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Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island. Captured ship: Angola of Liverpool...
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/23/5
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This record is about the Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island. Captured ship: Angola of Liverpool... dating from 1744 in the series High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 42/23/5
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1744
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Appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island.
Captured ship: Angola of Liverpool; master previously George Smithson, then Philip de Arrieta.
History: an English ship [in the African slave trade, having come from Angola to the West Indies and returning to England], laden with sugar, mahogany, ginger, cotton, and three tons of elephant's teeth; taken by the Spanish, and retaken on 18 April 1743 in chase off Cuba by the privateers Revenge (James Wimble commanding) and Revenge (James Alllen commanding) and brought into Newport.
Manuscript appeal papers, including transcripts of examinations and ship's papers.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16559695/
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HCA 42
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers
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