Catalogue description Captured ship: L'Amarillis (La Marillis) of Bordeaux (master Jean Baptiste Vistorte or...

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Details of HCA 32/97/11
Reference: HCA 32/97/11
Description:

Captured ship: L'Amarillis (La Marillis) of Bordeaux (master Jean Baptiste Vistorte or Bistorte).

History: a French merchant ship (120 tons, 17 men) bound from Cayenne and Martinique to Bordeaux, laden with coffee, cocoa, sugar, roucou [dyewood], French silver coin, old plate, indigo and linens; taken on 2/13 June 1744 by the privateer King William (Thomas Cornish commanding) and brought into Falmouth.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: allegation;
  • [CP 7- CP 8]: attestation, and abstract and translation of the 38 ship's papers.

Ship's papers: numbered [SP 1-SP 38].

[Decision: condemned as prize, 2 August 1744]

Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1744
Related material:

See also IND 1/9023, f2v

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Miscellaneous
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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