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|Person=James Massey
|First name=James
|Last name=Massey
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Foremastman
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=James Massey
|Has signoff text=Simple marke
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Ratcliff
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1616
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.78r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Jun 26 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==
James Massey. Mariner.

Foremastman on the ship the ''Elizabeth and Dorothy'' in 1656.

Resident in 1657 in Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-one year old James Massey deposed on June 26th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.78r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.78r]]</ref> He wsa examined on an allegation on behalf of Humfrey Sandfrod and Company, mariners of the ship the ''Elizabeth and Dorothy'' in the case of "Humfrey Sandford and Company Mariner of the shipp the ''Elizabeth and Dorothy'' of London (whereof William Keeble was late master) against John Yarwood and Company owners of the sayd ship".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.77r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.77r]]</ref>

James Massey stated that "hee being one of her company as aforesayd thereby knoweth that the sayd Sandford and Company whose names are mentioned in the schedule arlate now read to him at this his examination did all serve in the sayd shipp the voyage in question in the severall places and qualities theire in mentioned and beleeveth they were shipped to serve in her (as this deponent well knoweth hee him selfe was) by the arlate Mr Keeble and his mate William Blunt who was also a part owner of the sayd shipp, and saith hee this deponent being a foremast man was hyred at thirty three shillings a moneth for the sayd voyage which was to bee from London to Ireland and thense to ffrance, and thense back to Ireland and thense back to ffrance and thense back to London where the voyage was to end, but at what rates the persons schedulate were hyred hee knoweth not for that hee was not present at their hyreing".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.78v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.78v]]</ref>

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ColinGreenstreet at 20:39, November 7, 2016

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