Morgan Jones
| Morgan Jones | |
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| Person | Morgan Jones |
| Title | |
| First name | Morgan |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Jones |
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| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Cooper |
| Associated with ship(s) | Ffreeman of London (Master: John Whittey) |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Morgan Jones |
| Has signoff text | Morgan Jones |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Birth country | |
| Res street | Ratcliff |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1613 |
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| First deposition age | 42 |
| Primary sources | |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.510v 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
Morgan Jones (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Mariner and cooper. Cooper of the ship the ffreeman in 1655.
Resident in Ratcliff in Stepney in Middlesex in 1655.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-two year old Morgan Jones deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Yaxday against delavall and others".
The case concerned a collision between the ship the Mary and the freeman. The Mary had been coming up the Thames towards London and the ffreeman was going downstream. Morgan Jones, as cooper of the ffreeman, gave evidence in favour of the ffreeman's company.
Mogan Jones stated that he had come to give evidence at the request of Captain Whittie the master of the ffreeman. He had received his whole wages due for the return voyage from London to Virginia "save thirty shillings which is deteyned by the owners from him and the like from some others of the company of the sayd shipp which money is deteyned by the owners for certayne tobaccoes which appeareth by the pursers and boatswaines bookes were laded aboard the ffreeman at Virginia and not found aboard at her unladeing at London".[1]
