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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: St Ann of New York (master William Hardy,...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/269/1
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: St Ann of New York (master William Hardy,... dating from 1779 Jun 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 32/269/1
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1779 Jun 1
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: St Ann of New York (master William Hardy, deceased).
Capture history: a loyalist merchant ship (brigantine, 130 tons), bound with the Cork fleet from Sandy Hook to Tenerife and Madeira, in ballast, to take on wine and return to New York; taken by the French cutter Burgoyne of Bordeaux on 8 May 1779 off Martinique (which ran aboard and damaged her severely), retaken along with the Burgoyne on 1 June 1779 by HMS Venus (James Ferguson commanding), part of Admiral Byng's fleet and sent first into St Lucia, and then into St Kitts, where the master entered a protest.
Intended voyage: from British America to the Atlantic Islands.
Court papers numbered CP 1-10:-
- [CP 1]: letter marked A, from Hardy to the owner, Thomas Lynch of New York, explaining the situation and asking for help as he had lost everything, dated 14 June 1779 and annotated with a reply date of 15 July 1779;
- [CP 2]: letter marked B, from James Ferguson to Thomas Lynch, now of London, explaining that the St Ann had sailed away for help, in a poor condition, before Ferguson had a chance to claim salvage, Greenwich Hospital, 19 August 1784;
- [CP 3-CP 5]: affidavit and claim of Thomas Lynch (producing the protest sworn in New York on 16 December 1780 and marked A by Jacob Beam mariner of the St Ann), 29 October 1784;
- [CP 6]: monition, 13 November 1784;
- [CP 7]: act on petition, 23 November 1784;
- [CP 8]: attestation of James Ferguson, 21 February 1785;
- [CP 9]: attestation of Findlay Kerr, late master of HMS Venus, 10 March 1785;
- [CP 10]: attestation with exhibits A and B [now CP 1-CP 2] brought in by Thomas Lynch, 19 April 1785.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-12 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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HCA 32/269/1/1-12
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English
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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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