Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, vol. 3 (Gloucester, MA, 1963), p.10]</ref>
		+
		+	According to Norwood's account, Putt remained on the ship while Captain Lockier, Colonel Norwood and others went ashore to a coastal island off Virginia.

	==Comment on sources==		==Comment on sources==
		+	'''1644'''
		+
		+	"Marriage: 1644 Sept. 19 George Putt of Ratcliffe Maryner & Elizabeth Bowen of Shadwell, W."<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/marriageregister02step#page/n99/mode/2up Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, Marriage Registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the County of Middlesex (XXXX, XXXX), vol. 2., 1640-1696 p.44], viewed 07/03/15</ref> CHECK - I think there is a remarriage of Elizabeth Bowen of Ratcliffe, W. to an Edmund Call of Poplar around 1695 [CHECK DATE]
		+
		+	'''1666'''
		+
		+	SP 46/137/526 Masters' certificates granted by Trinity House: Master: George Putt of New Gravell Lane Signatures: William Wildeys and 2 others [named] 24 Feb. 1666

@@ Line 6: / Line 6: @@
 |Occupation=Mariner
 |Mariner occupation=Master's mate
 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 |Res county=Middlesex
 |Res country=England
-|Birth year=1607
+|Birth year=1608
-|First deposition age=48
+|First deposition age=42
-|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate,
+|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/63 f.381r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate,
-|Deposition date(s)=Sep 21 1655
+|Deposition date(s)=Sep 23 1650, Sep 21 1655
 |Has infobox completed=Yes
 |Has synthesis completed=No
@@ Line 28: / Line 28: @@
 }}
 ==Biographical synthesis==
-Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Mariner.
+Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607-1608; d. ?). Mariner.
-Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman'', a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons..
+Master's mate of the ship the ''Virginia Merchant'' (Master: John Lockier) on a voyage to Virginia, from September 1649 to March 1650.<ref>[[HCA 13/63 f.381r Annotate|HCA 13/63 f.381r]]</ref>
-Resident in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.
+Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman'', a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons, in 1655, which was involved in a collision in the River Thames.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref> The ffreeman had returned from a voyage to Virginia with a lading of tobacco.
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 Forty-eight year old George Putt deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Delavall and Company in the case of "Yaxday (sic) against Delavall and others".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>
-Georeg Putt described his ship the ''ffreeman'' falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the ''Mary'', which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ''ffreeman'' called out to the company of the ''Mary'' aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the ''Mary'' a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ''ffreeman'' who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ''ffreeman'' and not the ffreeman upon her the ''ffreeman'' not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp ''Mary'' was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>
+George Putt described his ship the ''ffreeman'' falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the ''Mary'', which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ''ffreeman'' called out to the company of the ''Mary'' aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the ''Mary'' a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ''ffreeman'' who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ''ffreeman'' and not the ffreeman upon her the ''ffreeman'' not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp ''Mary'' was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 |Has opening text=George Putt
 |Has signoff text=George Putt
-|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
+|Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res parish=Stepney
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Mariner.
-Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman''.
+Master's mate of the ship the ''ffreeman'', a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons..
 Resident in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.