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Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam (master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling Jansz...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1950/3
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HCA 32/1950/3
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1672 Apr 28
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Santa Maria of Amsterdam (master Waling Jansen, otherwise Waling Jansz Keijser of Rotterdam).
History: a Dutch merchant ship, freighted to the Dutch West India Company (WIC) (150-240 tons, 10 guns, 25 men, built in the Dutch Republic), bound from Santa Cruz, Tenerife to Amsterdam, laden with Canary wines, Campeche wood, on account of the owners, the WIC and several merchants (including Daniel Gravetel a deponent, merchant (supercargo) of the Dutch West India Company aboard) and four elephant's teeth for the master, and in the master's cabin a chest containing gold dust worth £7 sterling, and 500 pieces of eight, and in Gravetel's cabin a similar chest of money; taken on 28 April/8 May 1672 between Falmouth and Plymouth, about 5 leagues off the Lizard, by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding) and towed into Falmouth about 4 days later. Two of the ship's heavy iron guns were removed by the captor and put aboard HMS Nightingale.
Previously outward bound from Amsterdam about 16 months ago as a slave trader, and went first to Guinea where Jansen traded about 5 months for 'negroes', and brought about 330 enslaved people to the Canary Islands.
Court Papers, numbered CP 1-2:-
- [CP 1]: standing interrogatories and two examinations taken at Plymouth, 13 May 1672;
- [CP 2]: two examinations taken at Falmouth, 1 May 1672.
Ships Papers: see the ships papers (including the master's archive of a slaving voyage to Angola in 1669 in the Dutch ship Susanna) and mail in transit at HCA 30/1063. These ship's papers numbered by Charles Moore of the HCA 1 to 71, aand include letters, slave contracts etc, 2 wrappers.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- HCA 32/9/14
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C21119557/
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HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: HCA
Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts
Within the series: HCA 32
High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
Within the piece: HCA 32/1950
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