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Number not used; see HCA 42/554/10A and HCA 42/554/10B
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/554/10
Number not used; see HCA 42/554/10A and HCA 42/554/10B
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Manuscript prize appeal No 55, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica, filed in...
Catalogue reference: HCA 42/170/55
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1799
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Manuscript prize appeal No 55, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Jamaica, filed in 1799.
Captured ship: Argo (master Thaddeus Gardner).
Nationality: American.
History: bound from Baltimore to Jacmel, Hispaniola, laden with flour, wine, soap, ticklenburgh [linen] and other merchandise; taken on 14 August 1798 by HMS Magicienne (William Ogalvie commanding), and brought into Kingston, Jamaica.
Appellant: Thomas T Percival for the ship and cargo on behalf of himself and Hezekiah Grant merchants of Baltimore in the firm Grant and Percival.
Respondent: the captor.
Manuscript appeal papers: petition for desertion and sentence (manuscript, never printed).
For process in this appeal, see the minutes in HCA 44/24, ff36v-37
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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