Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 28 May 1702-14 June 1705. Subjects include:...

Minute book of the Court of Assistants, 28 May 1702-14 June 1705.

Subjects include: Trade in enslaved people from Africa; Act of Parliament regulating the trade to Africa; 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; Compensations for employees who were taken prisoner; Complaints/lawsuits against 'breakers' of charterpartys; Contracts with: captains, owners, suppliers; Copper and iron supply; Correspondence with planters, governors, forts, colonies, opening of; 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; 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; Payment of died soldiers/seamen; Permissions for passengers on company ships; Petitions to the company: receipt, replies, referral; Pre-contracted slave voyages for specific individuals; Presents: captains, Indigenous rulers; Presents: 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: fraud with; Victualling of ships, provisions (for the enslaved); Warrants: lists of payments for goods and services.

Places mentioned: Accra; Alampo; Amsterdam; Antegua [Antigua]; Baltimore; Barbados; Bath; Bence Island [Bunce Island]; Bermuda; Boston; Bristol; Cape Corso (Castle); Cape Mount; Cape of Good Hope; Comenda [Komenda]; Cutchoe [Kutchi]; Deal; Dinant; Dunworley Bay; England; Falmouth; Gamboa [Gambia]; Gold Coast; Gravesend; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Guinny/ Guinea [Guinee]; Ireland; Jamaica; James Island [Kunta Kinteh Island]; Lixbona [Lisbon]; Maderoes [Madeira]; Maryland; Montserrat; Nevis; Ouidah/Whydah; Plymouth; Portsmouth; Rio de Janeiro; Rotterdam; Scilly [Isles of Scilly]; Seraleon [Sierra Leone]; Sherboro [Sherbro Island]; St Helens [St Helena]; St Malo; St Thomas; Virginia; Volta River; Windward (Islands); York Island [Antigua and Barbuda]; .

Ships mentioned: Adventure (14929); Andrew; Angola Frigat (25677); Angola Frigott (14925, 14939); Barbadoes Merchant; Batchelors Delight; Black Eagle (15001, 15007); Bonadventure; Bridgewater (2?) (14928); Bridgewater 2 (15011); Broughton; Broughton 2; Canterbury; Charles II (21154); Chester; Davers Gally (21160); Davers Gally (14985); Deptford; Don Carlos (14932); Dorothy (21174); Eagle (21221); Eagle 2?; Edward and Francis (20311, 21153); Evans Frigat (15027); Fame; Fauconberg (14989); Freeman; Friendship (14984); Gold Frigot (14938); Greyhound (21181); Guinea Hen (21143); Hannover (15143); Hunter; Industry of Plymouth; Intelligence (15028); James; Lark (15006); Leviathan; London; Lucitania (14933); Lyon and Lamb (14986); Malagetto; Martha (14988); Martha (14934); Maurice and George ; Neptune (14935); Newcastle; Nicholson; Pagett; Penman; Phoenix (20884); Postilllion (15005); Prince of Orange (14936); Robert and John Pink; Rooke Galley (15009); Royal Africa (15012); royal Africa (14937); Saint Christopher (21256); Saint Lawrence Victorious (15008); Saint Winifrede (14924); Serelion Brigantine; Siam (15010); Silvester Gally (14930); Spanish Merchant; Speedwell Brigantine; Spye Galley; St Winifred; Swallow Brigantine; Swan (14931); Thomas and Gregory; Thomas Gally; Tryall James (15128); Two Brothers; Tyger (21161); Union; Urban Frigatt (21139); Volant; Wheeler Frigat (14923).

218 pages.

Topics

Shipping

Trade and commerce

Asia

Caribbean

Democracy

Pay and pensions

Slavery

Weapons

Ireland

Debt

Food and drink

Crime

Americas

Banking

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa