BIB_ID
413666
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Orfuer, William, witness.
Display Date
London, England, 1756 May 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 39.3 x 25.3 cm
Notes
Copy of a document originally signed and sworn before Richard Husbands, Secretary and Notary Public of the island of Barbados.
Docketed, with duty stamps impressed at head of sheet.
Docketed, with duty stamps impressed at head of sheet.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Affidavit and protest by the master and crew members of the Schooner Success (Benjamin Farmer and Thomas Chance, owners) against Placida Rodriguez and Fortozo Lopez, commander of the ship Nossa Senhora de Madre de Deus St. Antoine, recounting the siezure and plundering of their vessel off of the Isle of Brava, Cape Verde, and the mistreatment of the Success's crew, some of whom were allegedly burned with matches and forced to sign a paper "dictated by the said Lopez, the contents whereof these Appearers and the said late owners of the Schooner Success did not know"; after which, the account attests, the crew were put ashore on the Island of Fogo "quite destitute of all necessaryes except a few old cloathes".
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