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Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/234
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This record is about the Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens... dating from 1736-1745 in the series High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 30/234
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1736-1745
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens or Luetkens).
Documents: Business archive of the firm of Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens, continued from HCA 30/232 and HCA 30/233.
Letters from major merchant correspondents [in order as kept by Luetkens].
19. 1-43: Johann Jakob Bethmann, Bethmann & Imbert, from Bordeaux, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Danzig, 19 August 1743 - 9 August 1745.
20. 1-9: Simon Mauritz Bethmann, letters from Rotterdam, 21 October 1743 - 11 May 1745.
21. 1-107: Bethmann & Imbert, from Bordeaux, 3 February 1743 - 11 July 1745.
22. 1-28: Jean Cottin, from Paris, 3 April 1743 - 24 June 1745.
23. 1-65: [Simon and Jean] Daragorry, from San Sebastian, 22 January 1743 - 28 May 1745, 2 undated.
24. 1-125: Cornelis De Meijer, from Amsterdam, 2 May 1743 - 19 July 1745, 3 undated. [Includes 25 letters from Cornelis De Meijer transferred here from HCA 30/374, 2016.]
25. 1-123: Hertzer & Van Bobartt, from Hamburg, 29 October 1743 - 30 July 1745.
26. 1-25: François Jourdain, from Brest, 12 April 1736 - 24 May 1745.
27. 1-37: Joachim Kahler, from Hamburg, 12 April 1741 - 2 August 1745.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See HCA 30/232 and 233 for more Lütkens business papers, HCA 30/660 for a volume of Rieweert Frerecks' journals, and HCA 32/115/4 for more letters and the main collection of ship's papers and court process etc
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Dutch, French and German
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Lucas Haasis, The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century (2022); Haasis, 'Papier, das nötigt und Zeit, die drängt übereilt. Zur Materialität und Zeitlichkeit von Briefpraxis im 18. Jahrhundert und ihrer Handhabe', pp. 310-324 in Brendecke, Arndt (ed.): Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit, (2015); Haasis, Noch bleibt mir ein Augenblick Zeit um mich mit Euch zu unterhalten, pp. 87-114 in Freist, Dagmar (ed.) Diskurse-Körper-Artefakte (2015)
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4249190/
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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