Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 1 August 1678-3 January 1681/2. Subjects...

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1678 Aug 1-1682 Jan 3

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 1 August 1678-3 January 1681/2.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to King and Parliament; African House: lease of the house, apartments in, taxes; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; Arming of forts/castles: sending ammunition, guns, canons; Asiento trade (Spanish contract); Assembly of General Court; Bills of exchange; Bonds: transposed, delivered, discounts upon; Captains: assignments, security, private trade; Cargos: assembling, selling, freighting; Chaplain for the company; Commisions for seizing interlopers; Committees of: Goods, Shipping, Correspondence, Private Trade, Accounts; Company business at Parliament; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold, hides, indigo, wood): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Court of Admiralty at Gamboa: seized Company ships; Damages from securities; Debts of forts, agents, factors, Barbados and Jamaica; Dispatches: ships, factors, governors; Disputes with captains and factors, Mr William Mellish, Captain Holditch; Dutch West India Company: letters, negotiations; East India Company: goods (fabrics), sales, loan of copper; Elections of 'Adventurers': governor and Court of Assistants; Estates of the deceased in Company service; Finances of the Company: loans, debts, creditors; Forts: upkeep, supplies/materials; Gambia Adventurers/Company: license, carrying home their goods, ongoing dispute; Inspections of journals, accounts, officer bonds; Instructions for military affairs (agents); Interlopers/piracy and prizes: claims, distribution, seizing at the Gold Coast; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters; Lists of debts, dividend payments; Melting and coining of gold; 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; Salaries and wages, payments to widows, gratuities; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing, damages to; Slave trade: ships to take in more men; Stock/subscriptions to the company: state of; Surgeons: conduct, hiring, chests of medicine; Tradesmen and soldiers sent to forts; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Amsterdam; Anamabo [Anomobu]; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Barbados; Bence Island [Bunce Island]; Beneen [Benin]; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Cabenda [Kabinda]; Cape Corso (Castle); Comenda [Komenda]; France; Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Gamboa [Gambia]; Genova; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Holland; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Leeward (Islands); Maderoes [Madeira]; Montserrat; Nevis; New Calabar; Old Calabar; Plymouth; Ryo [Rio de Janeiro]; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; St Martin's; St Thomas; Stockholm; Venice; Virginia; Windward (Islands).

Ships mentioned: Adventure; African (9918); Alepine (9992); Alexander (9892); Allepine (9913); Ann; Arcana Merchant (9989); Aribella; Arthur (9959, 9898); Aventure Pinke; Batchelor; Betty; Blessing; Blossom (15064); Cadiz Merchant; Carlisle (9897); Convert; Cope; Desire; Dilligence; Dolphin; Dorothy; Dragon (9908); Eaglett; Edgar; Ellen and Elizabeth; Endeavour; Fortune (9952); Four Brothers; Francis Ketch; Friendship; George (21247); George and Betty (9907, 9891); George Ketch (9920); Golden Lyon; Good Hope; Greyhound; Hannah (9960); Hare and Fox; Hawke; Henry and William (9961); Hope; Hopewell; Isabella; James; John Bonadventure (9911); Katherine; Lady Francis (21246); Loyall Charles; Lusitania; Lyon; Marchant Bonadventure; Margaret and Mary (9953); Martha; Mary (20001); Monmouth; Norwich; Phineas and Margaret (9925); Phoenix; Prosperous; Providence (9951, 9962); Richard; Rose and Crowne; Royal Exchange; Ruth (9945, 9922); Saint George (9958); Samuell; Sarah; Sarah Bonadventure (9956); Singleton; Speedwell (9924); St George; St Peter; Supply (15040, 9890); Swallow (15065, 9914); The Golden Fleece; The Hare; Thomas and Susan; Thomas and William; Unity; Vine (9957); Wellcome (9921); William; Yorke.

183 pages. The first 11 folios consist of an inconsistently kept alphabetical index to subjects covered by the first few pages of the minutes, which begin on folio 14.

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 1/76/3

Number 4

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Weapons

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Banking

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa