George Putt
| George Putt | |
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| Person | George Putt |
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| First name | George |
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| Last name | Putt |
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| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Master's mate |
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| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | George Putt |
| Has signoff text | George Putt |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res parish | Stepney |
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| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1608 |
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| First deposition age | 42 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/63 f.381r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.510r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Sep 23 1650, 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
Georeg Putt (b. ca. 1607-1608; d. ?). Mariner.
Master's mate of the ship the Virginia Merchant (Master: John Lockier) on a voyage to Virginia, from September 1649 to March 1650.[1]
Master's mate of the ship the ffreeman, a large ship of a burthen of 500 tons, in 1655, which was involved in a collision in the River Thames.[2] The ffreeman had returned from a voyage to Virginia with a lading of tobacco.
Resident in 1650 in Shadwell in the parish of Stepney, and in 1655 in the parish of Stepney.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-two year old George Putt deposed on September 23rd 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in the cause of "Lockier et al con LOckier". He gave his residence as Shadwell in the parish of Stepney.
The case concerned the ship the Virginia Merchant (Master: John Lokier), and was a case for wages demanded by five of the ship's mariners.[3] The mariners in question were Edward Wood, George Spurgin, Richard Paile, Nicholas Paddocke and Thomas Reason. They had been hired by the ship's captaine to go on a voyage from September 6th 1649 and continued aboard the ship until March 2nd 1650, with the exception of Thomas Reason, who was eight months in Lockier's service. The ship delivered its goods and passengers in Virginia.[4]
Georeg Putt was master's mate of the Virginia Merchant on a voyage from London to Virginia in 1649 and 1650. Putt declared that all five men deserved their wages, although he did not know their monthly rates. He himself was owed about 50 s, which was part of his wages, and which he had not yet demanded since coming to England. Putt was an unwilling wittness, coming "compelled by the order of this court". Putt was critical of two of the plaintiffs, saying that Spurgeon and Lockier "would sometimes behave themselves idelye and carelessley", and were not so dutiful and industrious many times as they ought to have been.[5] In an attempt at balance, Putt stated that John Lockier himself had behaved fairly towards his mariners, "striveing by all good meanes to give them any reasonable content".[6]
Forty-eight year old George Putt deposed 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".[7]
George 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".[8]
