Samuell Haughton

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Samuell Haughton
Person Samuell Haughton
Title
First name Samuell
Middle name(s)
Last name Haughton
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Spouse of
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Occupation Scrivener
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of Christopher Townesend
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Not citizen
Literacy Signature
Has opening text
Has signoff text Sam:ll Haughton
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Language skills English language
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Birth street
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Res parish Allhallows Lombard Street
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1637
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Probate date 1686
First deposition age
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/72 f.180v Annotate
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation


Biographical synthesis

Samuell Haughton (b.ca.1637; d.?), scrivener. Resident in January 1658 in the parish of Allhallows Lombard Street.[1]

Appentice of the London scrivener Christoper Townesend. Townesend is recorded in Rawlinson MS. D51 as a steward of the London scriveners.[2]

Christopher Townesend is recorded in the same document as having another apprentice, John Byrt.[3]

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Comment on sources

PROB 11/382/225 Will of Samuel Haughton, Scrivener of London 18 February 1686

"(YEAR?) 11 March. Samuel Haughton of London, scrivener aged 20, late servant of Christopher Townesend, late citizen and scrivener of London, and Edward Mann aged 22, servant of William Toone, citizen and haberdasher of London, depose that Elias Pilgrim, mariner, on 7 August 1652, gave a bond to Toone for goods to be shipped to Barbados in the Paramour, Mr. Joseph Ward. William Toone aged 49 deposes that he has not received any return from Elias Pilgrim" (MCD 7)"[4]
  1. HCA 13/72 f.18v
  2. James Read and Christopher Townsend, Stewards.', 'Rawlinson MS. D51: Subscriptions to oath, and notes on Assistants, 1628-78', in Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678, ed. Francis W Steer (London, 1968), pp. 113-125. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol4/pp113-125, accessed 13 July 2016
  3. [XX 'John Byrt, app. of Christopher Townesend [1635] 1653', 'Rawlinson MS. D51: Subscriptions to oath, and notes on Assistants, 1628-78', in Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678, ed. Francis W Steer (London, 1968), pp. 113-125. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-record-soc/vol4/pp113-125, accessed 13 July 2016
  4. Peter W. Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (XXXX. 1987), p.314