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

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1676 Oct 3-1678 July 30

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.

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

Additional finding aid ZBOX 1/76/6

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Public Record(s)

Damaged binding with some loose folios

Open Document, Open Description

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