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Catalogue description Captured ship: Two Sisters (master Jacob Peterson, succeeding William Grigg or and...
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| Reference: | HCA 32/249/16 |
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| Description: |
Captured ship: Two Sisters (master Jacob Peterson, succeeding William Grigg or and Pierre Pouy St Jean as a French prize). History: an English merchant ship from Virginia with 425 tons of tobacco and 30 tons iron; taken by the French privateer L'Aigle de Bayonne (master Georges Mathieu Forestiere), and retaken by the Jersey privateeer Phoenix (master Richard Le Quesne). Documents: claim; examinations of French captor's men in Jersey; captor's letter of marque; and papers numbered 1 to 178, including an unstrung file of Peterson's private and business correspondence, (some of it of older dates), notes of indiscipline among the crew, and bills of lading; journal of the captor L'Aigle de Bayonne; journal of Royal Bounty, captain Peter Smart, 1756; logs and journals of voyage to Virginia and north-eastern Europe and St Petersburg, Russia; at no 32, a list of planters in Virginia giving the river and county of each |
| Date: | 1758 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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