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: Silver Crown of Amsterdam, master Hendrick Cornelius. History: bound...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/12/675
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This record is about the Captured ship: Silver Crown of Amsterdam, master Hendrick Cornelius. History: bound... dating from 1667 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/12/675
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1667
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Silver Crown of Amsterdam, master Hendrick Cornelius.
History: bound from St Martin to Gothenburg, laden with salt, vinegar, wine, woollen cloth and paper; taken on 20 March 1667 (having cast several papers overboard) between Portland and the Gasketts by a privateer (Nicholas Carew commanding) and brought into Studland Bay.
Documents: examinations taken at Poole, including a contradictory identification by Alexander Woodson, surgeon of Deptford, of the ship and master as a slave trade ship he had been aboard in Curacao in May [1663 or 1664] bringing enslaved people from Angola or Guinea to the [Caribbean or Americas].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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