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|Person=John Thaxton
|First name=John
|Last name=Thaxton
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Boatswain
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=John Thackston
|Has signoff text=John Thaxton
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1634
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.450r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Jul 20 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
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
John Thaxton (b. ca.

Boatswain of the ship the ''Mary and Joyce'' in 1657.

Resident in 1658 in Wapping in the county of Middlesex.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Twenty-four year old Thomas Thaxton deposed on July 20th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Walker Wall Slater and Walgrave in "the clayme of John Walker William Wall Thomas Slater and John Walgrave for their wynes first laden aboard a certayne shipp called the ''Mary and'' Joyce (whereof Phillip Stafford was master and afterwards the same being by the enymyes of the Commonwealth seized, were put aboard a} certayne shipp called the ''Elizabeth'' (whereof Isaack Nicholson was Master) and were afterwards retaken by the ''Bryar ffrigott'', in the imediate service of the State and Commonwealth of England".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.450r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.450r]]</ref>

Thomas Thaxton stated that "by reason hee this deponent was boatswaine of the ''Mary and Joyce'' the voyage in question hee knoweth that shee sett syle from Gravesend in the latter end of July 1657 with severall goods wares and Merchandizes in her bound for Tituan Sally Santa Cruz and other parts and thence to the Canarie Islands there to lade the wines and thence transport them for this port of London".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.450r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.450r]]</ref>

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