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|Person=James Wilson
|First name=James
|Last name=Wilson
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Second mate
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=James Wilson
|Has signoff text=James Wilson
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1617
|First deposition age=36
|Deposition date(s)=Nov 29 1653
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship with a commission
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
James Wilson (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Mariner.

Master's second mate of the ship the ''Charles'' (Master: Thomas Wilson).

Resident in 1653 in Wapping in Middlesex.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty-six year old James Wilson deposed on November 29th 1653 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalfe of Read and Wilson in the case of "Joson against Read and Wilson for their interest in the ''Golden Lyon''".<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.374v Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.374v]]</ref>

James Wilson stated that the ship the ''Golden Lyon'' was seized in February 1652 in the James River at Virginia, near a place called Pagan Creek. Wilson knew this since he was on the ''Charles'', which was one of the three ships which took and seized the ''Golden Lyon''. The ''Charles'' had a commission from the English Commonwealth "to seize all shipps and goods whatsoever which they should then finde tradeing at Virginia". The ''Charles'' had entered into a mutual agreement with the ''William and John'' and the ''Seven Sisters'' to assist each othe rin surprizing all such vessels as they were authorized by their commissions to surprise. They "did alsoe at the same tyme agree each with other that they would proportionally share and divide amongst them the sayd Josson Read and Wilson and their severall mariners and seamen of their severall companyes all shipps and their ladings whatsoever which they should joyntly or aparte seize and surprize".<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.375r Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.375r]]</ref>

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