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

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1682 Nov 14-1685 Mar 6

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'.

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 1/76/1

Number 6

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

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Banking

Africa