Catalogue description Manuscript prize appeal No 331, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua, filed in 1805....

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Details of HCA 42/401/331
Reference: HCA 42/401/331
Description:

Manuscript prize appeal No 331, from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Antigua, filed in 1805.

Captured ship: Exchange (master John Mainwaring).

Nationality: [American].

History: bound from Bordeaux to Philadelphia; taken before June 1804 by the privateer Colpoys (John Eagan commanding), and brought into Antigua.

Appellant: the master for the cargo on behalf of Messrs Archibald McCall and Co merchants of Philadelphia, American citizens; for his own private adventure; and for freight on behalf of Joseph H Ingraham American citizen.

Respondent: the captor.

Manuscript appeal papers: petition for desertion and sentence (manuscript, never printed).

For process in this appeal, see the minutes in HCA 44/50, ff61v-62
Date: 1805
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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