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Captured ship: Morning Star of Amsterdam, otherwise Morgenstern , otherwise Etoile...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/1062
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This record is about the Captured ship: Morning Star of Amsterdam, otherwise Morgenstern , otherwise Etoile... dating from 1672 May-1672 June 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 30/1062
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1672 May-1672 June
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Morning Star of Amsterdam, otherwise Morgenstern, otherwise Etoile de Matin (master John Jacobsen).
History: a Dutch merchant ship with a letter of marque, bound from Amsterdam for Curacao in May 1672, laden with Dutch West India Company cargo; taken on 5 June 1672 by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding) and brought into Plymouth the next day.
Documents:-
Ship's Papers and Mail in Transit, numbered 1-59 by the court, 60-61 are two wrappers (several repeated numbers now given as a and b; nos 46 and 55 are missing).
Ships papers include crew list and agreement.
Mail in Transit:
- many private letters written in Amsterdam in May 1672 for delivery to residents of Curacao, or to the crew of other ships expected there such as the slave traders Asia, Fenix and Salamander, which sailed in 1671 to Elmina, Guinea, and from there delivered enslaved people to Curacao in 1672, or the Vergilden Croon;
- 12 copies of the Oprechte Haerlemse Courant of 11-19 May 1672 NS;
- 5 copies of the Amsterdamsche Courant of 11-19 May 1672 NS;
- 3 copies of the Extraordinaire Haerlemse Courant of 19-25 May 1672 NS.
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- Open Document, Open Description
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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