Benedict Turrettin

Benedict Turrettin

Benedict Turrettin
Person	Benedict Turrettin
Title
First name	Benedict
Middle name(s)
Last name	Turretin
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation	Merchant
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training	Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen	Unknown
Literacy	Signature
Has opening text	Benedict Turretin
Has signoff text	Benedict Turretin
Signoff image	(Invalid transcription image)
Language skills	English language, French language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
Birth town	Geneva
Birth county
Birth province
Birth country	Switzerland
Res street
Res parish
Res town	London
Res county
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Res country	England
Birth year	1632
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Probate date
First deposition age	23
Primary sources
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/70 f.255r Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Feb 5 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	N/A
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

Benedict Turretin (b.ca.1633; d.?). Merchant.

Born and lived in Geneva, Switzerland, until he moved to London fourteen months before his deposition in the High Court of Admiralty in February 1655.

Benedict Turretin is probably related to Benoit Turretin of Geneva.

A Wikipedia article states:

"Benoit Turretin (1588–1631), the son of Francesco Turretini, a native of Lucca, who settled in Geneva in 1579, was born at Zurich in November 1588. He was ordained a pastor in Geneva in 1612, and became professor of theology in 1618.

In 1620 he represented the Genevan Church at the national synod of Alais, when the decrees of the synod of Dort were introduced into France; and in 1621 he was sent on a successful mission to the states-general of the Netherlands, and to the authorities of the Hanseatic towns, with reference to the defence of Geneva against the threatened attacks of the duke of Savoy. He published in 1618-1620 (2 vols.) a defence of the Genevan translation of the Bible, Eine Verteidigung der genser Bibelübersetzung (Defense de la fidelité des traductions de la Bible faites a Geneve), against Pierre Cotton's Geneve plagiaire. He died on 4 March 1631.

His son was Francis Turretin."

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Benedict Turretin, a twenty-three year old merchant from Geneva, deposed on February 5th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined upon a libel in the case of "Philipp Richaut and Company for the shipp lately called the ffortune of the sea, and now the Post and her tackle , apparrell and furniture against (BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT) in particular and all others in generall".