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Manuscript prize appeal No 572, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia, filed...

Catalogue reference: HCA 42/243/572

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This record is about the Manuscript prize appeal No 572, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia, filed... dating from 1801 in the series High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HCA 42/243/572
Date
1801
Description

Manuscript prize appeal No 572, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia, filed in 1800.

Captured ship: Gadsden [first capture ?] (master Thomas Rodman Gardner).

Nationality: American.

History: bound from Rhode Island to Passage [Pasaia, Spain], laden with sugar, rice, tobacco, hides and beeswax; taken on 8 September 1799 by HMS Pheasant (William Skipsey commanding), and brought into Halifax.

Manuscript appeal papers: see also the catalogue entry for the printed appeal (of a later date) for details of appellants and respondents.

For process in this appeal, see the minutes in HCA 44/26, ff64-65v

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6668393/

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HCA 42

High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers

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