Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 11 March 1684/5-12 July 1687. Subjects include:...

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1685 Mar 11-1687 July 12

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 11 March 1684/5-12 July 1687.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; Arming of forts/castles: sending ammunition, guns, canons; Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo, gold; Bills of exchange; Bonds: transposed, delivered; Captains: assignments, security, private trade; Cargos: assembling, selling, freighting; Claims and requests from wives and widows; Commisions for seizing interlopers; Committees of: Law, Goods, Shipping, Correspondence, Private Trade, Accounts, Jamaica, Inspections; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold, hides, indigo, cotton, redwood, gum,silver): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Complaints and petitions against the company; Contracts with: captains, owners, subscribers, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Dealings with customs house: imports and exports, records; Debts of forts, agents, factors, Barbados and Jamaica; Dispatches: ships, factors, governors; Disputes on damaged goods; Disputes with captains, factors and agents (Agent Henry Greenhill); East India Company: goods (fabrics), sales; Elections of 'Adventurers': governor and Court of Assistants; Enslaved mortality; Finances of the Company: loans, debts, creditors, interest rates; Forts: upkeep, supplies/materials, settlement, medicine; Gold: assurance, melting, coining, retrieving lost gold; Inspections of journals, accounts, officer bonds; Interlopers/piracy and prizes; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters; List of divident payments; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: Indigenous rulers, governors, factors, captains; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions, discovery; Proclamations or orders of King(-in-council); Salaries and wages, payments to widows, gratuities; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing, damages to; Stock/subscriptions to the company: state of; Trade in redwood; 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; Bergen (Norway); Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Bristol; Cape Corso (Castle); Castle de Mina [Elmina]; Copenhagen; Cowango [Kavango]; Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Gravesend; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Hamburg; Isle of Wight; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Leeward (Islands); Maryland; Montserrat; Nevis; New York; Newport; Old Calabar; Ouidah/Whydah; Plymouth; Scotland; Senegal; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde]; St Thomas; Virginia; Wales; Windward (Islands); .

Ships mentioned: Abraham; Adventure; African Merchant (15264); Alexander; Ann; Ann (9828); Anne (15250); Benjamin (9845); Benjamin (9827); Betty; Blossom (21250); Charleton (21015); Dragon (15263); East India Merchant (15251); Elizabeth (9860); Elizabeth (9834); Exchange (21260); Expedition; Fly (21416); Francis; Friends Adventure (9847, 9855); Friendship; Good Fellowship (9848, 9829); Good Hope (9683); Hannah (9832); Happy Return (21506); Hare (15262); Hawke (15253); Hunter (15039); James; Joffrey; John (9655); John and Sarah (21025); John Bonadventure (9858); Lindsey (9681); Little Berkeley Castle (9825); Little Mary (21026); Lucy (15252); Lusitania (20097); Lyndsey; Margaret; Mary (9853); Mayflower (9682); Maynard (9830); Mordant; Orange Tree (9854); Owners Adventure (9851); Oxford (9861); Pelican (9839); Pine Aple (9678); Princess Anne (9821); Prosperous (20131); Richard Adventure; Robert; Roebuck (9849, 20768); Sarah Bonadventure (9684); Scipio Africa; Society (21257); Speedwell (9863); Susanna (9850); Two Friends (9864); Unity; Unity; Valentine; Virgin Pink (14981).

94 pages. Front flyleaf has a short index with 5 items.

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

Number 7

Public Record(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Weapons

Debt

Food and drink

Forestry

Banking

Africa