George Putt

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George Putt
Person George Putt
Title
First name George
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Last name Putt
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Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Master's mate
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
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Has opening text George Putt
Has signoff text George Putt
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Language skills English language
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Res parish Stepney
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Res county Middlesex
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Res country England
Birth year 1607
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First deposition age 48
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Deposition date(s) Sep 21 1655
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Ship classification
Type of ship Merchant ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Mariner.

Master's mate of the ship the ffreeman, a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons..

Resident in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-eight year old George Putt ddeposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Delavall and Company in the case of "Yaxday (sic) against Delavall and others".[1]

Georeg Putt described his ship the ffreeman falling down the River Thames near Woolwich towards Gravesend. It came foul of a second ship, the Mary, which "was comming up with the tyde of fludd towards London". Putt recounts that "the company of the ffreeman called out to the company of the Mary aforesayd and desyred them to putt their shipp the Mary a stayes that thereby they might avoide running against the ffreeman who was going downe the River with a fayre wynde". However, "they did not bring their shipp a stayes but willfully or at least in a carelesse manner (as hee beleeveth) ranne upon the ffreeman and not the ffreeman upon her the ffreeman not being able to edge neerer the shore then shee did without apparant hazard to her selfe and her ladeing shee being a large vessell of about five hundred tonnes and drawing above sixteene foote water and hee beleeveth the sayd shipp Mary was a smale shipp and therefore her company if they had pleased might have gone neerer the shoare or put their shipp a stayes as they were desyred, or layed their foresayle and foretopsayle to the mast".[2]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/70 f.510r
  2. HCA 13/70 f.510r