Captured place: St Eustatius and its Dependencies (captured by Admiral Rodney, 3...

Captured place: St Eustatius and its Dependencies (captured by Admiral Rodney, 3 February 1781). Pieces HCA 42/149 to 153 contain 64 claims.

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Claims: Nos 18-33

Claim 18. Claimant: John Peter Du Roveray of London, British subject, on behalf of Jan Vanders Beeck of Elberfield; Frederick Engelbert of Elberfield; widow of Peter Jager and son of Elberfield; Johann Herman Zanders of Kaldenkirchen; Diederick Woeste of Elberfield, all merchants, Bavarian subjects. Exhibits in French, German and Dutch, with translation (1782).

Claim 19. Claimant: Richard Puller of New Broad Street, London, merchant, on behalf of Gerhard Bonnicke and sons of Hopsten in the bishopric of Munster; Mathias Dieter Ernst of the city of Copenhagen; Danish subject; Lauritz Harlef Haasum of St Eustatius; Danish subject. Exhibits in Dutch with translation, schedules of goods. It also contains material referring to claims 17 and 26 and material referring to this claim can also be found in number 17 (1782-1792).

Claim 20. Claimant: George Wolff of Wellclose Square, Middlesex, merchant, of Messrs George and Ernst Wolff of London, on behalf of Johann Paul Kalchberner of Copenhagen, merchant, Danish subject. Exhibits in Danish with translations (1782).

Claim 21. Claimant: John Pope of Messrs John Pope and Adams of Shelton, Staffordshire, on behalf of himslef and his partner John Adams of Shelton now at New York, British subjects (1782).

Claim 22. Claimant: Samuel Chollet the younger of London, merchant, on behalf of James Bourdein and Samuel Chollet of Lime Street London, merchants, British subjects. Exhibits, affidavits and attestations (1782-1784).

Claim 23. Claimant: Sebastian Fridag, of London, Prussian consul for Great Britain, on behalf of Hendrick Shroder, native of Sclawe, resident in Emden, Prussian subject; Johan Daniel Piest, native of Schlistadt, resident in the Danish island of St Thomas, subject of the Duke of Brunswick; Johan August Scheffer of Hameln, subject of the British sovereign as elector of Hanover; Jan Olhoff of Emden, Prussian subject. Exhibits in German with translations, schedule of goods, affidavits, exhibits referring to this claim are also in claim 60 (1782-1786).

Claim 24. Claimant: William Walton of Messrs Eyne Athinson and Walton of London, merchants, on behalf of James Anderson, formerly of St Eustatius, then of london and now of St Thomas in the West Indies, British subject. Affidavit (1782).

Claim 25. Claimant: Elizabeth Meade of Coleman Street, London, widow, on behalf of Philip Roche John of Limerick, merchant, British subject. Affidavit, attestation, schedule of goods (1783-1796).

Claim 26. Claimant: Benjamin Mee of Fenchurch Street, London, on behalf of Bartholomew Groverman and Henrick Droop; Lambert Lambertz senior and son; Peter Wilkins; Andreas Gothiel Kulenhamp; Nicolaus Gloystein; John Cristoph Albers; Brothers Von lengercke; Johan Arnold Groverman, all of Bremen, merchants, German subjects. Exhibits in Dutch and Flemish with translation. Material referring to this claim can also be found in claim 17 and 19 (1783-1791).

Claim 27. Claimant: Lambert Blair, late of St Eustatius and now of London, merchant, of Messrs James and Lambert Blair, on behalf of himself and his partner and of Stratford Canning; Hugh Johnston and Robert Kennedy, of London; Benjamin Thomson of Ravensdale, all British subjects; George Vance of Saint Croix in the West Indies, Danish subject. Exhibits, affidavits, schedule of goods, attestations (1782-1791).

Claim 28. Claimant: Joseph Waldo of Bristol, merchant, British subject. Exhibits, affidavit, attestation, schedule of goods (1783-1786).

Claim 29. Claimant: John Whitmore the younger, of Messrs J J and W Whitmore of London, merchants, British subjects, on behalf of Stephen White of Cork, Ireland, merchamt, British subject. (1790).

Claim 30. Claimant: John Peter Du Roveray of London, merchant, British subject, on behalf of Jacque Chapel of Brussels, merchant; Violette Bedtinger, of Courtray, all German subjects. (1783).

Claim 31. Claimant: Timothy Nucella of Nicholas Lane, London, on behalf of Ernst Crishoph Blass of Elberfield, merchant, Bavarian subject. Exhibits in French and German with translation, schedule of goods (1783).

Claim 32. Claimant: John Kirwan of Messrs John and Thomas Kirwan of London, merchants, on behalf of John Creagh junior of Cork, Ireland, merchant, British subject. Affidavits, attestations, schedule of goods, copy of exhibits relating to this claim are also in claim 42 (1783-1786).

Claim 33. Claimant: Thomas Searle of Clement Lane, Lombard Street, London, gentleman, on behalf of Messrs George Oswald; James Dennistoun; James Ritchie; John Hamilton; George Bogle; George Buchanan; Thomas Donald; Alan Scott and William Robertson, all of Glasgow, British subjects, of the firm known as Messrs William Robertson and Company, also known as Smithfield Company. Affidavits, attestations, schedules of good, including the seal for New Providence and the Bahamas (1783-1790).

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