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Captured ship: St Peter of Amsterdam , claimed to be St Peter of Frederikstadt ,...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/9/10
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Captured ship: St Peter of Amsterdam, claimed to be St Peter of Frederikstadt, master Mewes [Bartholomew] Adriansen.
History: bound from Orotava, Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Amsterdam, laden with Canary wine, 1100 pieces of eight, and several pieces of plate worth 400 pieces of eight; and also silk, velvet plush, and gold and silver lace worth 900 pieces of eight, removed before the ship was brought into Dover; taken on 8 April 1672 (after throwing most papers overboard) by an English man-of-war [HMS Falcon, Charles Montagu commanding] and brought into Dover.
Documents: interrogatories and examinations taken in April: while at the Canary Islands, the ship was hired by a Frenchman to go to the Cape Verde Islands, purchase"negroes" and bring them to the Grand Canaries [as slaves].
See CSPD, 1671-1672, p 297 for the captor
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