Johannes Basford
| Johannes Basford | |
|---|---|
| Person | Johannes Basford |
| Title | |
| First name | Johannes |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Basford |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Tobacconist |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Marke |
| Has opening text | Johannes Basford |
| Has signoff text | Johannes Basford |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
| Birth street | |
| Birth parish | |
| Birth town | |
| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Stephen Coleman Street |
| Res town | London |
| Res county | |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1618 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | |
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| First deposition age | |
| Primary sources | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/73 f.534r Annotate |
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| Allegation date(s) | |
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| Deposition date(s) | Aug 2 1660 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
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| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Johannes Basford (b. ca. 1618; d.aft. 1662). Tobacconist.
Resident in 1660 in the parish of Saint Stephen Coleman Street.
Presumably the same as the John Basford in the first precinct of Coleman Street ward in the 1662 Hearth tax records. He is recorded to have five hearths.[1]
Basford signed his deposition with a simple marke.[2]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-two year old Johannes Basford deposed on August 2nd 1660 in the High Court of Admiralty. He stated that he was "a tobacconist and well skilled in tobaccoe" and that he had been employed by Harris and Beomant to "viewe about foure or five twenty hogsheads of Virginia tobaccoe belonging unto them lying in a celler in Saint Mary at Hill". According to Basford all but three of the hogsheads were dry and well conditioned and were very good sound tobaccoe. Basford gave the current price of tobacco in London as 5 d a pound.[3]
Comment on sources
- ↑ 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1662, Coleman Street ward, First Precinct', in London Hearth Tax: City of London, 1662 (2011), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-hearth-tax/london/1662/coleman-street-ward-first-precinct; accessed 18 October 2016
- ↑ HCA 13/73 f.534r
- ↑ HCA 13/73 f.534r
