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Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam (master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling Jansz...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/1063
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This record is about the Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam (master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling Jansz... dating from 1669-1672 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 30/1063
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1669-1672
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Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam (master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling Jansz Keijser of Rotterdam).
History: a Dutch slave ship freighted to the Dutch West India Company, bound first to Guinea where 5 months were spent trading for 330 enslaved people sold in the Canary Islands, but now bound from Santa Cruz, Tenerife to Amsterdam, laden with Canary wines and campeche wood on account of several merchants (including Daniel Gravetee a passenger), and 4 elephant's teeth for the master, and in the master's cabin a chest containing gold dust worth £7 sterling, and in Gravetee's cabin a similar chest of money; taken on 27 April 1672 between Falmouth and Plymouth by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding), and towed into Falmouth.
Documents: ships papers and mail in transit, numbered 1-71 (25 is missing) including the master's archive of a slaving voyage in 1669 in the Susanna to Angola, with letters, slave contracts, bills of lading, list of trade goods for Africa, lighthouse dues etc
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Language (The language of the record)
- Dutch
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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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