Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 20 March 1673/4-28 September 1676. Subjects...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 20 March 1673/4-28 September 1676.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to King (and Council) and Parliament; Admiralty: loan of ship, supplying of cargo; African House: lodgers, rent; Agents/factors: offers of service; Arming of ships; Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo; Bonds: transposed, delivered; Captains: assignments, security, private trade; Cargos: assembling, selling, freighting; Committee of Goods; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Contracts with: captains, owners, subscribers, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Cornish business; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Danish traders and settlements/forts; Dispatches: ships, factors, governors; Disputes on damaged goods; Dutch West India Company; East India Company: goods, sales; Elections of 'Adventurers': governor and Court of Assistants; Enslaved mortality; Finances of the Company: loans, debts, creditors, arrears of subscribers; Forts: upkeep, supplies/materials; Gambia Adventurers/Company: rents; Interlopers/piracy and prizes; Licensing of ships for the African trade; Lists of Adventurers and Committees; Petitions to the company; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: King, Indigenous rulers, company servants; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions; Proclamations of the King; Salaries, wages and gratuities; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing, buying sloops, building of; Slave trade: estimate of numbers, petitions from plantations; Solicitors in Company service; Stock/subscriptions to the company: payments, arrears, dividend; Surgeons: hiring, chests, pay, head money, apothecaries; Tradesmen sent to forts; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions; Warehouses; Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Accra; Amsterdam; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Barbados; Beneen [Benin]; Bight of Benin; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Boston; Cadiz; Cape Coast (Castle); Cape Corso (Castle); Comenda [Komenda]; Cormentin [Kormantse]; Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Jamaica; Montserrat; Nevis; New Calabar; New England; Old Calabar; Ryo [Rio de Janeiro]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; Suriname; Tower of London; Virginia; Windward (Islands).

Ships mentioned: African Frigat; Allepine (9998); America (9974); Amnity (9693); Anne; Batchelors Frigott (9995); Charles (9997); Countryes Welfare; Desire (9696/9967); Diligence (9994); Dover Dogger (20907); Dragon; Eaglett Ketch (9694); Exchange; Friezland (9996); Garland; George and Susanna (9966); Golden Hind (9689); Hamburg; Hawke (9686); Hunter; Industry (20899); James (9699/9968); John and Alexander (9971); Lenox (9963); Lewis Frigatt; Marigold; Mary (9691); Merchants Delight (20914); Morning Star (9970); Phoenix; Portmorant Merchant (20898); Prosperous (9688); Providence (9969/20908); Prudence (9692/9976); Recovery (20915); Ruby; Speedwell; St George (9973); Swallow (9999); Viligent; Vine (9964); William (9698).

93 pages.

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa