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Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1936/2
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No 26. Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing [otherwise Fort of Zealand ] (master...
Catalogue reference: HCA 24/147/26
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1672 Apr 25
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No 26.
Captured ship: Fort Zeelandia of Flushing [otherwise Fort of Zealand] (master Cornelis Bastiaensen of Flushing).
History: a Dutch merchant ship (100 lasts), bound from Surinam to Flushing, laden with sugar, 'specled' wood and indigo; taken on 13/23 March 1671/1672 west of the Isle of Wight by HMS Nightingale (Henry Clarke commanding) and brought into Portsmouth on 15/25 March 1671/1672.
Allegation and claim, 25 April 1672, of 7 English merchants, Rowland Simpson, Peter Cooper, Captain William Cowell, Oliver Umphryes (otherwise Humphryes), Mark Brant, Francis Tyssen and George Lisle, for their goods (sugar, speckled wood [snakewood], and brandy) aboard the Fort of Zealand. In margin are 7 merchant marks. Simpson, Cowell, Humphryes, Brant and Lisle all had plantations in Surinam. Date of capture given as 14/24 March 1672.
Extra information:-
- See HCA 32/1947/5 for the other court papers;
- Ships Papers: see the very large collection of papers and mail in transit from Surinam, at HCA 30/1058 and HCA 30/1059: 'papers abundance and unnumbered' were brought into the Court on 29 April 1672, and more on 5 May 1672: see HCA 30/882 p. 55;
- See also IND 1/9012 f.24v; Owners Lyne Blunckebile, Cornelius Cavelas, John Jongh and the master, all of Flushing.
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- English
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