Piece
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A, HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/8
Former piece now catalogued as HCA 32/8A,HCA 32/8B and HCA 32/8C.
Item
Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam , master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/9/14
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1672
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Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam, master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling Jansz Keijser of Rotterdam.
History: 150 tons, 19 guns, 25 crew, freighted to the Dutch West India Company; outward bound from Amsterdam about 16 months ago, and went first to Guinea where he traded about 5 months for"negroes" [enslaved people], and brought about 330 [slaves] to the Canary Islands; now bound from Santa Cruz, Tenerife to Amsterdam, laden with Canary wines, campeche wood, on account of several merchants (including Daniel Gravetee a deponent, and of the Dutch West India Company) and four elephant's teeth for the master, and in the master 's cabin a chest containing gold dust worth £7 sterling, and 500 pieces of eight, and in Gravetee's cabin a similar chest of money; taken on 27 April 1672 between Falmouth and Plymouth by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding) and towed into Falmouth.
Documents: interrogatories and examinations taken at Falmouth and at Plymouth in May 1672.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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