Baldwin Mathews

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Baldwin Mathews
Person Baldwin Mathews
Title
First name Baldwin
Middle name(s)
Last name Mathews
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Occupation Merchant
Secondary shorebased occupation
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Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
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Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Baldwin Mathewes
Has signoff text Baldwin Mathews
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Language skills English language
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Res town Middleburg
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Res country United Provinces
Birth year 1620
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First deposition age 37
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/72 f.125v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Oct 6 1657
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Baldwin Mathews (b. ca. 1620; d. ?). Merchant.

Redisent in 1657 in Middleburh (alt. Middleborowe).

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Thirty-seven year old Baldwin Mathews deposed on October 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the cause of "Vanbroughs and Nicholas against the Abrahams Offering and Rois".[1]

The case concerned a fatt of black thread laded onto the ship the Abrahams Offering (Master: ffrancis Rpis) at Flushing of Middleburg. The thread was for transportation to London for the account of William Vanrugh (alt. Vanbrough). Baldwin Mathews handled the lading of the thread onto the ship, but stated that he did not see the thread itself "the same comming to this deponent from Sluce in fflanders readie made up in the said fatt".[2]

The thread received water damage whilst on the ship. Mathews noted that "the port of fflushing is a drie port, soe as shipps when the tide is out, alwaies lie drie, and rest upon the ground; by meanes whereof shipps there doe many times mark or crush and their goods receive dammage; soe that (as hee taketh it) it is the use and custome there amongst merchants and masters to [XXXX] any dammage there received from beneath, to casualtie".[3]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/72 f.125v
  2. HCA 13/72 f.126r
  3. HCA 13/72 f.126r