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D1169 [part]. Captured ship: Diamond of London (master James Clarke). History: an...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/997
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HCA 32/997
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Date (When the record was created)
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1803; [1799-1803]
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D1169 [part].
Captured ship: Diamond of London (master James Clarke).
History: an English slave ship, trading from London to Guinea to Havana, taken on the return voyage from Cuba by the French privateer Bellona and retaken by HMS Goliath, August 1803.
Documents: Administrative books (letter books) of the Dutch West India Company and successors for the establishment in Dutch West Africa [Dutch Guinea or Dutch Gold Coast, now Ghana], 1799-1802, as follows:-
1. 'Circulaires Missives van den yaare 1799-1801'.
2. 'Correspondentie van Accoda [Akwidda] van den yaare 1799-1801'.
3. 'Correspondentie van Accra van den yaare 1799-1801'.
4. 'Correspondentie van Apam van den yaare 1799-1801'.
5. 'Correspondentie van Bircoe van den yaare 1799-1801'.
6. 'Correspondentie van Boutrij [Butri] van den yaare 1799-1801'.
7. 'Correspondentie van Chama van den yaare 1799-1801'.
8. 'Correspondentie van Commanij van den yaare 1799-1801'.
9. 'Correspondentie van Cormantijn [Cormantin] van den yaare 1799-1801'.
10. 'Correspondentie van Facconarij van den yaare 1799-1801'.
11. 'Correspondentie van Hollandia van den yaare 1799-1801'.
12. 'Correspondentie van Houree van den yaare 1799-1801'.
13. 'Correspondentie van Saccondee van den yaare 1799-1801'.
14. 'Dagregister van den yaare 1799'.
15. 'Dagregister van den yaare 1800'.
16. 'Dagregister van den yaare 1801'.
17. 'Dagregister van den yaaren 1802'.
18. 'Generaale Correspondentien van de Booven en Beneeden Kust en Circulaire Missives van den yaaren 1802'.
19. 'Journaal van Ambtverrigtingen van de Gouverneur Generaal C L Bartels ter Kuste van Guinea binnen het Hoofd Casteel St George D'Elmina 1802'.
20. 'Notulen van den Groote en Kleine Raad ter Kuste van Guinea' [1802].
21. 'Correspondentie van Axim van den yaare 1799-1801': [Added in 2024 from miscellanea in HCA 32/918].
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Re-catalogued to this level of detail in 2017
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High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers
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