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|Person=John Clarke (b. ca. 1630)
|First name=John
|Last name=Clarke
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Quartermaster
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=John Clarke
|Has signoff text=Simple marke
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1626
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.512r Annotate,
|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==
John Clarke (b. ca. 1626; d. ?). Mariner.

A quartermaster of the ship the ''ffreeman'' (Master: John Whitly). There were three quartermasters on the ''ffreeman'', all three of whom deposed in this cause.The other two quartermasters were [[Robert Holding]] and [[Edward Rossiter]]. Of the three quartermasters only Robert Holding , aged thirty-one, of the parish of Stepney, was literate.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.511r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.511r]]</ref> Edward Rossiter, a forty-eight year old mariner and quartemaster of Limehouse, signed his deposition, as did John Clarke, with a simple marke.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.512v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.512v]]</ref>

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Twenty-nine year old John Clarke deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.512r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.512r]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Delavall and Company in the cause of "Yaxday (sic) against Delavall and others".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.510r]]</ref>

After recounting the events of the ship the ''Mary'' falling foul of the ''ffreeman'' as the ''ffreeman'' went down towards Gravesend, John Clarke stated that he had been "paid all his wages save 30 ''s'' which he saith is stopped out of the same and the like out of the wages of others of the ffreemans company for certayne tobaccoes which appeareth by the boatswaines booke to be laded aboard the ''ffreeman'' in Virginia and were nor found aboard her at her unladeing at London".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.512r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.512r]]</ref>

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John Clarke (b. ca. 1630) - Revision history

ColinGreenstreet at 18:33, November 4, 2016

ColinGreenstreet at 21:53, October 28, 2016

ColinGreenstreet: Created page with "{{Banner}} {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree |Person=John Clarke (b. ca. 1630) |First name=John |Last name=Clarke |Occupation=Mariner |Mariner occupation=Quartermaster |Training=Not ap..."