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Index to HCA 45/7 - HCA 45/15
Catalogue reference: IND 1/8990
Date: 1770-1780
Index to HCA 45/7 - HCA 45/15
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Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of New York. Captured ship: Esther...
Catalogue reference: HCA 45/7/19
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This record is about the Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of New York. Captured ship: Esther... dating from 1780 Dec 9 in the series High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers). It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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HCA 45/7/19
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1780 Dec 9
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Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of New York.
Captured ship: Esther or Esthen (master Alexander Kennedy).
History: an American vessel, bound from James River, Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts, laden with flour, bread, tobacco, staves; taken on 21 June 1778 about 40 miles east of Virginia by the privateer Tryon (George Sibbles commanding) and brought into New York.
Appellant: The captor.
Respondent: Israel Lieben of Philadelphia and George Muir for the ship and cargo, and the master for the tobacco.
Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 9 December 1780.
Folios 325-344v, comprising folios 325-327v: case on behalf of the appellant; folios 328-330v: case on behalf of the respondent; folios 331-337v: appendix to the respondents' case; folios 338-338v: attestation of George Muir; folios 339-344v: second respondent's appendix.
Session of Saturday 9 December 1780, in the Council Chamber, Whitehall: sentence recorded in manuscript on folio 330:-
- Present: Henry, Earl Bathurst, Lord President of the Council; Earl of Denbigh; Viscount Stormont; Lord Loughborough Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas; Sir Thomas Parker.
- Esther or Esthen, Alexander Kennedy master. Grene. Crickitt. For sentence on the second assignation and informations.
- "The Lords having heard the proofs and counsel on both sides by their interlocutory decree affirmed the sentence of the judge below and decreed the cause to be remitted."
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 45
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers)
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Within the series: HCA 45
High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers)
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