Richard Platt
| Richard Platt | |
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| Person | Richard Platt |
| Title | |
| First name | Richard |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Platt |
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| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Waterman |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Common man |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Richard Plat |
| Has signoff text | Richard Platt |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
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| Birth parish | |
| Birth town | |
| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | Blackwall |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1641 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | |
| Probate date | |
| First deposition age | 20 |
| Primary sources | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/73 f.772v Annotate |
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| Act book date(s) | |
| Personal answer date(s) | |
| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | 1661 |
| 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 | River boat, Merchant ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Richard Platt (b. ca. 1641; d. ?). Waterman.
Former member of the company of the ship the Mary (Master: Robert Clarke).
Resident in Blackwall in the parish of Stepney in 1661.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Twnety year old Richard Platt deposed in 1661 in the High Court of Admiralty.
He stated that he had been one of the company of the ship the Mary (Master: Robert Clarke) and knew John Sutherne for several months before Sutherne's death. Platt stated he had seen Thomas Stock, the boatswain's mate of the Mary "strike and abuse" Sutherne three months before his death. Platt described "the said Stock come to the said Sutherne as hee hath laine in his hammock and (without any occasion given by the said Sutherne that this deponent knoweth of) strike him with a ratan, and thrust him to and fro against the said ships deck, And did thereby hurt him, but whether that was the occasion of his death hee saith hee knoweth not".[1]
