Thomas Harris

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Thomas Harris
Person Thomas Harris
Title
First name Thomas
Middle name(s)
Last name Harris
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Master
Associated with ship(s) Sea fflower (Master: Thomas Harris)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Marke
Has opening text Thomas Harris
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
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Res street
Res parish
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Res county Isle of Wight
Res province
Res country England
Birth year 1595
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First deposition age 58
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/68 f.312r Annotate, HCA 13/68 f.316v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Nov 7 1653, Nov 8 1653
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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

Thomas Harris (b. ca. 1595; d. ?). Mariner.

Master and half owner of the ship the Sea fflower.

Resident in 1653 in the Isle of Wight.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

November 1653

Fifty-eight year old Thomas Harris deposed on November 7th 1653 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Colonel Pride in "The clayme of Colonell Pridgesor for beefe and porke in the Sea fflower".[1]

The case concerned a lading of beef and pork put on board the ship the Sea fflower by John Snow at Bristol on May 1st 1653 to be transported to Portsmouth. The meat was to be used to victual the navy. However, en route for Portsmouth, the Sea fflower was seized by the Dutch and carried to Saint Mallo. John Harris could not detail the merhcnat's marks used on the goods "by reason the bills of ladeing and all other his this deponents papers on board were taken from him by a dutch man of warr".[2] The meat was bought on behalf of Colonel Pride and the other navy victuallers.

Thomas Harris and his crew were turned out of their ship, but she was subsequently retaken by the Saphir. Harris subsequently found his ship again in October 1653 at Plymouth.[3]

Thomas Harris deposed in Court a day later on November 8th 1653. He was examined on a related case on an allegation on behalf of "The clayme of John Snowe English merchant for 124 bushells of white pease and 13 way of coales conteyning eighteene chadron and 24 bushells put on board the shipp the Sea fflower whereof one Thomas Harris was master".[4]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/68 f.312r
  2. HCA 13/68 f.312r
  3. HCA 13/68 f.312v
  4. HCA 13/68 f.316v