Thomas Sheere

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Thomas Sheere
Person James Sheare
Title
First name James
Middle name(s)
Last name Sheare
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Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Clothworker
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text James Sheare
Has signoff text James Sheere
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
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Res street
Res parish Saint Margaret Lothbury
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1605
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First deposition age
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/70 f.226r Annotate
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Act book date(s)
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Deposition date(s) Feb 11 1655
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Has infobox completed Yes
Has synthesis completed No
Has HCA evidence completed No
Has source comment completed No
Ship classification
Type of ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation


Biographical synthesis

James Sheare (alt. Shere) (b.ca.1605; d.?). Citizen of London, clothworker and packer.

Resident in parish of Saint margaret Lothbury in 1655.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Fifty year old James Sheare deposed on February 11th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He was examined on a libel in the case of "Otgar and Jollison".

Sheare stated that he was a packer and that at his house in Lothbury in London he packed twenty pieces of perpetuanas for David Otgar into one pack, which he then numbered and marked under the direction of Otgar. The perpetuanas were worth £100, being fine goods. The pack was collected from Sheare's house at the instruction of Otgar. Sheare confirmed the details having made reference to his record book, in which he had mad an entry "as hee usually doth in the like cases".[2]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/70 f.226r
  2. HCA 13/70 f.226v