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|Person=James Gilbert
|First name=James
|Last name=Gilbert
|Occupation=Merchant
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=James Gilbert
|Has signoff text=James Gilbert
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language, French language,
|Birth town=Coural
|Birth province=Normandy
|Birth country=France
|Res parish=Saint Martin Orgar
|Res town=London
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1625
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.601r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Sep 5 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
James Gilbert (b. ca. 1625; d. ?). Merchant.

Born in Coural, near Saint Malo in France. Lived in Exeter for two years ca. 1647-1649, and in London from ca. 1649 to 1655.

Resident in 1655 in the parish of Saint Martin Orgar.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty year old James Gilbert deposed on September 5th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "The claime of the said William Belyn for the ''Crosse of Jerusalem".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.601r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.601r]]</ref>

James Gilbert stated that he had known William Belyn of Amsterdam for twelve years or more, and that Belyn was accounted an inhabitant and burger of Amsterdam. Belyn was married to a Dutch woman. Gilbert himself had been born in Coural near Saint Malo in France, but had lived in London for the last six years, and before that for two years in Exeter. For the last five years he had known William Belyn by correspondence, burt had known him earlier in Saint Malo, where Belyn had largely resided before moving to Amsterdam. According to James Gilbert, Belyn moved to Amsterdam some twelve or fourteen years before Gilbert's deposition "there having bin some falling out betweene him and some other gentlemen of the place and they setting one night upon him and cutting off the haire of his head, which was very fairely growne, hee was soe desquighted therewith that hee presently left the towne, and swore hee would never come there againe, and soe hath dwelt ever since at Amsterdam where hee hath prospered very well and is a merchant of good accompt."<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.601r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.601r]]</ref>

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ColinGreenstreet at 11:03, October 28, 2016

ColinGreenstreet: Created page with "{{Banner}} {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree |Person=James Gilbert |First name=James |Last name=Gilbert |Occupation=Merchant |Training=Not apprentice |Citizen=Unknown |Literacy=Signatu..."