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

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1674 Mar 20-1676 Sept 28

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.

The numbers shown in the description in brackets after the names of some ships are Voyage IDs from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database: www.slavevoyages.org

Number 2

Public Record(s)

Intact binding with some loose folios

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa