Edward Bushnell

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Edward Bushnell
Person Edward Bushnell
Title
First name Edward
Middle name(s)
Last name Bushnell
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Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Shipwright
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Carpenter
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Edmund Bushnell
Has signoff text Edmund Bushnell
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
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Res town Deptford
Res county Kent
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Res country England
Birth year 1630
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Probate date
First deposition age 26
Primary sources
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/71 f.163v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Apr 18 1656
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

Edmund Bushnell (b. ca. 1630; d. ?). Shipwright.

Self-described mariner and by implication a carpenter on ships. Bushnell states in his 1657 Admiralty Court deposition "This deponent having as a mariner sailed and served in and aboard the said shipp two severall voiages, whereof the voiage allate was one".[1]

Resident in 1656 in Deptford in the county of Kent.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Twenty-six year old Edmund Bushnell deposed on April 18th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He ws examined on an allegation on behalf of John Haselgrave and Company in teh case of "John Haselgrave and Companie owners of the Levant friggatt against Henry Chowne Bray Chowne and Francis Fooke".[2]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/71 f.164r
  2. HCA 13/71 f.163v