RARE 1762 COLONIAL PRIVATEER CAPTAIN S. CAROLINA VIRGINIA COMPANY DOCUMENT
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RARE 1762 COLONIAL DOCUMENT WRITTEN & SIGNED BY CAPT. THOMAS RENNARD, MERCHANT, OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA REGARDING THE LOSS OF 50 PIPES OF WINE (6300 GALLONS!!!) TAKEN BY A FRENCH PRIVATEER DURING THE INVASION OF MARTINIQUE (1762)!!!
THE LETTER IS ADDRESSED TO ROBERT THOMAS PYOTT, ESQ., MERCHANT, OF HULL & CANTERBURY ENGLAND AND A MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH LANDED GENTRY THROUGH HIS WIFE ANNE PYOTT, DAUGHTER OF ANNE SANDYS & CHARLES PYOTT, ESQ. ANNE SANDY...S WAS A DAUGHTER OF SIR RICHARD SANDYS, BARONET OF NORTHBORNE-COURT AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF SIR EDWIN SANDYS (1561-1629), FOUNDER OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON & THEREFORE FOUNDER OF JAMESTOWN COLONY IN VIRGINIA & BERMUDA!!!
THIS LETTER WAS PART OF A LOT OF LETTERS ORIGINALLY SOLD IN A SOTHEBY'S AUCTION IN 1968 AND THEREAFTER DONATED TO A PUBLIC INSTITUTION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS LETTER. THIS IS THE ONLY LETTER KNOWN TO BE IN PRIVATE HANDS!!!
THE LETTER CONTAINS VERY RARE COLONIAL DRAWINGS THAT APPEAR TO DEPICT AN AFRICAN SLAVE BEING PURCHASED BY A COLONIAL EUROPEAN SHIP CAPTAIN IN FRONT OF A COLONIAL FORT IN THE CARIBBEAN.
LETTER EXTRACT:
Charles-Town, So. Carolina15th June 1762
R. T. Pyott:
Sir, I wrote you of 6th. Inst. since which have received the disagreeable News of the schooner Hannah & Jane Capt. John Howell being taken, in whom I shipt your 50 pipes of Wine (6300 Gallons!!!) for Barbadoes, I hope some of my Letters are com'd safe to hand and that you have cover'd your interests, if so are apprehensive she may have com'd to a good Market. I here inclosed send you Copy of Protest that you may recover your Insurance as soon as possible.
I am Sir Your Very Humble Servant to Command-
Thomas Rennard)))))))))))))))))))))(Delivered by Messenger Capt. Webb)Charles-Town, Capt. Webb for London
CAPTAIN WEBB OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA WAS A KNOWN PRIVATEER & TOOK MANY FRENCH AND SPANISH SHIPS DURING THE 1750'S & 1760'S.
CAPTAIN JOHN HOWELL (1712-1765) IN WHO'S CARE WAS ENTRUSTED WITH THE PRECIOUS WINE CARGO WAS ALSO A KNOWN PRIVATEER. CAPT. HOWELL IS THE 6TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF FORMER MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR & SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN F. KERRY.
GREAT CONDITION FOR 257 YEARS OLD!!!
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS!!! Edwin Sandys (died 1629)
THE LETTER IS ADDRESSED TO ROBERT THOMAS PYOTT, ESQ., MERCHANT, OF HULL & CANTERBURY ENGLAND AND A MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH LANDED GENTRY THROUGH HIS WIFE ANNE PYOTT, DAUGHTER OF ANNE SANDYS & CHARLES PYOTT, ESQ. ANNE SANDY...S WAS A DAUGHTER OF SIR RICHARD SANDYS, BARONET OF NORTHBORNE-COURT AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF SIR EDWIN SANDYS (1561-1629), FOUNDER OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON & THEREFORE FOUNDER OF JAMESTOWN COLONY IN VIRGINIA & BERMUDA!!!
THIS LETTER WAS PART OF A LOT OF LETTERS ORIGINALLY SOLD IN A SOTHEBY'S AUCTION IN 1968 AND THEREAFTER DONATED TO A PUBLIC INSTITUTION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS LETTER. THIS IS THE ONLY LETTER KNOWN TO BE IN PRIVATE HANDS!!!
THE LETTER CONTAINS VERY RARE COLONIAL DRAWINGS THAT APPEAR TO DEPICT AN AFRICAN SLAVE BEING PURCHASED BY A COLONIAL EUROPEAN SHIP CAPTAIN IN FRONT OF A COLONIAL FORT IN THE CARIBBEAN.
LETTER EXTRACT:
Charles-Town, So. Carolina15th June 1762
R. T. Pyott:
Sir, I wrote you of 6th. Inst. since which have received the disagreeable News of the schooner Hannah & Jane Capt. John Howell being taken, in whom I shipt your 50 pipes of Wine (6300 Gallons!!!) for Barbadoes, I hope some of my Letters are com'd safe to hand and that you have cover'd your interests, if so are apprehensive she may have com'd to a good Market. I here inclosed send you Copy of Protest that you may recover your Insurance as soon as possible.
I am Sir Your Very Humble Servant to Command-
Thomas Rennard)))))))))))))))))))))(Delivered by Messenger Capt. Webb)Charles-Town, Capt. Webb for London
CAPTAIN WEBB OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA WAS A KNOWN PRIVATEER & TOOK MANY FRENCH AND SPANISH SHIPS DURING THE 1750'S & 1760'S.
CAPTAIN JOHN HOWELL (1712-1765) IN WHO'S CARE WAS ENTRUSTED WITH THE PRECIOUS WINE CARGO WAS ALSO A KNOWN PRIVATEER. CAPT. HOWELL IS THE 6TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF FORMER MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR & SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN F. KERRY.
GREAT CONDITION FOR 257 YEARS OLD!!!
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS!!! Edwin Sandys (died 1629)
