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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Elizabeth (master Jacob Funck). History:...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/318/13

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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Elizabeth (master Jacob Funck). History:... dating from 1777 Jun 25 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 32/318/13
Date
1777 Jun 25
Description

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Elizabeth (master Jacob Funck).

History: an American merchant ship (brig, 130 tons, 4 guns, 8 men) bound from Charleston, South Carolina to Nantes, laden with rice, tobacco, indigo; taken on 25 June 1777 in Bay of Biscay in latitude 47°N, 35 leagues off Belle Isle by HMS Valiant (John Leveson Gower commanding), and brought into the River Thames.

Court papers numbered CP 1-3:-

  • [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-24) brought in by the prize master John Hills lieutenant, 3 July 1777
  • [CP 2]: three depositions of Jacob Funck of New York, Pierre Le Sur of St Malo, and Eprephes Gear of Middletown, Connecticut, taken before the court;
  • [CP 3]: allegation, 29 July 1777.

Ship's Papers, including mail in transit, numbered SP 1-24 (South Carolina papers):-

  • SP 1: clearance;
  • SP 2: crew list and agreement;
  • SP 3: owners instructions from [Allan, Phillips & Co ?], 30 April 1777;
  • SP 4-SP 23: letters written in early May 1777 (business, personal and family letters, some semi-literate) in French from Charleston to Bordeaux, Paris, Nantes, Le Croisic, Vannes, Paimboeuf, Guérande, (SP 22 is a personal letter from Louis-Casimir, Baron de Holtzendorff [a Prussian officer serving with Washington] to his wife, giving details of the war effort, 4 May 1777);
  • SP 24: a large-format logbook bound in sailcloth, from 12 May-25 June 1777. /item>

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-6; Ship's papers: 7-9 (large pencil numbers). The ship's log and other papers added from HCA 30/716 . All sorted and renumbered in 2025].

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/318/13/1-9
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13505615/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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