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H2653 [part 2]. Captured ship: Henriette (master Gottlieb Jager, supercargo Jan Bekker...
Catalogue reference: HCA 32/1048
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This record is about the H2653 [part 2]. Captured ship: Henriette (master Gottlieb Jager, supercargo Jan Bekker... dating from 1803 in the series High Court of Admiralty: Prize Court: Prize Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- HCA 32/1048
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1803
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H2653 [part 2].
Captured ship: Henriette (master Gottlieb Jager, supercargo Jan Bekker Teerlink of Flushing).
History: a Prussian ship owned by Clas Tholen of Emden, Prussia, bound from Canton, China, by way of Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope to Emden, laden with tea [congou, bohea, compi, souchong, pekoe, twankay, hyson skins and hyson], ginger, tamarind, silk, lacquered boxes and caddies, etc; taken [before the declaration of hostilities against the Batavian Republic but during the embargo] on 31 May 1803 off the Texel by HMS Lapwing (Alexander Skene commanding), and brought into Great Yarmouth.
Documents: Numbers 1000-1569 (of letters and papers numbered by the court or captor consecutively 1-1569). [The number indicates the outer envelope or packet wrapper, and enclosed letters and papers were identified as 1a, 1b etc]:-
- Ship's papers.
- Many papers of Jan Bekker Teerlink, the supercargo, including letterbooks, trade papers, his personal archive from c1799 onwards, and also his leather wallet numbered 1446 containing samples of Chinese silk chintz and seeds in small packets from South Africa and perhaps China (passed to the Millennium Seed Bank in 2009), amongst other 'trifles' such as a decorative prayer, notes etc [now in EXT 11/140].
- Mail in transit: many letters from Canton, Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands.
These papers, with those in HCA 32/1047, at one time comprised two bundles labelled by the court 2653B.
See also HCA 32/918 , no 6, for a small notebook numbered 1551, which may belong to this cllection.
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- Re-catalogued to this level of detail in 2017
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- Dutch
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- Open Document, Open Description
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