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==Biographical synthesis==
 
==Biographical synthesis==
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Captaine Thomas Ewens (b. ca. 1609; d. ?). Mariner.
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Captaine Thomas Ewens (b. ca. 1609; d. poss. ca. 1667). Mariner.
  
 
Commander of the ship the ''Scipio''.
 
Commander of the ship the ''Scipio''.
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==Comment on sources==
 
==Comment on sources==
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'''1620'''
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PROB 11/135/674 Will of Robert Ewens, Mariner of London 10 June 1620
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'''1650'''
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PROB 11/213/357 Will of William Ewens, Mariner of Greenwich, Kent 12 August 1650
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'''1655'''
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"List of vestrymen & parishioners, Limehouse, 1654/5
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"ffebruarie the 27:th 1654
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Att a Generall Meeting of the Parishion:rs in the Vestry house the daye & yeare afforesaid, the house being full Itt was taken into consideracon the greate want of Meetings for the settling and carrieing on of the weighty Matters of the Parish, the regulateing of all abuses and the more speedy effecteing of such good and wholsome orders & y:e execution of all good lawes that tends to reformacon & that haue thought fitt att this Meeteing to avoyde tumolteoues appearances for future and referr the Matter & consideracon vnto the severall Gentlemen whose names are hereunder to be a representative of pish of Stepnie & bee called a vestry and that they & every of them by their consents and meeteings or adiounem:ts to doe and act to all intents and purposes as the whole Parish, And that all Meeteings appoynted by them or any twelve of them together w:th two of the Churchwardens for tyme being, shall bee held deemed, and hereafter accounted a lawfull number:
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In Ratcliffe
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[Names ommitted for this wiki note]
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In Lymehouse
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Cap:t John Limbrey
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M:r John Heaman
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Cap:t Walter Maniard [sic]
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Cap:t John Proud
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Cap:t William Baylie
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M:r John Ducie
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Cap:t Richard Reade
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M:r William Graues
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Cap:t John Harris
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Cap:t Thomas Ewens"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091024475#page/n235/mode/2up G.W. Hill, W.H. Frere (eds.), Memorials of Stepney parish that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 (Guilford, 1890-91), pp. 202-203]</ref>
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fn. 4 on Capt. Thomas Ewens: "Captain Thomas Ewens, one of those recommended by Waterton (p. 179).  His will was dated October 8, 1664, and on March 2, 1666, his widow, Martha (for her life), and son, Thomas, were admitted at a manorial court to his property: - State Papers, Domestic; Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 59, v. 178."
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'''1667'''
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PROB 11/323/163 Will of Thomas Ewen, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 04 February 1667

Revision as of 23:08, October 21, 2016


Captaine Thomas Ewens

Captaine Thomas Ewens
Person Captaine Thomas Ewens
Title Captaine
First name Thomas
Middle name(s)
Last name Ewens
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Occupation Mariner
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Res street Limehouse
Res parish Stepney
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Birth year 1609
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
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Biographical synthesis

Captaine Thomas Ewens (b. ca. 1609; d. poss. ca. 1667). Mariner.

Commander of the ship the Scipio.

Resident in 1655 in Limehouse in parish of Stepney.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-six year old Captaine Thomas Ewens deposed om January 17th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of the "Claime of the said Captaine Andrew Rand for his goods in the Nostra Seniora da Rosario.[1]

Thomas Ewens stated that he was at Bahia de Tadas las Santos in Brazil in June and July 1650, with his ship the Scipio, of which he was commander. Also at that port were Andrew Rand, who was commander of the ship the Thomas and Lucy and George Wheeler, who was commander of a Portuguese ship called the Nostra Senora da Rosario.[2]

Comment on sources

1620

PROB 11/135/674 Will of Robert Ewens, Mariner of London 10 June 1620

1650

PROB 11/213/357 Will of William Ewens, Mariner of Greenwich, Kent 12 August 1650

1655

"List of vestrymen & parishioners, Limehouse, 1654/5

"ffebruarie the 27:th 1654

Att a Generall Meeting of the Parishion:rs in the Vestry house the daye & yeare afforesaid, the house being full Itt was taken into consideracon the greate want of Meetings for the settling and carrieing on of the weighty Matters of the Parish, the regulateing of all abuses and the more speedy effecteing of such good and wholsome orders & y:e execution of all good lawes that tends to reformacon & that haue thought fitt att this Meeteing to avoyde tumolteoues appearances for future and referr the Matter & consideracon vnto the severall Gentlemen whose names are hereunder to be a representative of pish of Stepnie & bee called a vestry and that they & every of them by their consents and meeteings or adiounem:ts to doe and act to all intents and purposes as the whole Parish, And that all Meeteings appoynted by them or any twelve of them together w:th two of the Churchwardens for tyme being, shall bee held deemed, and hereafter accounted a lawfull number:

In Ratcliffe

[Names ommitted for this wiki note]

In Lymehouse

Cap:t John Limbrey
M:r John Heaman
Cap:t Walter Maniard [sic]
Cap:t John Proud
Cap:t William Baylie
M:r John Ducie
Cap:t Richard Reade
M:r William Graues
Cap:t John Harris
Cap:t Thomas Ewens"[3]

fn. 4 on Capt. Thomas Ewens: "Captain Thomas Ewens, one of those recommended by Waterton (p. 179). His will was dated October 8, 1664, and on March 2, 1666, his widow, Martha (for her life), and son, Thomas, were admitted at a manorial court to his property: - State Papers, Domestic; Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 59, v. 178."

1667

PROB 11/323/163 Will of Thomas Ewen, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 04 February 1667
  1. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.54r
  2. ↑ HCA 13/70 f.54r
  3. ↑ G.W. Hill, W.H. Frere (eds.), Memorials of Stepney parish that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 (Guilford, 1890-91), pp. 202-203

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