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Catalogue description Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Bahamas. Captured ship: Roxana...
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| Reference: | HCA 45/71/31 |
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| Description: |
Printed prize appeal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Bahamas. Captured ship: Roxana (master Samuel De La Mater). Nationality: American. History: bound from New York to Havana, laden with lumber, flour, cheese, hams, hoops, cod fish, shooks etc; taken on 3 March 1815 by the privateeer Java (John Pinder commanding), and brought into Nassau. Appellant: The captor. The master on behalf of John S Crary, Reuben Bromley, Peter Crary junior, Benjamin F Bablock, William Vandervort, Frederick Sheldon, John Haggerty, David Austin, William Age, Henry Coit, Gamaliel Smith, William Cairns, Rufus Lord and Frederick A Tracy, American merchants of New York. Bound printed appeal with manuscript decree of 19 December 1818 (folios 422-428). Decision: against the appeal. Folios 422-423: case on behalf of the appellant; Folio 423: decree; Folios 424-425: case on behalf of the respondent; Folios 426-428: appendix |
| Date: | 1818 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
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