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Catalogue reference: IND 1/8990
Date: 1770-1780
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Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica. Captured ship: Flora...
Catalogue reference: HCA 45/48/13
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1805
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Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica.
Captured ship: Flora (master James Lovett).
Nationality: American.
History: bound from Cartagena to Cadiz, though allegedly to New York, laden with cotton, fustic, gold ignots, milled doubloons; taken on 21 June 1799 by HMS York (John Ferrier commanding) and HMS Maidstone (Ross Donnelly commanding), and brought into Jamaica.
Appellant: 1) William Savage and James Lovett for the ship and the cargo being variouslythe property of John Blagge merchant of New York, James Drake supercargo and the master.
Respondent: The captors and HMPG; 2) cross-suit by the same parties.
Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 22 June 1805 (folios 238-241).
Decision: cargo to be restored on payment of captors expenses of further proof.
Folios 238-241: case on further proof; Folio 241: decree
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- The National Archives, Kew
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HCA 45
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers)
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