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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Amelia or Jersey (master unknown). Capture...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/266/20
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Amelia or Jersey (master unknown). Capture... dating from 1781 Sept in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/266/20
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1781 Sept
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Amelia or Jersey (master unknown).
Capture history: formerly (in 1777) the English slave-trader ship Amelia (master John McNeil) bound from Bance Island, Africa [Bunce Island, Sierra Leone] to the British West Indies, laden with enslaved people and elephants teeth [ivory], crewed with grometto [free black] seamen; taken on 1 February 1777 off St Kitts by an American privateer; now (1781) lying in the River Thames as the American ship Nancy and recognised as the Amelia.
Intended voyage: from West Africa to the Caribbean Islands.
Court papers numbered CP 1-3:-
- [CP 1]: affidavit and claim of Richard Oswald esq, executor and partner of the owners of the Amelia, Sir Alexander Grant and John Boyd, 29 September 1781;
- [CP 2]: affidavit and claim of John McNeil, former master, 29 September 1781;
- [CP 3]: affidavit and claim of Christopher Marshall, sailmaker and Richard Brown, joiner, 29 September 1781.
[Papers previously identified as Court papers: 1-3 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- HCA 32/266/20/1-3
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13504834/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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