Thomas Bryan
| Thomas Bryan | |
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| Person | Thomas Bryan |
| Title | |
| First name | Thomas |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Bryan |
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| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Cooper |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Citizen |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Thomas Bryan |
| Has signoff text | Tho: Bryan |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
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| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Botolph Algate |
| Res town | London |
| Res county | |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1630 |
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| First deposition age | 25 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.494r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Oct 22 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
Thomas Bryan (b. ca. 1630; d. ?). Citizen, mariner and cooper.
Cooper on the ship the Charles of London.
"Hee hath gone to sea these twelve yeares last past."[1]
Resident in the parish of Saint Botolph Algate.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Twenty-five year old Thomas Bryan deposed on October 22nd 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Tobye Severne William Wood and others in the case of "Tobie Severne William Wood and others mariners of the Hopefull Adventure whereof Richard Husbands was master against the sayd shipp the Hopefull Adventure and against Alexander Bence William Allen and others owners of the sayd shipp and alsoe against the sayd Richard Husbands."[2]
Thomas Bryan was cooper of the ship the Charles of London, a ship which rode in Yorke river in Virginia near the Hopefull Adventure. Bryan testified to watching the company of the Hopefull Adventure pumping their ship the day before she sprang a leak and then after she received five foot of water in her hold. Tobye Severne and William Wood procured a number of the company of the Charles to assist them pumping out the hold, Thomas Bryan being one of these men. The carpenter and carpenter's mate of the Charles were also called upon to help in the search for the source of the leak. Bryan reports that at last they found the leake "to be about the rouge heads of the sayd shipp about five foote and better underwater, and that it was an old trumell hole which was rotted and in which there was much duite and grasse and weedes which had gathered and bredd therein."[3]
Though only twenty-five years of age, Thomas Bryan stated "hee hath gone to sea these twelve yeares last past."[4]
