Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 14 November 1682-6 March 1684/5. Subjects...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 14 November 1682-6 March 1684/5.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to King (and Council) and Parliament; African House: repairs, lodgings; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; Arming of ships carrying gold and/or silver; Arming/securing of ships; Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo; 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, Jamaica; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold, hides, indigo, cotton, redwood): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Complaints and petitions against the company; Complaints/lawsuits against 'breakers' of charterpartys; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Dealings with customs house: imports and exports, records; Dispatches: ships, factors, governors; Disputes with captains, factors and agents; Dutch West India Company: letters, negotiations; 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, medicine; Gambia Adventurers/Company: ongoing dispute; Inspections of journals, accounts, officer bonds; Interlopers/piracy and prizes; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters; Melting and coining of gold in the Tower; Order King-in-council; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: Indigenous rulers, factors; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions; Protests of the Company against colonial legislation; Salaries and wages, payments to widows, gratuities; Soldiers and tradesmen sent to forts; Stock/subscriptions to the company: state of; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Alampe; Amsterdam; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Barbados; Bence Island [Bunce Island]; Beneen [Benin]; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Bristol; Cabenda [Kabinda]; Cambridge; Cape Corso (Castle); Carolina; Comenda [Komenda]; Corpus Christi College; Dover; Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Hamburg; Holland; Ireland; Isle of Wight; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Kingsale; Leeward (Islands); Malempo; Montserrat; Nevis; New Calabar; New England; Norway; Old Calabar; Ouidah/Whydah; Plymouth; Rotterdam; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; South Wales; St Christopher [St Kitts]; St Thomas; Texel; Virginia; Wales; Windward (Islands); York River (Virginia);.

Ships mentioned: Adventure; Alexander (15247); Allepine; Ann; Arcana Merchant; Arthur; Benjamin (14980); Betty; Blessing; Bonadventrue (20140); Camelion (9679); Champion; Charles (9865); Coaster (9846); Daniell; Dorothy; Dragon; Eagle (21388); Elizabeth; Expedition (9844); Frances Smack; Francis; Friends Love; Friendship; George and Betty; Golden Fortune; Good Fellowship; Goodhope ; Greyhound; Heron; Jeffrey (15248); John (21251); John and James; John and Nicholas; John and Thomas; John Bonadventure; Jonas; Liguana Merchant; Martha; Mary (9857, 20767); Merchants Adventure; Mordaunt; Providence; Returne (9856); Robert (15249); St Christoper; Swallow; Two Brothers; Unity; William and Betty.

91 pages. First folio contains an index of some items. End flyleaf states: 'Jamaica Barbados'.

Additional finding aid ZBOX 1/76/1

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Banking

Africa