Captaine Thomas Ewens
| Captaine Thomas Ewens | |
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| Person | Captaine Thomas Ewens |
| Title | Captaine |
| First name | Thomas |
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| Last name | Ewens |
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| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Captaine Thomas Ewens |
| Has signoff text | Tho Ewens |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Birth country | |
| Res street | Limehouse |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1609 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.54r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Jan 17 1655 |
| 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
Captaine Thomas Ewens (b. ca. 1609; d. poss. ca. 1667). Mariner.
Commander of the ship the Scipio.
Resident in 1655 in Limehouse in parish of Stepney.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-six year old Captaine Thomas Ewens deposed om January 17th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of the "Claime of the said Captaine Andrew Rand for his goods in the Nostra Seniora da Rosario.[1]
Thomas Ewens stated that he was at Bahia de Tadas las Santos in Brazil in June and July 1650, with his ship the Scipio, of which he was commander. Also at that port were Andrew Rand, who was commander of the ship the Thomas and Lucy and George Wheeler, who was commander of a Portuguese ship called the Nostra Senora da Rosario.[2]
Comment on sources
1620
PROB 11/135/674 Will of Robert Ewens, Mariner of London 10 June 1620
1650
PROB 11/213/357 Will of William Ewens, Mariner of Greenwich, Kent 12 August 1650
1655
"List of vestrymen & parishioners, Limehouse, 1654/5
"ffebruarie the 27:th 1654
Att a Generall Meeting of the Parishion:rs in the Vestry house the daye & yeare afforesaid, the house being full Itt was taken into consideracon the greate want of Meetings for the settling and carrieing on of the weighty Matters of the Parish, the regulateing of all abuses and the more speedy effecteing of such good and wholsome orders & y:e execution of all good lawes that tends to reformacon & that haue thought fitt att this Meeteing to avoyde tumolteoues appearances for future and referr the Matter & consideracon vnto the severall Gentlemen whose names are hereunder to be a representative of pish of Stepnie & bee called a vestry and that they & every of them by their consents and meeteings or adiounem:ts to doe and act to all intents and purposes as the whole Parish, And that all Meeteings appoynted by them or any twelve of them together w:th two of the Churchwardens for tyme being, shall bee held deemed, and hereafter accounted a lawfull number:
In Ratcliffe
[Names ommitted for this wiki note]
In Lymehouse
Cap:t John Limbrey
M:r John Heaman
Cap:t Walter Maniard [sic]
Cap:t John Proud
Cap:t William Baylie
M:r John Ducie
Cap:t Richard Reade
M:r William Graues
Cap:t John Harris
Cap:t Thomas Ewens"[3]
fn. 4 on Capt. Thomas Ewens: "Captain Thomas Ewens, one of those recommended by Waterton (p. 179). His will was dated October 8, 1664, and on March 2, 1666, his widow, Martha (for her life), and son, Thomas, were admitted at a manorial court to his property: - State Papers, Domestic; Stepney Court Rolls, iii. 59, v. 178."
1667
PROB 11/323/163 Will of Thomas Ewen, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 04 February 1667
