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Survey Report 10618:
Public Record Office: Chancery
Bills and Answers. Whittington’s
Division |
Bill of Complaint of Thomas Starke:
May 15, 1701.
Defendants were all part owners of the African Galley, Henry Bradshaw,
master, in July and August 1698, which they freighted to Starke for a
voyage to Guinea and Virginia. They
also agreed to sell him 4/16 of the ship ready fitted and cleared at Gravesend
for £375.
The arrangements for fitting her out and other details were to be
organized by Starke, but they were to repay him for all the money he
disbursed. Voyage was long
and difficult and full of delays, which he maintains was the fault of
the defendants. Details of
the high cost of the trip. On
the return the ship was arrested by order of the sailors for the
non-payment of wages. He
agreed to pay the owners their proportion of the value of the sale of
the ship, and any surplus over the cost of the voyage would be put
towards a second trip. But
they refused to do this, or pay what was owing to Starke for the cost of
fitting the ship, and they also refuse to let him see the agreement
which he made with them. |
Source: Virginia
Colonial Records Project, Library of
Virginia, Richmond, VA
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