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This file is devoted to presenting basic Shipping Timeline information for website readers. The items are often sketchy, and some have been extracted from other websites managed by Dan Byrnes. Where possible, ships will have their date-of-departure noted as the compilers believe that a ship's departure date gives some indications of the business plan of the owners, whatever the outcome of the voyage. These Timelines will be added-to intermittently, as new data and new e-mail arrives. Book titles will be entered according to the timeframes they treat. -Ed
This is file Shipping Timeline1 - To go to the next file in this Merchant Networks series of files, Ship Timeline 2
1606: Duyfken. Dutch VOC (East India Company). Captain Willem Jansz. Exploration. Dutch East India Co. Jansz of Janszoon. First authenticated sighting by a European of any Australian coastline.
1606: San Pedrico, Les Tres Reyes. Spain. Captain Luis Vaez de Torres. Exploration about Australia, Spanish government.
1616: Eendracht. Dutch VOC. Captain Dirck Hartog. 1616, West Australian coast. Exploration.
1618: Zeewolf VOC Haevick Claeszoon, Exploration about Australia.
1619: Mauritius Dutch VOC. Captain Lenaert Jacobszoon. Exploration about Australia. (Len Zell in his second eco-tourism book gives the year 1618.)
1619: Amsterdam. Dutch VOC. Capt Frederick de Houtmann. Exploration
1622: Wapen van Hoorn. Dutch VOC. Captain not listed. Exploration.
1622: Leeuwin. Dutch VOC. Capt not listed. Exploration
1622: Dordrecht. Dutch VOC. Capt Frederick de Houtmann. Exploration.
1622: Tryall. Owner, English EICo probably. Capt John Brooke. Shipwreck, West Australian coast.
1623: Leiden. Dutch VOC. Capt Klaas Hermanszoon. Exploration about Australia or accident
1623: Pera. Dutch VOC. Capt. Jan Carstensz. Exploration. (Or, Carstenszoon.)
1623: Arnhem. Dutch VOC. Capt Jan Carstensz. Exploration. From a list of unknown origin.
1623: Arnhem (2). Dutch VOC. Capt. Willem van Coolsteerdt. 1622?-1623. Exploration. (Or, Willem van Colster.)
1624: Tortelduyff. Dutch VOC. Captain Unknown. Exploration
1626: Leiden (2). Dutch VOC. Capt Daniel Janssen Cock. Exploration about Australia.
1627: Texel. Dutch VOC. Capt Jan Coen. Exploration.
1627: Wapen van Hoorn (2). Dutch VOC. Capt David Pieterszoon de Vries. Exploration. With supercargo J. van Roosenbergh.
1627: Gulden Zeepard. Dutch VOC. Captain Pieter Nuyts. Exploration. Nuyts with Francois Thijssen. Or, Gulden Zeepaert.
1627: Galias. Dutch VOC. Capt Jan Coen. Exploration. Galias with Utrecht and Texel all on same trip under Jan Coen.
1627: Utrecht. Dutch VOC. Capt Jan Coen. Exploration.
1628: Vianen. Dutch VOC. Capt Gerrit Frederickson De Witt. Exploration
1629: Batavia Dutch VOC. Capt Francois Pelsaert. Shipwreck (infamous). Pelsaert with Adriaen Jacobszoon.
1635: Amsterdam (of 1635). Dutch VOC. Capt Wijbrandt Geleynnszoon De Jongh. Exploration, Australia.
1636: Klein Amsterdam. Dutch VOC. Capt Pieter Pieterszoon. Exploration. Commander of expedition (the second boat with Kein Amsterdam was Wessel, was Gerrit Thomas Pool killed in New Guinea, so Pieterszoon took command.
1636: Banda. Dutch VOC. Capt Antonie Caen. Exploration
1642: Heemskerck. Dutch VOC. Capt Abel Janszoon Tasman. Exploration of Tasmania and New Zealand, with second ship, Zeehaen.
1644: Limmen. Dutch VOC. Capt Abel Janszoon Tasman. Exploration. With two other ships, Zeemeeuw and Bracq. Gulf of Carpentaria to North West Cape.
1648: Leeuwerick. Dutch VOC. Capt Jan Janszoon Zeeuw. Exploration, West Coast of Australia.
1656: Vergulde Draek. Dutch VOC. Capt Pieter Albertrszoon. Exploration.
1656: Witte Valck, Dutch VOC, Captain Unknown, Exploration about Australia. With ship Goede Hoop
1657: De Vinq. Dutch VOC. Capt Unknown. Exploration. With ship Veenenburgh.
1658: Waeckende Boey. Dutch VOC. Capt Samuel Volckerts. Exploration. With Aucke Pieterszoon Jonck and ship Emerloot.
1658: Elburg. Dutch VOC. Capt Jacob Pieterszoon Pereboom. Exploration.
More to come
1678: Vliegende Zwaan. Dutch VOC. Capt Jan van fer Wall. Exploration.
1681: London (of 1681). English or Dutch? Capt John Daniel. Exploration. First chartings of an Australian coastline in English language, later published by Alexander Dalrymple.
1687: Notknown (1). Dutch, Capt Nicolas Gedeon de Voutron. Exploration of Swan River area.
1687: L'Oiseau. French. Capt Abraham Duquesne-Guitton. Exploration, and on way to Siam with French ambassador to there.
1688: Cygnet, Private (Pirate). Captain Read with William Dampier. Careen ship. Exploration
1697: Geelvinck. Dutch, Capt Willem de Vlamingh. Exploration. With ships Nijptangh and Weseltje in search of missing ship of VOC, Ridderschap van Holland. Of Swan River area.
1699: HM Roebuck. Royal Navy. Capt William Dampier. Exploration, n/w Ausralia.
1699: New Holland Dutch, Captain Maarten Van Delft. (1705) Exploration, with ships Vossenbosch and Waijer.
1712: Zuytdorp, Dutch Marinus Wysvliet, Shipwreck Dutch VOC wrecked, Australian site, matter not discovered till 1927.
1717: House of Austria. Owners, Baron Cloates et al. Captain Nash. 1716-1717. Exploration of Western Australian coast.
Baron Cloates et al, at n/w Australian coast, noted in Len Zell's second eco-tourism book.1727: Zeewijk, Dutch, Jan Steyns, Shipwreck. With Sloepie.
1756: Rijder. Dutch VOC. Captain Jean Etienne Gonzal. Exploration. Also with ship Buijs. With Lavienne Judiowijk van Asschen. Last of Dutch VOC exploration of Australian coast.
Reference item 1760: George Blake, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1760-1966. London, Printed by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, nd? [1960?]
1762: Reference item: A relevant title here is: Alice Keith, 'Relaxations in British restrictions on American Trade with the British West Indies, 1783-1802', Journal of Modern History, Vol. XX, March, 1948. Cf., Ruwell on US ship insurance, pp. 75ff, there were Philadelphia underwriters who insured the slave trade, as the books of Kidd and Bradford show, Philadelphia ships traded with African ports in 1762, as did those of Willing, Morris and Co. of April 29, 1762, Willing and Morris insured at 16 per cent the master of the brigantine Nancy, Captain/master William Rodman, from coast of Africa to Maryland. A Negro was valued then at 25 pounds sterling per head.
1768: La Boudese. French Navy. Captain Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. West Pacific Exploration.
1768: Etoile. French Navy. Captain Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. 1768. Exploration.
1768-1770: HM Endeavour. The ship used for Capt. James Cook's first voyage of exploration.
1770: Endeavour. RN. Captain James Cook. 1767-1770. Pacific Exploration,and re Transit of Venus seen from Tahiti. She was later bought by James Mather. A notable American sailing with Cook was "the traveller" John Ledyard, America's first travel writer.
1770: Endeavour HM. RN. Captain James Cook. 1767-1770. Exploration. British Whaling investor James Mather bought her after she was decommissioned as a naval vessel after Cook's return.
1772: Le Mascarin. French. Capt Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne. Exploration of Tasmania, later to NZ.
1772: Gros Ventre. French. Captain Louis-Francois Alleno de Saint-Allourn. 1771-1772. Exploration of north WA coast. Claimed possession for France, see notes. He in Len Zell's second eco-tourism book on the n/w Australiancoast is Francois de St Allouam at Cape Inscription, a n/most point of Dirk Hartog Island.
1770s: Zong slave ship, British, Notknown, Famous Mansfield legal case re ship insurance and the legality of slavery.
1773: HM Adventure. RN. Capt Tobias Furneaux. Exploration. Part of Cook's second voyage. See notes.
1773: Hayley. Owner, John Hancock of Boston. Captain James Scott. Nov 1773 to Boston. Trader, US. Aboard as passenger is Jonathan Clarke. Prior to the Boston Tea Party.
Reference item1775++: David Syrett, 'The Victualling Board charters shipping, 1775-1782', Bulletin of Historical Research, The Institute of Historical Research (UK), Vol. 68, 1995., pp. 212-224.
Reference item 1775: A. G. E. Jones, Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, 1775-1861 [Parts 1 and 2]: plus A Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, transcripts of Registers of Shipping, 1787-1862 [Part 3] Canberra, Roebuck, 1986.
1774: Richard Maitland’s Tea Party - (See The American Revolution in the Southern Colonies by David Lee Russell, p. 46): When tea arrived in Charles Town harbour aboard the British ship Magna Carta in late June (1774?), Captain Richard Maitland told local officials that he would return the tea to England. But on rumours that Maitland planned to sell the tea anyway, angry and unemployed men in the port boarded the ship as Captain Maitland quickly exited to take refuge aboard the British man-of-war Britannia. In November the Britannia, which carried consigned tea, landed. The Charles Town General Committee ordered the merchants to dump the tea in the Cooper River to avoid mob violence, which they accomplished. Henry Laurens of Charles Town said these new acts were simply the first of perhaps many laws to “mandate which Ministers Shall think proper for keeping us in Subjection to the task master who Shall be put over is.”
See Laboratory for Liberty: The South Carolina Legislative Committee System, 1719-1776, a book by George Edward Frakes; University Press of Kentucky, 1970. 201 pgs.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98510546
CHAPTER VIII
Revolutionary Committee Activity, 1774-1776
Extract from p118 (119 not available)
In December, 1773, South Carolinians' concern over British policy shifted from New England to Charles Town Harbor. The problem was the arrival of the ship London carrying a load of East Indian tea. The tea ship docked at Charles Town at a time when South Carolinians and their fellow colonists were protesting against the Tea Act taxes.4 The radicals in South Carolina politics, led by Christopher Gadsden, took advantage of the hostile climate of public opinion toward royal officials. Four days after the London arrived, the South Carolina radical leaders called a general meeting of all citizens at the Great Hall of the Exchange Building to discuss the constitutional issues
A meeting at the Exchange Building was called on December 3 because 257 chests of East India Company tea had arrived in Charles Town two days before in Captain Alexander Curling’s ship, the London. George Gabriel Powell was elected chairman of the meeting, and it became apparent in the ensuing debate that most of the citizens present favored absolute non-importation of teas subject to tax. The East India Company consignees, who were present at the meeting, received the thanks and applause of the assembly when they promised not to accept the tea. (Lifted from www.antonymaitland.com/)
Some further items begin here on American privateers of American War of Independence and related activity -Ed
PRO: Item details SP 89/82: Affidavit of Thos. Boog and others of the British ship Atlantic, relative to death of Robert Jackson after a scuffle with the mate, Alexander Kidd. 1776 Mar. 2 Lisbon.
No5 Lisbon the 23 May 1776
My Lord,
I acknowledged by the last packet the honour of your Lordships letters of the 23 & 26th past.
We since learn by the Clementine Cat Brown from Philadelphia, that they left in Delaware bay two French armed ships frigate built and three merchant ships of the same nation, all laden with military stores: As this vessel has had a long passage and is several days arrived here, the news she brings will probably have been received in London before this reaches your Lordship; I mention it however, because the armed ships are talked of here as frigates, but thought they are indeed said to be very stout vessels, I am assured they are absolutely private property: I know not with what propriety I signify to your Lordship, that having
Lord Viscount Weymouth
P2:
in private conversation on this news, with the French ambassador at this court, hinted my wonder at the impolicy of his masters furnishing succours to the Americas, he assured me very solemnly, that though he would not answer for the boldness of private adventurers, tempted by most advantageous offers of barter, yet he was perfectly persuaded that the present French administration were honestly and thoroughly sensible, that France was interested against the success of the Rebels, and would neither directly nor indirectly give them any assistance.
Within these two days I have seen two English gentlemen just arrived after a short passage from Philadelphia. They ventured to assert, that the Southern colonies as far as New York inclusively, are generally disposed to return to their duty, on what the stile reasonable terms: that the Northern settlements are generally enough understood to mean independence: but would assuredly be abandoned by the others, if equitable conditions were held out by Great Britain; Entering into particulars, these gentlemen said they had been over the greater part of Pennsylvania and discoursed repeatedly and freely with eight of ten particular members of the congress, whose uniform capital article was redress in the matter of taxation, but on my inquiry whether these particular member had annexed any explicit sense to their idea of redress, on that head: the answer was, what your Lordship has doubtless heard a thousand times, that they agreed on the fitness of their contributions to the supplies of the state, but tat unless each colony were permitted to ascertain its own quota, they were not constitutionally Englishmen: In the mean time they say that hardly a boy of sixteen years old is unarmed, through all that province.
Having signified to Mr Walpole your Lordships mention to one of the dispositions in the affair of Alexander Kidd; he has put into my hands and I have the honour of forwarding them to your Lordship with this letter.
I also enclose and affidavit made before the British vice consul in this city, by William Darby and George Jay, two gentlemen on board the merchant ship Turkey frigate, George Jenkins master: these men, not as I understand any others of the crew, were ever upon by their captain to sign their contract for wages; this neglect has been the occasion of many vexatious contests both in the present occasion and in many other cases, I have therefore thought it necessary to lay before your Lordship, in order to prosecution for the panelaty of £5 per seaman; which by the Statute 2: George 2, C 36; is forfeited to the use of Greenwich hospital.
I have the honour to be
My Lord
your Lordships most humble
& obedient servant,
John Nort.
http://www.cas.sc.edu/SCIAA/mrd/documents/sc_shipbuilding.pdf - Occasional Maritime Research Papers
Maritime Research Division, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, USC
Extract:- ......Ships and Schooners - This Port Royal may have been Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
For evidence of ship design meeting environmental conditions and customer’s needs, we turn again to the available ship registers. They show that the Carolina-built, shiprigged vessel was, in general, of moderate size, yet larger than ships being built in the
other shipbuilding colonies. South Carolina shipwrights were certainly able to build large ocean-going ships. The 280-ton ship Queen Charlotte, built in 1764 by John Emrie, and Occasional Maritime Research Papers, Maritime Research Division, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, USC the 260-ton ship Atlantic, built at Port Royal in 1773, are two examples. However, shiprigged vessels built in South Carolina during this time averaged 180 tons ... (From www.antonymaitland.com/)
In early June 1775 the South Carolina Council of Safety learned of a shipment of gunpowder due to arrive in Savannah, Georgia. The information was that this was the annual present of gunpowder for the Indians. Since gunpowder and ammunition were in critically short supply in all the colonies, the Council of Safety determined to intercept the shipment.1
Two barges were sent from South Carolina, commanded by Captains John Joyner and John Barnwell of the 1st South Carolina regiment,2 with a total of about forty men each. These proceeded to Bloody Point to intercept the powder.3 Bloody Point, on Daufaskie Island, was the landfall for all vessels entering the Savannah River. From Bloody Point new arrivals were visible, as was the town of Savannah.4
Georgia Royal Governor Sir James Wright had anticipated trouble with the shipping in the river. Governor Wright had no military forces available in the colony and had written to General Gage and Admiral Graves for help.5 Help was coming, although not in response to Wright’s letter. On 27 June HM Schooner St. John (Lieutenant William Grant) sailed from St. Augustine, East Florida with dispatches for Wright, from Governor Patrick Tonyn.6
St. John arrived off Tybee Island lighthouse on 29 June. At 1400 she was nine to twelve miles south southeast of the lighthouse. Here she stopped a sloop from New Providence and searched her, and apparently kept her for the time being. At 1730 she anchored off the lighthouse, observing a tent on the beach and many men ashore and in boats, and the “liberty flag” flying from the top of the lighthouse. Grant sent a letter to Sir James Wright in the sloop, and went to quarters, where the crew stayed all night. 7 The men ashore were the South Carolinians and, probably, some assorted Georgia “Liberty Boys.”
The next day Grant observed boats passing and re-passing to Tybee Island. He sent his master and a boat to find a conveyance for a letter to Sir James Wright at St. Augustine. In the afternoon St. John fired a few shots at a Carolina pilot boat, which refused to stop. St. John stopped another schooner from South Carolina and searched her, but she only had passengers for Georgia aboard. Grant’s men then boarded and searched a schooner from St. Vincent. Finally, Grant sent a boat and officer to town with a letter for the governor.8
On 4 July 1775 the Second Georgia Provincial Congress convened, and joined the Continental Association on 6 July. This brought the colony squarely into the rebellion.9 The Georgians had been aware of the presence of the South Carolinians and now blessed the enterprise by co-operating. The Georgians informed Barnwell and Joyner of the presence of the St. John. The schooner Elizabeth, owned by Samuel Price and Richard Wright of Savannah, was taken up and commissioned as the Liberty. Price cooperated with the Provincial Congress acting as schooner’s pilot.10 The Provincial Congress authorized Captain Oliver Bowen and Captain Joseph Habersham as commanders of the newly-outfitted ten-gun schooner. They were ordered to assist Captains Joyner and Barnwell of South Carolina (whose troops were on Tybee Island) in the capture of the incoming powder vessel. A secondary purpose was to nullify the St. John.11 Other reports list this vessel as having eight to ten guns, swivels, and a fifty-man crew.12 The cannon were 6-pounders. [cite]
The merchant ship in question was the 270-ton Phillipa [Philipa, Philippa, formerly the Magna Carta] (Richard Maitland),13 which had sailed from London, England on 2 May 1775 with a cargo of 13000 pounds of gunpowder, as well as small arms, and casks of musket balls. The cargo was intended for the Indian trade and for British troops and loyalists in Georgia and eastern Florida.14
Grant was making every effort to find the powder vessel first. On 3 July he ran down a ship outside the bar, but she was from Barbados in ballast and was released.15 The presence of the Liberty and the two barges may have influenced Grant, and he moved further out to sea. On 9 July two more ships were stopped and searched for powder, but were released.16 Unknown to Grant, he had already missed his chance.
On 7 July the Phillipa anchored nine miles from Tybee Point, to await a pilot to take her up to Savannah. The Liberty was anchored out of sight from Tybee, but Bowen and Habersham were no doubt informed of the arrival of a large ship. On 8 July Liberty moved up and anchored in the ship channel about three or four miles from the Phillipa. If the powder ship moved up river it would have to pass the schooner.18 At 1400 a pilot went aboard the Phillippa and she got underway.19
A change in the wind and an ebb tide forced both vessels to anchor. They remained at anchor until the following morning. Then Maitland was ordered to sail up the Savannah to Cockspur Island, with Liberty following. About three hundred men were camped there. Maitland was ordered to anchor, and the two South Carolina barges came out and joined the schooner. Bowen, Joyner, and Seth Cuthbert of Savannah led a boarding party to the Phillipa. Maitland was forced to hand over his papers. Next Captain Joseph Habersham came aboard. He had a written order from the Provincial Congress which authorized him to seize the arms, gunpowder, and whatever else was included in the cargo.26 Maitland was informed that the Americans would “take all the gunpowder, shot, lead, and Indian trading arms.”27 When the unloading had begun, Maitland was allowed to depart for Savannah in order to inform Governor Wright of what had happened.28
The Americans were able to take off 16,000 pounds of powder and “seven hundredweight of leaden bullets.” They also “took away all the bar-lead, sheet-lead, Indian trading arms, and shot, that were on board.” The Carolinians and the Georgians divided the cargo between them.29
All the gunpowder, along with a few kegs of musket balls, was transferred to the Liberty. There was no room aboard the Liberty for many of the kegs of powder and the small arms, so the Phillipa’s crew was instructed to keep her at anchor near Cockspur Island. A “prize crew” was put aboard to insure that she stayed put. On 12 July the Phillipa received instructions from the Georgia Committee of Safety to proceed to Savannah.30 There a second boarding party, led by William Platt, a Savannah merchant, and under the overall direction of the Committee, unloaded the rest of the cargo into boats and transported it to the city magazine for storage.31
Maitland met his ship at Savannah and was aboard by 12 July. Governor Wright urged Maitland to file a protest or affidavit with Anthony Stokes, the chief justice of the province. This would have had no effect but to draw more attention to Maitland. The necessity of having the cargo’s bonds cancelled finally forced Maitland to file an affidavit on 21 September 1775.32
The very real risk these early rebels ran was exemplified by the case of Ebenezer Smith Platt. Platt moved to Savannah from New York in March 1775. At Savannah, Platt was in the mercantile business.33 Platt became a member of the committee of Savannah, and was among those that boarded the Philippa at Savannah.34 In January 1776 Platt was en route to Saint-Domingue to purchase arms for the Provincial Congress. The prize was taken in to Jamaica. Because the vessel was registered as English, Platt was ordered to sell his cargo, but escaped prison. On his return voyage, in another vessel, Platt was again captured.35 This time he was recognized as a leader in the Philippa affair. Platt was confined aboard a ship of war from March 1776 to January 1777. He was then taken to England, where he was heavily ironed and imprisoned in Newgate, and charged with high treason.36 An unofficial British committee working for relief of American prisoners petitioned, in mid-March 1778,37 that he be tried or admitted to bail.38 Platt was released by 3 April 1778 and planned to go to France to return to America.39
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1 Patrick O’Kelley, “Nothing but Blood and Slaughter:” Military Operations and Order of Battle of the Revolutionary War in the Carolinas, Volume One 1771-1779, Booklocker.com: 2004, p. 32
2 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:32
3 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:32
4 Hufford, Jon R., “Enough Gunpowder to Start a Revolution,” paper. Texas Tech University. 2007, 315. http://esr.lib.ttu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=lib_fac_research Accessed 1/28/08
5 Hufford, 315
6 NDAR, “Journal of His Majesty’s Schooner St. John, Lieut. William Grant, Commanding,” I, 766-767
7 NDAR, “Journal of His Majesty’s Schooner St. John, Lieutenant William Grant, Commanding,” I, 783
8 NDAR, “Journal of His Majesty’s Schooner St. John, Lieut. William Grant, Commanding,” I, 794
9 http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/wars/Revolution/revolution06.html. 1/24/08
10 Hufford, 316n8. This is from Allen D. Candler and Lucian Lamar Knight, comps.. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, 26 vols., vols. 27-39, Manuscripts, 38, pt. I: 614, 615.
11Paullin, Charles Oscar, The Navy of the American Revolution, The Burrows Brothers Company: Cleveland, 1906, 459; NDAR, “Sir James Wright, Governor of Georgia, to Lord Dartmouth,” I, 845
12Paullin, Navy of the American Revolution, 459; NDAR, “Sir James Wright, Governor of Georgia, to Lord Dartmouth,” I, 845
13Coleman, Georgia, 53; Paullin, Navy of the American Revolution, 460; NDAR, “Sir James Wright, Governor of Georgia, to Lord Dartmouth,” I, 856; “Henry Laurens to John Laurens, London,” I, 885
14 Hufford, 315
15NDAR, “Journal of His Majesty’s Schooner St. John, Leut. William Grant, Commanding,” I, 812
16NDAR, “Journal of His Majesty’s Schooner St. John, Leut. William Grant, Commanding,” I, 848
17 Hufford, 317
18 Hufford, 317. Hufford cites the Affidavit of Richard Maitland, 21 September 1775, from Allen D. Candler and Lucian Lamar Knight, comps., The Colonial Records of the Stale of Georgia. 26 vols., vol. 2 manuscript, 38, pt. 1; 606-614
19 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33. Not on 9 July, as stated, however.
20 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33. Quotations from Maitland’s affidavit.
21 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33
22 Hufford, 317. Affidavit of Richard Maitland, 21 September 1775.
23 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33
24 Hufford, 317. Affidavit of Richard Maitland, 21 September 1775.
25 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33. Quotations from Maitland’s affidavit.
26 Hufford, 317. Affidavit of Richard Maitland, 21 September 1775.
27 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33. Quotations from Maitland’s affidavit.
28 Hufford, 317. Affidavit of Richard Maitland, 21 September 1775.
29 O’Kelley, NBBAS, 1:33. Quotations from Maitland’s affidavit.
30 Hufford, 318 and 318n13. Citing the Affidavits of First Mate Samuel Burnett and Steward Richard Scriven, on 10 January 1777. Old Baily
Sessions Papers, Greater London Record Office, Middlesex Records. London, England.
31 Ibid.
32 Hufford, 318
33 Laurens, Henry. The Papers of Henry Laurens. University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, 1999, 413n18
34 Andrews, Charles MacLean. Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, Volume II: Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers . Carnegie Institute of Washington: Washington. 1914, 268
35 Laurens, Henry. The Papers of Henry Laurens. University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, 1999, 413n18
36 Andrews, Charles MacLean. Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, Volume II: Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers . Carnegie Institute of Washington: Washington. 1914, 268
37 Laurens, Henry. The Papers of Henry Laurens. University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, 1999, 413n18
38 Andrews, Charles MacLean. Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783 in the Public Record Office of Great Britain, Volume II: Departmental and Miscellaneous Papers . Carnegie Institute of Washington: Washington. 1914, 268
39 The Record of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin Under the Auspices of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge April the Seventeenth to April the Twentieth A.D. Nineteen Hundred and Six. The American Philosophical Society: Philadelphia, 1908. Vol II, 388. (Lifted from pages at www.antonymaitland.com/)
10 Sep, 1775: Capt, Oliver Bowen and Major Joseph Habersham (Americans) are ordered to Tybee Island to watch for a ship bringing gunpowder for Royalists. 17 Sep, 1775, Capt. Bowen, Capt. Barnwell (SC) Capt. Joyner (SC) and Major Joseph Habersham seize an armed British schooner off Tybee Island. (Re South Carolina and Georgia from www.antonymaitland.com/)
1775::++ List of Britain's South Whalers, 1775-1790. Enderby; A and B Champion; Mather and Co, Mr Mather's wharf at Blackwall- Thomas and John Mather, Rotherhithe in 1805; Montgomery (See re Capt.J. Piper, notes); Joseph Lucas (Oct. 1805); Bennett; Smith at Hull; Sanders at Southampton; Parr(?) Southampton; Wrangham (Canton 1792 brig Hope); Curtino(?); Mellish; Dudman; King; Bill; with Enderbys 1775, March 1790, St Barbe, London, Southampton; Curling; Yorke; Metcalfe; Paul, Simon of Tottenham Court Rd and his own wharf: Le Mesurier (Guernsey); Teast, Saml and Son, Bristol; Hurry and Co, Yarmouth; Ogle; Oliver; Mount; Hall (or Hull); Hattersley; Wardell; Thornton (See Oct. 28, 1786); Mills; Bell; Calvert; Mangles; Stainforth; Hayley, very early in fishery history; De Bond; Harrison; Harford; George Heyley; Daniel Coffin; Benjamin Rotch; Barclay; Powell; Brantingham; Williams; Price; Meader; .Peter Evet Mestairs,also owned a dock on Thames opposite Shadwells. (Another list of South Whalers is available as, Merchants of the Southern Whale Fishery, Enderby Papers, Nat. Lib. Pethryk: MS 1701: worthy of much attention and analysis:
1778: Resolution - Captain James Cook, arrived 18 January, 1778, departed 2 Feb., 1778 (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819) - Second visit - arrived 26 Nov., 1778, departed 4 Feb., 1779; but a broken mast on the Resolution forced both vessels to return 11 Feb., 1779. Captain Cook was killed 14 Feb. Vessels finally left islands 13 March, 1779.(This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819)
1778: Discovery - Captain Charles Clerke, accompanied Resolution, Captain James Cook. (This item is from a website Hawaiian Roots on ships to Hawaii before 1819)
1780:: Begins List of some Lords Mayor of London: 1780, wine merchant Brackley Kenney [Kennett] 1781-? - 1782, Newnham is Mayor. 1783,Robert Peckham: 1784: Richard Clark: 1785: Richard Clark 1786: John Burnell? 1787: Sainsbury, Jan. 10: 1788: Boydell(?) engraver 1789: William Gill: 1790: William Pickett: Brook Watson: 1791 Boydell(?) 1792: ? 17931793: January 1, Sir James Sanderson; 1794, Mayor, Paul Le Mesurier.
1782:: Begins a Brief List of Aldermen of London, from 1782.
1782, Ald Newnham, Mr Sainsbury,
1783 Brass Crosby: John Hart: Wm Pickett: Sir Thos Halifax: Thos Sainsbury: John Boydell: Sir James Esdale:
1784: Richard Clark: Thos Knight: John Hopkins: Evan Pugh (also 1781): William Gill: John Hopkins:
1785, Brook Watson, alder. See Feb. 14, 1805,and in 1802, General Boyd whaler owned by Watson and Co. Master, Owen Bunker,see note Watson in brown address books: Paul Le Mesurier, Francis Buller (Justice): Thos Harley: John Gill: Brook Watson: James Townsend: Henry Kitchen: John Boydell: John Burnell:Robert Peckham:
1785, Paul Le Mesurier,Esq. MP. (Any relation to the Guernsey MP?)
1785, alder is Francis Justice Buller
1786, Mr Alderman Curtis (Sir William) owner of Lady Penrhyn, First Fleet:
1787: Newnham: Sir Benj Hammett:
1788: Sawbridge, a reformer but pro-slaver:
1791: See Boydell re trial of Capt. D. Trail, Neptune to Botany Bay
1797, Ald. Harley. Chamberlain is Mr Ald. Clark.
1774: Reference item:: James Pagan, Sketches Of The History Of Glasgow. Glasgow. 1847. cited in T Thompson note 14, and Pagan notes that at least 46 different Glasgow firms alone were dealing in the tobacco trade in 1774.
Reference item: G. Palmer, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution. Meckler Pub. Westport. London. 1984. One page of entries on Delanceys, p. 214, no leads. Also entry on a relative of DC, Henrietta Colden, p. 165, citing AO12/101/186, she was in England in 1784 and 1785, and estimated the value of her husband's estate (in New York) at 21,790 pounds sterling [We know that DC helped her get a stipend for her sons' education at Edinburgh].
1775: Reference item:: J. G. Palmer, Bibliography of Loyalist Source Material. Meckler Books. 1984.
1764: Reference item: A. M. Schlesinger, Prelude To Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776. New York. 1957.
1782:: Aug, Mr Justice Buller is written to by hulks overseer, Duncan Campbell, re plans to send convicts to Africa.
1775: Reference item: mentioning London Alderman George Hayley) Petition Of London Merchants For Reconciliation With America, January 23, 1775, from Parliamentary History of England, Vol. XVIII, 1774-1777, cited pp. 168ff in Henry Steele Commager, Documents Of American History, 9th Edn, Prentice Hall Inc. NJ. 1973.
1775: Reference item:: Oliver M. Dickerson, The Navigation Acts And The American Revolution. Philadelphia, 1951. cited in Langguth.
1770: Reference item: Richard S. Dunn, Masters, Servants and Slaves In The Colonial Chesapeake And The Caribbean, in Quinn, David B,, (Ed). Early Maryland In A Wider World. Detroit. 1982.
1750: Reference item:: J. H. Soltow, Scottish Traders In Virginia, 1750-1775. Economic History Review, 2nd Series, 12, 1959., pp. 83-98, generally on trade and commerce.
1770: Reference item: I. Turner, The Australian Dream: A Collection of Anticipations About Australia From Captain Cook to the Present Day. Sun Books, Melbourne, 1968.
1760: The customers of Edward Lloyd`s coffee house, who were used to doing business in its sociable atmosphere, formed the Register Society. This later became Lloyd`s Register. (This item is from a UK website detailing a Lloyd`s Register timeline from 1760)
1764: First Register of Ships published, to inform underwriters and merchants about the condition of vessels they insured or chartered. An important feature has been the classification of the hull and equipment of vessels. Following a survey, Lloyd`s Register assigned to it a "class", depending on how well it had been built and its current condition. If it was to remain "in class", the ship had to have regular surveys. 1768, Second edition published. (This item is from a UK website detailing a Lloyd`s Register timeline from 1760)
1775: Annual publication began. Subscribers in London could have their registers `posted` with alterations each week. They actually had two copies, and each week one was collected for amendment whilst the other was returned for use. `Posting` continued until 1966. (This item is from a UK website detailing a Lloyd`s Register timeline from 1760)
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