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HCA38/58

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4th February 1718 Alteration als Catchpool

[Warrant for Arrest of Ship (document in Latin)]

[….] Nathaniel BATEMAN [….] the Alteration […] the Catchpool […] Thomas GROVE […] St Pauls Shadwell in county of Middlesex […] and Richard HILDER […] St Olavi Southwark in the County of Surrey […]Nathaniel BATEMAN […] Thomas GROVE […].

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[?] February 1718

[…] Alteration […] Catchpool […] Thomas GROVE […]

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14th February 1718

Thomas SHERMAN parish St Andrews Holborn in County of Middlesex Salder who submitted.

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The following is a transcript of a reply to a Bill of Complaint in the Court of Chancery in 1719.

C 11/252/23 National Archives File

Bill of Complaint ….

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May 1719

The several answer of Thomas GROVE Mariner Defendant to the Bill of Complaint of John CLEMS, John CATCHPOOLE, Samuel DEBNAM, Nicholas PHILIPS, Philip TURNER, Richard HORNER, John DRIVER, Wm WOOLEY, Wm MEWES, William CLAPCOTT, John ALTHROUP, Edward JACKSON Merchant, Francis MIDDLETON, John JAX, Merchant, John GODFREY Merchant, and John SWADDLE Complainants. 

This defendant now and at all times hereafter saving and reserving to himself all and all manner of benefit and advantage of exception to the manifold errors ? and answering as the Complaint’s said Bill of Complaint  contained for answer thereunto or ? be much thereof as the defendant is advised materially counselled him this defendant to us ? //

Defendant answereth ? that he admits and believes it to be true that the said Bill of Complaint were about April One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen ? respectively to such parts and shares of the ship called CATCHPOOLE as the Bill for the purpose sets forth. And this defendant believes that Nathaniel Bateman the Complaint in the said Bill of Complaint ? //

Defendant about 12 months afterwards purchased and was entitled to two and thirteenth part of the same ship. And this defendant about April (One thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen purchased and was  to one sixteen part of the said ship. But this this Defendant saith and believes that the Complaint and this Defendant or part [owner] //

Other Defendant Bateman were all part owners of the said ? This defendant hath heard and believes that John CROSS of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk Upholder was at the same time owner of one  two and thirteen part of the said ship. And John FORT of the same place Mariner was also at the time of One sixty Four ? //

Of the same ship. And this defendant doth admit to be true that Richard BROWN in the Bill named was by the Complaint and the rest of the part owners of the said ship about the time in the Bill for that purposed mention, made Master or Commander of the said ship and that he so contained some time about the month of September //

One thousand seven hundred and Sixteen (1716) . And this Defendant doth also believes it to be true as the Bill for that purpose sets forth that after the death of Richard BROWN, Sarah BROWN his widow and Relict might take out Administration to him and possess herself of the estate and ? but what the ? //

Accounted unto or whether the same were sufficient for the payment of his debits this Defendant knoweth not nor can set forth. And this Defendant doth admit and believe it to be true that when the Complainant and the other part owners made the said Richard BROWN Master of the said ship they put into his hands one hundred and [forty?] //

Pounds as a stock to purchase coals at Newcastle aforesaid and that he was to give them an account  thereof and of the profits and produce of the same and of the freight profits and earnings of the said Ship. And this defendant saith that the said Richard BROWN did in such voyages traffic with the said stock and ?  //

Made six voyages to the best of this Defendant’s remembrance thereof from Newcastle aforesaid and from there to London and seven voyages to  Norway and back again. And this defendant doth also believe it to be true that the said Richard BROWN did such voyage traffic with stock …. Profit of the same produce thereof. And that he also ? several sums of money for the freight and carrying of the said ship but what was so made by the said Richard BROWN by the said stock and Produce thereof or what sums of money in particular and how much a for what by ages were … //

By the said Richard BROWN for the freight and earnings of the said Ship this defendant not knoweth nor can set forth. And this defendant saith that the said Richard BROWN whilst he so continued Master or Commander of the said ship as aforesaid did once every year as this defendant remembers account with the said part owners //

For the freight and earnings of the said Ship and paid unto them respectively as this Defendant believes what upon such account appeared to be respectively due to them for the same. But this defendant doth not know nor can set forth whether the said Richard BROWN kept any book or Books Journal or //

Journal or Account or Accounts concerning the said ship or the said voyages or the profits freight or earnings of the same, this Defendant never having had any such book or journals in his hands, custody or power, nor hath he ever seen any such to the best his knowledge and remembrance … //

And this defendant saith that he hath heard and believes that since the death of the said Richard BROWN, the said Sarah BROWN hath received? Of the john RIGG of London Merchant the sum of one hundred and sixty pounds for the fruit of the said ship but what other sums of money the said Sarah BROWN //

Hath received of any other person on account aforesaid this Defendant doth not know nor can set forth. And this defendant further saith that the said Ship being on a voyage from the port of London to Christiania [Oslo] in Norway (his being then on Board the said ship) was in the same voyage in the mouth September in the year of one thousand //

Seven hundred and sixteen (1716) and taken by a Swedish privateer and carried into the port of Gottenburgh in the territory of the Kingdom of Sweden and there condemned (as the Defendant believes) as and for prize by the Swedish Court of Admiralty there) but what were the names of the persons who took the said ship he knoweth [not whether] the Capture of //

The said ship was lawful or whether the said Ship was lawful prize and ? or lawfully condemned as such or whether the persons or persons  in he look upon him or them to make the Bill of Sale thereof hereinafter mentioned had mentioned, had any power right or authority to do so otherwise by force, he this Defendant cannot take upon himself [to say or answer].//

But since this Defendant is that such capture thereof was power and force of arms much against the will of this Defendant and (as this Defendant believes) against the wills of the rest of the said Ship’s crew and what they could not help nor withstand and this Defendant most ? believes that unless the said Ship [was] … //

Brought and purchased again after such capture and condemnation thereof aforesaid and from such the captors in the manner hereinafter mentioned and set forth. They the said Captors of those having by reason they would have retained and kept the said Ship in their hands ?  ? [and] to their //

Own use. And this Defendant further saith that this Defendant further saith that this Defendant being on board the said ship when she was so taken and carried by Swedes with him into Gottenburgh [Gothenburg] aforesaid, he this Defendant immediately after such condemnation thereof as aforesaid sent an account thereof to the other Defendant Nathanial Bateman then //

Residing of London who after received advise of the capture and condemnation of the said ship sending several letters to this Defendant and to one Jacob SAHLGREEN [SALHGREN] his other Defendant Bateman’s correspondent thereat at Gottenburgh thereby desiring or authorising this Defendant and SAHLGREEN //

To purchase the said ship from the Swedes, he this defendant there upon after several treaties and propositions had and made for the purchase of the said ship at length by direction of the said SAHLGREEN agreed for the purchase of the same and for the of seven thousand //

Silver mint dollars which in English money amounted to the value £772 7 shillings and 2 pence as this Defendant computed the same. And this defendant being willing to keep and continue a sixteenth part owner of the said ship as he was before such the //

Capture aforesaid he this defendant in order thereunto did advance , answer and pay to the said Jacob SAHLLGREEN one sixteenth part of the said seven hundred 72 pounds and 7 shillings 3 pence for the purchase of the said ship, and the stores and //

Tackle and furniture thereunto belonging and upon payment of the said 7000 silver mint dollars by the said SALHGREEN for the purchase of the said ship. A Bill of Sale was sometime in the month February 1717 was where of? (as he this Defendant most //

As ? unto the said Jacob SALHGREEN by the said Swedish Captor or Captors having or pretending a right to the said Ship by force of such capture and condemnation thereof as a foresaid and soon after the said Bill of Sale was so made of the said Ship to the said SAHLGREEN aforesaid he the said //

SAHLGREEN by some deed of writing under his hand employed on the back or written under the said Bill of Sale dud declare that the said Bill of sale so taken by him of the said ship was In Trust as to the fifteen sixteenths part thereof for the said Nathaniel BATEMAN ?  and the other sixteenth //

Part thereof for the part thereof for this defendant and thereupon the said Jacob SAHLGREEN delivered the said Bill of Sale and declaration of Trust to this Defendant. And this Defendant further saith that the said Richard Brown (the former Master of the ship) and most of the said Ships Crew upon the capture thereof //

Forced and carried by the Swedish privateer and soon afterwards cast away in a storm at Seafas this defendant hath heard and believes) and the rest of the said Ships crew being carried into Gottenburg aforesaid soon after returning home to England and none of them (as this Defendant knows ….. //

This defendant. He this defendant did thereupon on the seventh day of February in the year of our Lord 1716 by the direction of the said Jacob SAHLGREEN enter upon the Command of the said and took procession thereof in order to navigate to London ….. //

And this defendant further saith that he this Defendant thereupon applied himself to the said Jacob SAHLGREEN for to supply this defendant with money to refit the said ship and other necessary occasions relating thereto. And the said Jacob SAHLGREEN by the direction and appointment as this Defendant … of the said other //

Defendant Nathaniel BATEMAN did advance to this Defendant for the purpose foresaid 1071 silver mint Dollars and stivers then amounting to the sum of one hundred and nineteen pounds in English Money (as this defendant computes) ….. money this Defendant believes //

Were afterwards answered and paid to the said SAHLGREEN by the said other Defendant Nathaniel BATEMAN, or by his order. And this Defendant thereupon refitted the said ship and hired several sailors and brought and laid in stores and provisions for her voyage to London about ….. One Hundred //

Twenty and three silver mint dollars and twenty one stivers which amounts to the sum of one hundred twenty and one pounds one shilling and three English money (as this Defendant computes the same). And this defendant having so refitted the said ship as aforesaid for the reason agreed with the said Jacob SAHLGREEN for the freight //

Hereof for the port of London. And the said Jacob SALHGREEN having loaded and shipped on board the said ship at Gottenburgh aforesaid several quantities of goods of several persons this Defendant on the ninth day of July One thousand Seven Hundred and Seventeen (1717) to …. As to the time //

Set sail for the said Port of London. And this defendant saith that after he had been out at sea two or three days he met with such stormy and tempestuous weather that the said ship suffered greatly thereby in her sails and rigging and lost her main mast and was so disabled …. Being lost and being by //

Distress of weather forced into Folbatta in the Kingdom of Sweden was there set upon and seized by a Danish Galley and by her taken and carried away from there to the or Mogach in Denmark and about two days afterwards the said Danes in Sailaig the said …. To Christiania in  //

Norway aforesaid run the said ship against a rock and thereby very much damaged her and made her very leaky and having brought the said ship to Christiania aforesaid they there condemned her as prize in the Court of Admiralty there. And this Defendant saith that he ….protest or an //

Appeal in the Court of Christiania aforesaid from or against the said condemnation he sent an account thereof and also of the damages the said ship had suffered as a aforesaid to the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman then at London who thereupon as this Defendant hath heard and believes … to the Courts of great //

? and Denmark for the releasement of the said ship and having upon such application obtained a releasement of the said ship, he there upon sent several letters to this Defendant at Christiania to refit the said ship and directed that this defendant to draw Bills of Exchange for what …be required for //

That purpose. And thereupon this defendant according to such directions did draw two Bills of Exchange on the said Nathaniel Bateman for two hundred sixty and five pounds in English money. And one other Bill of Exchange on one Mr VICTORIN a merchant at London whose goods was shipped on the said ship which said three //

Bills of Exchange this defendant believes were all answered or paid by the said other Defendant Nathaniel BATEMAN. And this defendant further saith that he this Defendant soon after received of the said Nathaniel BATEMAN’s Agent at Christiania aforesaid One thousand five hundred seventy and seven dollars two quarter and nine //

Shillings amounting in English money to the sum of 337 pounds 1 shilling and 8 pence only as this Defendant computes the same the said BATEMAN’s agents who paid this Defendant the said money insisting upon an allowance of twenty seven pounds eight shillings four pence so many dollars as //

Amounted to that same in value for their trouble and confession there abouts which this Defendant was obliged to allow to them before they would pay this Defendant the said monies. And this Defendant being furnished with monies as aforesaid he caused the said ship to be unloaded of her freight and repaired the damages she had [sustained?] as //

Aforesaid and furnished her with necessitates and provisions for her voyage to London in which and on other necessary occasions relating to the said that this Defendant laid out and disbursed One thousand eight hundred sixty and five pounds three shillings and seventeen strives which in Enlish money [?] sum of three hundred //

Ninety and four pounds thirteen shillings and six pence as this defendant computes the same. And this defendant further saith that he having repaired and refitted the said ship as aforesaid he navigated and conducted her to the port of London where the said ship was on or about the fifteenth day June One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighteen //

Unloaded the freight taken on board as aforesaid. And this Defendant further saith that after the said ship was unloaded of her Freight as aforesaid the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman employed this Defendant as Master of the said ship upon two  several voyages from the port of London to ? and Denmark? And back again //

For freight. And the said other defendant Nathaniel Bateman agreed to give or allow to this defendant for his wages the sum of 12 pounds for sth of the said Voyages to Norway foresaid and back again . And this Defendant further saith that he laid out and disbursed in the said two Norway voyages for stores and provisions for//

The said Ship and for wages paid to the sailors and otherwise on account thereof to the amount of one hundred and eight pounds fifteen shillings and ten pence as this Defendant computes the same of which this Defendant received of the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman at several times the sum of ? three pounds ? //

Shillings and one penny and no more as this Defendant remembers. But this Defendant hath not received from the said Nathaniel Bateman or any other person whatsoever any sum or sums of money whatsoever due to this Defendant  for his wages since the time this Defendant enter on the Command of the Ship at Gottenburgh aforesaid. And this Defendant saith //

That for the saving the expense thereof he hath not set forth the particulars of his account and disbursements relating to the said several voyages herein before mentioned made by this Defendant. But this Defendant saith that in case the Complainant’s desire the same this Defendant is ready and willing to set to parchment Account of all //

Monies disbursed  and laid out or received by this Defendant on Account of the said Ship since the time this Defendant ? upon the Command thereof as aforesaid. And this Defendant denies that he ever refused to let the Complaints have or enjoy their shares of the sais ship or ? into the management of the same or to receive any benefit of //

The same. But he this defendant saith that he this defendant approaching the condemnation of the said ship at Gottenburgh aforesaid to be alegall consideration and that the purchase so made of the said fifteen sixteenth parts thereof by the said other defendant Nathaniel Bateman aforesaid ? a good title to property //

Of the same parts in the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman and the ? ? or resisting upon the said parts and shares in the said ship (as this Defendant knows) of till very lately , he this defendant (then looking upon the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman as the only part owner of the said ship [besides?] this //

Defendant believes the orders and directions of the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman management and conduct of the said ship whilst this defendant continued Master thereof which was from the time defendant so took upon himself the Command  thereof at Gottenburgh aforesaid till the twenty eighth day of //

February last past when said other defendant Bateman turned this Defendant the position and Command of the said ship and put one John JOHNSTONE into the position and command thereof who (as this defendant believes) still continues in the position and Command of the said ship. And this Defendant saith //

That he this Defendant never made any voyages with the said ship since this defendant embarked upon the command thereof as aforesaid save as herein is before mentioned. But this defendant saith that he doth not know nor set forth what profits have made by the freight and earnings of the said ship since this //

Defendant ? Upon the command thereof and took possession thereof as aforesaid he this Defendant nor any other In Trust for him never having executed the same nor any part thereof . But the same hath been all executed as this Defendant by the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman. And this Defendant own //

wages? that he this defendant ever produced that he and the said other defendant Nathaniel Bateman were by virtue of the said Bill of Sale wholly entitled to the said ship exclusive of any right or title the Complainants might have therein nor that the Complaints by ? aforesaid had  lost their property in the said ship //

and were in no way or ? to any parts or shares of the said same nor to any amount of the Freight and Earnings of the said Ship. As by the Bill is falsely suggested. But whether the said Nathaniel Bateman is entitled under the said Bill of Sale and Declaration of Trust heein before mentioned to ? //

sixteenth parts of the said ship or whether the Complainants have by such capture and condemnation aforesaid lost their property in the same ship or whether the person who made such Bill of sale had any right or power to make the same or to sell the said Ship. This defendant saith that he ? ?? //

same doth not in any wise concern this defendant. But the other Defendant Bateman in regard he this Defendant doth not nor ever did since the capture and condemnation of the said ship aforesaid, ? or misist to make a title under the said sail Bill of Exchange and Declaration of Trust aforesaid But only to [one sixteenth part] //

of the said ship which was the part or share which this Defendant purchased and was owner of before such capture and condemnation of the said ship as aforesaid. And this Defendant saith that he brought from Gottenburg aforesaid a copy of the Decree or

the condemnation of the said ship but this Defendant cannot set forth the same as the said Bill of sale and declaration of Trust , he this Defendant  not having the same or either of them in his Custody or power he having soon after his return from Gottenburgh believed the same to the

Nathaniel Bateman in whose custody this defendant believes the same still remains. And this defendant saith that he hath heard and believes the same to be true that it is customary and this defendant believes the same to be just and equitable) that when a ship belonging to several part owners is taken

And ransomed or redeemed by some or one of them that the rest or other part owners of such ship on paying their proportionble shares of the charges shall be let in to have the benefit of such ransom or redemption   and be let in again to have their parts or shares of such

And this defendant saith that he doth not know nor can set forth whether the Complainants had any notice of the purchasing the said ship or taking a Bill of sale of the same as aforesaid, or if they had had such notice whether   they would have paid their shares of said ransom or [redemption]

But this defendant is inclined to believe that the said Complainants in case they had had had such notice would have paid their shares of such ransom or redemption. In regard the said ship in this Defendant’s judgement was purchased at much less than the real value thereof

Of the said Complainant’s offer the said other Defendant Nathaniel Bateman (but not this defendant) to pay their share of the money paid by the said Nathaniel Bateman for the ransom or redemption of the said ship. And this defendant denies all manner of

Complainant’s said Bill of Complaint contained. Without that that any other matter or thing in the Complaint said Bill of Complaint contained material or effectual in the Law for this Defendant to make and answer unto and not herein and hereby well and sufficiently answered unto …

Denied is true. All which ? and Kings this Defendant is ready to answer account? And prove and as this Honourable Court shall and ? and humbly prays to be heard ….

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E133/19/2

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Extract from National Archives File E133/19/2

E – Records of the Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the Office of First Fruits and Tenths, and the Court of Augmentations
Records of the King’s Remembrancer
E 133 – Exchequer: King’s Remembrancer: Barons’ Depositions
E 133/19/2 – Bateman v Grove

 

Nathaniel BATEMAN v Thomas GROVE

Interrogatories to be administered to witnesses to be produced sworn and examined before […] The Deputy of his Majesty’s [?] of this Court of Exchequer on the part and behalf of Thomas GROVE in certain causes deponding in the said Court between Nathaniel BATEMAN  plaintiff and the said Thomas GROVE Defendant the said Thomas GROVE Complainant and the said Nathaniel BATEMAN defendant.

[Item. Do you know the parties] Complainant and Defendant in the title of the Interrogatory named or either of them and which of them and how  […] them declare.

[Item. Do you know the] ship or vessel called the Catchpoole in question in this cause and of what burthen was the said ship or vessel. Did the [ … ] at any time and when as you know or have heard sail on any voyages to Norway. If yes when or about what time did […] last of the said Voyages and was the Master or Commander of the said ship at such her [?] Did the said ship after her return from the last of the said voyage lye bye in the River of Thames and for how long time? If yes who was the Master or Commander of the said Ship during all or any part of the time she lay bye or continued in the said River of Thames. And did such person who was Master or Commander of the said ship during such time continue on Board of and looks after and take care of the said ship. It is usual or customary for a Master or Commander of a ship lying in this river to be allowed wages but [?] where of such ship for such their looking after and taking care of such ship. If yes what is generally allowed per month for the same. And what wages or allowance do you think the Master or Commander of the said ship the Catchpoole did deserve for such his looking after and taking care of the said ship during the time she so lay in the River of Thames. Declare the same with the reason of your knowledge or belief therein.

Item. Are you acquainted with the method and custom of borrowing money upon Bottomree at Gottenburg in Sweden. If yes […] Or allowance per Captain is usually made or given at Gottenburg aforesaid on borrowing money on Bottomree on a ship bound from thence on a Voyage to London. Declare what you know have heard or do believe touching the matters aforesaid required of [?] interrogatory with the [?] of answer.

Item Do you know or are acquainted with the [?] of exchange between Christiania in Norway and London, Is it usual and customary in case a Person who borrows or takes up […] Christiana and draws a bill for [?] Sterling payable in London to give or allow any and what premium to the person who lends or advances the same in Christiana by way of difference on exchange or otherwise. If yes what was the premium or allowance usually made on that account on or about the month of August AD 1717. Declare what you Know have heard or believe touching the matters enquired of in this third interrogatory fully and at large with the reasons and circumstances of such knowledge and belief.

Item. Did the defendant Bateman at any time and when sell or dispose of the said ship called the Catchpoole. If yes to whom and for what Sum or sums of money did the said Defendant Bateman or any other person by his order or for the use at any time and when receive the money for which the said ship was sold or any and what part thereof or in your presence or hearing declare or acknowledge that he had done. Declare what you know have heard or believe touching the same.

Item have you seen and perused the paper writing or receipt or receipts produced and shown unto you at the time of your examination. Are you acquainted with the [manner?] and [?] of the hand writing of all or any and which of the parties whose names are subscribed or set to the said [?] or receipt or receipts or any or which of them (if yes) is or are the name of such person or persons [?] or [?] the same purports to be as you know or believe.

Item. It is usual for Masters or Commanders of ships […] to keep a boy or servant on board such their ships. If yes Is it usual for the Owners of such ships to allow or pay such Master any and what sum or sums of money per month for the wages of a boy or servant. Declare what you know or believe with the reason of the knowledge or belief.

Item What other matter or thing do you know or can you depose that will make for the benefit and advantage […] Declare.

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E133/61/12 Grove v Bateman

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BARONS DEPSOITIONS DATE 1719 GROVE V BATEMAN

Deposition of witnesses taken before the Hon’ble St James MONTAGU Knt one of the Barons of His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer at Westminster in a cause depending in the Exchequer Chamber there wherein Thomas GROVE is Complainant and Nathaniel BATEMAN is defendant for and on the behalf of the said Complaint.

Jonas MOTTS of Wapping in the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged about 68 years and upwards sworn and examined the 22nd day of June 1719 on the part and behalf of the said Complainant deposits and saith as follows

1 To the first Interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know the Compliant and has known for about 12 months but does not know the defendant.

2 To the second Interrogatory this deponent saith that in July last to the best of this deponent’s remembrance he being master of the ship or vessel called the Betty Gally was a Christiana in Norway at which time the ship called the Catchpoole was brought up [?] without a main mast by the Danes of Which said ship was of the [Barthen?] of four hundred tons and saith that the said Danes in bringing up the said ship the Catchpoole to Christina as aforesaid they [?] upon a rock which so shattered her and made her so leaky that she could not be kept dry her pumps in so much that she was forced to be unladen and [?] all which was done at the expense and charges of the Complainant and saith that seven pounds per month is the usual and customary wages allowed to Masters of such ships or vessels in such voyages and further saith that the said Complainant is a master or commander of such a ship further saith not to his [?]

3 & 4 To the third and and fourth interrogatories this deponent saith that during the time that the said ship the Catchpoole was at Christiana as aforesaid he this deponent whose ship lay side by side with the said ship. Jonas MOTTS.

[?] Catchpoole did see goods stores and provisions come on board of the said ship and people often working therein which were all provided and paid for by the Complainant as this deponent verily believes and saith that he hath seen and diligently [perused?] the paper  writing now produced and shown unto him at this the time of his examination entitled an account of money received and disbursed by Thomas GROVE at Christiania in Norway for and on the account of the ship called the Alteration – being the same ship and saith that the several sums of money therein charged [?] by the said Complainant for the use of said […]  rates and charges to the several [?] items therein contained are all of them very reasonable may this deponent is of opinion that the said Complainant hath rather wronged himself by undercharging then anybody else by overcharging this deponent having paid more himself for some particular things mentioned in the said Account which he had occasion for in his Ship at the same time and place and further saith not to the several other matters equired after in these interrogatories.

  1. To the fifth interrogatory this deponent saith that when the said ship the Catchpole was brought up to Christiania as aforesaid she had lost her main mast and was very much damaged in her hull by her striking upon a rock through the negligence or ignorance of the said Danes who brought her up [?] as before set forth.
  2. To the sixth interrogatory this deponent saith that it is a constant custom for merchants and others freighters of merchandise ships to pay and allow to the Master of such ships a sum of money sometimes more and sometimes less as shall be agreed between the said freighters and Masters for and in respect of all goods and merchandise as shipped or board such ships or vessels which is called a Captaken or Capleagon and saith that the same doth always belong of right to such Masters over and above the freight paid for such goods and no merchant ever refuseth to pay the same the said Masters.
  3. To the eighth interrogatory this deponent saith that sometime about September last to the best of this deponent’s remembrance.

Jonas MOTTS

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[…] the Catchpoole and Cargo were condemned as prize in the Admiralty Court at Christiania aforesaid against which condemnation the Complainant appealed to the Admiralty Court at Copenhagen and employed a [?] there where against ship and cargo were[…]  discharged but what the sad Complainant paid his said [Promeator?] or what his expense might be in and about that affair he this deponent cannot say but saith that sometime before that he this deponent ‘ ship and cargo were condemned in the said Admiralty Court as prize at Christiana from [which?] said Condemnation this deponent likewise appealed to the Admiralty at Copenhagen aforesaid where this deponent had his ship discharged but this deponent was forced to leave his cargo at Christiana the expenses and charges [?] cost his account above two hundred dollars and this deponent cannot but think that affairs must cost the Compliant a great deal more money.

Jonas MOTTS.

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[…] Interrogatory this deponent saith that when the said ship the Catchpoole set sail from Gottenburg in order to return to England under the Complainants command she by [?] of weather in a storm lost her main mast and all her rigging and in order to regain those losses put into a little port call Hillberk in Sweden and whilst the said ship was in that little port a Danish Ship came into the said Port and took the said ship the Catchpoole and put Danish Officers on board her who [?] the said ship the Catchpoole and all her crew to Christiania in Norway in which passage the said ship the Catchpoole be run upon a rock (being then the command of the said Danish Officer) by reason whereof she proved leaky and took in water all which damages so sustained and suffered by the said ship the Catchpoole were repaired and made good at the charge and expense of the Complainant during the time that  the said ship the Catchpoole continued at Christiana.

  1. To the sixth interrogatory this deponent saith that it is always customary for merchants or other freighters of shipping to allow and pay to the Master or Commander of such ships a certain sum of money which goes under the denomination of Captaken or Capleagon which is sometimes more and sometimes less according to the nature and quantity of the goods and merchandise se shipped on board and no other person ever made ant demand of or claimed any right or title to the same but the Master or Commander of such Ship.

George BANNISTER [or BANNISZER]

 

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[?] GWENE of the parish of St John Wapping in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged 23 years or thereabouts sworn and examined the 20th day of October 1719 on the part and behalf of the Complainant deponent and saith as follows

  1. To the First interrogatory this deponent saith he doth know both the Complainant and the defendant and hath known the Complainant about twelve months and the defendant about eight months.
  2. To the second interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know the ship or vessel lately called the Catchpoole and now called the Alteration (as this deponent hath heard in this [?] [?] after) which said ship is a vessel of [?] four hundred ton and this deponent hath heard that the Complainant is a Port owner of the said ship and hath a sixteenth part of her but this deponent doth not know who are the other part owners of the said ship and further saith that the said complainant about three years ago [was Master or ?] Commander of the said ship but for how long time this deponent cannot certainly set forth but saith that for and during the time that the said Complainant was Master or Commander of the said ship two or three voyages to Gottenburg in Denmark and some ports in Norway. And this deponent further saith that the usual rate for wages given by owners of such ships of the like burthen with the said ship the Catchpole to the Masters or Commanders of such ships in such voyages is six pounds per month and this deponent doth believe that the Complainant might deserve more which this deponent can the better say because he hath been commander of a ship that made several voyages to Gottenburg aforesaid under this deponents Command of a Loss burhen then the said ship the Catchpole and was allowed and paid by the owners of his ship in those voyages after the rate of six pounds per month for his wages and this deponent further saith that he doth believe the complainant to be a person experienced in the art of navigation and every way qualified to navigate such a ship in such a voyage as Master or Commander of her and further saith not to this interrogatory.6. To the sixth interrogatory this deponent saith that it is customary for merchants and other freighters of merchandise ships or vessels to pay to the Masters of such ships or vessels for the merchandise on board, a crown and half for the same which is a permission purely belonging to the Master of such ships and not to the owners which said permission is known by the captaken or Capleagon and this deponent further saith that there is another [?] called Primage where is six pence against loss for all merchandise put on board such ship which entirely belongs to the Master of such ship and to the [?] of the same.

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[?] William LOCKE of the [?] Shadwell [near?] the Tower of London, [?] aged 24 years or thereabouts, sworn and examined the 20th day November 1719 on the part and behalf of the Complainant deponent and saith as follows

To the Third interrogatory  this deponent saith that he as an attorney being employed by one Druolory DRUM a mariner on board the ship the Catchpoole or Alteration in this interrogatory mentioned, to sue the Complainant GROVE as Master of the said Ship for the sum of eleven pounds and eighteen shillings for wages due to him the said DRUM he this deponent in order to get the said money desired the said DRUM to go down to the Complainant with this deponent to prevail upon said Complainant to pay the money without any [?] upon which the said Complainant gave DRUM a note under his hand for payment of the said Eleven pounds and Eighteen Shillings and within a small time after the said note was given the said DRUM told this deponent that the Complainant GROVE had paid him the money due  upon the said not and satisfied this deponent for his trouble and further saith not to the several other matters enquired after in this interrogatory.

7. To the seventh interrogatory this deponent saith that he hath seen and perused the paper writing now produced and showed unto him at this the time of his examination bearing date at Christiana the 26th November 1717 and signed Henry BOITT purporting to be a [?] given by him the said Henry BOITT to the said Complaint Thomas GROVE and saith that the same is all of the proper handwriting of him the said Henry BOITT (as this deponent verily believes, he being very well acquainted with the Hand Writing of him the said Henry BOITT and having often seen him write and particularly his name and further saith not to the several other matters enquired after in this interrogatory.W LOCKE.

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[?] Peter VONDEN of Falmouth Street in the parish of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex, Rigger aged 40 years and upwards sworn and examined on the 20th day of November 1719 on the part and behalf of the Complainants deponeth and saith as follows

  1. To the first interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know both the Compliant and defendant and hath known them severally for about sixteen months.
  2. To the second interrogatory this deponent saith that he both know the ship or vessel lately called the Catchpoole but now called the Alteration (in the Interrogatory  word after) which is of about the burthen of three hundred and fifty tons of which said ship or vessel the Compliant was Commander or Master and (as this deponent believes) was likewise a part owner of the same during the whole time that this deponent belonged to her which was for about the space of six months which expired about 10 months ago but when he first became Master of the said ship this deponent cannot set forth but saith that during the time that this deponent belonged to the said ship as aforesaid she made two voyages to Christiania in Norway under the command of the said Complainant and further saith that the usual or customary rate for wages of the masters or commanders of ships of the like burthen with the said ship the Catchpoole is seven pounds per month and saith that the Complainant is a person well skilled in the art of Navigation and every way qualified to navigate a ship of that burthen in such like or any other voyage.
  3. 4. To the third and fourth interrogatories this deponent saith that the Complainant did find and provide several quantities of stores provisions materials and necessaries for the said ship the Catchpoole now the Alternation in the time before mentioned voyages to the amount of a considerable sum of money and saith hat he hath seen and perused the paper writing now produced and shown unto him at the time of his examination purporting to be an account of necessaries and provisions furnished and provided by the Complainant Thomas GROVE for the ship formerly called the Catchpoole now called the Alteration in and upon account of two voyages to Norway and of moneys by him paid and expended upon the same account. And saith that the several matters and things in the several [forms?]  therein expressed were [?] by the said Complainant for the use of the said and ship’s crew  and the moneys therein  mentioned and expressed to be paid for the same were so paid and satisfied by the Complainant All except the first item which is for three barrels of beer and for beef and several other necessaries for the ship 3:18:6 which this deponent knows nothing of but believes the same to be charged in some  other voyage when this deponent was not in the said ship And saith that the several prices set down [?] to other several items contained in the said paper writing are usual and common prices and rates paid for such matters and things at the several and respective times and places therein set forth to the best of this deponents judgement.[Next Page]    [IMG_0646]John HARVEY lodging at the Sign of South Shields at the end of Fox lane in Wapping Mariner aged 17 years or thereabouts sworn and examined the 14th day December 1719 on the part and be behalf of the Compliant deponeth and saith as followeth

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6. To the sixth interrogatory this deponent saith that it is a usual and customary thing […] freighters of merchandise shippers to allow certain [perqualifier?] to the Master or Commander of such ship over and above the freight for the same and further saith not to this interrogatory.

[…] interrogation this deponent saith that when he first came […] the Catchpoole she wanted her main Mast which this deponent was told she had lost in a former voyage to Gottenburg in Denmark and this deponent helped to put the new main mast in at which time the Compliant was Master or Commander of the said ship and shipped this deponent on board the said ship and further saith not to this interrogatory.

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To the first interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know the Complainant and hath known him for about three years last past doth likewise know the defendant and hath known him about two years.

  1. To the second Interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know the ship or vessel lately called the Catchpoole but now called Alteration (in this Interrogatory enquired after)  which is a ship of upwards of three hundred tons which this deponent ran the better say because he going a Gunners Boy on board a French ship which went from St Malo in France to Gottenburg the said French ship and cargo were there sold and this deponent discharged by reason whereof he this deponent wanted a passage from thence into England and was admitted as a [?] on board the said ship the Catchpoole for that purpose […] but in the passage home to England the said ship the Catchpoole having lost her main mast by bad weather was forced to put in at a port in Sweden (but this deponent hath forgotten the name of the said port) at which time a Danish Galley came and took the said ship the Catchpoole as prize and carried her up to Christiania in Norway and during the time that the said ship the Catchpole staid there this deponent was [?] on board the said ship as a servant to the Compliant and came home to England in that capacity in the said ship the Catchpoole   and in the same station did make another voyage in the said ship the Catchpoole to a place called Christian Sands in Norway and came back again to England in the same ship in the same station and saith that the whole time that this deponent was on board the said ship the Catchpoole as aforesaid was about fourteen months during which time the said Complainant was Captain or Commander of the said ship the Catchpoole now called the Alteration as aforesaid but when first he became for or how long he contained so after this deponent leaving the said ship this deponent cannot set forth and this deponent further saith that the defendant BATEMAN was

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[….] part owners of the said ship the Catchpoole but also were [there?] others this deponent doth not know and saith that the Complainant is a person well skilled and experienced in the art of navigation and every way qualified to sail and navigate any ship of the like burthen with the said ship the Catchpoole in the before mentioned or any other such like voyages to the best of this deponent’s judgement and further saith not to the several other matters particularly enquired after in the interrogatory.

  1. To the fifth interrogatory this deponent cannot depose further than what is set forth in his deposition to the second interrogatory.
  2. To the ninth and last interrogatory this deponent saith he never [received?] any sum of money whatsoever from the defendant BATEMAN upon account of wages for his this deponents service on board the said ship the Catchpoole now called the Alteration or upon any other account whatsoever either directly or indirectly.

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William LAMBLEY of [?] in the county of Suffolk mariner aged [74?] years or thereabouts sworn and examined the 21st day December 1719 on the part and be behalf of the Compliant deponeth and saith as followeth

  1. To the first interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know both the Complainant and Defendant and known the Compliant near twenty years and the defendant since his childhood.
  2. To the second interrogatory this deponent saith that he doth know the ship or vessel lately called the Catchpole and now called the Alteration (in this interrogatory enquired after)   which of the burthen of about four hundred tons. And saith that about three years ago this deponent being carried from England to Christiania in Norway was there [?] on board the said vessel or ship called the Catchpoole now the Alteration as afore mentioned but the certain times this deponent cannot set forth and continued on board the said ship in her voyage home from Christiana aforesaid to England and also in another voyage from England to Post ground in Norway and back again both which voyages continued for the space of three months and upwards during which whole this deponent looked upon the Compliant GROVE to be the Master and Commander of the said ship and nobody else and saith that the said complainant GROVE is a person well skilled in the art of navigation and every way qualified to sail or navigate any ship or vessel of the like burthen with the before mentioned ship in that or any other voyages whatsoever and further saith not to this integratory.

 

  1. And 4. To the third and fourth interrogatories this deponent saith that the Complainant did provide and furnish several stores provisions and necessaries for the before mentioned voyages in which this deponent was employed on board as aforesaid and saith that he hath perused the paper writing now produced and showed unto hum at this the time of his examination and that the same doth contain an account of monies paid for seamen’s wages and otherwise by the Complainant for and on the account of the ship called the Catchpoole als Alteration and also of supply and other necessaries furnished and provided by the by the [?] for the [?] ship by the Complainant in the said [?] before mentioned voyage and saith that each and every of the particular items mentions and expressed in the before mentioned paper were provided and paid by the Complainant for the said ship’s use and service as this deponent verily believes and saith that the several sums of money set down and charged against every particular item in the said paper writing were paid by the complainant as therein is set forth and that the rates and prices therein expressed are usual and reasonable rates for such work done or stores provided as were paid at the times and places therein  specified and further saith not unto the several other matters particularly enquired after in these interrogatories.

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To the [?] this deponent saith that in the said ships return from Christiana in Norway aforesaid to England being the fifth voyage that this deponent was employed on board her she happened to have a violent storm fall upon her hear a place called the Dogger in which she lost her main Mast and sails and all of rig belonging to it at which time the Compliant was Master or Commander as before set forth.

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Interrogatories to be administered to Witness to be produced sworn and examined on the part and behalf of Thomas GROVE Complainant against Nathaniel BATEMAN defendant

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  1. Do you know the parties Complainant and Defendant in the title of the interrogatory named or either and which of them and how long have you known them or either and which of them. Declare the truth according to the best of your knowledge.
  2. Item. Do you know the ship or vessel lately called the Catchpoole and now called the Alteration in this cause and  of what burthen is the said ship or vessel and who by name is the owner or are the part owners of the same ship and who by name now is and since the seventh day of February in the year of our Lord 1716 have or hath been master or Masters or Commander or Commanders of the same ship and for how long time ; and the time when they respectively first were or become first Masters thereof; and how and upon what occasion and what voyage or voyages hath the same ship made and to what port or ports and where beyond the seas and under whose command at any time or times and when within the space of three years last past; and how much per month is the usual or customary rate for wages to be given or paid by owners of ships of the like burthen with the said ship; to the Masters of such ships employed in voyages to Christiana in Norway and Gothenburg in Denmark or other parts thereabouts.    And whether or not is the said Complainant well skilled and experienced in the Art of Navigation and qualified to sail or navigate a ship or vessel of such burthen as the ship aforesaid as Mast or Commander thereof upon such like voyages as aforesaid. As you know have heard or do believe Declare.
  3. Do you know of any and what stores provisions work materials or necessaries that have at any time or times and the particular times when and where have been found done provided furnished or delivered and by what and whom for the use or on account of the said ship or vessel the Catchpoole or Alteration in the proceeding interrogatory mentioned; or in or about the fitting repairing or out setting of the said ship or vessel. And do you know of any and what sum or sums of money that have or hath at any time or times and the particular times when and place where, been paid or laid out disbursed or expended by the Complainant as Master of the said ship and ship’s Crew or in or about the repair amending fitting or outset of the said ship or for seamen’s wages or any otherwise for the use or enjoyment of the said ship. As you know have heard or do believe Declare.
  4. Item. Have you seen and perused the paper writings or account now produced and shown unto you at the time of this your examination and do you know or believe that all or any and which of the several sums of money therein mentioned set down and charged were out paid or expended by the Complainant or by his Order for the use or service of the said ship in the preceding interrogatory named for or on account of the several matters and things as the same are in the said account therein mentioned or charged to be paid and is or and the rates prices and sums of money therein charged or any and which of them the usual and reasonable rates and prices or such as at the times and places of payment thereof was or were  then usually paid for such Goods Stores work matters and things as are therein set down and charged  Declare the same according to the best of your knowledge or belief thereof together with the reasons of such your belief thereof.
  5. Do you know or have you heard that the said ship or vessel in the preceding interrogatory named did at any time or times and when and where during the time that the said ship was out upon any voyage or voyages suffer any and what damage in her hull masts rigging or otherwise and how by storm tempest [?] of weather and who by name was the Master or Commander thereof at the time or times when the said ship or vessel had or received any such damage as aforesaid Declare.
  6. Item. Is it customary for merchants or others freighters of merchandise ships or vessels to pay the Master of such ships or vessels any and what sum of money or to make any other and what allowances to such Masters under the denomination of Captaken or Capleagen for or in respect of and what goods or merchandise shipped on board such ships or vessels at freight over and above the freight for the same goods. And to whom such perquisite or customary allowance called Captaken or Capleagen belong or is usually paid or given unto. As you have heard or do believe declare.
  7. Item.  Have you seen and perused the […] the time of your examination, are you acquainted with the manor and character of the hand writing of all or any and which of the parties whose names are subscribed or set to the said paper writings or receipts or any and which of them. If yes is or are the name or names of such parties so respectively set to all or any name or names the same purports to be as you know or believe.
  8. Item. Waa the ship called the Catchpoole in the preceding interrogatory mentioned at any time and when considered as prize [?] Court and in what place beyond the seas did the said Complainant as you know or believe employ any [pro?] or any other person and when to appeal against such Condemnation and carry on the proceedings thereon. Did this Complainant pay to such person as was so employed by him any and what sum or sums of money on that account or what might the expense of such appeal and proceedings thereon amount unto as you know or believe. And did you ever employ any such promator or any other person and when and where to appeal against the Condemnation of any and what ship and  what sum or sums of money did you pay to such person so by you employed for the same and what sum of money is usually expended on such occasions. Declare what you know have heard or believe relating to the matters enquired of in this Interrogatory with your reasons for the same.

Item. What other matter or thing do you know or can depose that will make for the benefit and advantage of the Complainant in this cause. Declare.

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Jonas MOTTS jurat […] [January?] 1719

Georgius BANNISTER jurat […] July 1719

Willus GWENE […] 1719

Jeremias Gulies LOCKE Petrus VONDON […]

Johes HARVEY jurat […] 1719

Willus LAMBLEY jurat […] 1719

GROVE v BATEMAN 1719

 

 

 

C 12/1766/63

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National Archives File C 12/1766/63

Partial transcript of National Archives file C 12/1766/63

See page for details of the accounts which form part of this document.

 

The further answer of Nathaniel BATEMAN Gentleman one of the Defendants to the Bill of Complainant of John CLEMENS and other Complainants.

This defendant in sort waving the plea formerly put into the Compliant Bill but insisting to have the benefit thereof at the hearing of this cause for further Answer to the Complainant’s Bill and to the exceptions taken by the Complainants to this Defendant’s former Answer or to //

So much thereof as this Defendant is advised is material for him to make Answer unto and is not already Answered he answereth and saith that Richard BROWN in the Bill named was in or about the month of April One thousand Seven Hundred and // Thirteen [1713] made Master or commander of the Ship Catchpool in the bill mentioned by consent of this Defendant and the other part owners thereof and that he continued as such to the time the said ship was taken as herein after is set forth but // Not to the time of his death which happened after the said capture as this Defendant is informed and believes and that during that time of his Mastership or command as this Defendant believes he made several voyages to Newcastle and back to // London and other voyages but the particular voyages he made to and from Newcastle or to and from any and what other places whilst he was so Master or Commander there this Defendant doth not know or remember nor can //

set forth. And this Defendant believes it may be true that the Compliant and other part owners might and did put into the hands of the said Richard BROWN one hundred and fifty pounds or some such sum as a stock to purchase Coals or other merchandise at // Newcastle but whether they so did or not this defendant doth not know remember nor can set forth yet verily believes that if they did much such deposit in the hands of the said Richard BROWNE he was to Bring such Coals and Merchandise according //

To the Complainants and other part owners direction was to give them an account thereof and that he traffic with stock and made profit thereof but what profit he so made of the same or what was the produce thereof or what monies // he received for the profit freight and earnings of the said Ship or of whom or when or for what profit freight and earnings in particular or in or for what voyage or voyages he so received the same this Defendant knows not nor hath heard nor can// Set forth he this Defendant having had no account or share thereof or benefit thereby to the best of his knowledge remembrance and beliefs other than the Sum of four pounds or thereabouts which the said Richard BROWN paid this Defendant for this Defendant’s share // of one year’s profits or earnings of the said ship as the said Richard BROWNE informed this Defendant and as this Defendant in his former Answer hath set forth. And this defendant saith that he hath heard and believes it to be true that the said Richard // BROWNE did in every year whilst he was Master of the said ship until the last year where in he died make up and render to the part owners of the said Ship or some of them an account of the profits and earnings of the said Ship and the stock // Thereof yet this Defendant doth neither know or hath heard with which of the said part owners he so accounted nor for what time or times the said accounts were made up nor for what profits or earnings of the said Ship or stock thereof he // so accounted having never to his knowledge remembrance and belief seen the said accounts or any of them. And this defendant further saith that in or about August One Thousand Severn Hundred and Sixteen [1716] the said ship was set to freight in // A voyage from London to Christiania in Norway in which voyage the said Richard BROWN was Master and on or about the seventeenth day of September following as this Defendant hath been informed and believes the said ship was taken by // A Swedish privateer and carried into Gothenburg and that the said Richard BROWN the Master and most or many of the Ship’s crew were put on board the privateer and afterwards cast away in a Storm and that the reset of the said crew // Were carried to Gothenburg and that the other Defendant Thomas GROVE was one of the crew so carried hither and this Defendant saith that the said Defendant GROVE did send notice to the Complainants and this Defendant of the said capture and they made defence in the // Court of Admiralty in Sweden against the condemning the Said ship as prize but did not prevail therein and the said Ship being by the Admiralty of Sweden condemned as lawful prize as by the instrument or sentence of condemnation bearing date the thirtieth day //

Of January One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventeen Swedish Stile set forth in this Defendants former Pea and answer and whereto this Defendant refers. And this Defendant hath heard and believes that the part owners offered to purchase the // said ship but did not as this Defendant has heard and believes bid above three hundred pounds for the purchase of her which was less then was bid for her by persons of other nations and this Defendant finding that the Complainants declined purchasing the said // ship or treating further about the aid purchase this Defendant ordered one Jacob SAHLGREEN his correspondent at Gothenburg to purchase her on his this Defendant’s own proper account and accordingly the said Jacob SAHLGREEN did purchase the said ship of Lars

GATHENHEILM the person entitled to sell the same for seven hundred and seventy two pounds seven shillings and three pence Sterling and took a Bill of Sale thereof in his own name bearing date on or about the sixteenth day of February One Thousand // Seven hundred and seventeen (Swedish Stile) and afterwards by endorsement on the said Bill of Sale declared the said ship tackle apparel and furniture in Trust for this defendant as to fifteen sixteenth parts and in trust for the other Defendant // GROVE as to the remaining sixteenth part as by the said Bill of Sale and declaration set for forth in this Defendant’s former plea and answer and where to this Defendant refers himself may appear and the said Jacob SAHLGREEN after he had purchased the // Said Ship put in the other Defendant GROVE who was then at Gothenburg Master thereof to bring her to London She was there freighted to London by the said Jacob SAHLGREEN but in the said voyage the said ship was taken by the Danes and twice lost her //

mainmast and rigging and damaged some and lost other of her loading whereby this Defendant hath been at very great charge in reclaiming her from the Danes and refitting and answering the damage and loss of goods and this Defendant saith // that by virtue of his Said purchase he became entitled unto the said Ship and that the said Jacob SALHGREEN and the said GROVE afterwards as Master were in possession of the said ship in trust for the Defendants as aforesaid from the time of the said //

Purchase which was about fifteen months before the tenth day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighteen [1718] but this Defendant believes that the other Defendant GROVE by reason of the said Ships being detained by the Danes and his several // Misfortunes at sea did not arrive with the said ship at the port of London till about May or June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighteen [1718] and this Defendant confesseth that ever since the said ships arrival at London in May or June One Thousand //

Seven hundred and eighteen [1718] this defendant and the said Groves as Master for some part of the time and one John JOHNSTONE as Master for the residue of he said time have managed and worked the said Ship and this Defendant hath received the money for the profit //

Freight and Earnings of the said ship and albeit this Defendant doth in no wise admit that he is accountable to the complainant or any of tem for the profits freight or earnings of the said ship or any way related thereto yet this defendant hath for the // satisfaction of this honourable Court as also of the Complainants annexed a schedule to this his answer which he prays may be taken as part thereof wherein he hath set forth a true account of all the voyages that have been made by or with the said //

Ship and the times when the Same were made from the time the said Ship was purchased for this defendant by the said Mr SALHGREEN as aforesaid to this time together with the names of the respective places to and from which the said voyages // were made and also what profit freight and earnings in particular the said ship hath made in each of the said voyages show for and by what particular goods wares and merchandise in each voyage and this defendant saith // likewise in the said schedule set forth a true account to the best of his knowledge and belief of all the money received by this defendant or the said GROVE or any other Master or Masters, person or persons whatsoever for their or either of their use // or ? account or accounts for the profits freight or earnings of the said ship from the time they had the possession of the same since the capture and purchase aforesaid and of whom when how and for what voyage and voyages and // the said schedule or annex account this defendant hath set forth all the monies yet standing out or that remain due for any and what part of the profits freight or earnings of the said ship and from whom hath also therein set forth all // the charges and disbursements relating to the said Ship since this defendant’s said purchase of her. And this defendant confesses that he refused and still doth refuse to account with the Complainants or any of them touching the said ship or the profits //  Freight or earnings thereof or to pay or allow them or any of them part of the said profits or earnings which he hopes he justly may refuse to do for the reasons in his plea and former answer set forth. And this defendant further saith that he // believes the said Ship was lawfully taken and condemned as prize as appears by the said condemnation and believes the said GATHENHEILM who took upon him to make the said Bill of Sale had a sufficient right and power to // make the same and to set the said ship and had such property therein as Captors of Vessels have in the Vessels have in the Vessels they take by the constitution and Laws of the Government which they serve or which they are subjects. And this Defendant denies that // the said Bill of Sale was made or intended to be for the use or benefit of the Complainants or any of them as well as of this Defendant and the other Defendant GROVE or that it was made in trust for the Complainants as to their parts and shares of the said Ship. And this Defendant insists // upon it that he is the purchaser of the said ship and denies that he know knows or believes that the Complainants or any of them are entitled to any benefit or advantage to any ransom or redemption of the said Ship in the Bill suggested on their paying their //

shares and proportions of the charges for that the ? neglected to Ransom Redeem or purchase the same nor was the same Ransomed or Redeemed by this Defendant but purchased by him as a aforesaid. And this Defendant denies that his purchasing // the said Ship or taking a Bill of Sale thereof as aforesaid was as he either knows or believes either unfair or fraudulent in him or the said GROVE although they formerly owners all the former part owners property and interest in the said ship being //

determined by the capture and condemnation aforesaid nor does this Defendant doth not know or believe that such purchase as aforesaid ought to be done to the common benefit of all the former part owners upon their paying their proportional parts // of all the charges according to their shares therein. And this Defendant doth not know that the Complainants were ready so to do but if they are this defendant ? himself not obliged to comply therewith and therefore refuses so to do. And this Defendant saith //

that he does not know that when a ship belonging to several part owners is taken and made prize and ransomed or redeemed by any of them the rest of the owners on paying their proportionate shares of the charge shall have the benefit of // such ransom or redemption or be let in to have again or be repossessed of their parts or shares of such ship but believes it may be so yet ? it not material to the matters in question in this case the said ship being neither //

Ransomed or redeemed. And this Defendant saith that he did inform the Complaints or some of them but which of them he does not remember that in as much as they would neither ransom or redeem or purchase the said ship being neither // Defendant would purchase her take a bill of Sale thereof and this Defendant denies that before or since this defendant purchased the said ship the Complainants or any of them offered to pay or would have paid this Defendant their shares of the // Charges this Defendant had been at but on the contrary since this Defendant purchased the said Ship the Complainants or some of them told him that they hoped to recover the said ship from him without paying him any money for that as // They said this defendant had purchased the said ship under a bad title or to that effect. And this defendant doth insist upon is title to the said ship as before set forth and that the Complainants ought not to be let in restored to their particular shares thereof //

which there were respectively entitled unto the capture and condemnation aforesaid or into any management thereof upon any terms whatsoever. And this Defendant traversed and saith as in his former Answer he hath already traversed and //

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Case of the ship “Anne Galley” (1717)

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Extract From National Archives HCA 15/34 (High Court of Admiralty) file concerning a dispute over wages. The ship was sailing from London to West Africa to the Island of St Christophers [St Kitts] was ship wrecked in Montserrat.

There is a detailed account dated 28th August 1717 of this voyage at The Slave Rebellion website. A later letter (9th October 1717) from the same original source (HCA 24/132) source is cited in the book “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750” by Marcus Rediker.

There are possible Channery cases that relate to William COLEMAN, these include 1727 C 11/244/39 and 1727 C 11/2621/14 and 1728 C 11/1207/2 and 1728 C 11/72/33 and 1729 C 11/2736/37 and 1729 C 11/1699/33 and 1745 C 11/871/43 C 11/164/27 and 1746 C 11/458/13 1748 C 11/347/19 . An appeal is reported in “Reports of cases heard in the House of Lords: on appeals and writs of error; and decided during the session[s] 1819[-21], Volume 3” at available Google books.

There is a possible Marraige Bond between a William COLEMAN (born circa 1679) and Anne BEALE (of the parish of Elyn born circa 1792) dated 14 May 1714 at Fink, St Bennet London, for marriage at St Martins in the Fields. (Source: Ancestry.co.uk). The records of Brentford Congregational Church record property transactions involving William COLEMAN Merchant of London and Sarah BEALE (widow) 1717-1723. 

Drewry OTTLEY according to the book “More Monumental Inscriptions:Tombstones of the British West Indies” by Lena Boyd Brown and Vere L. Oliver; was first settled in St Christophers in 1707 and became Treasurer in 1714 and was buried in St Martins-in-the-Fields, with will proved in 1760 (PROB 11/860/436). The National Library of Wales holds “Ottley Family (Additional) Papers, 1747-1948” .

 HCA 15/34

17th February 1718

Which day appeared personally William COLEMAN of London Merchant and Drewry OTTLEY of the Island of St Christopher in America, Merchant and by virtue of their corporal oaths deposed as followeth to wit. The said William COLEMAN deposed that he the Deponent was owner of the ship the Anne Galley, Benjamin Clarke deceased late Master at the time he proceeded from the Port of London on her late intended voyage for the coast of Guinea and the Island of St Christopher and back to London which was in the month of December One thousand Seven Hundred and sixteen. And the deponent is well assured that the schedule hereunto annexed No 1 is the Original port lodge Bill by which her said Master and the rest of her crew who were hired for the said voyage (except her Surgeon) were paid their river pay at Gravesend which was on the tenth and Eleventh days of the same month and verily believes that all the mariners therein mentioned except William WOOTON were ? at the several monthly wages there charged and proceeded with from Gravesend on the said intended voyage and served in her touring the respective times mentions in the other schedule hereunto annexed No ? and that they were to be paid for such their service in her the several sums therein mentioned in all amounting to this deponent’s computation to the sum of three hundred and six pounds thirteen shillings and eight pence West India money in case the said ship had safely arrived with and delivered her cargo of Negros and other goods taken in on the coast of Guinea at the Island of St Christopher’s. And he further deposed that according to the account of sales which the Depoent in or about December 1717 received from his ? Drewry OTTLEY and his brother Thomas OTTEY then resident at the said Island the net proceed of the Negros which were saved out of the said ship at Mount SORAH? Amounting to four hundred and seventy pounds twelve shillings and nine pence that country money which he believes to be true and the deponent is informed by
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Drewry OTTLEY that the hundred and twenty bars of iron and all the mast yarns and rigging and other materials and things which were saved and out of the said ship upon the said Island were of value of about seventy pounds of the same money and not more and the charges and expenses in and about saving the said negroes iron masts yards rigging and other materials and things amounts to upwards of forty pounds of that country money and he verily believes that at the time aforesaid the said country money was one third part less in value than sterling and he saith that the said Messrs Drewry and Thomas OTTLEY about six months since remitted to him the deponent from the said Island of Christopher’s by Bill of Exchange part of the produce of the aforesaid Negros and Iron according to that rate. And the said Drewry OTTLEY deposed that there were saved out of the said ship the Ann Galley at the time of her being lost upon the said Island of Montserrat and delivered to him the Deponent and his said brother sixteen Negros (? Being an old man and an old woman) together with the aforesaid iron masts yards rigging and other materials and things aforementioned and no other goods according to the best of the deponents knowledge and belief and that the expenses and charges of saving the same amounted to upwards of forty pounds of that country money and that the clear produce of fourteen of the said Negros sold by the deponent and his said brother upon the Island of St Christopher amounted to the sum of four hundred and seventy pounds twelve shillings and nine pence of the same money and not more and that one other of the said Negros being an old woman there died before she was disposed of and the other of them being an old man of little or no value there remains undisposed of and the deponent verily believes that the said iron masts yards rigging and other materials and things which were saved from and out of the said ship as aforesaid were then of the value of about
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Seventy pounds of the same money and not more and that most part thereof now remains there undisposed of for want of a market for the same and he is well assured that at the time aforesaid the said country money was one third part loss in value than sterling and he the deponent and his said brother about six months since remitted from thence to his said ? William COLEMAN by Bill of Exchange part of the produce of the aforesaid Negros according to that rate.
Wm COLEMAN
Drewry OTTLEY

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December 10 and 11 1716
An account of ? pay paid the men at Gravesend for the Ann Gally bound for Guinea and St Christopher
Name [Details dates and pay not transcribed]
Benjamin CLARKE Command
Nicholas KEDGELL Mate
Thomas BURTON Second Mate
Roger BALL Boatswain
Geo PUCKFORD Carpenter
John DOBBINS Sailor
Frd GOODHEART Ditto
Nicholas POPLESTONE Ditto
Richard PAGE Ditto
John READIE Cook
James SMART sailor
Devrick HANSON ditto
Robert REYNOLDS sailor boy
Henry PENNY sailor
James GRIFFETH
Francis DEBALL
Thomas VERNUM
John HORNBY
Crimpidge to Mr JONES for the 3 first men
James SMART lent him in part
To Mary HARRW Crimpidge of 5 men at London
To ? GOODHEART lent him part
To Wm WOOLLEN having £1 12 …?

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The Ann Galley Benjamin CLARK late Master
An account Seamens Wages from 11 December 1716 to 19th August 1717 when she was lost at Montserrat
Benjamin CLARK Master from 11 December to 11 June 1717 6 months @ £6 £36 0 0
Nico KIDGELL mate from 11 December to 11 June 6 months @ £4 £24 0 0
Ditto Master from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ £6 £13 ? ?
Thomas BURTON 2nd Mate from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 40 £16 10 ?
Roger BALL Boatswain from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 35 £15 9 4
George PUCKFORD Carpenter from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 35 £26 17 4
John DOBBINS Sailor from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Francis GOODHART ditto from 11 June to 19 August 2 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Nico POPLESTON ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Richard PAGE ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 22 £9 1 6
John READY Cook from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 33 £13 16 6
James SEWARD Sailor from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Der: HANSON ditto from 11 June to 8 June 5 months 28 days @ 35 £10 7 8
? BENOLD Ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Henry PENNY Ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
James GRIFFETH Ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Thomas VERNUM ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
Francis DEBALL ditto from 11 June to 19 August 8 months 8 days @ 30 £12 8 0
The Doctor from 11 June to 10 June 6 months @ £4 £24 0 0
Total £306 13 8
Wm COLEMAN

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Account of Nathaniel Bateman re Ship “Catchpoole”

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Profits ? Disbursements and Allowances of the ship in Question

Extract From National Archives C 12/1766/63

 

May? 1st 1717 paid Bill of Exchange for Ship £736 07 3
Insurance of 1200 at 10 per cent £120 00 0
Paid Bottomry £136 14 0
Charge of Letters to and from thence £001 15 0
For my Trouble in London £025 00 0
Interest of this money from the 1st May 1717 to the 1st   February 1719 being 2 years and nine months £140 05 0
Charges and Disbursements in Norway when taken by the Danes  
March the 24th 1717 paid Bill of Exchange from Christiania   drawn by Thomas GROVE £125 00 0
Interest of one year and nine months of ditto £010 18 9
July the 5th 1718 paid for the Bill of Exchange from Mr   GROVE £140 00 0
Interest of one year and six months £010 10 0
Paid Mr ROSS Ditto Bill of Exchange from Copenhagen February 1717 £200 00 0
Interest two years £020 00 0
Getting the Kings Letter the King being then at Hampton Court £022 10 0
Bill of Exchange from Thomas Grove at Christiania Ditto £100 00 0
Interest two years £010 00 0
Paid Bill Thomas GROVE drew on me Mr MARGERUM £007 11 0
May the 18th cost for sending over 5 men by Mr JNO   MARGARUM from Ipswich to Christiania £004 00 0
11 Men by Jno KINDERSBY £009 16 0
Paid brokerage to get the men £000 15 0
Wateridge and expenses £000 07 6
To Pilotage from Yarmouth this voyage £005 10 0
Paid Mr BOWLING for loading the ship £009 00 0
To Drink money and wateridge £000 07 6
To appraising the ship when unloaded £002 02 0
To Cap: and writing the inventory £000 10 0
To wateridge and expenses there £000 06 0
To Brokers Bill Lights and Dagn £009 17 6
To the Company of Iron Porters as usual £001 01 0
To the Landwaiters of the same £001 01 0
To translating the Condemnation into English £002 02 0
To 8 men wages at 4 10 per man £036 00 0
To FOTHERLY his wages £005 00 0
To the Carpenter his wages £007 07 0
To old Will LAMBLEY his wages £004 15 0
To the mate his wages £008 00 0
To J PLOVER his wages £004 10 0
To Mr NOBLE the blockmaker £015 12 2
To WATTS his wages £004 10 0
To Mr LOVEING the sailmaker’s Bill £015 14 8
To Mr ALEXANDER Sailmaker £038 08 0
To Mr JONES Mastmaker’s Bill for new Mast £049 13 0
To Mr WOLLEY Ropemaker £059 01 0
To Mr TIMS Painter £003 00 0
To Mr RUDD cooper £001 10 0
To Mr Jones smith £004 10 0
To charge of letters to and from Norway and Copenhagen and my trouble   in this affair £025 00 0
To acting in Admiralty Office the old owners threating to arrest ship   for warrant out and ? £000 06 8
To advise in Case the ship the old owners should stop her at   Gravesend £001 01 0
To attend and expenses thereon £000 07 6
To my Charge in going ? to clear ship and see her discharges from   July the 5th to July the 7th £001 05 0
July the 16th To Mr JUIT fir rigging the ship and putting   in nowrnaism? £008 00 0
To drink money and wateridge £000 06 6
To Mr LING brokerage for letting the ship to Longsound to Mr Jno   FOSTHROPE and Company ? in London June 25th 1718 and Chr J DARTY £003 03 0
To my expenses therein £000 05 0
Paid Mr CORKETT for ? 19 of beef this voyage £008 05 0
To charge of carrying it to the ship £000 02 0
To Humph : Cole for 2 Beef and Charge £002 00 0
To Mr EDWARDS for 4 bushel of peas £000 14 0
To Brewer for beer £003 07 6
To sending Merchant Letters after ship to Yarmouth Harwich and   Ipswich £000 11 6
Postage and expenses  
To six Firkins of flour £001 16 0
To 8 Suff: Cheeses £001 18 0
August 22 1718 Arrived in River Thames  
To Dagd breath Trinity and Lights £007 11 0
August 28th To the six penny office £000 10 4
To the mate for his disbursements for the ship £001 07 9
To the Carpenter ditto £001 12 3
To wages to 16 men this voyage £085 00 0
To one Boy £002 00 0
For my trouble and expenses paying wages and tradesmen and keeping   ships accounts this voyage £005 05 0
Insurance at 5 per cent for 1000 £050 00 0
Shipment Down September 10th 1718 bound to draw for the   same merchants  
To 60 tons of ballast £003 00 0
Tor Mr LING for brokerage and Chr J DARTY £001 06 6
Expense about that affair £000 05 0
To my man going to Gravesend to get Thomas GROVE to sign Letter of Attorney   to settle with Mr VICTORIN £000 11 0
Insurance at 5 per cent for 1000 £050 00 0
To Letter of Attorney and Duty £000 05 0
To Mr LOVEING for a new mainsale £028 02 9
Drink money about freighters £000 10 6
November the 3rd Ship arrived in the River Thames  
4th paid officers for working one holiday and 2:6 to drink £000 07 6
To the wages of 15 men and one boy this voyage £090 10 0
To lights and Dagn Breath £007 11 0
To Mr ?dden for Beer £003 17 6
To Mr SWIFT ? Bill £001 16 8
For Affidavit and oath to satisfy Merchants that none of his goods   were ? £000 05 0
Gave to the box in the Carpenters yard for the poor labourers £000 05 0
Expense when ? the freight £000 15 0
Coals for the ships use £000 09 0
Charges in carrying down £000 01 6
? KING for looking after the ship £002 02 0
For 2 valts … ? £001 01 0
To 2 men going down and taking £000 10 0
To John JOHNSON Master for Ballast £007 07 0
To the Carpenter in part of wages £000 15 0
To drink money for men £000 05 0
To Humph: COLE for 8:2:23 of beef £008 14 2
November the 14th 1718 To Money paid Mr VICTORIN as   followeth  
To 2 bars of Iron wanting £000 10 0
To 4 cast and 8.5 tarr Rynbut £008 11 0
To one barrel used £000 12 0
To 93 tons of Iron brought by other ships from Christiania ? ..   agreement £027 16 6
To charge and disbursements towards reclaiming said ship Alternation   when taken by the Danes from June 1717 to May 1718 £326 5 0
To Mr NRITT £004 14 6
To Mr WOOLEY Ropemaker £051 00 0
Mr LOVEING Sailmaker £026 05 0
Paid 2 old men for taking care of the ship £001 00 0
To Britklirye for mending the cabin £001 04 2
To Mr HAGUE smith £001 01 8
To MR WISE for tarr £000 10 10
To Robert MANNING Cooper £001 01 9
To Mr EADE Ship Chandler £002 00 0
To SAUNDERS for mending and cleaning small armes £000 16 0
To several sum of money paid at sundry times .. on account in England   to ?GROVE Master £073 12 1
March 14th Paid 5 men for Rigging and working on board £002 10 0
Paid 3 more £001 10 0
Paid the cook £000 13 6
Paid him more £001 01 0
Paid Mr JOHNSON master for tending and stocking after the ship 2   months when ship was arrested £008 00 0
Paid the Carpenter for tending on the ship 2 m  2 £005 00 0
20th April Paid TORONSON for shipping nine men £001 02 6
Paid JNO KING Mate for 2 months £005 00 0
Paid for Luggage Boat to carry the men to Greenhithe £000 17 0
To Mr JOHNSON the Master for Stock of Money to purchase Coals and   other incident charges £171 00 0
To my expenses going person to clear ship from being stop at   Gravesend by GROVE £001 05 0
18th Paid Richard LAW for 5 men to get the ship from   Debtford to Greenhithe £005 00 0
Paid Will PARKER for taking care of the ship and getting down and   keeping possession when under arrest by GROVE £004 10 0
Cabin stores £003 10 0
Drink Money for the men at Greenhithe £000 03 0
To cheese and a firkin of Butter £001 14 6
To half firkin of Grease £000 07 0
To the Defendants trouble and expense in making up the accounts with   Mr VITTORIN £010 10 0
Paid the broker when accounted with Mr VICTORIN £001 01 0
First Voyage from London to Newcastle April 1719  
May 2nd. Paid Mr SOWER by fitter at Newcastle for 168   Chalder of Coals and £130 11 6
Charges as per Bill  
Paid 12 men wages at £3 per man £036 00 0
To the Cook and Sailmaker £000 10 0
To a young man £001 05 0
To the Mate £004 05 0
To the Carpenter £004 05 0
To the Master’s disbursements new boat ? to 21st May when   the ship was entered his wages included in Bill £064 03 10
To Duty of the Coals and Crimps Bill Mr FURS £178 14 8
To my expenses contracting with tradesmen paying mens wages and   getting in the money for the Coals ? and trouble this voyage £003 03 0
Paid Mr LING for a prossthen? £001 01 0
To the meeter to Drink £000 02 6
To 8.2.23 of beef at 20 per ? £008 10 6
To 4 bushels of peas £000 16 0
To  firkin of Flour £000 18 0
To 1 at 19 Suff: Cheese £000 15 0
To one Cheshire Cheese £000 06 9
To several small things for the cabin £000 15 0
To one Dozen of Candles £000 06 6
To 5 ? Bread at 8 per ? £002 00 0
To 3 bush of salt £000 13 6
To lightermens Servants £000 14 0
Beer £003 10 0
5 ton ple of salt fish £000 10 0
Insurance of 1200 at £1:10s £018 00 0
To HUMPH: ? for 3 quarters of ? beef £000 15 0
Second Voyage from London to Newcastle 30th May 1719  
To the fitters Bill £133 04 0
Crimps Bill of disbursements £176 19 8
To one Barrel of Tar £000 16 0
To half barrel pitch at 1:2:0 £000 12 9
Beer £003 13 6
3 bushes of salt £000 13 6
To 4 bush of peas £000 16 0
To 5 ? bread at 8:6 £002 02 6
To one firkin of Butter £001 04 0
To half firkin of grease £000 07 0
To ? 2:0 Suff Cheese at 12s per ? £000 18 0
To Humph: Cole for ? Beef qt 8:2:23 at 22s per ? £009 07 7
To one hawser ? 7.25 120 offath: qt 11:2:14 at 16s per ? £009 06 0
Paid 12 men wages at 2:10 per man £030 00 0
Cook and Sail maker £000 10 0
Mater 4:5 Carpenter ditto £008 05 0
To the Masters wages and disbursements £045 08 5
To my trouble and expense £003 03 0
To a Young Man £001 05 0
To a Boy £000 15 0
Insurance of 1200 at £1:10 per cent £018 00 0
Third Voyage from London to Newcastle July 1719  
To one Barrel Tar £000 15 0
Brandy £000 13 0
Cheese 1:2:11 £000 19 6
One Ihn Cheese £000 03 3
Beer £004 00 0
To 5:2:9 Bread at 8 per ? £002 04 0
4 bushel peas at 4 per bushel £000 16 0
To 3 bushel salt £000 13 6
3 Firkin Flour £000 18 0
Masters wages and disbursements £021 03 2
Carpenter 4:5 Mate ditto £008 10 0
12 men at 2:10 per man £030 00 0
Cook and Sail maker £000 10 0
One boy £000 15 0
Fitters Bill £139 10 8
Crimps Bill £184 04 6
To my trouble and Expense £003 03 0
To a new Foremast £019 14 0
To Mr MANNING cooper for work about ditto £001 04 6
To the Riggers to fit it £003 02 6
To drink money £000 07 6
Ropemaker £003 12 2
To the Butcher for 8:2:0 Beef at 21 per ? £008 18 6
To 3 new thaizes and other necessaries for the cabin £001 18 3
Insurance of 1200 at 1:10 per cent £018 00 0
Fourth Voyage from London to Newcastle the August 19th   1719  
To 3 firkin flour £000 18 0
To 4:2:0 wt of Bread £001 16 0
To 4:0:17 Beef £004 03 0
To 3 bushel of salt £000 13 6
To 2 dozen of candles £000 13 0
To 3 bushels of peas £000 12 0
To half barrel tar £000 10 4
To the Master’s disbursements this voyage £000 12 0
To fitters charges at Newcastle £017 08 7
Crimp charges at London £157 03 9
To 12 men wages at 2:10 £030 00 0
To the Cook and Sailmaker £000 10 0
To the Carpenter 4:5 Mate ? £008 10 0
To one young man £001 04 0
To one boy £000 15 0
Master’s wages £008 00 0
To my expenses since first voyage £003 03 0
To brewer for beer £003 10 0
Fifth Voyage from London to Newcastle October 11th 1719  
To PLANK to mend the bowes and boat £001 15 0
To 3 bushel of peas £000 18 0
To 3 firkin of flour £000 19 6
To 4 ? wt of bread £001 05 0
To half an altier of Brandy £001 05 0
To 3 bushel of salt £000 13 6
To wt ROSSEN £000 15 0
To one barrel of pitch £001 06 0
To the Master’s wages and his disbursements this Voyage £034 02 10
To one dozen candles £000 06 6
To one firkin Grease £000 07 6
Cheese £000 15 7
To one firkin Butter £001 06 0
To sailmaker for new foresail as per Bill £018 06 6
Ropemaker £002 15 0
Fitters charges at Newcastle as per Bill £133 17 9
Insurance of 1200 at 1:10 £018 00 0
To the Mate and Carpenter wages £008 00 0
To 12 mens wages at £3 per man £036 00 0
To the Cook and Sailmaker over and above other men 5s each £000 10 0
To a young man £001 05 0
To one boy £000 15 0
To the Crimps Bill of Disbursements this voyage £150 3 10
To one man for looking after the ship from the 8th   December to 12th day of February being 0 weeks and 3 days at 7:6   per week. £003 18 4
To the Masters charge and expenses. Attending on the ship while   unloaded. £005 00 0
To Mr MITT the brewer for beer £004 10 0
To my expenses paying and contracting with tradesmen £003 03 0
To the labourers for unloading the ship £011 17 0
Drink money £000 04 6
To insurance omitted last voyage of 1200 at 1:10 per cent £018 00 0
To appraising the ship tackle apparel and furniture £002 02 0
To a copy of the appraisement £000 10 0
To wateridge and expenses thereon £000 07 6
   
To money disbursed by this defendant in discharging the ship now in   dispute when arrested by Mr GROVE in the Court of Admiralty in an action of   200 for wages on or about the 3rd February 1718 and in discharging   the same ship when arrested the second time on the 28th of the   same month by the said GROVE man action of property in in the said Court of   Admiralty as by Bill of costs ready to be produced by this defendant £038 0 5
To one Bill of Costs in the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer to   obtain the prohibition in Easter Term 1718 £010 3 4
To one Bill of costs in defending the suite in the English side of   the Exchequer at the suite of ? GROVE  
To one Bill of costs in order to bring Mr GROVE to an account in the   English side of the Exchequer  
To several sums of money Mr Grove demand of me for his wages and   disbursements in and concerning the said ship for which were now in dispute   in the Court of the Exchequer

 

  
To one Bill of tests at the suit of John CLEMENTS one of the complainants in the Bill mentioned for 3 two and thirtieth parts of the said ship in Hill: 1718 in the Kings Bench [1] £003 8 3
An account of the freight and earnings of the said Ship formerly   called the Catchpoole now the Alteration since her being purchased at Gothenburg   in February 1718.  
To Jno FOLTHORPE and Company one half of freight £125 00 0
To Dagn Breath £004 00 0
To freight reted of Mr Laurence VICTORIN for the Gothenburg Voyage as   followeth  
To 153 2/3 last of Iron at 35 per last £268 10 4
To 53 ? Deals at 35 per ? £092 18 6
To 4 last and ½ tarrat ditto per last £007 17 6
To freight or caplaken and primage at 3 per last £031 13 6
To Dagnum Breath £004 00 0
To his share as per agreement towards reclaiming the ship when taken   by Danes £217 10 0
To the remainder half freight of Jno FOLTHORPE and Company for the Postgzolmd   voyage £125 00 0
To other freight reted of them £024 08 0
To freight for 1 ½ ufars of the defendants £001 10 0
November 1718 : To freight reted of Mr FOLTHORPE and Company for one   voyage to Dram in Norway  
To one ½ freight per Chze party £127 10 0
To Dragn Breath £004 00 0
14 March 1718 : To the remainder ½ freight reted of the same   merchants £127 10 0
To other freight then reted of them for 1:4:3:21 Deals at ? per ? £026 01 0
To freight of 63 Ufars of the defendants £000 12 0
To 3 ? Deals at 1:5 per ? of the defendants £003 15 0
An account of monies reted and to be reted by this Defendant for   coals in the year 1719  
First Voyage  
2 June 1719 reced of Mr Nicholas FURS Crimp in money and lightermens   notes for 105 chalder Coals sold at 27:6 per Chq £141 00 0
To 229 Chalder Coals sold at 28 per Chalder meetage ? £312 19 4
17th July 1719 2 voyage from Newcastle  
Reced of Mr Nicholas FURS by lightermens notes and money for 342   Chalder ¼ of Coals at 26:6 £443 05 10
Third Voyage from Newcastle  
26th August 1719 reted ditto for 338 Chalder ¾ of coals at   26 per Chalder £430 13 0
19th October 1719 Fourth Voyage from Newcastle  
To 343 Chalder ¼ Coals at 27 and 27:3 as per Bill with meetage £454 16 2
Fifth Voyage from Newcastle February 1719  
To 318 Chalder ¼ Coals not yet accounted for by Mr FURS the Crimp  

 


[1] KB122/90 Possible Kings bench File to be checked.

PROB 3/27/228

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National Archives File PROB 3/27/228

Nathaniel Bateman 23rd December 1728

A true and perfect inventory of all singular the goods Chattels and Profits? Of Mr Nathaniel BATEMAN late of the parish of St Lawrence Poultry London, Gent. Deceased which since his death have come into the hands possession or knowledge of Deborah DASH now wife of Mr Joseph DASH the administrator of the said deceased.

At the Deceased’ Chambers in the Temple

Inprimis One oval table, a chimney Glass, two Sconces, one stool of furniture and bellows, three pictures, a pair of slops and three window rods.

Goods at Mr Dupuly TWINAYS in Thames Street

Item One bedstead with worked furniture complete , two pairs of shipped Camblet Windows Curtains, five feather bed and bolsters and ten pillows, nine small pillows, seven blankets, one quilt, a comtorpane, one Walnut bureau, a dressing glass, one jappaud Chest of Drawers, a Mahogany table, two ? tables, one wainscot chest of drawers, one looking glass, four doule, ditto a choserstool and pan, a Walnut chest of drawers, and dressing boxes, one oval table, a box, ditto a cedar box, fourt matted chairs, one stove and furniture and bellows, a piece of tapestry, one large picture and twelve small ditto, four chests, two elbows to a bed, threes of tapestry, a wainscot chest of drawers, a bureau, two cupboards, a table, a stool, two stows for clothes, one lloking glass, one easy chair and cushion, ? cane chairs, a napkin, ? two matted chairs, two wood, ditto, a plate drainerright ? cane chairsand two cushions … chest, a Remnant of green cloth, a walnut tree table and glass, a brass health, stove and tongs dogs and Iron back a brass handled brush, one stove shovel tongs and poker.

Item Twelve cane chairs, six ? ? a brass tea kettle, lamp and …a piece of tapestry, one oval table one wainscot Chest of drawers … China cups, a tea …

A corner cupboard, ten pieces of Chinaware two pairs of fine Holland sheets and ten pairs of ? ditto eight pairs of large pillowbeersic. Pairs of small pillowbeers and ? and one pair of blue window curtains and Valance,  one fine Damask table cloth and six napkins, one fine draper table cloth and twelve napkins, one side board, ditto, sixteen coarse table cloths, sixteen napkins, twenty two  breakfast clothes, thirty two coarse towels, threes of Callow Window Curtains, eight pairs of white window curtains, a toylight two white counterpaial, one Callicoe Counterpain and one Child bed linen.

Kitchen Furniture &c

Item one Range and fonder, two shovels and tongs and poker, two ? a toaster and spit rack, a gridiron, a pot iron or choppe, a box iron and ?, four stands,a Husfrey, a pig iron, two plate warmers, a cover , four iron skewers, two chatting dishes, four spils, one jack complete, one fish kettle plate and cover, two boylers and covers, two stew pans, four sauce pans, a Ball Nestle Mortar and Iron Pestle, a brass kettle. A grater, a pepper box, five brass candlesticks, a tinderbox, snuffer and fland, five sevealls, a brass disk Ring, two ladles, a ?. four dozen and seven? Plates, a bed pan, a colander, Mazareens, two salvers, two salvers, two frying pans, an iron pot, pewter sauce pan and tin and earthen ware.

Item. The ? linen and wearing apparel books and arms?

Item Old sterling plate thirty two ounces and  [at] five shillings and two per ounce,  £8 5s 4d.

Item. New Ditto seventy nine ounces at five shillings and two per ounce, £21 4s 0d.

Item. A pair of silver buckets. £0 5s 0d.

Item. A Rose Diamond Ring with ?  £14 0s 0d.

Item. Mourning Ring with a Rose Diamond. £1 15s 0d.

Item. One Gold Watch. £12 0s 0d.

Item. This exhibitant declares that the deceased was at the time of his death entitled ? to the several parts of shipping hereinafter mentioned.

To 32nd part of the ship Robert PERRY Master valued at £20.

To 32nd part of the ship “John and Benjamin” Benjamin HAMMOND Master at £20.

To 1/8th part of the ship “Nathaniel” William WESTTHORP Master valued at £18.

To the 16th part of the ship “John and Sarah” John SCOTT Master valued at £12.

To the 16th part of the ship “James and Katherine” John WARD Master valued at £15.

To 16th part of the ship “Dispatch” Robert WESTHORP Master valued at £7.

To the 8th part of the ship “Skinner” Isaac CARNABY Master valued at £16.

To the 16th part part of the ship “Bcony” Jos SCOTT Master valued at £4.

To 3 16th parts of the ship “Thomas and Mary” John ? Junior Master valued at £7 10s.

Item This exhobitant declares that the said deceased had at the time of his death five shares in the London Insurance Company which  are worth thirteen pounds a share. £65.

Item. Received of Mr Thomas BASALT by bond £400.

Item. Received for ? £24.

Item. Due from Mr Ralph SHARWOOD £20.

Plat by Bond.

Item. Interest due upon the same £2 16s 11d .

Item Due from William WESTHORPE and his interest  £90.

Item Ready Money in the house at the time of deceased death. £21.

Item. Arrears of rent due from the deceased estate at Ipswich and Rayden in Suffolk. £13.

Item Received of Mr MASH being a debt due to the deceased  £3 3s.

Item. Due from Deputy BRIDGSON £60.

Item. This exhibitant declares that there accounts ? between the deceased and Mr SKINDALL and Mr HAMMOMD but what the several balances are they cannot at present set forth but will be answerable for that they shall receive.

Item. This exhibant declares that the said deceased was entitled to one eighth part of the estate of her Father the deceased Anthony TOURNAY by virtue of his Last Will and Testament of which she hath since her said husband’s death received the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds and declares she cannot at present set forth what the remaining part will amount to but she will be answerable for what the shall further received of it.

Item. This exhibitant declares that no other goods chattels or credits of the said deceased have since his death come to her hands possession or knowledge.

December 23rd 1728.

Deborah DASH.

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Coram HIL

Gul STRAHAN

Robto ROUSCH?

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