Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 15 July 1680- 7 November 1682. Subjects include:...

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1680 July 15-1682 Nov 7

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 15 July 1680- 7 November 1682.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to King and Parliament; African House: rent, repairs; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; Asiento trade (Spanish contract); Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo; Bills of exchange; Bonds: transposed, delivered; Captains: assignments, security, private trade; Cargos: assembling, selling, freighting; Claims and requests from wives and widows; Committees of: Goods, Shipping, Correspondence, Private Trade, Accounts; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold, hides, indigo, wood, cotton): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Complaints and petitions against the company; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Danish traders and settlements/forts; Dealings with customs house: imports and exports, records; Debts of forts, agents, factors, Barbados and Jamaica; Dispatches: ships, factors, governors; Disputes with captains and factors, Mr Alexander Milborne; Duke of Brandenburg ships to Gambia; East India Company: goods (fabrics), sales; 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, settlement; Gambia Adventurers/Company: ongoing dispute; 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; Melting and coining of gold; Order King-in-council; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: Indigenous rulers, employees, captains; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions; Salaries and wages, payments to widows, gratuities; Slave trade; Stock/subscriptions to the company: state of; Surgeons: hiring; Trade in redwood; Tradesmen sent to forts; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warehouse: locked; Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Amsterdam; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Barbados; Bence Island [Bunce Island]; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Bristol; Cape Coast (Castle); Cape Corso (Castle); Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Holland; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Leeward (Islands); Madrid; Montserrat; Nevis; New Calabar; Old Calabar; Portugal; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; Venice; Virginia; Windward (Islands); Zeeland.

Ships mentioned: Alexander (15243); Alexander and Elizabeth; Alexander and Elizabeth; Allepine (9904); Ann (9903); Arcania Merchant (20108); Arthur; Blessing; Bohemia Merchant (21249); Cadiz Merchant; Camelion (15274); Carlisle; Chameleon; Champion (15272); Charles; Coaster; Delight (15076); Dolphin; Dorothy (21242); Eaglet (9896); Edgar; Ellen and Elizabeth (20025); Four Brothers; Friendslove; George and Betty (9869); Golden Fortune (15073); Good Hope (15242); Goodwill; Hanna; Hare; Head Frigott; Heron (20030); Hope; John and Thomas (9866); John Bonadventure (9902); Jonas (20031); Katherine; Lisbon Merchant (14970); Lusitania (15241); Lyon (15268); Marchants Adventure; Margaret (9928); Marigold; Martha (9906); Merchant Bonadventure (9870); Primrose (21248); Prosperous; Return (9871); Returne; Royall Exchange; Saint George (20112); Saint George (20040); Samuell; Sarah Bonadventure (9905); St George; Supply (15271); Swallow (15270); The Two Brothers; The Two Friends; Thomas and William (20994); Two Friends (20975); Unity; Vine (9894); William.

93 pages. Front flyleaf has five index items and back and front pages are covered in squiggles and notes.

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 1/76/4

Number 5

Public Record(s)

Damaged binding, with folios split into two halves

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Debt

Food and drink

Banking

Africa