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|Person=Thomas Perkins
|First name=Thomas
|Last name=Perkins
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Chief mate
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=Thomas Parkins
|Has signoff text=Thomas Perkins
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res town=Ratcliff
|Res county=Surrey
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1625
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.460v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Aug 13 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==
Thomas Perkins (alt. Parkins) (b. ca. 1625; d. ?). Mariner.

Chief mate of the ship the ''Exeter Merchant'' at the time of it falling foul of the ''Pilgrim'' in the River Thames.

Resident in 1658 in Ratcliff in the county of Surrey.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty-three year old Thomas Perkins deposed on August 13th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.460v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.460v]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Woodfin and company in teh case of "Bland Bathurst and Company against the ''Exeter Merchant'' and against Woodfin and company".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.459v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.459v]]</ref>

Thomas Perkins stated that "hee thus deponent being mate of the shipp ''Exeter Merchant'' was (after the ''Exeter Merchant'' fell fowle of the ''Pilgrim'' in the River of Thames, sent for by one of the Mates of the ''Pilgrim'' to come aboard her and to survey his caske and this deponent accordingly went aboard her, but by reason there was not an other then procured to wyue with this deponent in the sayd survey this deponent did not then make a perfect survey for want of an other to wyue with him".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.460v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.460v]]</ref>

Perkins claimed to have drunk a cup of wine with the mate and boatswaine of the ''Pilgrim'' whilst in the hold inspecting the oil casks. Whilst drinking wine, tongues were loosened, and Perkins "well remembreth that the sayd reputed boatswaine speaking to the sayd mate of the ''Pilgrim'' sayd this or the like in effect videlicet You know mate that was found fault with those casks (meaning the oyle caske which was to bee viewed) when they were first laden aboard the shipp and sayd that some of them were insufficient"."<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.461r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.461r]]</ref>

Regarding his wages, Perkins stated that "hee was cheife mate of the ''Exeter Merchant'' the tyme Interrogate and hath receaved all his wages save fifteene or twenty shillings which is stopped by the master of the ''Exeter Merchant'' for tobaccoes that were either lost or dammaged in the ''Exeter Merchant''".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.461r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.461r]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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+|Res parish=Stepney
 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1625

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