Letterbox of time

The letterbox of time
Ewoud Sanders 
At the end of the seventies of the last century, maritime historian S.W. P. C. Braunius searched in a record office in London for some military legal documents related to the wars between England and Holland. 
Although the relations between England and the Netherlands have been very good for a long time now, the situation was different in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the two countries went to war four times. 
A regular item on the war programmes in those days was privateering. 
Privateering and piracy are often mixed up – for more on that subject see further on in this volume. 
Here it is important to know that privateering was a government-organized and sanctioned form of private warfare. 
A privateer was a shipmaster who had been granted the right by his government to capture enemy ships – complying with the rules as laid down in a so-called letter of marque.
 In England those letters were issued by the Admiralty. 
It was the High Court of Admiralty that afterwards, when a foreign ship had been captured, decided whether everything had gone by the book, whether this was a ‘good and lawfull prize’ – legitimate loot or a prize as it was then called. For that decision, the High Court relied on evidence – consisting in statements by the privateers and extensive interrogations of the crew of the captured ship. In addition, evidence was provided by the documents found on board: the ship’s papers, bills of lading, the mail and the personal papers of the crew members. 
The number of documents that were found differed from ship to ship. 
A simple fishing boat had only few papers on board – a journal, a registry certificate, a few bills and a couple of notebooks – but on board of a ship to the East or West or on a warship there were large quantities of ships’ papers, maps, bills of lading and letters.* 
In any case, the papers found by the privateers were handed over to the High Court.
There they were archived, also for legal reasons: the victims could appeal against a decision. The exact number of Dutch ships that were captured during the four naval wars with England is not known, but there must have been thousands. 
In addition, ships of other nationalities were captured, tens of thousands of them in total. 
The archives of the High Court, which were at first kept in the Tower of London, became thus enormously extended. 
They contain hundreds of thousands of documents; the collection is hundreds of metres long. When Braunius was making his inquiries in the High Court archives, he was looking for some legal documents.
 He did not find them, and in that respect, he wrote later, his investigations ‘could not be called successful’. 
But he did find something else, something that surpassed his wildest expectations – the captured papers of thousands of Dutch ships. 
Boxes and more boxes packed with Dutch documents were discovered. 
Commissions, letters of recommendation, bills of lading, cargo papers, bills, sea letters, safe-conducts, trading letters interspersed with pieces of news and scandals, but especially: personal letters from and to sailors, the seals of some of which had not even been broken. 
The contents of the boxes covered all the Dutch-English wars. 
Braunius was not only moved by this find, he also realized the great importance of it. In 1980, in an article entitled ‘The life of a seventeenthcentury sailor: false romanticism or reality?’, he wrote that the picture of the sailor had till then been far too one-sided 
The sailor was depicted as a rough seaman with or without a heart of gold, undisciplined and dissipated. 
On board he could only be kept under control with hidings,keelhauling and by being put on bread and water. 
The stories about his life on shore are, if possible, even sadder: whoremongers, soul-sellers, women of easy virtue and, of course, drink caused the already destitute sailor to join up again for a following voyage. 
Braunius realized that the Dutch letters in London – he did not know yet how many there were – might redress this picture. 
Braunius wrote his article, in which he was the first to publish eight of those letters, in 1980. Meanwhile 28 years have passed. 
About the life of seamen, several scientific and popularizing books have appeared in the meantime. 
Still, the archival treasure remained known only among few people, for years on end. 
The situation changed some years ago. 
The letters are now receiving a good deal of attention – also in the media. 
They have been given a general name, Sailing Letters, a term invented by Els van Eijck van Heslinga. 
Since 2005, we have also known how many there are.
 In that year, journalist and historian Roelof van Gelder spent six months in the building of the National Archives in Kew in West London, where the archives of the High Court have been housed since the nineties of the last century. 
He examined the contents of over eleven hundred boxes and in a database (now to be consulted on the Internet) he made a first, global inventory. 
According to van Gelder there are more than 38,000 letters. 
Sixty per cent of those letters are of a businessrelated nature; forty per cent are personal letters. 
Of those forty per cent, about eight thousand letters were written by ‘ordinary’ people, sailors to their wives, wives to their husbands, children to their father at sea, and so on. 
Is that remarkable? Yes, that is very remarkable. 
Holland has, roughly, one hundred and fifty record offices. In those offices, numerous documents have been preserved, but letters or diaries by ‘ordinary’ people are few and far between, and if they exist at all, it is just a handful. In London, on the other hand, there are thousands of letters scattered over a long period – more than two hundred years. 
Moreover, you sometimes find a whole series of letters by one person. 
Why do letters from and by ‘ordinary’ people interest us so much? 
Is it not much more exciting to read letters written by famous scientists, explorers, political leaders or generals? 
Yes, they can be fascinating, especially if the author is not too vain, but letters by ‘ordinary’ people move us because we, the readers, are also ordinary people. 
Generals will write most extensively about their resounding victories on the battlefield, scientists about their pioneering discoveries – and so on and so forth. 
That may be very interesting, but most people do not make pioneering discoveries and for many modern western people, most battles are fought at home, in their relationships. 
A bargeman’s wife writing to her husband ‘teer beminde lief’, ‘lieve tweede ziel’, or calling out in despair ‘aag lieve God, was ik maar nooit geboren’ (the quotations are from the fine book Kikkertje lief by Perry Moree, 1912) – such a woman is immediately close to our hearts. 
The antiquated language may sometimes create a little distance, but once you have surmounted that obstacle, the persons in the letters are quickly close to us, precisely because they are so like us. 
Now, you have to be careful with such a statement. 
Reading some of the letters, you might think that hardly anything has changed over the last few centuries. 
Birth, love and death remain the highlights in a person’s life, the greatest worries are usually related to health, safety, the family, money and goods. 
In broad outline, that goes for all times, but that some things were a little different then appears, for example, from a letter by a seaman’s wife, who first fills two pages chattering about all sorts of matters, in order to subsequently – oh yes – inform her husband that they will be having another child. 
There is something else you have to bear in mind when reading these letters. 
We are talking about letters from the 17th and 18th centuries. 
In comparison with the rest of Europe, the degree of literacy in the Netherlands in that period was high, but even so most lower-class people could not read or write. 
The letters that we now find from them were written by third parties. 
The sailor was sometimes helped by a navigating officer or a captain. 
The women usually employed a professional writer, a public writer as they were then called. 
We find letters from different women that are not only written in the same handwriting, but which open and end in the same way. 
Those public writers in their turn used model letters in stylebooks – see Judith Brouwer’schapter on the subject in this book (or even better: see her excellent master’s thesis from 2007 with the title Al zeyt ghy uyt den ooge, ghy bent uyt myn herte niet. 
Amsterdamse brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672). 
So in these letters, written by third parties, we do encounter ‘ordinary’ people, but through a coarse filter. 
For that matter, you may wonder how it must have been for a sailor, after months or sometimes years, to receive a letter from his wife that was couched in a formal language that he did not know from her at all; in which he found phrases like ‘vrijendelijcke groetenijsse’, and where we constantly find references to God (‘looft Godt bovenal’, ‘verhopende door Godts genade’, ‘so Godt met ons is so sal het wel gaan’, and so on). 
Incidentally, such professional writers still exist in various countries. 
In 1980, when Braunius published the existence of the Sailing Letters abroad, I travelled through Latin America for a year. 
There I encountered those professional writers everywhere. 
Just like their Dutch colleagues long ago, they sat in much frequented places, in marketplaces or near churches. 
They sat at a small table with a simple typewriter on it, and they were always men. 
Braunius was moved by the letters that he found in London. 
That emotion is felt by nearly everybody who gets to see this remarkable collection. 
The letters are produced in boxes – the size of small removal boxes –by the staff of The National Archives. 
Of some boxes, the contents are neatly arranged: neat rows of letters one after the other, sometimes bound together with a piece of string. 
In other boxes, there is chaos, letters and other documents are lying in a heap, loose wax seals among them, bits of string and paper, rusty paperclips, documents torn, rolled up or roughly sewn together with pieces of string so that you can hardly consult them without damaging them. Most loose objects – keys, wallets, books, textile swatches, postbags – have in the course of years been removed from the boxes, but sometimes you will still find things. 
A dried plant for example, or seeds. It is well-known that naturalists from far and wide sent seeds, plants, insects, fishes, birds and other animals to their colleagues in Europe, for instance because they thought they had discovered a new species.
 Now you have a look in the letterbox of time and you can see how that was done. 
Reading or sometimes even opening such a letter (about ten per cent is still unopened) is a first-class historical sensation. 
You must be made of stone not to be moved by it. 
Here you are reading a letter that was not meant for your eyes. 
A letter that was stolen long ago; one that has been covered in dust for years and years (Braunius wrote about this in 1980, ‘Even wine lovers can only dream of the anthracite-like layer of dust that some of the papers are covered in’). 
You are holding a letter here that most probably will have meant a lot to the person addressed, but which never reached him or her. 
You will find openings such as ‘Eerwaarde En Seer Geachte Lieve vrouw’, ‘waerde beminde lief’, ‘Teeder Geliefde, van mijn hart beminde en getrouwste vriendin’, ‘Mijn hart, mijn ziel’. When you start reading, you have the feeling that you are doing something you shouldn’t.
 We have been brought up with the notion that you should not read other people’s mail. 
And at the same time you realize that that letter has arrived, after all those years – for you, the reader; for you, the reader of this book.What remains is the question, where do we stand now, with our investigation of the Sailing Letters? At the beginning. 
A first inventory has been made, the first studies have been completed – historical, linguistic – the letters now receive the attention they deserve. 
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek has posted the first few letters on the Internet, the largest letterbox in the world.
 But still we are only at the beginning. 
Of the 38,000 letters, only a fraction has been typed out. 
Of only a few dozen letters the historical details have been investigated, enabling us to learn more about the senders, the receivers, the circumstances in which the ships were captured.
As for the latter details, new research possibilities have, fortunately, opened up. 
Although the crews of the Dutch ships had been ordered to defend themselves against privateers, the capture itself usually went in relatively good order. 
The privateers themselves usually held back: the prisoners were not to be treated roughly and – according to a regulation from 1780 – there was to be no ‘violence to prisoners, or indecency to female prisoners’. 
The fact that sometimes, however, the capture did happen rather roughly appears from reports in The Times. 
As mentioned before, a captured ship was called a prize, and a captured Dutch ship was a Dutch prize. 
When you now look up ‘Dutch prize’ in the files of The Times, which has been digitalized from 1785 till 1985, you will find dozens of interesting articles that tell us more about the context and the course of the captures. Thus, we read in The Times of October 19th, 1797, ‘
Another seven of Admiral Duncan’s fleet, among which the Director, have arrived here; two others, and also a Dutch prize, are within sight. […] 
The Dutch admiral De Winter conducted himself very bravely: he fought until he had on one side only six canons left that could fire; his captain, who had both his thighs shot off, died on Sunday morning.’ And this is only one new source; in the next few years, hundreds of English newspapers will become accessible via the Internet, from the 17th century, too. 
This little book, with contributions by twenty experts, is the first of a series. I wish for the makers and its readers that many more volumes may follow – there is plenty of material. Notes 1. 
This paragraph and the last are based on the report Sailing letters. Verslag van een inventariserend onderzoek naar Nederlandse brieven in het archief van het High Court of Admiralty in The National Archives in Kew, Groot-Brittannie (2005) by Roelof van Gelder. 2. S.W.P.C. Braunius in Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis (1980) 40/41 (october), p. 11.

And one of these letters we discovered .

Thomas Pratt master of the Courier

From now on we will learn more about the master of the Courier .Tomas Pratt, his ship and  a prize he captured .Today arrived a big envelope from the national archive with all the facts.
The Courier was a ship of 12 guns and 106 tons burthen, Thomas Pratt, master; letter of marque dated 22 February 1805.


The Hired armed cutter Courier appears twice in the records of the Royal Navy. The size and armament suggests that both contracts may represent the same vessel. On the first contract the captain and crew were awarded clasps to the Naval General Service Medal, one for a boat action and one for a single ship action in which they distinguished themselves.
• First contract

  The first contract for Courier was from 6 June 1798 to 1 November 1801.^[1] She was of 116³⁸⁄₉₄ tons burthen (bm) and carried an armament of twelve 4-pounder guns.^[1] She had a crew of 40 men.

  In 1799 she was under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Searle, in the North Sea. On 15 April he recaptured the Nellyfrom the French privateer Vengeur.^[2] On 16 April, Courier was in company with Latona, Astraea and Cruizer when they captured the Prussian hoy Dolphin.^[3]

  Then on 2 May, Ranger, with the Courier in company, captured the Vreeda.^{[Note 1]}

  On 12 May, while off Winterton on the coast of Norfolk, Courier engaged a French 16-gun privateer.^[2] The French brig was attacking a British merchant sloop when Courier intervened. The brig was armed with 16 guns, mixed 6 and 9-pounders.^[5] After an hour and forty minutes of fighting, the privateer chose to take advantage of the wind and her better sailing qualities and escape in the darkness and thick weather.^[6] Courier tried to chase her but lost her after midnight.Courier had five men wounded in the action.^[5] Latona and Ranger assisted in the action.

  The next day Courier captured the French brig's consort, the privateer schooner Ribotteur off the Texel. She had a crew of 26 men and was pierced for six guns but carrying four 3-pounders, having thrown two overboard during the chase.^[5]Ribotteur did not resist.^{[7][Note 2]} During the action Courier observed another privateer, a lugger, in the distance, that remained aloof from the action.

  On 26 June Courier and Circe captured the Twee Gesisters.^[9]

  On 1 July, Courier captured the brig Frederick.^{[Note 3]} Then on 10 July Courier was a part of a small squadron consisting of Circe, Pylades, Espiegle and the hired armed cutter Nancy, all under the command of Captain R. Winthrop of Circe. The boats of the squadron rowed for 15 or 16 hours into the Watt at the back of Ameland. There they captured three merchant vessels carrying sugar, wine and brandy, and destroyed a galliot loaded with ordnance and stores.^[10]

  Between 18 July and 1 August, Courier, Circe, Pylades, Espiegle and Nancy captured the Marguerita Sophia, Twee Gesister, Twee Gebroders (Master, Vink) Twee Gebroders (Master, Nolholt), Jussrow Maria Christina, Vrow Henterje Marguaritha, Stadt Oldenburg, Vrow Antje, Vrow Gesina, Endraght, and the Frederick.^{[Note 4]}

  Between 11 and 12 August, Pylades, a 16-gun sloop under the command of Adam Mackenzie, accompanied by the 16-gun brig-sloop Espiegle and Courier, attacked the ex British gun-brig Crash, moored between the island ofSchiermonnikoog and Groningen.^[11][12] Courier started the action, which resulted Crash surrendering after the two sloops joined in.^[12][13] Pylades lost one man killed and two wounded. Crash had a crew of 60 men and was armed with 12 carronades. The British also captured a schooner, which MacKenzie armed with two carronades and named theUndaunted. The boats of the squadron, now including boats and men from Latona and Juno, then attacked the 6-gun Dutch schooner Vengeance and a battery on Schiermonnikoog. The British were able to burn the schooner on the second attempt and to spike the guns of the battery.^[2] The squadron's boats also captured a number of Dutch schuyts. During the attack Courier grounded and was only saved with some difficulty.^{[14][Note 5]} In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issue to the surviving claimants of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Schiermonnikoog 12 Augt. 1799".^[16][17]

  Latona, Astrea, Cruizer, Pylades, Ranger, Busy, Courier, hired armed lugger Speculator, and the hired armed cuttersFox and Diligent captured the Aeolus, Jonge Picter , Vrow Alyda, Verwagting, Vinnern, and the Almindeligheden. The same British vessels were also involved in the capture of Neptunus, Sen Soskende, Bornholm, Fabius, Zee Star, andFrou Eagle.^{[18][Note 6]}

  On 21 November, Courier sailed from Yarmouth and on the afternoon of the following day saw a suspicious sail stopping a bark. Searle passed the bark, which reported that the other vessel was an enemy. Courier gave chase and came up with her the next morning 10 or 12 leagues off Lowestoft. After a close action of 50 minutes Courier captured the French privateer cutter Guerrier. Guerrier was armed with fourteen 4-pounder guns, had a crew of 44 men and was commanded by Citizen Felix L. Sallemand.^[20][21] During her five days out of Dunkirk she had captured the Nile, a brig from London carrying coal. Courier lost her master, Mr Stephen Marsh, who was killed at the start of the action, and also had two seamen wounded. The French had four killed and six wounded.^[22] Searle later received a promotion to Commander dated 23 November.^{[Note 7]} In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Courier 23 Novr. 1799" for this action.^[16][17]

  In December 1800 Courier was obliged to quit her station between the Humber and Flamborough Head after an action with a French privateer a few days earlier.^[24]

  Second contract

  The second contract was from 23 July 1804 to 18 August 1806.^[25] She was of 114⁵⁷⁄₉₄ tons burthen and carried twelve 4-pounder guns.^[25]

  Her commander throughout the contract was Lieutenant James Boxer.^[26] Courier served off Boulogne, Ushant and Rochester. At the end of her contract she was returned to her owners.^[27]

  On 12 December 1804 Courier was with the hired armed cutter Countesss of Elgin and the hired armed schoonerCharlotte, when they recaptured the ship New Concord.^[28] Then on 2 September 1805, Courier alone captured the French schooner Angelique.^[28]

  During the second half of 1805, Courier returned to the Downs in a battered state after having engaged a shore battery. While on patrol, she had recovered a warship's boat, together with a lieutenant and 16 men. Shortly thereafter she spotted a French privateer lugger sheltering under the protection of a shore battery. Courier attempted to cut out the lugger but came under fire from the battery's 24-pounders and a 12-pounder field piece on shore. Because of the shallowness of the water and the lack of wind, Courier was unable to proceed further. Having sustained serious damage she gave up the attempt. During the action Lieutenant Newby from the sloop Megaera was killed, as were two other men, and one man was wounded. (Presumably the men that Courier had earlier recovered were from Megaera).^[29]

  Letters of marque

  Three letters of marque were issued to a ship or ships named Courier. The first may have been the same vessel as the first contract hired armed cutter Courier. The second and third letters of marque appear to have been issued to the same vessel, which however was neither the first letter of marque nor the hired armed cutter of the second contract above. For all three letters below, the vessel is described as being armed with twelve 3-pounders.

  • Of 12 guns and 122 tons burthen, Arthur Threlful, master; letter of marque dated 22 November 1798.
  • Of 12 guns and 106 tons burthen, William Adamson, master; letter of marque dated 3 November 1804.
  • Of 12 guns and 106 tons burthen, Thomas Pratt, master; letter of marque dated 22 February 1805.
  source wikipedia
  
• The ships sailed by Thomas Pratt
• Ship Names Type Commanders Tons Men Date of warrant
• Hibernia ship Pratt,Thomas 204 35 1803 August 24 
• Courier ship Pratt,Thomas 106 25 1805 February 22 
• Cruizer ship Pratt,Thomas 207 30 1805 October 28 
• Duke of Kent ship Pratt,Thomas 284 30 1807 November 13

from the book chronology of shipboards slave revolts

1807/1808 Hibernia (Liverpool England Capt Thomas Pratt TST CD 81835
from the Demerary Newspaper 
On Friday the 16th Instant, the Subscriber will Expose for Sale at Bourdau's Logie: - 213 Prime Windward Coast Slaves. Imported in the Ship Hibernia, Captain Thomas Pratt.
Demerary, 10th March 1804. W. Brereton.
To Sail for Liverpool, as early as she can be got ready; The Ship Hibernia, Capt Thomas Pratt; - For Freight or Passage, apply to the Captain on board, or to
Demerary, March 10th 1804. W. Brereton.

Abraham Rietdijk arbeider wonende Rockanje schuldig aan Thomas Pratt negotiant wonende Hellevoetsluis 220 gld wegens geleend geld. Waarborg een huis, schuur en keet onder Rockanje in St Annapolder en Schapengors cohiernr 6 afdeling B en 77 roe 22 el boomgaard en bosland, op een gedeelte waarvan de woning staat, onbelast. Aktenummer: 58 Aktedatum: 28/06/1830 Aard van de akte: schuldbrief Naam notaris: Leendert Plooster Toegangsnummer: 110 Notarissen Inventarisnummer: 1358

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Claudius Pieter Gevers

Piet Gevers

Claudius Pieter Gevers Portret van Gevers omstreeks 1835 Volledige naam Claudius Pieter Gevers Geboren born 5 januari 1770 Overleden  died 18 februari 1836 Titulatuur Jhr. mr. Functies 1792-1795 Lid van de vroedschap van Gouda 1794 Lid Staten van Holland 1814-1815 Lid Staten-Generaal der Verenigde Nederlanden 1815-1817 Lid Tweede Kamer 1816-1817 Schepen van Rotterdam Website Politiek Claudius Pieter (Piet) Gevers (Rotterdam, 5 januari 1770 - Leiden, 18 februari 1836) was een Nederlandse politicus en koopman. Leven en werk Gevers werd in 1770 geboren als zoon van de Rotterdamse burgemeester (born as son of the Mayor of Rotterdam )Abraham Gevers en diens 2 vrouw Catharina Wilhelmina van der Staal. Hij was van 1782 tot 1784, samen met Staring, leerling (Pupil )van deLatijnse school van Gouda.[1] Hij studeerde Romeins en hedendaags recht aan de Universiteit Leiden, waar hij in 1791 op stellingen promoveerde. Daarna vestigde hij zich in Gouda waar hij van 1792 tot 1795 deel uitmaakte van de vroedschap. In deze periode vervulde hij diverse bestuurlijke functies als gecommitteerd adjunct ter dagvaart, thesaurier-ontvanger, commissaris van huwelijkse zaken en politiemeester. In 1794 vertegenwoordigde hij Gouda in de Staten van Holland. Na 1797 vestigde hij zich in Rotterdam. Tijdens de Franse Tijd was hij een ambteloos burger, maar hij vervulde in die periode wel een aantal diplomatieke opdrachten. Zo onderhandelde hij met de Engelse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken over de terugkeer van de latere koning Willem I naar Nederland.[2] In 1814 werd hij lid van de nieuwe Staten-Generaal der Verenigde Nederlanden en van 1815 tot 1817 was hij lid van de Tweede Kamer. In de jaren 1816 en 1817 was hij ook schepen van Rotterdam. In 1817 vertrok hij met zijn gezin naar Brussel.[2] Gevers trouwde op 12 oktober 1803 te Middelburg met Catharina Frederica de Bruijn. Uit hun huwelijk werden zes kinderen geboren, vijf zonen en één dochter. Vanwege zijn aan de staat bewezen diensten werd hij op 16 september 1815 verheven in de Nederlandse adel met toekenning van het predicaat jonkheer; hij was de eerste van het geslacht Gevers die in de adelstand werd verheven. Gevers was Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw. Hij overleed op 66-jarige leeftijd in Leiden. Portret his wife  Catharina Frederica de Bruin, gedateerd in 1800 Bron De informatie op deze pagina, of een eerdere versie daarvan, is geheel of gedeeltelijk afkomstig van www.parlement.com. Overname is toegestaan met bronvermelding. Gevers, jhr. A. J. en A. J. Mensema, De verlening van adeldom en wapens aan verschillende leden van de familie Gevers in: De Nederlandsche Leeuw, jrg.123, blz. 161 t/m 196, 2006 Noten Omhoog↑ Evers, M., De vormingsjaren van A.C.W. Staring, blz. Hilversum, 1996. Staring verliet de school al een jaar eerder, in 1783, om in Harderwijk rechten te gaan studeren. ↑ Omhoog naar:a b Gevers 2006:162 Categorieën: Tweede Kamerlid Nederlandse adel Lid van de Staten-Generaal der Verenigde Nederlanden Politicus in het Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

Sir William Scott

Sir William Scott's thirty years as judge of the High Court of Admiralty provide the basis of his reputation as the greatest of civilian (as opposed to common) lawyers. In this major study, the first for over seventy years, Professor Bourguignon analyzes his work as judge of the admiralty court in the light of the little-known, unpublished body of law which had been developed prior to his appointment. His term of office coincided with the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, and thus Scott had to bear and determine hundreds of cases involving the capture of vessels in time of war. These prize cases provided Scott with the opportunity to state and develop many aspects of the international law of war, especially the law of neutral and belligerent rights at sea. He also influenced the development of admiralty law in the cases, which he heard of private disputes concerning maritime commerce.

Klaas Pieterszoon van Schie

Klaas Pieterszoon van Schie geboren 28 december 1752 te Noordwijk.
Overleden 30 december 1832 als zoon van Pieter Willems van Schie en Jannetje klaas Swanevlugt
was getrouwd met Antje Arisdochter Hoekman .
Hij was matroos op de Aufwaerter.en verdiende daar 5 gulden per week.

John Hopkins mayor of Harwich

The St Nicholas church in Harwich has stained glass windows in the st Nicholas church in Harwich

The stained glass is original showing the crests of:

Left – John Hopkins, 16 times mayor of Harwich whose memorial stone is on the north of the Chancel

Georg Paul Schott

komt in de archieven nl voor 2015
Rekening en verantwoording van Georg Paul Schott, consul van Pruisen en koopman te Rotterdam, als executeur van het testament van Frederik Wieske, in leven timmerman te Rotterdam en aldaar overleden 29 Oct. 1813, aan den Kerkeraad der Evang. Luth. gem. als erfgenaam
12 Hellevoetsluis; 20-03-1844
Aktenummer: 12
Overlijdensplaats: Hellevoetsluis
Overlijdensdatum: 20-03-1844
Overledene: Louisa Catharina Schott
Partner: Lodewijk Kruijff
Vader: Georg Paul Schott
Moeder: Petronella Susanna Engels
Toegangsnummer:
089 Gemeente Hellevoetsluis (1811-1941) 

Inventarisnummer: 1209
Archief Rotterdam
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Bruidegom
Georg Paul Schott , jongeman , van Eberstadt bij Darmstad , wonend: i/d Wynstraat binnen Rotterdam
Bruid Petronella Susanna Engels , jongedochter , van Rotterdam , wonend: o/d Rotte onder Blommersdijk
Plaats Cool
Datum ondertrouw 13-09-1780
Opmerkingen f 6,-; beide Luthers

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Dopeling Johan Hendrik Philipp Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Caspar Hendrik Schott
Anna Maria Elizabeth Raap
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 24-10-1784
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Dopeling Pieter Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Willem Engels
Plaats Rotterdam 

Datum doop 13-08-1786
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers
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Dopeling Georg Paul Georg Schott 

Vader Georg Paul Schott 

Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels

Getuige Johann Paul Hess
Georg Paul Schott

Plaats Rotterdam 

Datum doop 03-10-1787

Opmerkingen getuige 1: te Eberstad
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers
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Dopeling
Pieter Hendrik Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Mattheus Smits
Agnes Catharina Smits Geb. Bussing
Joh. Willem Engels
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 01-02-1789
Bron
DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers

Dopeling Georg Casper Casper Schott
Vader Casper Hendrik Schott
Moeder Elizabeth Rap
Getuige Johannes Vorst
Georg Paul Schott
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 28-11-1788
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers
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Dopeling Willemina Susanna Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Johan Willem Weijmar
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 10-06-1793
Geboortedatum 31-05-1793
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers

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Dopeling Catharina Helena Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Agnes Catharina Bussing
Helena Wallet Geb. Schott
Matthijs Smits
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 07-11-1794
Geboortedatum 21-10-1794
Opmerkingen getuige 1: wed van getuige 3 

Bron
Dopeling Willem Cornelius Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Johan Willem Engels
Cornelia Christina Johanna van Hogenhuizen
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop26-11-1797
Geboortedatum 15-11-1797
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers

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Dopeling Johann Hendrik Philipp Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Johann Hendrik Philipp Schott
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 26-06-1799
Geboortedatum 13-06-1799
Opmerkingen getuige: in Frankfurt
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers
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Dopeling Johann Rudolph Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Johann Rudolph Schott
Plaats Rotterdam 

Datum doop 01-07-1801
Geboortedatum 18-06-1801
Opmerkingen getuige: te Franckfurth
Bron

Overledene Petronella Susanna Engels , leeftijd 63 jaar 6 mnd en 15 dgn
Vader Pieter Engels
Moeder Agnes Catharina Bussingh
Echtgenoo/te Georg Paul Schott
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum overlijden 18-02-1824
Opmerkingen akte nr. 274
Geboorteplaats
Rotterdam
Bron

Overledene Georg Paul Schott , leeftijd 78 jaar en 11 mnd en 11 dagen
Vader Johan Philip Schott
Moeder Louisa Catharina Meles
Weduwnaar/weduwe Petronella Zusanna Engels
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum overlijden 09-01-1830
Opmerkingen akte nr. 99
Geboorteplaats Eberstadt
Bron Rotterdam 1830 a018
Rotterdam 1824 a056v
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Dopeling Agnes Catharina Georg Schott
Vader Georg Paul Schott
Moeder Petronella Susanna Engels
Getuige Matheus Smits
Agnes Catharina Bussingh
Plaats Rotterdam
Datum doop 27-10-1782
Bron DTB Rotterdam Doop Luthers

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