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This page is the home page for volunteers working on HCA 30/636/ materials

Project description

HCA 30/636 in all its glory, just waiting for some collaborative work by volunteers

Marine Lives has kicked off a new collaborative online research project to partially transcribe and understand three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s. Kickoff took place on Thursday, November 18th 2021, and the project will run till end June 2022. The project is about co-creation of a public resource, which will be published on the Marine Lives wiki and will be made available to all - public and academic historians alike (and those just intrigued by our past). The account books are part of a heterogenous collection of documents held within the archives of the English High Court of Admiralty, which reside at the National Archives in Kew. Our documents are held under the class mark HCA 30/636.

HCA 30/636 document category

HCA 30/636 is a document category which has been created to cover certain papers generated by the Prize Court jurisdiction of the English High Court of Admiralty papers. It contains nine sub-divisions. We have imaged all the documents within HCA 30/636 and will be making these available to volunteer collaborators online. Documents include three beautifully leather bound account books of various sizes, further paper bound account books, a letter copy book of letters written from on board ship, and various miscellaneous accounting documents relating to multiple voyages. In all we have over one thousand images.

We are compiling a running list of C17th ship account books - all languages. Please take a look and contact us if you have comments or additions to this list.

Putting a face to our volunteers

Putting a face to our HCA 30/636 ship account books volunteers

We have created a new wiki page for volunteers to tell us a little about their research interests, and what they would like to get out of the Marine Lives Ship Account Book project. You can access this page by Volunteer research interests and goals clicking the link here

Project management and communication

This is going to be a very relaxed project running through to the middle of 2022 in which people are welcome to dip in and out, and to do as little or as much as they have time and interest for.

Colin Greenstreet, director of Marine Lives, will be managing the project and running a number of small facilitated teams. Each team will consist of four or five volunteers, together with Colin as team facilitator. We are forming the teams at the moment, and are planning to have a mix of volunteers from North America and Europe on each team, together with a mix of paleographical strengths, and other expertise. Team formation will be completed by Monday, November 29th 2021.

Charlie Wilson is putting together a small group to work on communication, so that we make goods use of the knowledge and materials we create with different audiences. Click here for a page on project communication

Next steps through to end January 2022

Next steps

The slide on the left summarises the project plan for the next two months. In those two months we will be getting to grip with the diverse manuscript material using high resolution images made available to project volunteers in Dropbox. Our priority for the first three or four weeks through to mid-December is to get everyone comfortable with the different hands used by the authors of this manuscript material. Picking up on discussion during our launch meeting, we will be holding six one hour on-line sessions for volunteers, combining some paleography tuition with some paleographic problem solving, using manuscript material from HCA 30/636.

Resources

Existing project resources

Marine Lives brush up your palaeography and teach yourself wiki
C17th Textiles, garments and Dyestuffs glossary
Commodities glossary
Weights and Measures glossary

Proposed project resources

Ship Account Book glossary
Compendium of Ship Account Book named persons
Compendium of Ship Account Book geographical terms
Partial transcriptions and abstracts of the Account Books and related papers
Thematic synthesis around geography, materials, commerce and social world as evidenced in the HCA 30/636 papers

Thematic pages

1. Dutch connections with 1H C17th Barbados
2. Dutch connections with 1H C17th Saint Christophers
3. Dutch connections with 1H C17th Virginia

4. Barbados C17th supply chain
5. Saint Christophers in 1H C17th

6. Tobacco market in 1H C17th London, Middleburg and Rotterdam

7. Archival resources in the Netherlands relevant to C17th Anglo/Dutch commerce

8. Discussion: Anglo/Dutch collaboration and conflict in 1H C17th Caribbean and Atlantic coast plantations

9. Company of the Abraham

Sample images and context by subcategory

HCA 30/636/ Letter copy book from on board the ship the Abraham

HCA 30/636/1
HCA 30/636/2 [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]
HCA 30/636/3 [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]
HCA 30/636/4
HCA 30/636/5 [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]
HCA 30/636/6 [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]
HCA 30/636/7
HCA 30/636/8
HCA 30/636/9

Work product by the HCA 30/636 team

Thomas Pargiter's trading contacts in the 1620s

Research wish list

Research wish list for volunteers to work on

Commercial record keeping

Ship account books represent just one type of commercial record created by and used by mariners.

Volunteers may find it useful to review this Overview of Marine Oriented Commercial Records

1 Overview
2 Acquittance
3 Bill of lading
4 Boatswain’s book of accounts
5 Book of receipts
6 Charter party
7 Chief mate’s book
8 Cocket
9 Custom house book
10 Custom house waiter’s book
11 Gunner’s inventory
12 Letters of advice
13 Letters of correspondence
14 Lighter’s book of accounts
15 Master’s book of accounts
16 Marks on goods
17 Miscellaneous papers and writings
18 Notes or receipts (supply of goods to ships)]
19 Notes (wages related)
20 Private instructions from freighters or owners
21 Protest
22 Steward’s book
23 Waiter’s book
24 Warehouse records
25 Wharfinger’s book of accounts

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 '''This page is the home page for volunteers working on HCA 30/636/ materials'''
-==Background==
+==Project description==
-Are you interested in a startup collaborative online project to look at, partially transcribe and understand three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s? You have come to the right place. Marine Lives is launching a new project and is seeking volunteer collaborators. This will be a project about co-creation of a public resource, which will be published on the Marine Lives wiki and made available to all - public and academic historians alike (and those just intrigued by our past).
+[[File:Account Books 13102021.JPG|600px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636 in all its glory, just waiting for some collaborative work by volunteers]]
+'''Marine Lives has kicked off a new collaborative online research project to partially transcribe and understand three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s. Kickoff took place on Thursday, November 18th 2021, and the project will run till end June 2022. The project is about co-creation of a public resource, which will be published on the Marine Lives wiki and will be made available to all - public and academic historians alike (and those just intrigued by our past). The account books are part of a heterogenous collection of documents held within the archives of the English High Court of Admiralty, which reside at the National Archives in Kew. Our documents are held under the class mark HCA 30/636.'''
 ----
 ==HCA 30/636 document category==
-HCA 30/636 is a document category which has been created to cover certain papers generated by the Prize Court jurisdiction of the English High Court of Admiralty papers. It contains nine sub-references. We have imaged all the documents within HCA 30/636 and will be making these available to volunteer collaborators online. Documents include three beautifully leather bound account books of various sizes, further paper bound account books, a letter copy book of letters written from on board ship, and various miscellaneous accounting documents relating to multiple voyages. In all we have over one thousand images.
+HCA 30/636 is a document category which has been created to cover certain papers generated by the Prize Court jurisdiction of the English High Court of Admiralty papers. It contains nine sub-divisions. We have imaged all the documents within HCA 30/636 and will be making these available to volunteer collaborators online. Documents include three beautifully leather bound account books of various sizes, further paper bound account books, a letter copy book of letters written from on board ship, and various miscellaneous accounting documents relating to multiple voyages. In all we have over one thousand images.
-[[File:Account Books 13102021.JPG|600px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636 in all its glory, just waiting for some collaborative work by volunteers]]
+We are compiling a running list of C17th ship account books - all languages. Please [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/C17th_ship_account_books_-_running_list take a look and contact us if you have comments or additions to this list].
 ----
+==Putting a face to our volunteers==
-==Project description==
+[[File:HCA 30636 Project Launch Pack Intros 18112021.JPG|800px|thumb|left|Putting a face to our HCA 30/636 ship account books volunteers]]
-We are in start up mode. Our current thinking is to make the images available on DropBox or OneDrive and to use this MarineLives wiki as our collaboration platform - to share ideas, to provide support, and to be the vehicle to publish our transcriptions and synthesis. But we are open to your ideas about how to organise this project and nothing will be finalised until we have our team in place. You can get up to speed on our thinking by [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg/status/1448320605384753156 reading this Twitter Thread.]
+'''We have created a new wiki page for volunteers to tell us a little about their research interests, and what they would like to get out of the Marine Lives Ship Account Book project. You can access this page by [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Volunteer_research_interests_and_goals Volunteer research interests and goals clicking the link here]'''
+----
-We have had expressions of interest from people from many places - Mexico, Michigan, Texas, London, Newcastle to list a few - which is perfect given the virtual nature of our project and the broad geographic scope of the papers which include multiple voyages from England to the West Indies, the Mediterranean and to Northern Europe.
+==Project management and communication==
 This is going to be a very relaxed project running through to the middle of 2022 in which people are welcome to dip in and out, and to do as little or as much as they have time and interest for.
+Colin Greenstreet, director of Marine Lives, will be managing the project and running a number of small facilitated teams. Each team will consist of four or five volunteers, together with Colin as team facilitator. We are forming the teams at the moment, and are planning to have a mix of volunteers from North America and Europe on each team, together with a mix of paleographical strengths, and other expertise. Team formation will be completed by Monday, November 29th 2021.
+Charlie Wilson is putting together a small group to work on communication, so that we make goods use of the knowledge and materials we create with different audiences. [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Project_communication Click here for a page on project communication]
 ----
+==Next steps through to end January 2022==
-==Project launch==
+[[File:HCA 30636 Project Launch Pack Next Steps 18112021.JPG|800px|thumb|left|Next steps]]
-We will be sending out an email to everyone who has expressed this interest this weekend (Saturday, October 16th 2021), and will invite people in that email to take a look at some sample images and to tell us about their research interests, skills and ideas for this project.
+'''The slide on the left summarises the project plan for the next two months. In those two months we will be getting to grip with the diverse manuscript material using high resolution images made available to project volunteers in Dropbox. Our priority for the first three or four weeks through to mid-December is to get everyone comfortable with the different hands used by the authors of this manuscript material. Picking up on discussion during our launch meeting, we will be holding six one hour on-line sessions for volunteers, combining some paleography tuition with some paleographic problem solving, using manuscript material from HCA 30/636.'''
+----
+==Resources==
+----
+===Existing project resources===
-[[File:Abraham Letter Copy Book HCA 30 636.JPG|600px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636/ Letter copy book from on board the ship the Abraham]]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Basic_wiki_skills_%26_palaeographical_tips Marine Lives brush up your palaeography and teach yourself wiki]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Textiles,_garments,_%26_dyes_glossary C17th Textiles, garments and Dyestuffs glossary]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tools:_Commodities_glossary Commodities glossary]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Weights_and_Measures Weights and Measures glossary]
 ----
-==Expressions of interest==
+===Proposed project resources===
-As of Thursday, October 14th 2021, 10.30 am. GMT we have received twenty-three expressions of interest from:
+Ship Account Book glossary
+Compendium of Ship Account Book named persons
+Compendium of Ship Account Book geographical terms
+Partial transcriptions and abstracts of the Account Books and related papers
+Thematic synthesis around geography, materials, commerce and social world as evidenced in the HCA 30/636 papers
+----
+===Thematic pages===
-Dr Richard Blakemore
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Dutch_connections_with_1H_C17th_Barbados 1. Dutch connections with 1H C17th Barbados]'''
-Dr Michael Bennett (consultant to project)
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Dutch_connections_with_1H_Saint_Christophers 2. Dutch connections with 1H C17th Saint Christophers]'''
-Dr Holly Brewer
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Dutch_connections_with_1H_C17th_Virginia 3. Dutch connections with 1H C17th Virginia]'''
-Zachary Copin
-Dinorah
-Amanda Ap Ennion
-Dr Ian Friel
-Jamie Gemmell
-Dr Peter Good
-Megan Johnston
-Sarah Mah
-Jools Parker
-Michael Powell-Davies
-Emily Rendek
-Dr Lou Roper
-Dr Benjamin Slade
-Dr Tabitha Stanmore
-Katherine Stephen
-Jane E. Tomlinson
-Mehmet Tutuncu
-Twitter handle: Vampire, Ph.Die
-Twitter handle: Professor M. Walton
-Jen Waghorn
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Barbados_C17th_supply_chain 4. Barbados C17th supply chain]'''
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Saint_Christophers_in_1H_C17th 5. Saint Christophers in 1H C17th]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Tobacco_market_in_1H_C17th_London,_Middleburg_and_Rotterdam 6. Tobacco market in 1H C17th London, Middleburg and Rotterdam]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Archival_resources_in_the_Netherlands_relevant_to_C17th_Anglo/Dutch_commerce 7. Archival resources in the Netherlands relevant to C17th Anglo/Dutch commerce]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Discussion:_Anglo/Dutch_collaboration_and_conflict_in_1H_C17th_Caribbean_and_Atlantic_coast_plantations 8. Discussion: Anglo/Dutch collaboration and conflict in 1H C17th Caribbean and Atlantic coast plantations]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Company_of_the_Abraham 9. Company of the Abraham]'''
 ----
-To access sub-pages click the relevant link below:
+==Sample images and context by subcategory==
+[[File:Abraham Letter Copy Book HCA 30 636.JPG|600px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636/ Letter copy book from on board the ship the Abraham]]
 [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/1 HCA 30/636/1]
-[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/2 HCA 30/636/2]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/2 HCA 30/636/2] [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]'''
-[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/3 HCA 30/636/3]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/3 HCA 30/636/3] [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]'''
 [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/4 HCA 30/636/4]
-[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/5 HCA 30/636/5]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/5 HCA 30/636/5] [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]'''
-[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/6 HCA 30/636/6]
+'''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/6 HCA 30/636/6] [WITH SAMPLE IMAGES]'''
 [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/7 HCA 30/636/7]
 [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/8 HCA 30/636/8]
 [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/9 HCA 30/636/9]
+----
+==Work product by the HCA 30/636 team==
+----
+===Transcriptions===
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/1 HCA 30/636/1 transcriptions]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/2_Transcriptions HCA 30/636/2 transcriptions]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/3_Transcriptions HCA 30/636/3 transcriptions]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/4 HCA 30/636/4 transcriptions]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/5_Transcriptions HCA 30/636/5 transcriptions]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/6_Transcriptions HCA 30/636/6 transcriptions]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636/6_Abraham_Letter_Copy_Book Factors letters written from the Abraham]
+----
+===Transcription aids===
+[[Transcription Resources|Resources to help with transcription]]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Commodities_in_the_Abraham Commodities in the ''Abraham'']
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Weights_and_measures_in_the_Abraham#Alphabetical_list_of_weights_and_measures_.28original_spelling.29 Weights and measures in the ''Abraham'']
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Phrases_used_in_the_Abraham Phrases used in the ''Abraham'']
+----
+===Synthesis===
+[http://www.marinelives.org/index.php?title=Company_of_the_Abraham&redirect=no Company of the ''Abraham'']
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Andrew_Hardie_master_of_the_Abraham Andrew Hardie, master of the Abraham]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Andrew_Hardie_will Andrew Hardie's will]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Mathew_Craddock_freighter_of_the_Abraham Mathew Craddock, freighter of the Abraham]
+[[Grace_Hardwin_Wax_Chandler|Profile of Grace Hardwin, part owner of the Abraham]]
+Planters on Barbados
+Thomas Pargiter's trading contacts in the 1620s
+----
+===Research wish list===
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636_wishlist Research wish list for volunteers to work on]
+----
+==Commercial record keeping==
+'''Ship account books represent just one type of commercial record created by and used by mariners.'''
+'''Volunteers may find it useful to review this [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record Overview of Marine Oriented Commercial Records]'''
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Overview 1 Overview]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Acquittance 2 Acquittance]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Bill_of_lading 3 Bill of lading]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Boatswain.E2.80.99s_book_of_accounts 4 Boatswain’s book of accounts]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Book_of_receipts 5 Book of receipts]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Charter_party 6 Charter party]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Chief_mate.E2.80.99s_book 7 Chief mate’s book]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Cocket 8 Cocket]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Custom_house_book 9 Custom house book]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Custom_house_waiter.E2.80.99s_book 10 Custom house waiter’s book]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Gunner.E2.80.99s_inventory 11 Gunner’s inventory]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Letters_of_advice 12 Letters of advice]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Letters_of_correspondence 13 Letters of correspondence]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Lighter.E2.80.99s_book_of_accounts 14 Lighter’s book of accounts]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Master.E2.80.99s_book_of_accounts 15 Master’s book of accounts]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Marks_on_goods 16 Marks on goods]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Miscellaneous_papers_and_writings 17 Miscellaneous papers and writings]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Notes_or_receipts_.5Bsupply_of_goods_to_ships.5D 18 Notes or receipts (supply of goods to ships)]]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Notes_.5Bwages_related.5D 19 Notes (wages related)]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Private_instructions_from_freighters_or_owners 20 Private instructions from freighters or owners]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Protest 21 Protest]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Steward.E2.80.99s_book 22 Steward’s book]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Waiter.E2.80.99s_book 23 Waiter’s book]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Warehouse_records 24 Warehouse records]
+[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Overview_of_Marine_Oriented_Commercial_Record#Wharfinger.E2.80.99s_book_of_accounts 25 Wharfinger’s book of accounts]
+----