C17th ship account books - running list
This page is a running list of C17th ship account books - all languages.
The list is arranged in chronological order.
Endeavour or Andeavour (master; Samuel Shields), 1632-33
Reference: HCA 30/635/2
Ship: Endeavour or Andevour (master Samuel Shield), trading London, Rochester, Newcastle, Norway.
Description: Ship's account book, including wages. 1632-1633.
Diamond of London (master: William Peere), 1634-41
Reference: HCA 30/335/3
Ship: Diamond of London, (master William Peere), trading from London to and from Venice, Ancona, Malaga, Lisbon, the Azores in 1634; to Nantes, Lisbon, 'Blewett' in France in 1635; to Lisbon, the Azores in 1636; to Malaga in 1637; to Greenland in 1638; to Barbethes [Barbados] in [1639]; to Minorca in 1640; and to Newfoundland in 1641.
Description: Ship's account book, including wages; detailed.
Amity (master: George Donne, 1635
Reference: HCA 30/635/4
Ship: Amity (master George Donne)
Description: Ship's account book
Mary of Newcastle (master: Brown Bushell), 1638
Reference: HCA 30/635/7
Ship: Mary of Newcastle (master Brown Bushell)
Description: Ship's account book, including wages
Golden Falcon of Gothenburg, master Frederick Johnsen Wagh), 1667
Reference: HCA 30/646/17
Ship: Golden Falcon of Gothenburg (master Frederick Johnsen Wagh) bound from Arcachon in France to Hamburg.
Description: Includes journal
Angel Gabriel (master unknown), 1667
Reference: HCA 30/654/11
Ship: Angel Gabriel (master unknown)
Description: Small notebook with manifest, accounts etc. 1667
Friends' Adventure of London (master William Downes)
Reference:HCA 30/653
Ship: Friends' Adventure of London (master William Downes) trading between London, Newfoundland and Lisbon in the 1670s and 1680s (and other ships such as the Alexander and the Dove).
Description: Includes four large account books, three small note books
Thomas and John of Lynn (master Francis Lawson), 1677-80
Reference: HCA 30/654/10
Ship: Thomas and John of Lynn (master Francis Lawson) trading between King's Lynn, Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough.
Description: Account. 1677 to 1680.
Two Friends (master: Charles Hall), 1677-88
Reference: HCA 30/654/9
Ship: Two Friends (master Charles Hall)
Description: Log or journal covering 10 years. 1677-1688
Alexandria Merchant (master John Growdon), 1683
Reference: HCA 30/654/1
Ship: Alexandria Merchant (master John Growdon), trading between London, Marseilles and Messina.
Description: manifest book, three account books, numbered 1, 2 and 3. 1683
Content (master Charles Hugget), 1683
Reference: HCA 30/654/4
Ship: Content (master Charles Hugget), trading between Maldon and Newcastle.
Description: Detailed accounts.
Jacob of London (master Joseph Wardlow), 1688
Reference: HCA 30/654/5
Ship: Jacob of London (master Joseph Wardlow) trading between London and Norway.
Description: Account book
Blessing alias Friends Adventure (master late Richard Angell, now John Mudge) , 1688
Reference: HCA 30/654/6
Ship: Blessing alias Friends Adventure (master late Richard Angell, now John Mudge) trading between London and Stockholm.
Description: Account book
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Alexander (master unknown), undated
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Ship: Alexander (master unknown) trading between Cadiz, [London], Stockholm, Elsinore.
Description: Account book. [This may have something to do with William Downe's papers in HCA 30/653]