William Games - Revision history

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|Person=William Games
|First name=William
|Last name=Games
|Occupation=Waterman
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=William Games
|Has signoff text=William Games
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res town=Greenwich
|Res county=Surrey
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1598
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.564r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Feb 29 1656
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=River boat; Wharf
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
William Games (b. ca. 1598; d. ?). Waterman.

Kept his own wharf in Greenwich

"Of Greenwich in the county of Kent waterman, where he was borne, and hath lived allmost ever since".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.564r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.564r]]</ref>

Resident in 1656 in Greenwich in the county of Kent.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Fifty-eight year old William Games deposed on February 29th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the cause of "Robinson against Jeremy and Jasper Van Cullen".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.564r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.564r]]</ref>

William Games stated that "he the deponent dwelling and keeping a wharfe in Greenwich did (being upon his sayd wharfe) in the fowrth day of November being a Sunday see the vessell or pinke called the ''Wyldeman'' did put anchor in the Roade or place where the sayd John Robinson the producent had layne his wilchens, weeles and lamprills and that the sayd anchor came fowle of the sayd Robinsons goods, for that of this deponents sight and knowledge the anchor of the sayd shipp did heave above water the sayd wilchens, weeles and lamprell"<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.564r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.564r]]; [[HCA 13/70 f.564v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.564v]]</ref>

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 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.564r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Feb 29 1656

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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res town=Greenwich
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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1598

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 |Last name=Games
 |Occupation=Waterman
 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown
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 |Has opening text=William Games
 |Has signoff text=William Games
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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res town=Greenwich
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 William Games (b. ca. 1598; d. ?). Waterman.
-Kept his own wharf in Greenwich
+Kept his own wharf in Greenwich.
 "Of Greenwich in the county of Kent waterman, where he was borne, and hath lived allmost ever since".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.564r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.564r]]</ref>