Nicholas Skinner

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Nicholas Skinner
Person Nicholas Skinner
Title
First name Nicholas
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Last name Skinner
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Occupation Merchant
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Training Not apprentice
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Has opening text Nicholas Skinner
Has signoff text Nico: Skinner
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Language skills English language
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Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1610
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First deposition age 41
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/65 f.102r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Oct 1 1651
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation Mentioned


Biographical synthesis

Nicholas Skinner (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Merchant.

Resident in London in 1651.

Possibly related to London merchant Albertus Skynner and Dover merchants Daniel Skinner the Elder, Daniel Skinner the Younger, and Thomas Skinner.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-one year old Nicholas Skinner deposed on October 1st 1651 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1]

Giles Vandeputt, a thirty-two year old merchant of Saint Martins Orgers, deposed on December 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty regarding the claim of the Lord Protector against the ship the Sampson (Master: Otto George). He stated that "this deponent procured and caused an Assurance of 400 li sterling to be made upon the said Bollarts plate and moneys in the said shipp Sampson, and 400 li sterling in the said shipp Salvador, and 400 li sterling in the said shipp Saint George, All which assurances this deponent caused and procured to be made - and duely drawne as aforesaid, And to be subscribed upon the 29th day of the said moneth of October 1652. by Nicholas Skinner, James Stainier for and in the name of James Johnson Peter Bultel and others Merchants residing in England."[2]

Nicholas Skinner is also mentioned in the deposition of John Taylor, a thirty-one year old mariner of Wapping, who deposed on October 4th 1655 in the case of "Tiddiman against a 16th part of the Truroe ffrigott and against Skinner Hallett, Noseworthy and others comming in for their interest."[3]

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  1. HCA 13/65 f.102r
  2. HCA 13/70 f.149r
  3. HCA 13/70 f.487r