Captured ship: Die Einigkeit otherwise L'Union of Hamburg (master Claas Eschels otherwise...

Captured ship: Die Einigkeit otherwise L'Union of Hamburg (master Claas Eschels otherwise Claes Eschells).

History: a Hamburg ship (English-built, 80 Hamburg lasts, 11 men), bound from La Rochelle to Hamburg or Altona laden with buckskins, sugar, wine, brandy, treacle, indigo and other goods: taken on 17 November 1747 by the privateer George (William Freebairn commanding), and brought into the Downs.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

• [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
• [CP 6]: attestation and claim of the master, December 1747;
• [CP 7]: attestation of the master as to damage caused to the ship at Sheerness after capture, December 1747;
• [CP 8-CP 22]: 22 sets [in 15 documents] of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Bremen, Brunn [Brno], Hamburg, Elverfeldt in the Duchy of Berg, Leipzig, Nuremberg, the French colony of Berlin, and the French colony of Magdeburg (annotated with the court-imposed number of the bill of lading), and brought into court in March 1748;
• [CP 23-CP 24]: schedules of goods to be condemned and reserved, May 1748;
• [CP 25-CP 29]: claim for the condemned goods, with schedules and three depositions, June 1748;
• [CP 30]: attestation, affidavit and translation taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Elverfeldt in the Duchy of Berg, and brought into court in June 1748;
• [CP 31-CP 33]: attestation as to papers, and two abstracts and translations of the 52 ship's papers [most of these papers were restored].

Ship's papers: 6 remaining papers, numbered (using the court-imposed numbers) SP 2, SP 7, SP 8, SP 18, SP 19, and SP 20.

[Decision: part of cargo condemned, ship and rest of the cargo restored as neutral, 20 May 1748]

See the appeal papers at HCA 42/27/10