Joseph Carswell Junior - Revision history

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{{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree
|Person=Joseph Carswell Junior
|First name=Joseph
|Last name=Carswell
|Suffix=Junior
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Purser
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=Joseph Carswell Junior
|Has signoff text=Joseph Carswell Junor
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Limehouse
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1637
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Jan 8 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
Joseph Carswell Junior (b. ca. 1637; d. ?). Mariner.

Purser on the ship the ''Porto Port Merchant'' of London.

Resident in 1655 in Limehouse in parish of Stepney.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Eighteen year old Joseph Carswell Junior deposed on January 8th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.170r]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Captaine John Arthur against Pitt".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.167v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.167v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 Joseph Carswell stated that he was on bord the ''Porto Port Merchant'' at Porto Port bound for Barbados, and observed the river condisions there.  Specifically, he noted that "the said shipp ''John'' after such her lading descended from Porto Port to the barr of that place, being designed to passe over the same and to proceed upon her Voyage, but saith shee did there abide about a moneth after before shee could with security passe the said barr, shee being a french built shipp and heavy and drawing of the observation of this deponent and sewerall others, and according to his best judgement at least thirteen foot water". Even when the water was deep enough and the ''John'' had hoisted her anchors, she was forced to wait due to adverse winds blowing in full from the sea.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.170r]]</ref>
-Carswell claimed to have good knowledge of Porto Port, saying that " hee this deponent hath been 4 sewerall voyages at Porto Port aforesaid, and thereby well knoweth, That there is a very dangerous barr neere unto that place, which no forraigne shipps doe or are permitted usually to saile over without the Conduct of certaine pilots residing in Porto Port and commonly knowne by the name of the kings pilots, being thereunto authorized by order of the king of Portugall
+Carswell claimed to have good knowledge of Porto Port, saying that "hee this deponent hath been 4 sewerall voyages at Porto Port aforesaid, and thereby well knoweth, That there is a very dangerous barr neere unto that place, which no forraigne shipps doe or are permitted usually to saile over without the Conduct of certaine pilots residing in Porto Port and commonly knowne by the name of the kings pilots, being thereunto authorized by order of the king of Portugall and are there generally observed to bee the persons who doe and ought to determine of the convenience of wind and water for the conducting of shipps of all sorts of burthens over the said barr".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.170r]]</ref>
 and are there generally observed to bee the persons who doe and ought to determine of the convenience of wind and water for the conducting of shipps of all sorts of burthens over the said barr".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.170r]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

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 |Citizen=Unknown
 |Literacy=Signature
-|Has opening text=Joseph Carswell Junior
+|Has opening text=Joseph Carswall Junior
 |Has signoff text=Joseph Carswell Junor
-|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
+|Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res street=Limehouse
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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1637
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Jan 8 1655
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 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
 }}
 ==Biographical synthesis==
-Joseph Carswell Junior (b. ca. 1637; d. ?). Mariner.
+Joseph Carswell Junior (alt. Carswall) (b. ca. 1637; d. ?). Mariner.
 Purser on the ship the ''Porto Port Merchant'' of London.
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 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 Eighteen year old Joseph Carswell Junior deposed on January 8th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.170r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.170r]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Captaine John Arthur against Pitt".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.167v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.167v]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

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