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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: La Badine of Nantes (master Jean Dupuy, second...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/276/4
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: La Badine of Nantes (master Jean Dupuy, second... dating from 1778 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 32/276/4
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Date (When the record was created)
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1778
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Description (What the record is about)
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: La Badine of Nantes (master Jean Dupuy, second captain Pierre Prin, former master Julien Poisson).
Capture history: a French slave ship (150 tons, 2 guns, 23 men), bound from St Marc, Saint Domingue, to Nantes, now laden with sugar, coffee, and indigo, having brought 321 enslaved people from Guinea or Angola to Saint Domingue; taken on 14 September 1778 in latitude 41°N by HMS Glasgow (Thomas Pasley commanding), and HMS Cameleon (John Leigh Douglas commanding), and brought into the Downs.
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to France.
Principal owner of the ship, Monsieur Doucet of Nantes; Dupuy owned 3/32 shares. La Badine was previously, c.1772, the Courier of St Marc, Saint-Domingue.
Court Papers: 1-11;
Ships Papers: numbered by the court 1-25 [both previously HCA 32/276/5]; includes a slave trading journal and accounts.
Mail in Transit: mostly from Saint Domingue, and some from Luanda, Angola, c. April 1778. Roughly 150 letters in all, with some bills of lading and invoices removed by the court from the mail in transit.
[About 150 letters found mixed up with these, dated 1779 to 1781, have been removed and are now part of the American War Sorting Exercise; they appear to relate to HCA 32/280/4, the Betsey of Boston (master Jesse Harding).]
[ These are interim paper numbers, and are likely to change once more fully catalogued.]
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Held by (Who holds the record)
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HCA 32/276/4/1-479
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Public Record(s)
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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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