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Volume 6 of Printed Prize Appeals for the War of American Independence or the 4th...
Catalogue reference: HCA 45/12
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- [? 1785]
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Volume 6 of Printed Prize Appeals for the War of American Independence or the 4th Anglo-Dutch War.
(One appeal)
Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Minorca.
Captured ship: San Francisco de Paula (master Joseph Visich otherwise Guiseppe Visick).
History: a German (Imperial) vessel, bound from Bordeaux to Fiume, in Gulf of Venice, laden with powder-sugar, and earth for refining; two enslaved people ("negro slaves"); taken on 26 October 1780 by the privateer Trimmer (John Hill commanding) and brought into Minorca.
Appellant: William Cazalet of London, merchant, the claimant of the said ship, on behalf of Francisco Tomassick of Fiume in the Gulph of Venice, a subject of His Imperial Majefty the Emperor of Germany; and also the claimant of 181 casks, 2 tierces, and 16 quarter-casks of powdered sugar, and 6 barrels of earth of the refining, laden and on board and said ship, on behalf of the Imperial and Royal Privileged Company of Trieste and Fiume.
Respondent: John Hill, commander of the private ship of war the Trimmer (died 1783: replaced by Margaret Hill, his mother and executor).
Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of [?].
Folios 1-334.
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High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Case Books (Printed Appeal Papers)
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