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Captured ship: Le Grand Don de Dieu , Antoine Duvigneau master. Details: French merchant...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/281
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HCA 30/281
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1778-1779
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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 300 personal and business letters (in French, one unopened) from Cap Français, Saint-Domingue (Haiti) for onward delivery to addresses in France. Includes a letter in English from Thomas Brown at Cap Français to his mother in Londonderry, while serving on the brig True American, John Buffinton commander, cruising out of Salem in search of an English prize.
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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 30/273, HCA 30/279, HCA 30/280, 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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English and 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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