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Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens...

Catalogue reference: HCA 30/235

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This record is about the Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens... dating from 1742-1745 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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Reference
HCA 30/235
Date
1742-1745
Description

Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens or Luetkens).

Documents: Business archive of the firm Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens, continued from HCA 30/232, HCA 30/233 and HCA 32/234.

Letters from major merchant correspondents, continued [as kept by Luetkens].

28. 1-63 La Coste, from Bilbao, 1 December 1742 - 15 May 1745.

29. 1-124 Jean-Pierre Lichigaray, most from Bayonne, 31 October 1742 - 26 June 1745.

30. 1-78 Anthony Luetkens, from London, 23 September 1743 - 11 July 1745; Anton Luetkens, from Hamburg, 3 May 1744 - 14 May 1745; Joachim Luetkens, from London and Oxford, 16 September 1743 - 11 June 1745, and an undated bill for furnishings bought by him for Nicolas's new house in Hamburg.

31. 1-129 Luttmann & van Bobartt, most from Nantes, 12 November 1743 - 6 December 1744. .

32. 1-77 Luttmann & van Bobartt, most from Nantes, 3 January 1745 - 10 August 1745.

33. 1-49 Ochs & Schweighausen, from Nantes, Brest, Morlaix, Lorient, St Malo, 19 February 1742 - 5 August 1745, and 3 undated.

34. 1-27 Pierre Louis Pitot, from Morlaix, 28 January 1745 - 10 August 1745, with a court note 'containing a correspondence regarding the purchase of English sugars, tobaccos and other prize goods'.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Dutch, French and German
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Food and drink
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Publication note(s)
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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4249191/

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