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|Person=Morgan Jones
|First name=Morgan
|Last name=Jones
|Occupation=Cooper
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=Morgan Jones
|Has signoff text=Morgan Jones
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Ratcliff
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1613
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.510v 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
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==Biographical synthesis==
Morgan Jones (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Mariner and cooper. Cooper of the ship the ''ffreeman'' in 1655.

Resident in Ratcliff in Stepney in Middlesex in 1655.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-two year old Morgan Jones deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Yaxday against delavall and others".

The case concerned a collision between the ship the ''Mary'' and the ''freeman''. The ''Mary'' had been coming up the Thames towards London and the ''ffreeman'' was going downstream. Morgan Jones, as cooper of the ''ffreeman'', gave evidence in favour of the ''ffreeman's'' company.

Mogan Jones stated that he had come to give evidence at the request of Captain Whittie the master of the ''ffreeman''. He had received his whole wages due for the return voyage from London to Virginia "save thirty shillings which is deteyned by the owners from him and the like from some others of the company of the sayd shipp which money is deteyned by the owners for certayne tobaccoes which appeareth by the pursers and boatswaines bookes were laded aboard the ''ffreeman'' at Virginia and not found aboard at her unladeing at London".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.511r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.511r]]</ref>

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 |Birth year=1613
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 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
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 ==Biographical synthesis==

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 |Language skills=English language,
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