Catalogue description Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia. Captured ship:...

Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia.

Captured ship: Galloway (master Rae).

Nationality: American.

History: a cargo of cocoa taken during the Penobscot Expedition [September 1814 to April 1815]; the cargo was on board the British vessel Kutusoff (W Turnbull, master), bound from La Guira for Gibraltar, when taken by an American privateer Surprise of Baltimore (Alexander Milliken commanding) and carried into Fracfort, Maine, where retaken by a British naval and military force under the command of Admiral Griffith and Lieutenant General Sir John Cope Sherborooke, and taken on board the Galloway and brought into Halifax.

Appellant: Findlay Bannatyne and Co, merchants of London, on behalf of James and Michael Cavan of Barbados, owners of the cocoa.

Lieutenant General Sir John Cope Sherbrooke and Rear Admiral Griffith, commanders of HM Sea and Land forces on the Penobscot Expedition.

Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 14 May 1817 (folios 421-436).

Decision: against the appeal; cocoa condemned as lawful prize.

Folios 421-422: case on behalf of the appellant; Folios 423-424: case on behalf of the respondent; Folio 424: decree; Folios 425-427: appendix; Folios 428-436: additional appendix on behalf of the claimant