George Putt
| George Putt | |
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| Person | George Putt |
| Title | |
| First name | George |
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| Last name | Putt |
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| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Master's mate |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | George Putt |
| Has signoff text | George Putt |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1607 |
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| First deposition age | 48 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Sep 21 1655 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
| Ship classification | |
| Type of ship | Merchant ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Mariner.
Master's mate of the ship the ffreeman, a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons..
Resident in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-eight year old George Putt deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Delavall and Company in the case of "Yaxday (sic) against Delavall and others".[1]
Georeg Putt described his ship the ffreeman falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the Mary, which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ffreeman called out to the company of the Mary aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the Mary a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ffreeman who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ffreeman and not the ffreeman upon her the ffreeman not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp Mary was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".[2]
