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Captured ship: L'Ameriquain otherwise American of Martinique (master Pierre Herriard,...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/95/29

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HCA 32/95/29
Date
1748
Description

Captured ship: L'Ameriquain otherwise American of Martinique (master Pierre Herriard, soemtimes recorded as Pierre Hiriart or Hiriat).

History: a French merchant ship bound from Bordeaux to Martinique, laden with wine, beef, oil, tiles, bricks, oatmeal, candles, butter, hoops, willows, nails, castor hats [beaver hats], silk stockings, shoes, blacking, needles and pins, pilchards, pickled salmon, legs of geese [prosciutto d'oca], sausages, hams, sugar making equipment, and many more things; taken on 20/31 March 1748 in 47º latitude by HMS Falcon (Thomas Saumarez commanding) and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations (no 2 is unusually detailed about the cargo), commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7]: attestation;
  • [CP 8]: abstract and translation of the 62 ship's papers.

Ship's Papers: numbered SP 1-SP 62 (of which 1-39, including many bills of lading, are signed and numbered by the master on the back; numbering from 40 on is in a different hand).

[Decision: condemned as prize, 10 May 1748]

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HCA 32/95/2/9
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14512436/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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