Gerrard Roberts
| Gerrard Roberts | |
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| Person | Gerrard Roberts |
| Title | |
| First name | Gerrard |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Roberts |
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| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Winecooper |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Gerrarrd Roberts |
| Has signoff text | Ger: Roberts |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
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| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Thomas the Apostle |
| Res town | London |
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| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1624 |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.10r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Nov 13 1654 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| 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 | |
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Biographical synthesis
Gerrard Roberts (b. ca. 1624; d. ?). Winecooper.
Resident in parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle in 1654.
Gerrard Roberts was a leading London Quaker. Rosemary Moore (2000) states that Gerrard Roberts name appears in the state papers recording several appeals to the Council of State for imprisoned Quakers "all signed by leading London Friends headed by Gerrard Roberts, whose name now appeared with every kind of Quaker business." Moore states that he was a wine cooper and that his house "at the sign of the Fleur-de-Lys in Little St. Thomas Apostle, ten-minutes walk from the Bull and Mouth meeting house, replaced Swarthmoor as the nerve center of Quakerism".[1]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Thirty year old Gerrard Roberts deposed on November 13th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty.[2]
He was examined on an allegation made on July 26th 1654 in "A businesse of examination of witnesses for the perpetuall remembrances of the matter touching the losse of the shipp the Constant promoted by Captaine John Cramp and other". Roberts stated that he was witness to a bill of sale on October 12th 1638 of the ship the Constant by Robert Moulton to the merchant James Sadler. At the time Gerrard Roberts was living with Thomas Wannerton, a scrivener. The second witness to the bill of sale was Abdiel Slingsby, who was servant to Wannerton.[3]
Comment on sources
- ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jyHKtdz5JrwC&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q&f=false, Rosemary Moore, Light in their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666 (Penn State, 2000) (p.140]
- ↑ HCA 13/70 f.10r
- ↑ HCA 13/70 f.10v
