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Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Cornelis Bastiaensen)...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/1059
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This record is about the Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Cornelis Bastiaensen)... dating from 1671-1672 in the series High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 30/1059
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1671-1672
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Cornelis Bastiaensen) continued
History: a Dutch merchant ship, bound from Surinam to Vlissingen, laden with sugar, letter wood and indigo; taken on 13 March 1672 off the Isle of Wight by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding), and brought into Portsmouth.
Documents:- continued from HCA 30/1058
Court Papers: HCA 32/8B/4
Ship's Papers: mail in transit, now arranged in 18 folders. Where possible, enclosures and sub-enclosures have been reunited with their original covering letters, making 463 reconstructed packets in Parts 1 and 2. The total number of documents is greater.
PART 1:
Folder 1 (1/1-1/23): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Abo-Avi)
Folder 2 (2/1-2/37): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Bac-Bla)
Folder 3 (3/1-3/23): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Bra-Bru)
Folder 4 (4/1-4/28): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Car-Cos)
Folder 5 (5/1-5/23): Mail from Surinam, letters of sender Combe
Folder 6 (6/1-6/25): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Dar-Fon)
Folder 7 (7/1-7/24): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Gal-Hui)
Folder 8 (8/1-8/48): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Jan-Moz)
Folder 9 (9/1-9/10): Mail from Surinam, letters of senders Ceuvelaer and Lemps
Folder 10 (10/1-10/7): Mail from Surinam, letters of sender Montesinos
PART 2:
Folder 11 (11/1-11/21): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Nac-Nun)
Folder 12 (12/1-12/19): Mail from Surinam, letters of sender d'Olijslager
Folder 13 (13/1-13/34): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Pal-Rij)
Folder 14 (14/1-14/27): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Rob-Rui)
Folder 15 (15/1-15/53): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Sch-Sil)
Folder 16 (16/1-16/22): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Sim-Str)
Folder 17 (17/1-17/9): Mail from Surinam, letters of senders Thierrij and Thisso
Folder 18 (18/1-18/30): Mail from Surinam, letters by sender (Tin-Zou) .
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Dutch, French, Latin and Spanish
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- Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing (Vlissingen) (master Cornelis Bastiaensen)...
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