Peter Du Bois
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| Peter Du Bois | |
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| Person | Peter Du Bois |
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| First name | Peter |
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| Last name | Du Bois |
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| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Gunner |
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| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Citizen | Unknown |
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| Has opening text | Peter Du Bois |
| Has signoff text | Peter Du Bois |
| 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 | 1632 |
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| First deposition age | 24 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/71 f.613v Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Mar 4 1657 |
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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
Peter Du Bois (b. ca. 1632; d. ?). Mariner.
Gunner of the ship the Brotherhood.
Resident in 1657 in London.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Twenty-four year old Peter Du Bois deposed on March 4th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Collier pred quoad the Brotherhood.[1]
Peter Du Bois stated that he had been gunner of the Brotherhood, and that English men Peter and Abraham Gaultier had been proprietors of ninety-four Negros and a quantity of elephants teeth. Thirteen months prior to his deposition, the Brotherhood had been on the Guinea coast near Cape Lopaz or Lopez da Gonsalvez.[2] In February 1656, whilst on the Guinea coast, two Dutch ships seized their ship and lading and turned them off their ship.[3]
