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<p>Created page with &quot;{{Banner}} {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree |Person=Abraham Skelton |First name=Abraham |Last name=Skelton |Occupation=Waterman |Training=Not apprentice |Citizen=Unknown |Literacy=Mar...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Banner}}<br /> {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree<br /> |Person=Abraham Skelton<br /> |First name=Abraham<br /> |Last name=Skelton<br /> |Occupation=Waterman<br /> |Training=Not apprentice<br /> |Citizen=Unknown<br /> |Literacy=Marke<br /> |Has opening text=Abraham Skelton<br /> |Has signoff text=Simple marke<br /> |Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}<br /> |Language skills=English language,<br /> |Res town=Greenwich<br /> |Res county=Kent<br /> |Res country=England<br /> |Birth year=1620<br /> |First deposition age=36<br /> |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.371v Annotate,<br /> |Deposition date(s)=Aug 21 1656<br /> |Has infobox completed=Yes<br /> |Has synthesis completed=No<br /> |Has HCA evidence completed=No<br /> |Has source comment completed=No<br /> |Type of ship=River boat<br /> |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None<br /> }}<br /> ==Biographical synthesis==<br /> Abraham Skelton (b. ca. 1520; d. ?). Waterman.<br /> <br /> Resided in 1656 in Greenwich in the county of Kent.<br /> <br /> ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==<br /> Thirty-six year old year old Abraham Skelton deposed on August 21st 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Captaine Totty in the cause of &quot;Huggery, Turpin and Company against Captaine John Totty&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;[[HCA 13/71 f.370v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.370v]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Abraham Skelton reported that &quot;after the comming of the shipp the ''Edward and John'' to an anchor in the River of Thames neere Greenwich (which was in June last) Captaine Totty her commander about the 27th of the same moneth came ashore at Greenwich, and hired and sent this deponent and five other watermen (whereof his precontest Beniamin Lee was one and his contest Safy Wandal) aboard her to worke&quot;. Skelton and his fellow watermen &quot;going aboard found a lighter with goods in her lying to the shipps side, and the men aboard (as seemed to this deponent) were in a disturbanse and demanded of this deponent and the said other five watermenn wherefore they came&quot;. On hearing that the watermen had been hired by Captaine Totty, &quot;the marriners aboard replied and said that the goods were damnified, and that they would have them surveyed before they should be unladen, and that if this deponent and the said other watermen (who were sent aboard) offered to lay hands to worke or hayle out any goods, they would knock them on the heads&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;[[HCA 13/71 f.371r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.371r]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Skelton was paid at the rate of &quot;five shillings for his two dayes worke&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;[[HCA 13/71 f.371r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.371r]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Comment on sources==</div>

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