Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we’re still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

Manuscript prize appeal No 31, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Barbados, filed in...

Catalogue reference: HCA 42/367/31

What’s it about?

This record is about the Manuscript prize appeal No 31, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Barbados, filed in... dating from 1807 in the series High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Access information is unavailable

Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.

Full description and record details

Reference
HCA 42/367/31
Date
1807
Description

Manuscript prize appeal No 31, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Barbados, filed in 1807.

Captured ship: Attempt (master Tobias Davis).

Nationality: American.

History: bound from Salem, Massachusetts to Martinique, laden with claret, fish, Madras handkerchiefs, whale oil, sweet oil, candles, corn etc; taken on 12 September 1806 by HMS Morne Fortunee (John Brown commanding), and brought into Barbados.

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 44/57, ff90v-92

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/C6669363/

Series information

HCA 42

High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

109,111 records

Within the department: HCA

Records of the High Court of Admiralty and colonial Vice-Admiralty courts

5,251 records

Within the series: HCA 42

High Court of Appeals for Prizes: Papers

15 records

Within the piece: HCA 42/367

Prize papers in appeals. (Described at item level)

You are currently looking at the item: HCA 42/367/31

Manuscript prize appeal No 31, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Barbados, filed in...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.