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: Two Sisters (master Jacob Peterson, succeeding William Grigg or and...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/249/16
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This record is about the Captured ship: Two Sisters (master Jacob Peterson, succeeding William Grigg or and... dating from 1758 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/249/16
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1758
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Two Sisters (master Jacob Peterson, succeeding William Grigg or and Pierre Pouy St Jean as a French prize).
History: an English merchant ship from Virginia with 425 tons of tobacco and 30 tons iron; taken by the French privateer L'Aigle de Bayonne (master Georges Mathieu Forestiere), and retaken by the Jersey privateeer Phoenix (master Richard Le Quesne).
Documents: claim; examinations of French captor's men in Jersey; captor's letter of marque; and papers numbered 1 to 178, including an unstrung file of Peterson's private and business correspondence, (some of it of older dates), notes of indiscipline among the crew, and bills of lading; journal of the captor L'Aigle de Bayonne; journal of Royal Bounty, captain Peter Smart, 1756; logs and journals of voyage to Virginia and north-eastern Europe and St Petersburg, Russia; at no 32, a list of planters in Virginia giving the river and county of each
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16736145/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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