Articles of agreement between the crew and owners of the AMBUSCADE
These articles are an agreement between John Hutchinson, John Cook and Samuel Waller, the owners of the AMBUSCADE, and the ship’s captain William Roberts and his crew. The agreement sets out the terms of employment, who was responsible for provisioning the ship, and how any prizes captured by the AMBUSCADE would be divided: a schedule describes the share each rank on the ship would receive. The agreement is signed (or marked) by the ship’s entire crew of 200 officers, seamen, landsmen and boys.
Record Details
Item reference: | RBT/2; REG06/000507 DUP REG06/000507 |
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Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
Level: | ITEM |
Extent: | 1 folded parchment (vellum) document |
Date made: | 1762-07-06; 1762-07-19 |
Creator: | Roberts, William |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Will of William Roberts of Coptford, Essex (Manuscript) (RBT/1)
- Articles of agreement between the crew and owners of the AMBUSCADE (Manuscript) (RBT/2)
- Letter from William Roberts to Messrs Cook, Waller and Hutchinson, owners of the AMBUSCADE, with a list of men injured or killed on the 6th January 1763 (Manuscript) (RBT/3)
- Agreement between Captain William Roberts and John Hutchinson relating to Roberts’ debt to Hutchinson (Manuscript) (RBT/4)
- Lease of a malthouse, dryhouse and kiln in George Street, Great Yarmouth (Manuscript) (RBT/5)