Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 19 July 1687-16 December 1690. Subjects include:...

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1687 July 19-1690 Dec 16

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 19 July 1687-16 December 1690.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to King (and Council) and Parliament; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; Asiento trade (Spanish contract); Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo, gold; Bonds: transposed, delivered; Captains: assignments, security, private trade; Cargos: assembling, selling, freighting; Committees of: Law, Goods, Shipping, Correspondence, Private Trade, Accounts, 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, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Court of Admiralty; Danish traders and settlements/forts; Debts of the Plantations to the Company; Dispatches: ships, factors; Disputes with captains, factors and agents; East India Company: goods (fabrics), sales; Elections of 'Adventurers': governor and Court of Assistants; Finances of the Company: loans, debts, creditors, interest rates; Forts: upkeep, supplies/materials, settlement, medicine; Inspections of journals, accounts, officer bonds; Interlopers/piracy and prizes; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters; List of divident payments; Patrol ships Guinea coast; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: Indigenous rulers, 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; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Amsterdam; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Baltimore; Barbados; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Brazil; Bristol; Calabar; Cape Corso (Castle); Congo; Dantzig; Frederiksborg (Fort in Guinee); Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Hamburg; Holland; Isle of Wight; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Leeward (Islands); Montserrat; Nevis; New York; Newport; Old Calabar; Ouidah/Whydah; Portsmouth; Scilly [Isles of Scilly]; Senegal; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Malo; Virginia; Windward (Islands).

Ships mentioned: Adventure; African; African (9654); Alexander (14910); Ann and Mary; Antegua Merchant; Antilope (9660); Armenian Merchant (9810); Benjamin (20091); Benjamin (14904); Betty (14905); Blossom (9659); China Merchant (9809); Coast Frigate (21016); Coaster (21052); Coaster (9811); Delight (9826, 9817); Diana; Dolphin (9816); Dragon (9676); East India Merchant (9820); Expedition (20772); Expedition (14907); Guiny Frigott; Hannah (9823); Hare (9658); Hawke (9656); Henry and William (9818); Jeffry (21706); John Bonadventure (9652); Katherine (21411); Kendall (9708); Lady Francis (14975); Loyal Merchant; Loyall Factor (9653, 15246); Margaret; Mary (9831, 14982); Mediterranian (14902); Phoenix; Princesse (9819); Princesse Ann (20098); Robert; Sherbrow (20769); Speedwell (21028, 9835); Speedwell (9815); St George (9859, 20771); Stainer Sloope; Stamper Sloope; Swan (14901); Thomas and Susan (9661); Thomas and Susan (21252); Unity; Warrington (14906); York Smack.

91 pages. Front flyleaf has a short index with 4 items. Back flyleaf contains list of notes on Arda and a draft of a letter.

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 8

Public Record(s)

Intact binding with some loose folios

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Trade and commerce

Asia

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Debt

Food and drink

Navy

Americas

Banking

Armed Forces (General Administration)

Africa