British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: St Croix Pacquet (master Rasmus...

British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.

Captured ship: St Croix Pacquet (master Rasmus Mauritzen).

Capture history: a Danish merchant ship (schooner, 50 tons, 8 men, 3 passengers) bound from St Croix and St Thomas, Danish West Indies, to Baltimore, Maryland, laden with salt, sugar, rum, geneva, cordage, brimstone, wine, dry goods; taken on 21 November 1778 in latitude 36°40'N, longitude 75°W off the Capes of Virginia by the loyalist privateer St Patrick (William Gibb commanding), and brought into New York.

Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to the United States.

Court papers numbered CP 1-6:-

• [CP 1]: libel in Gibb v The St Croix Pacquet and her cargo, 4 December 1778;
• [CP 2]: affidavit of papers brought in by the prize master Anthony Lansfield, 4 December 1778;
• [CP 3]: deposition of William Hoyle, common seaman, 11 December 1778;
• [CP 4-CP 5]: two depositions of Englebert Frantzen and Jacob Hansen, passengers, that Mauritzen threw a box of papers overboard just before the capture, 21-22 December 1778;
• [CP 6]: affidavit as to the perishing nature of the cargo by Anthony Lansfield, 4 December 1778.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-31:-

• SP 1: muster roll;
• SP 2: register;
• SP 3-SP 31: business papers, accounts, letters etc, in Danish, perhaps the personal archive of the passenger Engelbert Frantzen.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-5; Ship's papers: 6-38 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2025].

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