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Captured ship: Le Grand Don de Dieu , Antoine Duvigneau master. Details: French merchant...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/273
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This record is about the Captured ship: Le Grand Don de Dieu , Antoine Duvigneau master. Details: French merchant... dating from 1722-1779 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 30/273
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1722-1779
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Captured ship: Le Grand Don de Dieu, Antoine Duvigneau master.
Details: French merchant ship with a letter of marque on a voyage from Saint-Domingue (Haiti) to Bordeaux, when captured on 9 September 1778 by the privateer Pitt.
Documents: c 50 personal and business letters (mostly in French, some in English) from Cap Français, Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Virginia for onward delivery to addresses in France. Enclosed in the letters are: accounts of cargo and bills of lading for ships including Le Mars, Michel master; some numbers of the courant Affiches Américaines printed at Port-au-Prince, 1778; an inventory of belongings and furniture. Also:
- collection of c 75 letters dated between October 1774 and October 1777 from Marguerite Rey at Toulouse to Gabriel Jean-Baptiste Larchevesque-Thibaud [b. 1745] at Port-au-Prince and Cap Français, at that time a Deputy in the Saint-Domingue assembly, and some letters from him and other correspondents to Rey, along with financial accounts etc;
- set of legal documents dated between 1722 and 1771 concerning title to land of Monsieur Dureau in Saint-Domingue, with two colour plans dated 1747;
- list of drugs and medicines in the surgeon's chest of the ship Le André;
- printed paper (in Latin) concerning philosophical and mathematical theses considered by the Supreme Court of the Senate of Toulouse, 1776;
- notebook (in Dutch) for 1776, noting things such as quantities of ballast and ship or personal expenses (mentions Archangel).
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- This piece is included in the HCA Prize Papers sorting and cataloguing project, and is not available to order. Please ask a member of staff to contact the Prize Papers team to arrange access to it
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See HCA 30/272/1, HCA 30/279, HCA 30/280, HCA 30/281, HCA 30/282 and HCA 30/303/1 for more letters and papers, and HCA 32/344/26 for 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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- English and French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4249229/
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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