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British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Amitié à l'Epreuve of Nantes...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/267/12
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This record is about the British New York Vice-Admiralty Court. Captured ship: Amitié à l'Epreuve of Nantes... dating from 1779 Feb 1 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 32/267/12
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Date (When the record was created)
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1779 Feb 1
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British New York Vice-Admiralty Court.
Captured ship: Amitié à l'Epreuve of Nantes (master Joseph Hilleret).
Capture history: a French merchant ship (490 tons, 38 men) bound from Port au Prince, Saint Domingue to Nantes, laden with sugar, cotton, coffee, indigo and molasses; taken on 1 February 1779 in latitude 27°N, longitude 67°'W of London or latitude 29°N, longitude 60°W of Paris, about 60 leagues SW of Bermuda by the loyalist privateer Westmoreland (John Hylton commanding), and brought into New York.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.
Court papers numbered CP 1-4:-
- [CP 1]: affidavit of papers brought in by the prize master James Hayes, sailing master, 19 February 1779;
- [CP 2]: libel in Hylton v The ship L'Amitié and her cargo, 19 February 1779;
- [CP 3-CP 4]: two depositions of Joseph Fougassier and Joseph Hilleret, 6 March 1779.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-9:-
- SP 1-SP 3: official ship's papers;
- SP 4: invoice for sugar on board this ship, paid from an account of sale of 415 enslaved people brought to Saint Domingue by the slave trader Comte de Vergennes (master Constantin), 21 June 1778;
- SP 5: muster roll;
- SP 6-SP 9: ship's business papers.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-4; Ship's papers: 5-13 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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HCA 32/267/12/1-13
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English and French
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Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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