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Details of HCA 32/124/11
Reference: HCA 32/124/11
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Captured ship: St Jean Baptiste of Guadeloupe (master Jean Fignoux).

History: a French ship (snow, 100 tons, 2 guns, 13 men and 1 boy, formerly the British ship Eagle taken by a French privateer in September 1744 and brought into Guadeloupe), now bound from Guadeloupe to Bordeaux, laden with sugar, cotton, coffee and sweetmeats; taken on 27 March 1745 by the privateer Dartmouth (Walter Power commanding), and brought into Dartmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 3]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 4]: allegation;
  • [CP 5-CP 6]: abstracts and translations of 8 of the ship's papers, wrapper.

Ship's Papers numbered SP 1-SP 26 and brought into the court in two bundles on 24 April 1745; only the first bundle are covered by the abstracts and translations.

Bundle 1: general ship's papers:

  • SP 1 : custom's paper issued at Guadeloupe;
  • SP 2-SP 4: three letters from Martinique and Guadeloupe;
  • SP 5-SP 6: French pass, certificate;
  • SP 7-SP 8: muster roll, navigation journal of Fignoux for the voyage to Bordeaux.

Bundle 2: logs, account books and navigation exercises of Jean Fignoux (a master's archive) [these were moved here from HCA 32/1829 in 2019]:

  • SP 9-SP 18: logbooks or journals kept by Fignoux relating to voyages as a junior officer on other ships 1736-1744;
    • SP 9: a label: several papers brought in by Crespigny 24 April 1745;
    • SP 10: Le Lion d'Or of Bordeaux, 1736 (Lallemin commanding);
    • SP 11: unnamed ship, 1737;
    • SP 12: Le Brillant, 1738 (Tallemin or Lallemin commanding);
    • SP 13: Le Brillant, 1740 (Tallemin commanding);
    • SP 14: Le Cid, 1741 (Tallemin commanding);
    • SP 15: Le Cid, 1741 (Tallemin commanding);
    • SP 16: Le Liz, 1742 (Moreau commanding);
    • SP 17: Le Liz, 1742; and SP 17a, a letter;
    • SP 18: unnamed ship, 1743;
    • SP 19: a blank book, entitled Journail de Navigation.
  • SP 20-SP 24: 5 books of accounts, relating to cargo and expenses on voyages c.1742-c.1744;
  • SP 25-SP 27: 3 books of navigation exercises, undated.

[Decision: condemned as prize, 29 April 1745]
Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1745
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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