Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 18 May 1693-26 August 1697. Subjects include:...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 18 May 1693-26 August 1697.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Addresses/petitions to Parliament; 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, Accounts, Inspections, Parliament business; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold, hides, indigo, cotton, redwood, gum,silver): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Complaints against the Dutch; Contracts with: captains, owners, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Debts of the Plantations to the Company; Dispatches: ships, factors; Disputes on damaged goods; Disputes with captains, factors and agents; 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, interest rates; Forts: inventory, upkeep, supplies/materials; Gold: assurance, melting, coining; Inspections of journals, accounts, books; Interlopers/piracy and prizes: commissions for seizures, prosecution of; Lawsuits agains the company; Licensing of ships for the African trade: charters, opening of trade; Patrol ships Guinea coast; Penalties for agents, factors, officers; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Preservation of slave trade through Charter in Parliament; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions, discovery; Salaries and wages, gratuities; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing, damages to; Soldiers and tradesmen sent to forts; Stock/subscriptions to the company: state of; Trade in redwood, committee; 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; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Cape Corso (Castle); Cape of Good Hope; Cape Tresponte [Three Points]; Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Ireland; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Montserrat; Nevis; Ouidah/Whydah; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Scotland; Senegal; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Malo; St Thomas; Virginia; Volta River; Whitehall; Windward (Islands).

Ships mentioned: Africa (9711); African (9711); Averilla (14915); Batchelors Delight (15020); Boun; Carolina (20139); Coaster (15017); Companion; Eagle (21388); East India Merchant (9713); Edward and William (15018); Edward and William (15018); Fairfax (21216); Fauconberg (9726); Fauconberg (9724); Fauconberg (9712); Fortune (14914); Fortune (15019); Friends Adventure (9824); Griffin (21874); Guynie Galley; Hannibal (15024); Hannibal (9714); Hope (21393); Jeffry (14913); John (9717, 21109); John and Susanna; John Bonadventure (9716); John Bonadventure (15023); Joseph; Kendall (9725); Loyal Society (21901); Mary and Margaret (15021); Meditteranian (14911); Prince George (9722); Restore and Prosper (21505); Returne (15016); Richard; Ruth and Mary; Sally (9723); Sherborow (20902); Success (15022); Swallow (20145); Three Brothers (20834); Unity; Virgin; Walter and Sarah; William and John (14917).

96 pages. Front flyleaf includes a drawing of an Elephant. Folio 3 is a short index with 8 items.

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Banking

Africa