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|Person=Jacob Sealley
|First name=Jacob
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|Mariner occupation=Common man, Quartermaster
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1692
|Deposition date(s)=Jan 18 1658
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
Jacob Sealley (b. ca. 1602; d. ?). Mariner.

Shipped quartermaster of the ship the ''Gilbert'' on a voyage from London to Barbados and back, but after falling sick was replaced and served the voyage as a common man, but on quartermaster's wages.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.234v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.234v]]</ref>

Resident in 1658 in Wapping in the parish of Stepney.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Fifty-six year old Jacob Sealley deposed on January 18th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.234v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.234v]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Keate and others in the case of "Bellinger against Keate and otehrs".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.233r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.233r]]</ref>

Jacob Sealley stated that "hee as one of the company of the shipp ''Gilbert'' the voyage in question and was shipped for a quarter master, but falling sick in the voyage an other was quarter Master put into that place, and this deponent afterward served the rest of the voyage as a common mariner, but at the same wages which hee was shipped at as quarter master". Regarding his wages, "hee hath receaved all his wages for the voyage in question save twenty five shillings which as hee beleeveth is stopped by reason of the losse of the sugar in question".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.235v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.235v]]</ref>

Sealley offered detailed opinions on the stowage of the sugar at Barbados on board the ''Gilbert''. In response to an interrogatory he said that "sometymes merchants at the Barbados doe after the hold is full stowe goods aboard shipps betweene decks, but not when a shipp is soe deepe laden as the ''Gilbert'' was who had her hatch way filled up with her water and other provisions and goods as aforesayd".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.235v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.235v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==
'''1662'''

<u>Beniamin Bellinger </u>

"'''Will of Col. Benjamin Berringer/Barbados'''

This data is from "Barbados Records/Wills and Administrations/Volume 1/1639-1680" - page 29. Compiled and edited by Joanne McCree Sanders.

Berenger, Lt. Col. Benjamin of Bdos (also spelled Bellinger) RB6/15, p.10
Dep. 12 April 1662. Col. James Browne: "He took the deposition of Col. John Yeamans & Margaret Yeamans his wf, the relict of Lt. Col. Benjamin Berenger late of Barbados decd. The said wf has 4 cdn by Berenger: Mary Berenger, Symon Berenger, John Berenger & Margaret Berenger. He left his estate to his wf and cdn."

There is more data...one part notes that Berenger died in Jan 1660.

Note: the spelling of the name - Berenger - is as written in this document

Fran in SC"<ref>[http://genforum.genealogy.com/berringer/messages/35.html 'Will of Col. Benjamin Berringer/Barbados', Posted by: Frances Daniell Hough, Date: August 30, 2001 at 08:14:35,] viewed 05/12/13</ref>

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 Jacob Sealley (b. ca. 1602; d. ?). Mariner.
-Shipped quartermaster of the ship the ''Gilbert'' on a voyage from London to Barbados and back, but after falling sick was replaced and served the voyage as a common man, but on quartermaster's wages.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.234v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.234v]]</ref>
+Shipped quartermaster of the ship the ''Gilbert'' (Master: William Croford) on a voyage from London to Barbados and back, but after falling sick was replaced and served the voyage as a common man, but on quartermaster's wages.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.234v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.234v]]</ref>
 Resident in 1658 in Wapping in the parish of Stepney.

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 |Res country=England
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