Mark Bennet

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Mark Bennet
Person Mark Bennet
Title
First name Mark
Middle name(s)
Last name Bennet
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Foremastman
Associated with ship(s) Gilbert (Master: William Croford)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Mark Bennett
Has signoff text Mark Bennet
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
Birth town
Birth county
Birth province
Birth country
Res street
Res parish
Res town Greenwich
Res county Kent
Res province
Res country England
Birth year 1632
Marriage year
Death year
Probate date
First deposition age 25
Primary sources
Act book start page(s)
Personal answer start page(s)
Allegation start page(s)
Interrogatories page(s)
Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/72 f.151v Annotate
Chancery start page(s)
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Act book date(s)
Personal answer date(s)
Allegation date(s)
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Deposition date(s) Oct 6 1657
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

Mark Bennet (b. ca. 1632; d. ?). Mariner.

Foremastman on the ship the Gilbert on voyage from Barbados to London in 1656.

Resident in 1657 in Greenwich in the county of Kent.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Twenty-five year old Mark Bennet deposed on October 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of John Cobb, Mathew Jennings and others, mmariners of the ship the Gilbert in the case "John Cobb, Mathew Jennings and others mariners of the said shipp the Gilbert (whereof William Croford is master) against the sayd shipp and against Gilbert Keate, Jonathan Keate and Company".[1]

Mark Bennet stated that he "was shippt aboard the Gilbert arlate as a ffore=Mast man at the Barbadoes for her homeward voyage".[2]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/72 f.150r
  2. HCA 13/72 f.151v