Nicholas Skinner
| Nicholas Skinner | |
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| Person | Nicholas Skinner |
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| First name | Nicholas |
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| Last name | Skinner |
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| Occupation | Merchant |
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| Mariner occupation | |
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| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Nicholas Skinner |
| Has signoff text | Nico: Skinner |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res town | London |
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| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1610 |
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| First deposition age | 41 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/65 f.102r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Oct 1 1651 |
| 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 | Mentioned |
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Biographical synthesis
Nicholas Skinner (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Merchant.
Resident in London in 1651.
Possibly related to London merchant Albertus Skynner and Dover merchants Daniel Skinner the Elder, Daniel Skinner the Younger, and Thomas Skinner.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-one year old Nicholas Skinner deposed on October 1st 1651 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1]
Giles Vandeputt, a thirty-two year old merchant of Saint Martins Orgers, deposed on December 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty regarding the claim of the Lord Protector against the ship the Sampson (Master: Otto George). He stated that "this deponent procured and caused an Assurance of 400 li sterling to be made upon the said Bollarts plate and moneys in the said shipp Sampson, and 400 li sterling in the said shipp Salvador, and 400 li sterling in the said shipp Saint George, All which assurances this deponent caused and procured to be made - and duely drawne as aforesaid, And to be subscribed upon the 29th day of the said moneth of October 1652. by Nicholas Skinner, James Stainier for and in the name of James Johnson Peter Bultel and others Merchants residing in England."[2]
Nicholas Skinner is also mentioned in the deposition of John Taylor, a thirty-one year old mariner of Wapping, who deposed on October 4th 1655 in the case of "Tiddiman against a 16th part of the Truroe ffrigott and against Skinner Hallett, Noseworthy and others comming in for their interest."[3]
