Thomas Perkins
| Thomas Perkins | |
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| Person | Thomas Perkins |
| Title | |
| First name | Thomas |
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| Last name | Perkins |
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| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Chief mate |
| Associated with ship(s) | Exeter Merchant (Master: Thomas Woodfin) |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Thomas Parkins |
| Has signoff text | Thomas Perkins |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Birth country | |
| Res street | Ratcliff |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1625 |
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| First deposition age | 33 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/72 f.460v Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Aug 13 1658 |
| 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
Thomas Perkins (alt. Parkins) (b. ca. 1625; d. ?). Mariner.
Chief mate of the ship the Exeter Merchant at the time of it falling foul of the Pilgrim in the River Thames.
Resident in 1658 in Ratcliff in the county of Surrey.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Thirty-three year old Thomas Perkins deposed on August 13th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Woodfin and company in teh case of "Bland Bathurst and Company against the Exeter Merchant and against Woodfin and company".[2]
Thomas Perkins stated that "hee thus deponent being mate of the shipp Exeter Merchant was (after the Exeter Merchant fell fowle of the Pilgrim in the River of Thames, sent for by one of the Mates of the Pilgrim to come aboard her and to survey his caske and this deponent accordingly went aboard her, but by reason there was not an other then procured to wyue with this deponent in the sayd survey this deponent did not then make a perfect survey for want of an other to wyue with him".[3]
Perkins claimed to have drunk a cup of wine with the mate and boatswaine of the Pilgrim whilst in the hold inspecting the oil casks. Whilst drinking wine, tongues were loosened, and Perkins "well remembreth that the sayd reputed boatswaine speaking to the sayd mate of the Pilgrim sayd this or the like in effect videlicet You know mate that was found fault with those casks (meaning the oyle caske which was to bee viewed) when they were first laden aboard the shipp and sayd that some of them were insufficient"."[4]
Regarding his wages, Perkins stated that "hee was cheife mate of the Exeter Merchant the tyme Interrogate and hath receaved all his wages save fifteene or twenty shillings which is stopped by the master of the Exeter Merchant for tobaccoes that were either lost or dammaged in the Exeter Merchant".[5]
