BIB_ID
300988
Accession number
MA 3200.11
Display Date
ca. 1635 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1978.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 30.5 cm
Notes
Docketed on the verso "1635, Emanuell Altham," "This paper gives an account of his death in India. Difficult to read," and "No. 13." Also docketed "Capt. Emml.Altham to Sr Edward Altham, from 1621 to 1632," showing that this paper was evidently used to form the outside wrapper of the Altham letters (MA 3200.1-10).
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
With the note "In the English ffort of Armagon." Fort Armagon (or Armagaon) was the second colony (established 1625 or 1626) of the English East India Company in Southern India, just north of Pulicat Lake. Its original name was Durgarazpatnam (Dugarazpatam). Altham was appointed Captain of that fort in 1630.
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
With the note "In the English ffort of Armagon." Fort Armagon (or Armagaon) was the second colony (established 1625 or 1626) of the English East India Company in Southern India, just north of Pulicat Lake. Its original name was Durgarazpatnam (Dugarazpatam). Altham was appointed Captain of that fort in 1630.
Provenance
From the Oliver R. Barrett collection; his sale (New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1 November 1950, lot 928); P.D. Sang; sale April 26, 1978, lot 241.
Summary
Certifying the death of English ship captain Emamanuel Altham. Reporting "that on the 17th January Anno 1635 Capta. Emanuell Altham (arriving to this place Muselipatam) being verry sick and weake the same eavening about ten of the clock perusing his particular bookes of accompts and many other wrightings caused William King, gunner, and Thomas Howard, drummer, to tere them in peces and afterwards causeing a fire to be made in his chamber saw them all burned." Signed by Francis Day, Edward Collett, William Kinge and Thomas Howard.
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