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2 items extracted from HCA 32/111/48. Two charts used as covers for the log of a...

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Reference MPI 1/654
Date 1710-01-01
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2 items extracted from HCA 32/111/48. Two charts used as covers for the log of a captured Lübeck ship, the Franciscus Primus Imperator, kept by the mater Peter Heinrich Witt of Lubeck between March 1747 and May 1748, and numbered [SP] 49 by the captors.

Detailed descriptions are given at item level.The charts may have originally been published by Johannes van Keulen in De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Werelt, 1682, which was re-issued by his son, Gerard van Keulen, head of the van Keulen family business in the early eighteenth century.

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The rest of the ship's papers are at HCA 32/111/48

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

Dutch

Closure Status Open Document, Open Description

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