Richard Platt - Revision history

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|Person=Richard Platt
|First name=Richard
|Last name=Platt
|Occupation=Waterman
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
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|Has signoff text=Richard Platt
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Blackwall
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1641
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.772v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=1661
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
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==Biographical synthesis==
Richard Platt (b. ca. 1641; d. ?). Waterman. Former member of the company of the ship the ''Mary'' (Master: Robert Clarke).

Resident in Blackwall in the parish of Stepney in 1661.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Twnety year old Richard Platt deposed in 1661 in the High Court of Admiralty.

He stated that he had been one of the company of the ship the ''Mary'' (Master: Robert Clarke) and knew John Sutherne for several months before Sutherne's death. Platt stated he had seen Thomas Stock, the boatswain's mate of the ''Mary'' "strike and abuse" Sutherne three months before his death. Platt described "the said Stock come to the said Sutherne as hee hath laine in his hammock and (without any occasion given by the said Sutherne that this deponent knoweth of) strike him with a ratan, and thrust him to and fro against the said ships deck, And did thereby hurt him, but whether that was the occasion of his death hee saith hee knoweth not".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.772v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.772v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 |Has source comment completed=No
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 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1641
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.772v Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=1661
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 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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 ==Biographical synthesis==
-Richard Platt (b. ca. 1641; d. ?). Waterman. Former member of the company of the ship the ''Mary'' (Master: Robert Clarke).
+Richard Platt (b. ca. 1641; d. ?). Waterman.
 Resident in Blackwall in the parish of Stepney in 1661.

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 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown
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 |Has opening text=Richard Plat
 |Has signoff text=Richard Platt
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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res street=Blackwall