Reference
QSR1730/73
Title
Examination of Richard Taylor, mariner, aged about 43 years.
Date free text
1730
Production date
From: 1730 To: 1730
Scope and Content
Deposes that he has used the sea ever since he was eight years old. That he knows not where he was born or whereof he is an inhabitant, but that he shipped himself on board the Advice, Capt. William Owen, commander, and sailed in her from the Thames to Gibraltar. That after he had served six years as a formastman in the said ship, he was paid off at Queenborough. That in August 1728 , he shipped on board the Betty galley, Capt Pitts, of Weymouth, commander, and sailed in her from the Thames to Papus, on the coast of Guinea, where they stayed three weeks and then sailed to Jamaica with negroes. That in their return from Jamaica to England they were taken by pirates at the Azores, and being put into their boats by the pirates were taken up at sea by the Avon galley, Capt Johnson, commander, who brought them to Whitehaven in August last, where he met with his wife Alice who now travels about with him, and that he has begged, and she has got her livelihood by fiddling for four months past.
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