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Short title: Hewitt v Watts. Plaintiffs: Thomas Hewitt. Defendants: William Watts,...
Catalogue reference: C 8/243/45
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This record is about the Short title: Hewitt v Watts. Plaintiffs: Thomas Hewitt. Defendants: William Watts,... dating from 1661 in the series Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Mitford. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1661
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Short title: Hewitt v Watts.
Plaintiffs: Thomas Hewitt.
Defendants: William Watts, Edward Bushell, Martin Noell, Jeremy Bonnett, Nathaniel Bonnett, Simon Bonnett, Thomas Rastall, owners of the ship Hopewell of London and others.
Subject: property in the voyage of the slave-trading ship Hopewell, bound from London to Guinea, Africa to take 'negroes' [enslaved people] to Barbados, West Indies.
Document type: bill and three answers
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- The National Archives, Kew
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C 8
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Mitford
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