High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Betsey of London (master Richard Culley)....

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Betsey of London (master Richard Culley).

Capture history: a British merchant ship (70 tons, 2 men) bound from London to Plymouth, laden with beef, pork, bread, oil, iron rivets, cooper's bick irons and truss hoops, for the Navy; taken on 2 June 1777 off Salcombe by the American privateer Montgomery, (John Burnell commanding), retaken on 3 June 1777 a mile off Bolt Head by HMS Experiment (Sir James Culley commanding), and brought into Plymouth.

Intended voyage: within England.

Court papers numbered CP 1-5:-

• [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1) brought in by the prize master Peter Abbott midshipman, 5 July 1777;
• [CP 2]: five depositions of Peter Abbot of St Kitts, John Burnell of Chester Town, Maryland, Richard Culley of Plymouth, Jeremiah Martell of Southampton and Richard Watts of London, and commissioner's affidavit, 19 July 1777;
• [CP 3-CP 4]: answer and claim of Jonathan Holt of the Victualling Office, 14 August 1777;
• [CP 5]: allegation, 14 September 1777.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1:-

• SP 1: bill of lading of the Victualling Office, for delivery from London to John Ommanney esq, the Agent for Victualling, Plymouth.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-10; Ship's papers: 11 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2024].

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