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Captured ship: La Société of Nantes (master Jean Chapie). History: a French merchant...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/153/18

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Reference
HCA 32/153/18
Date
1747
Description

Captured ship: La Société of Nantes (master Jean Chapie).

History: a French merchant ship (150 tons, 9 guns, 20 men, formerly the English Jamaica Packet (master Joseph Holbrook), bound from Saint Domingue to Nantes or Bordeaux, laden with sugar and indigo; taken on 21 June / 2 July 1747 off Gijón by an English fleet under Admiral Peter Warren, and brought into Plymouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6-CP 8]: 2 attestations and a claim;
  • [CP 9]: allegation;
  • [CP 10]: attestation.

Documents:-

Ships Papers: these are the papers of Jean Chapie from a previous voyage of 1743-1745 in a previous ship, La Société of La Rochelle (master William Perrier otherwise Guillaume Périer), a French slave trader, bound from La Rochelle, via the Guinea Coast [where 271 enslaved people were taken on board], to Saint Domingue [where the surviving 217 were sold, and the ship condemned in January 1745 at Port de Paix as not seaworthy].

SP 1-SP 1C, book of slave trade expenses when trading for enslaved people with notes and scrap paper.

[Decision: cargo condemned, ship restored, paying 1/8 salvage, 15 September 1747.]

Details of La Société of La Rochelle taken from Jean Mettas, Répertoire des Expéditions Négrières Françaises au XVIIIe Siècle; Tome 2, Ports Autres que Nantes (Paris, 1984), p282.

Note
Extra information from HCA 30/775/4; the ship's papers were added from HCA 32/152/29 in 2021.
Separated material

A cockroach specimen has been extracted to

HCA 32/153/18/1

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English and French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14513948/

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