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D2375 - Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey - [12th-20th cent]
- F - Family and personal papers
  - P - Records relating to family interests
    - 2 - Records and printed items of antiquarian or historical interest

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D2375/F/P/2/8
Former Reference	D2375/M/93/19
Title	Sworn statement of James Scott given at Poole, Dorset, on Thomas Cox and five others and the wreck of the Matilda merchant ship
Date	13 Dec 1820
Description	Travelling from Kingston, Jamaica, being wrecked on 13 November, with 11 fatalites, surviving in a long boat, being rescued by James Scott and landed at Poole, Thomas Cox having sustained losses of £2500 and upwards
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey
Term	Shipwrecks
	Ships
	Sailing ships
	Seagoing vessels
	Ocean travel
Transcript or Index	Town and Port of Poole in the County of Dorset To Wit. Whereas the Bearer herof Thomas Cox, Late Supercargo and five others in Comp[an]y Late Seamen Belonging to the Matilda merchant ship, came before we being two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace and made oath that the aforesaid ship was wrecked on her voyage from Kingston Jamaica to this port passing the Gulph of Florida on the night of the 13th of November last when Eleven Souls fell victims to a Watery Grave, and the Bearers in indevering to save their Lives were disabled in several parts of their bodies, and after remaining in the long Boat in a most perilous situation were at Length rescued By James Scott Master of the two Brothers, who Bore to them and took them on board, and Landed them in this port in a Distress’d state, and the aforesaid Thos Cox Has sustained a Loss of two thousand five hundred pouns & upwards. Mr James Scott made oath the above statement is correct, Given under our Hands & Seals this 31st Day of December one thousand eight Hundred & Twenty J W Thompson George Griffith Collect’d at Poole Sum of £16.11.6

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