Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 3 October 1676-30 July 1678. Subjects include:...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 3 October 1676-30 July 1678.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to King and Parliament; Admiralty: demanded return of ship; African House: lodgers, rent, moving; Agents/factors: elections, securities; Arming of ships; Asiento trade (Spanish contract); Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo; Bonds: transposed, delivered; Captains: assignments, security, private trade; Cargos: assembling, selling, freighting; Committees of: Goods, Shipping, Correspondence, Private Trade, Accounts; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Contracts with: captains, owners, subscribers, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Damages from securities; Danish traders and settlements/forts; Dispatches: ships, factors, governors; Disputes on damaged goods; Disputes with captains and factors, Mr William Mellish; Dutch West India Company: letters, negotiations; East India Company: goods, sales; Elections of 'Adventurers': governor and Court of Assistants; Finances of the Company: loans, debts, creditors, arrears of subscribers, demands of interest; Forts: upkeep, supplies/materials; Gambia Adventurers/Company: rents, liberties; Guinea Coast administration; Inspections of journals, accounts, officer bonds; Interlopers/piracy and prizes; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters, breaking of charters; Lists of debts, dividend payments; Order King-in-council; Patrol ships Guinea coast; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: King, Indigenous rulers, company servants; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions; Promoting British manufacture; Salaries and wages, payments to widows; Selling of Company plantations; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing; Slave trade; Stock/subscriptions to the company; Surgeons: hiring, chests of medicine; Tradesmen sent to forts; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services to individuals.

Places mentioned: Amsterdam; Anamabo [Anomobu]; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Barbados; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Cadiz; Cape Coast (Castle); Cape Corso (Castle); Cape Mount; Cape Tresponte [Three Points]; Castle de Mina [Elmina]; Comenda [Komenda]; Curaçao; Dickies Cove [Dixcove]; Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Furado [in Portugal]; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Jamaica; Leeward (Islands); London; Madagascar; Maryland; Montserrat; Nevis; New Calabar; Old Calabar; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; St Helens [St Helena]; Stockholm; Suriname; Virginia; Windward (Islands).

Ships mentioned: Allepine (9998); America (9974); Arcana Merchant (9989); Arthur (9936/9978/9990); Batchelor (9995); Betty (9933); Charles (9972/21372); Coaster; Desire (9967/9979/9991); Diligence (9975); Dover Dogger (20907); Dragon (9977); Exchange (9981); Friezland (9996); Golden Lyon; Greyhound; Hamburg Firgott; Hawke (9686/9986); Hunter; Isabella; James (9935/9968); John Bonadventure (9932); Katherina (20837); Lady Francis (20837); Lenox (9963/9980); Loyal Charles; Margaret and Mary (21370); Marigold (9984); Martha (9937); Mary (9691); Merchants Delight (20914); Morning Star (9970/9983); Phineas and Martha; Prosperous (9934); Providence (9969/21371); Recovery (20915); Ruth; Sarah Bonaventure (9985); St George (9973/9988); Successe; Villigence; Vyne (9964/9987); Welcome.

91 pages. Notes on inside of cover and flyleaf.

Additional finding aid ZBOX 1/76/6

Topics

Manufacturing

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Banking

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa