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|Title=Captaine
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|Citizen=Unknown
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res town=Redriff
|Res county=Surrey
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1610
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/65 f.48v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Aug 27 1651
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
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==Biographical synthesis==
Captaine Abraham Mootham (b. ca. 1610; d. ?). Mariner.

Master of unnamed ship in 1651.

Master of the ''Pelican ffrigott'' around 1653.

Resident in Redriff in Surrey in 1651.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-one year old Captaine Abraham Mootham deposed on Aug 27th 1651 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on interrogatories on behalf of Espinoza and company in the case of "Michaell da Espinosa and others against Captaine Mootham".<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.48v Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.48v]]</ref>

Abraham Mootham stated that he seized the ship the ''ffortuna'', and found a box of papers which he brought from Portsmouth to London, and which were returned to Portsmouth by his Proctor Mr. Smith for use in the examination of witnesses in Portsmouth.<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.48v Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.48v]]</ref>

The same Captaine Mootham is identified in a separate High Court of Admiralty case in October 1653, when he was master of the ship the ''Pelican ffrigott''/ The case was known as "The clayme of George Bell Andrew Glen James Crawford Lewis Mounteth Thomas henderson George Wilson David Longlands David Mitchell Thomas Edwards Peter Steene and Richard ffalconer of Borestone in Scotland for the shipp the ''Noahs Arke'' otherwuse the ''Arke'' of which the sayd Richard ffalconer was Master and the tackle apparrell and furniture lately seized by the ''Pelican ffrigott'' whereof Captaine ?Mootham was Master".<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.287v Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.287v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==
'''1628'''

PROB 11/153/347 Will of Barnard Mootham, Mariner of Saint Katherine by the Tower of London 22 March 1628

'''1645'''

"(Letter) James Franklyn and Abraham Mootham to William Smith, 9 Mar. 1645, TCD, MS 818, fo.155r; History of the Irish confederation, iv.177."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5M5zVuYWAX8C&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Elaine Murphy, Ireland and the War at Sea, 1641-1653 (Woodbridge, 2013), p.43]</ref>

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 Resident in Redriff in Surrey in 1651.
-According to Pepys, who was socially acquainted with Captaine Mootham, Mootham had been a slave at one time in Algiers.
+There was another naval captain with the surname Mootham, Captaine Peter Mootham, who was a social acquaintance of Samuel Pepys. According to Pepys, Mootham had been a slave at one time in Algiers.
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==

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 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown
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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1610
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/65 f.48v Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Aug 27 1651

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 |Language skills=English language,
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 |Res county=Surrey
 |Res country=England

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 Resident in Redriff in Surrey in 1651.
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
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 "(Letter) James Franklyn and Abraham Mootham to William Smith, 9 Mar. 1645, TCD, MS 818, fo.155r; History of the Irish confederation, iv.177."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5M5zVuYWAX8C&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43#v=onepage&q&f=false Elaine Murphy, Ireland and the War at Sea, 1641-1653 (Woodbridge, 2013), p.43]</ref>

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 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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 |First name=Abraham
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 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown