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British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Active (master William Smith)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/261/2
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This record is about the British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Active (master William Smith).... dating from 1779 Jun 3 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1779 Jun 3
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British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.
Captured ship: Active (master William Smith).
Capture history: an American merchant ship with a commission (sloop, 30 tons, 2 guns, 4 swivels, 11 men, formerly a British ship bound from Jamaica to New York, laden with rum, taken as an American prize and brought into Philadelphia), now bound from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Port au Prince, Saint Domingue, laden with lumber, boards, shingles, staves, hoops; taken on 3 June 1779 in latitude 37°N, longitude 73°W by the loyalist privateers Tryon (George Tibbles commanding) and Experiment (Alexander McPherson commanding), and brought into New York.
Intended voyage: from the United States to the Caribbean Islands.
Court Papers, numbered CP 1-4:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers, by MacPherson, 13 June 1779;
- [CP 2]: libel, Tibbles and McPherson v The sloop Active and her cargo, 14 June 1779;
- [CP 3]: deposition of William Smith, 24 June 1779;
- [CP 4]: monition, 14 June 1779.
[Decision: condemned, if no response to the monition by 5 July 1779]
Ships Papers, numbered SP 1-6 (Pennsylvania papers):-
- SP 1: ship certificate from the State of Pennsylvania;
- SP 2: printed commission of Congress as a privateer;
- SP 3: instructions of owner Robert Bridges to the master;
- SP 4: printed instructions of Congress to privateers;
- SP 5: voyage certificate from the State of Pennsylvania;
- SP 6: memorandum to bring linen, striped calico for children, indigo, sugar and coffee for Mrs Bridges.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as done (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024/ Some court papers of the ship Active (master Bishop) were previously misfiled here].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Some court papers of the ship Active (master Bishop) were previously misfiled here
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- HCA 32/261/2/1-26
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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