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Captured ship: Illustrious President , Dennis Butler, master and sole owner. History:...
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/374
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HCA 30/374
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Date (When the record was created)
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1794-1795
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Description (What the record is about)
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Captured ship: Illustrious President, Dennis Butler, master and sole owner.
History: American merchant ship with largely Danish and Swedish crew bound from Paramaribo (Surinam) to Amsterdam laden with sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and Madeira wine, captured on 20 April 1795 when lying off Dover by a boat from the Flora privateer (Allan Peake commanding) and taken into the Port of London.
Documents: mail-in-transit, including:
- correspondence and accounts relating to Surinam plantations including Zeldenrust, Welgelegen, and Voorburg (in Dutch)
- personal and official correspondence of members of the Moravian Church (Herrnhutters) in Surinam, including diaries (in German)
Fabric samples originally enclosed in one or more letters now transferred to HCA 65/8.
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Fabric samples in
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Dutch and German
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Open Document, Open Description
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HCA 30
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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