Robert Grinn
Robert Grinn | |
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Person | Robert Grinn |
Title | |
First name | Robert |
Middle name(s) | |
Last name | Grinn |
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Occupation | Mariner |
Secondary shorebased occupation | |
Mariner occupation | Quartermaster |
Associated with ship(s) | Raynboe |
Training | Not apprentice |
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Had apprentice(s) | |
Citizen | Unknown |
Literacy | Marke |
Has opening text | Robert Grinn |
Has signoff text | Simple symbol (M) |
Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
Language skills | English language |
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Res town | Greenwich |
Res county | Kent |
Res province | |
Res country | England |
Birth year | 1603 |
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First deposition age | 48 |
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Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/65 f.40r Annotate |
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Deposition date(s) | Sep 4 1651 |
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
Robert Grinn (b. ca. 1603; d. ?). Mariner.
Quartermaster of the ship the Raynboe in 1643.[1]
Resident in 1651 in Greenwich in the county of Kent.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-eight year old Robert Grinn deposed on September 4th 1651 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on interrogatories on behalf of Paul Dad, the master of the ship the Adventure in the case of "Dadd against [?AllXXlay]".[2]
Robert Grinn stated that "being a quarter master of and in the Raynboe was in the said ship at sea nere the ship the Adventure when the said Ashley seized her and mett him att Sea and sawe her in his possession, and the next yeare after this deponent goeing to Leghorne hee did there see the said ship the Adventure in the possession of such persons as the said Ashley had sold her unto "[3]
Grinn added that "the last tyme that this deponent sawe the said ship the Adventure was at the Arches in Turkie, and saith she was of about the burthen of 150 Tonns".[4]