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High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Perseverance (master Bartholomew Jackson)....

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/420/3

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This record is about the High Court of Admiralty. Captured ship: Perseverance (master Bartholomew Jackson).... dating from 1778 May 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 32/420/3
Date
1778 May 1
Description

High Court of Admiralty.

Captured ship: Perseverance (master Bartholomew Jackson).

Capture history: an American merchant ship (schooner, 65 tons, 6 men) bound from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Bilbao, laden with tobacco, rice, salmon, potash, staves; taken on 1 May 1778 about 6 leagues from Cap Pinas by the privateer Defiance (Nicholas Mallet commanding), and brought into Jersey.

Intended voyage: from the United States to Spain.

Court papers numbered CP 1-4:-

  • [CP 1]: attestation as to papers (numbered 1-7) brought in by the prize master John Hubert, second mate, Jersey, 7 May 1778;
  • [CP 2]: deposition of Richard Hammond, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, commissioners' affidavit, taken at Jersey, 7 May 1778;
  • [CP 3]: covering letter, sending the ship's papers, 11 May 1778;
  • [CP 4]: allegation , 16 June 1778;

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-7 (Massachusetts papers):-

  • SP 1: ship's register, a [British] prize brought into Newburyport and condemned in 1777, now owned by Ebenezer Parsons & Daniel Sargent, 13 March 1778;
  • SP 2: orders of Miller & Tracy to deliver letters [thrown overboard?] to Messrs Joseph Gardoqui & Sons, Bilbao, and to return with a cargo of salt;"Much depends on your good conduct in this voiage as it is of great importance to the United States";
  • SP 3: orders of Parsons & Sargent to Jackson: the schooner is chartered to the United States, and Gardoqui has been asked to provide you with as much money as you need to fix the schooner; includes list of clothing, spices etc to buy in Spain, 16 March 1778;
  • SP 4: invoice of oak staves, with instructions of Parsons to Jackson, to lay out proceeds on good Irish linens and on worsted stockings, 12 March 1778;
  • SP 5: bill of health;
  • SP 6: 'shipping and portlage bill' - crew list and agreement, 18 March 1778;
  • SP 7: clearance bond, 14 March 1778.

[Papers previously wrongly identified as Court papers: 1-3; Ship's papers: 4-11 (large pencil numbers): sorted and renumbered in 2025].

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/420/3/1-11
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13507249/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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