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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2375/F/P/2/8
Former ReferenceD2375/M/93/19
TitleSworn statement of James Scott given at Poole, Dorset, on Thomas Cox and 5 others and the wreck of the Matilda merchant ship
Date13 Dec 1820
DescriptionTravelling 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
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorHarpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey
TermShipwrecks
Ships
Sailing ships
Seagoing vessels
Transcript or IndexTown 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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