John Comin

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John Comin
Person John Comin
Title
First name John
Middle name(s)
Last name Comin
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Spouse of
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Occupation Shipwright
Secondary shorebased occupation
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Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
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Citizen Unknown
Literacy Marke
Has opening text John Comin
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Language skills English language
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Res street Wapping Wall
Res parish Stepney
Res town
Res county Middlesex
Res province
Res country England
Birth year 1632
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First deposition age 25
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/71 f.574r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Apr 13 1657
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Ship classification
Type of ship Shore based trade
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

John Comin (alt. Comyn) (b. ca. 1632; d. ?). Shipwright.

"Hee this deponent is by trade a shipp carpenter".[1]

Resided in 1657 in Wapping Wall in the parish of Stepney.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Twenty-five year old John Comin deposed on April 13th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel on behalf of Matson in the case of "Matson against Naylor".[2]

John Comin stated that in May 1656 he was asked by Elizabeth Matson to view and repair a lighter called the Ellen and Anne. Elizabeth Matson was then and still is the owner of the lighter. The lighter had been damaged by a ship running foul of her near New Crane in the River Thames. Comin reported that he and other carpenters who viewed her found her to be "very much bruised and crushed both in her outwards and inward workes and diverse of her futtocks and navel tymbers broken downe". John Comin helped repair the damage. Supposedly the lighter was a new lighter, not more than two to three years old, and had been a staunch and strong vessel before she was damaged.[3]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/71 f.574r
  2. HCA 13/71 f.574r
  3. HCA 13/71 f.574r