Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 8 January 1690/1-16 May 1693. Subjects include:...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 8 January 1690/1-16 May 1693.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; 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; 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; Complaints/lawsuits against 'breakers' of charterpartys; Contracts with: captains, owners, suppliers; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Dispatches: ships, factors; Disputes on damaged goods; Disputes with captains, factors and agents; Dutch West India Company: letters; East India Company: goods (fabrics), sales; Elections of 'Adventurers': governor and Court of Assistants; Embezzlement of goods; Estates of the deceased in Company service; Finances of the Company: loans, debts, creditors, interest rates; Gold: assurance, melting, coining, retrieving from sunken ships; Inspections of journals, accounts; Interlopers/piracy and prizes: commissions for seizures; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters; List of divident payments; Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations: visits, correspondence; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions, discovery; Proclamations or orders of King(-in-council); Salaries and wages, gratuities; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing, damages to; Soldiers sent on ships and to forts; Stock/subscriptions to the company: state of, expanding 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; Angola; Antegua [Antigua]; Barbados; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Calabar; Cape Corso (Castle); Chichester; Comenda [Komenda]; Falmouth; Gamboa [Gambia]; Glasgow; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Holland; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Leeward (Islands); Montserrat; Nevis; New England; Ouidah/Whydah; Plymouth; Scilly [Isles of Scilly]; Scotland; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; St Malo; Windward (Islands); York Island [Antigua and Barbuda]; .

Ships mentioned: America (9706); Anne (9651); Berkeley Castle (21056); Brigantine; Caesar (21086); China Merchant (9704); Coast Frigate (15266); Coast Frigot; Concord (21063); Crown (21195); East India Merchant (14908); Experiment (9705, 21702); Fauconberg (9710); Friendship; Globe; Guynie Frigott; Hanibal; Hester and Mary (21261); Hope (25711); Hull and Tackle; James Island; Jeffrey (9657); John Bonadventure (9707); Joseph; Katherine (9701); Kendall (9702); Lyon; Mediterranian (14909); Richard and James; Rose; Scepter (15078); Sevill Merchant; Swallow; Tyger (9703).

84 pages. Front flyleaf has a short index with 4 items and the text: 'Samuell Heron Esqr, Secretary to the Roy.ll Company England'

Topics

Shipping

Trade and commerce

Asia

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Debt

Food and drink

Crime

Americas

Banking

Africa