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Captured ship: Anne of Jamaica (master Daniel Updike). History: an English merchant...

Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1854/9

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This record is about the Captured ship: Anne of Jamaica (master Daniel Updike). History: an English merchant... dating from 1697 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
HCA 32/1854/9
Date
1697
Description

Captured ship: Anne of Jamaica (master Daniel Updike).

History: an English merchant ship (150 tons, men), bound from Jamaica to [England]…, laden with sugar, logwood, indigo, jamaica pepper, ginger, cotton; taken during February 1697 off Cape Clear by a French privateer of St Malo, retaken on 22 April / 2 May 1697 off Guernsey by the privateers Prosperous (Dennis Rous commanding), Mordant Galley (James Turner commanding), Four Brothers (Peter Tupper commanding) and St Aubin Galley (George Bennet commanding), and brought into Guernsey.

[Decision: restored, paying salvage 10 September 1697]

Court Papers:-

  • [CP 1]: one examination;
  • [CP 2]: claim of William Hutchinson & Co. of Jamaica;
  • [CP 3-CP 5]: attestations relating to cargo allegedly removed by the French privateer's crew;
  • [CP 6-CP 7]: commission of appraisement, inventory;
  • [CP 8-CP 9]: two further attestations relating to the ship's cargo;
  • [CP 10-CP 11]: commission of appraisement, inventory.

[Decision: not yet known]

Note
Extra information added from IND 1/9016, p6
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
HCA 32/13, HCA 32/15, HCA 32/33
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17847531/

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HCA 32

High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers

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