Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 7 September 1697-2 January 1699/1700. Subjects...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 7 September 1697-2 January 1699/1700.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Act of Parliament regulating the trade to Africa; Addresses/petitions to Parliament, Lord Justices; African House: lease, repairs; 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; Company Goods (sugar, teeth, wax, gold, hides, indigo, cotton, redwood, gum,silver): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Contracts with: captains, owners, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies; Customs house: seizures; Dealings with Custom House: propriety; Debts of the Plantations to the Company: Barbados; Dispatches: ships, factors; Disputes on lost and/or damaged goods, taken ships; 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: inventory, upkeep, supplies/materials; Gold: sending, 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; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: Indigenous rulers, Adventurers; 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, additional subscriptions/expanding the stock; 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]; Ardra; Barbados; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Brazil; Brielle; Bristol; Cabenda [Kabinda]; Cape Blank [Cap Blanc]; Cape Corso (Castle); Cape of Good Hope; Chichester; Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Gravesend; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Hellevoetsluis; Holland; Ireland; Isle of Wight; Jamaica; Leeward (Islands); Lixbona [Lisbon]; Maderoes [Madeira]; Montserrat; Nevis; Newcastle; Ouidah/Whydah; Plymouth; Rio de Janeiro; Rotterdam; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; St Malo; Venice; Virginia; Volta River.

Ships mentioned: Adventure; Amnity; Anne and Sarah; Britannia; Clover Gally; Coaster; Companion; Delavall Gally (9733); Delight Sloope; Dilligence; Eagle; Edward and William (9728); Ekins Frigott (9730); Europe; Fauconberg (9719, 9732); Fortune (15026); Fortune; Griffin (9738); Hannah and Elizabeth; Harding Gally; John and Roger; Laurell Brigantine (20781); Littleton Gally; Mary and Margeret Gally (9718); Merchants Goodwill (15025); Neptune (21315); Newcastle Ph[...]; Pagett; Phantasy Sloope; Prince of Orange (9720); Prince of Orange (9736); Rainbow (9731); Rebecca; Recovery Pink (14918); Ruth; Sally Rose; Sherbrow Brigantine; Somers (9729); Speedwell; Sucesse; Susanna (15015); Swallow; Unity; Urban Frigot (9735); Warrington.

87 pages.

Topics

Shipping

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Americas

Banking

Africa