John Goodman (b.ca.1637)

John Goodman (b.ca.1637)

John Goodman (b.ca.1637)
Person	John Goodman
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First name	John
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Last name	Goodman
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Occupation	Winecooper
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Training	Not apprentice
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Has opening text	John Goodman
Has signoff text	John goodman
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Language skills	English language
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Res parish	Saint Mary at Hill
Res town	London
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Res country	England
Birth year	1636
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/70 f.402r Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.425r Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Jul 25 1655, Jun 19 1656, 1667
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Has infobox completed	Yes
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation

Biographical synthesis

John Goodman (b.ca. 1635-1637; d.?). Winecooper.

Resident in the parish of Saint Mary Hill in 1655 and in the parish of Saint Catherine Coleman in 1667.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Eighteen year old John Goodman deposed on July 25th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in the case of "Travers against Pomeroy and against lighter of about 200 tunns whereof the sayd Pomroy is owner and against any other".

Goodman stated that Canary wine belonging to Gyles Travers was unloaded in January 1655 from the ship the John and Mary (Master: William Webber). The wine was put into a lighter (Master: Thomas Taylor) and carried to Buttolphs Wharf, where the lighter was moored safely and securely all night. The next morning another lighter, with a burthen of eighty tons (Master: one Pomeroy), was moored to a ship at Buttolphs Wharf. This lighter allegedly veered into Taylor's lighter, despite being warned, sunk the lighter's boat and then ran foul of the lighter, breaking her hawser and casting her adrift. As a consequence, one pipe of wine worth £30 was staved in and "utterly lost".

A year later, on June 19th 1656, but giving his age as twenty-one, John Goodman deposed again in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "The Lord Protector against the shipp the Saint Paul and her lading and against Captaine Philips".

Goodman stated that he was employed by Captaine Isaac Phillips as a winecooper to assist in the unlading of wines from the Saint Paul and their transport to warehouses. Shortly after the wines were placed in the warehouses, the Commissioners for Prize Goods placed locks on the warehouse doors, prventing Phillips from accessing the goods. The wines were kept locked up for two months in considerable heat and were thus damaged. According to Goodman, wines, which on arrival were worth £14 or £15 per tunne were eventually worth no more than the customs due on them.

Goodman deposed once more in the Admiralty Court in 1667. He described himself as John Goodman of Saint Catherine Coleman Fenchurch Street, winecooper and thirty years of age. He stated that he was present at the unlading of wines and vinegar from the ship the Godslieve at Easter 1667 at the request of Mr Peter Gerrard, who was agent for the owners of the ship and goods in question. The ship, whilst being unloaded, "lay at the chaynes neere Saviours docke Southwarke". He reported seeing seventy-three tons of wine "most of them decayed".

Comment on sources

"(no.) 34
Poste masters yarde (Postmaster's Yard)...
marcht Randall Knipe 7 (hearths)
Custu(m) h(o)use(e) George Strowde 6 (hearths)
pewterer John Cable 3x
1 melting place 1 (hearth)
mach' Arther Dentrie 6 (hearths)
carpen' Henrie Roberttes 2 (hearths)
wine co' John Goodman 4 x
transletter John Egge 3 (hearths)

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