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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Behmus (master Nathaniel Harris). Capture...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/278/12
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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Behmus (master Nathaniel Harris). Capture... dating from 1780 Mar 4 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 32/278/12
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1780 Mar 4
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High Court of Admiralty.
Captured ship: Behmus (master Nathaniel Harris).
Capture history: an American merchant ship (200 tons, 24 men, formerly a British ship taken in early 1778 by the American privateer Franklin of Salem, and condemned in Salem) bound from Cape Nicola Mole [Môle-Saint-Nicolas], Saint Domingue to Newburyport, Massachusetts, laden with sugar, molasses, lignum vitae, coffee; taken on 4 March 1780 about 2 leagues WSW of the Island of Flores, Azores by the privateer Achilles of Folkestone (William Yawkings commanding), and brought into [Falmouth].
Intended voyage: from the Caribbean Islands to the United States.
Court papers numbered CP 1-3:-
- [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-3) brought in by William Yawkings, Penryn, 23 March 1780;
- [CP 2]: three depositions of Nathaniel Harris and Nathaniel Barnes mariners, and Samuel Bayley merchant of Newburyport, and commissioners affidavit, Penryn, 23-29 March 1780.
Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-3 (Massachusetts papers):-
- SP 1: crew list and agreement;
- SP 2-SP 3: official ships papers.
[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-22; Ship's papers: 23-25 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].
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HCA 32/281/8/1-4
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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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