Robert Grinn

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Robert Grinn
Person Robert Grinn
Title
First name Robert
Middle name(s)
Last name Grinn
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Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Quartermaster
Associated with ship(s) Raynboe
Training Not apprentice
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Citizen Unknown
Literacy Marke
Has opening text Robert Grinn
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Language skills English language
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Res town Greenwich
Res county Kent
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Res country England
Birth year 1603
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First deposition age 48
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/65 f.40r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Sep 4 1651
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Ship classification
Type of ship Merchant ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Robert Grinn (b. ca. 1603; d. ?). Mariner.

Quartermaster of the ship the Raynboe in 1643.[1]

Resident in 1651 in Greenwich in the county of Kent.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-eight year old Robert Grinn deposed on September 4th 1651 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on interrogatories on behalf of Paul Dad, the master of the ship the Adventure in the case of "Dadd against [?AllXXlay]".[2]

Robert Grinn stated that "being a quarter master of and in the Raynboe was in the said ship at sea nere the ship the Adventure when the said Ashley seized her and mett him att Sea and sawe her in his possession, and the next yeare after this deponent goeing to Leghorne hee did there see the said ship the Adventure in the possession of such persons as the said Ashley had sold her unto "[3]

Grinn added that "the last tyme that this deponent sawe the said ship the Adventure was at the Arches in Turkie, and saith she was of about the burthen of 150 Tonns".[4]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/65 f.40r
  2. HCA 13/65 f.40r
  3. HCA 13/65 f.40v
  4. HCA 13/65 f.40v