Week Three Team Exercise
Week Three Team Exercise
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Created 15/06/14 by CSG
Purpose of page
This page sets our a team exercise which Team Three will we working on in Week Three of the MarineLives 2014 Summer Programme
Contents
Suggested links
Goals
- To develop our research skills to explore places and material goods, using Virginia and Tobacco as a case example
Search hints
General search hints
Search the three major wikis (in terms of numbers of pages transcribed and searchable)
AnnotateHCA1371 Front_Page
AnnotateHCA1372 Front_Page
AnnotateHCA1373 Front_Page
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Researching Virginia in the Admiralty Court Records
Think about geographical search terms and their spelling variants, e.g.
- Virginia
- Yorke River/York River
- Jamestowne/Jamestown/James Towne/James Town
Researching Tobacco in the Admiralty Court Records
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Questions to explore
What were the ports of origin of ships visiting Virginia, and what routes did they take?
- Direct voyages from London and Bristol to Virginia?
- Indirect voyages from London (and elsewhere) via Guinea Coast and Angolan Coast of Africa?
Can you identify trading links between Virginia and Barbados, between Virginia and New England, and Virginia and the Bermudas?
- What goods were traded between these places?
Can you identify ships and merchants from Amsterdam trading with Virginia?
What was the cost of passage for a passenger from London to Virginia, and how did it compare with the cost of passage for a passage for a passenger from Bristol to Virginia?
Can you identify the names of correspondents or agents of London merchants in Virginia?
- Were these correspondents or agents family members? If not, how were they related to the London merchants?
Interesting cases
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Interesting individuals
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Interesting ships
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Synthesis: Virginia
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Synthesis: Tobacco
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