Edward Jarrett
Edward Jarrett | |
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Person | Edward Jarrett |
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First name | Edward |
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Last name | Jarrett |
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Occupation | Mariner |
Secondary shorebased occupation | |
Mariner occupation | Gunner |
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Training | Not apprentice |
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Citizen | Unknown |
Literacy | Marke |
Has opening text | Edward Jarrett |
Has signoff text | J |
Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
Language skills | English language |
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Res street | Shadwell |
Res parish | Stepney |
Res town | |
Res county | Middlesex |
Res province | |
Res country | England |
Birth year | 1625 |
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Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/72 f.194v Annotate |
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Deposition date(s) | Dec 21 1657 |
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Has infobox completed | Yes |
Has synthesis completed | No |
Has HCA evidence completed | No |
Has source comment completed | No |
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Edward Jarrett (b. ca. 1625; d. ?). Mariner.
A seaman for twenty four years (so since ca. the age of twelve in ca. 1637).
Gunner on the ship the Trades Increase in mid-1657.
Resident in 1657 in Shadwell.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Thirty-six year old Edward Jarrett deposed on December 21st 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He was examined on an allegation on the behalf of Trevorgyne in the case of "Peter Cole and others against Trevorgye".[2]
Edward Jarrett stated that he kept a journal when a gunner on the Trades Increase. He reported that the ship lay at Barbado, where she took on a cargo of sugar, and that she shipped very little water there - requiring just one pump to be operated every twenty-four hours. The ship set sail from Spike Bay on July 15th 1657 for England and was a strong ship with few leaks. On August 20th 1657 she experienced a "very violent storm" lasting three days and nights. Her seams opened and she took on much water. On September 1st 1657 just one hundred leagues from England she encountered a further violent tempest lasting four days.[3]
Edward Jarrett testified to having bin a seaman for twenty-four years and stated that in such seas a ship would always leak. He was of the opinion that the lading was damaged largely by water that came from above and not from below.[4]