Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 16 January 1699/1700-21 May 1702. Subjects...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 16 January 1699/1700-21 May 1702.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Act of Parliament regulating the trade to Africa; Addresses/petitions to Parliament, Lord Justices; Agents/factors/chiefs: elections, securities, inspections of behaviour, instructions; Appearances of Assistants at Court; Arming of forts/castles: sending ammunition, guns, canons; Assembly of General Court; Assurances: ships, cargo, gold; Bills of exchange; 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, amber): Courts of Sales, individual buyers; Complaints/lawsuits against 'breakers' of charterpartys; Contracts with: captains, owners, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies, opening of; Dealings with Custom House: seizure; Dispatches: ships, factors; Disputes on lost and/or damaged goods, taken ships; Disputes with captains, factors and agents; Dutch West India Company: letters; East India Company (New): 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, retrieving from sunken ships; Indentures for Apprenticeships; Inspections of journals, accounts, books; Interlopers/piracy and prizes: commissions for seizures, prosecution of; Lawsuits against the company; Man of war to patron Guinea coast; Other companies: Senegal, French Africa, Dutch West India; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: captains, Indigenous rulers; Private trade: allowances, prohibitions, discovery; Salaries and wages, gratuities; Ships: leasing, hiring, selling, repairing, damages to; Soldiers and tradesmen sent to forts; Transfers of shares; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Alampo; Amsterdam; Anamabo [Anomobu]; Angola; Angra [Angro do Heroísmo]; Antegua [Antigua]; Ardra; Barbados; Bite [Bight of Benin or Biafra]; Bourdeaux; Bristol; Cape Corso (Castle); Cape Mount; Cape Verde; Chichester; Cutchoe [Kutchi]; Falmouth; Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Hamburg; Holland; Ireland; Isle of May; Jamaica; Kings Town (Sherboro); Liverpool; Lixbona [Lisbon]; Maryland; Montserrat; Nevis; New England; Newgate; Ouidah/Whydah; Penzance; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Portugal; Rio de Janeiro; Rochel [La Rochelle]; Scilly [Isles of Scilly]; Senegal; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Christopher [St Kitts]; Venice; Virginia; Windward (Islands); York Island [Antigua and Barbuda]; York River (Virginia);.

Ships mentioned: Adventure; Amity (20193); Amity (20168); Angola Frigat (14992); Anna and Sarah; Anne; Anne and Susannah (15035); Blossom Galley; Bonadventure; Bridgewater Frigat (14995); Canterbury (14920); Cape Coast Frigate (15032); Christopher; Constantinople (9739); Daniel and Hester (15034); Davers Galley (9740); Davers Gally (14998); Encouragement (9737, 20252); Evans Frigat (9801); Fauconberg (14997); Flower of Sherbrow; Friends Good Will ; Gambia Gally; Gould Frigat; James; John and Sarah; John Sloop; Lark Frigat (14994); LePax (21254); London; Lusitania (14921); Lyon and Lamb; Mary and Sarah; Milford; Newcastle; Paget Frigot; Peacock; Philip; Phoenix (15109); Robert and John; Rochester; Royal Africa (14993); Serelion; Serelion; Sommers Frigot (15033); Spanish Merchant (14919); Spye Galley (15036); Spye Galley (14922); St Winifred (20213); Success (20170); Success (15104); Sun Prize; Supply; The Intelligence; Thomas and Elizabeth; Upton Yacht; Urban Frigat (15031); Waller of Kinsale; Wheeler; William and Jane (9727).

267 pages.

Topics

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Weapons

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Banking

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa