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Captured ship: Le Triton , Mathieu Sauvage master. Details: French merchant ship...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/260
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- HCA 30/260
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1755-1756
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Captured ship: Le Triton, Mathieu Sauvage master.
Details: French merchant ship captured on a voyage from Cap Français, Saint-Domingue (French West Indies) to France in 1756.
Documents: c550 personal and business letters (in French) from Saint-Domingue and Louisiana for onward delivery to various places in France (and at least one to Port Louis, Canada). Also, a petition from Marc Antoine Duhart, a resident of Cap Français and officer in the colonial militia, to the Comte D'Argenson, French Secretary of State for War. (Note: 96 of the letters in this piece are listed in a typescript list included in the box).
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See HCA 32/249/15 for the main collection of ship's papers and court process etc
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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