Catalogue description Captured ship: Illustrious President , Dennis Butler, master and sole owner. History:...

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Details of HCA 30/377
Reference: HCA 30/377
Description:

Captured ship: Illustrious President, Dennis Butler, master and sole owner.

History: American merchant ship with largely Danish and Swedish crew bound from Paramaribo (Surinam) to Amsterdam laden with sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and Madeira wine, captured on 20 April 1795 when lying off Dover by a boat from the Flora privateer (Allan Peake commanding) and taken into the Port of London.

Documents: mail-in-transit, including

  • account books for the Arnhem en de Vrede, Waterland, and Janslust plantations, 1793, 1794;
  • day register of Surinam colony, 1794;
  • Surinaamsche Courant for 4 March 1795;
  • letters to Captain J. W. Krafft from a woman-friend in Paramaribo;
Fabric samples originally enclosed in one or more letters now transferred to HCA 65/9 and"wallpaper" to HCA 65/54.

Date: 1794-1795
Separated material:

For items extracted from this piece see:

HCA 65/9

HCA 65/54

MPI 1/164
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Dutch
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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