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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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- HCA 30/235
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1742-1745
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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'.
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- 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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- 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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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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