Catalogue description Captured ship: Concordia , Arendt Buck, master. History: Bremen merchant ship bound from...

Captured ship: Concordia, Arendt Buck, master.

History: Bremen merchant ship bound from St Eustatius to Amsterdam laden with sugar, coffee and cotton, captured on 6 April 1758 between Beachy Head and Dungeness by the John & Stephen privateer (Richard Ball, commanding) and taken into Dover.

Documents (Papers of Henry Balthazar Duprat, formerly master of Le Constant, a passenger in Concordia at the time of her capture):

(1) (originally in the canvas bag marked No. 14): Papers belonging to Duprat and Le Constant, including:

• bills of lading (nos. 15-24, 55, 60-89),
• invoices, clearances, cargo lists (no. 34),
• letters to Duprat (nos. 47, 56, 57),
• ready reckoner of ration allowances on French warships (no. 49),
• muster roll (no. 53),
• bill for a crewman's stay in hospital in Martinique (no. 54),
• accounts,
• log of Le Constant, October 1755 to July 1756 (no. 91),
• log [of Le Constant] on voyage to Martinique, April and May 1757 (no. 92),
• statement of the cargo of La Marie of Marseilles, commanded by Captain Pierre Maffiéz. Arranged alphabetically, only A to C (no. 93).

(2) (originally in the canvas bag marked No. 15): Papers belonging to Duprat and Le Constant:

• invoices (nos. 1-52),
• receipts (nos. 53-112),
• bills of lading (nos. 122-153),
• cargo manifest and statement of consigners and consignees of cargo with their merchants' marks (no. 121),
• letters to Duprat (nos. 154-160),
• expenses at Fort-Royal [Martinique], (??)
• a playing card used as an address card (four of hearts) (no. 161),
• extract from a baptismal register for Henry Balthazar Duprat (no. 162),
• cargo manifest of La Marianne de Marseilles, Jean Jacques Mine, master (no. 163),
• two copies of the sentence condemning Le Constant in the Vice-Admiralty Court of Anguilla, 27 October 1757 (nos. 164 and 165),
• manuscript notes on using magnetic variation in navigation (two sets) (nos. 168 and 169).

(3) Wallet containing:

• assorted papers of Duprat (nos. 1-17),
• three of Duprat's journals, 1753, 1755, 1757 (nos. 18-20),
• Duprat's notebook with copies of letters (no. 21),
• cargo manifest 1755 (no. 22),
• letters, including letters to Duprat from his brother and others (nos. 23-28),
• three pictures: a flaming heart, portrait, coastal view of ‘Ille Palme’ (nos. 29-31),
• notebook. Tucked inside are a letter to Duprat, and nine playing cards, the court cards are a queen of spades, king of diamonds, jack of hearts and a king of spades, all Provence pattern: they have been used as records of goods and food vouchers.
• ten account books (nos. 33-42),
• two cargo manifests of Le Constant (nos. 43 and 44),
• navigational exercises (no. 45),
• letter to a crewman of Le Constant from his wife (no. 46).