LEGAL DOCUMENT

Case: Wm Watkins Applt vs. the Sloop Concord
Citation: 1 Rec. V.A. Ct. (R.I.) 117
Court: Rhode Island Vice Admiralty Court
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1727
Docket Number: 
Pages: 117–118
Volume: 1
Reporter: Records of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island, 1716-1752

Parties: Wm Watkins Applt vs. the Sloop Concord

Wm Watkins Applt vs. the Sloop Concord
Present: The honbIe Wm Whiting Esqr D. Jud: Josias Lyndon Dep: Regr Tho: Peckham Dep Mar11
The Libell -being read and allowed by prayer of the Appl* the Court is adjourned to Thursday next at 1 oClock A M. Octobr 19th 1727 The Court being met according to Adjournm* The Libell was reassum’d and Mr Newdigate Attr and the Appl* opened the Case who was answer’d by Cap* Updike, Attr Pro the Respd* and after severall pleas on both Sides the Court was adjourned to Saturday next 1 oClock
Cap* Joseph Fones upon his former oath testifieth and Saith that he bought three tun and a half of the four tun mentioned in his former Evidence of John Luear in the Bay and the other half Tun was given to him in the Bay and that he brought of 3J Tuns of his wood afores® in one of the Crafts which loaded the Vessell being the Craft that the People belonging to the Vessell went in Sworn the 20th of Octob1' 1727 the App1* and Cap* Dickinson present before Wm Whiting D J Adm Attest, Josias Lyndon D. Regr Octobr 2 Is* 1727 The Court being met according to Adjournm* the Judge was pleased to pass the following Decree. Cap* John Dickinson in behalf of the Sloop desired an appeal for England upon which the Court was adjournd to Monday at 10 Clock A. M. to consider of the Same.
Octobr 23d 1727 The Court being met according to Adjournm* Cap* Dickinson insisted upon his former prayer to witt an Appeal for a hearing before the Judge of Admiralty in England which was granted provided S® Dickinson would give in Bond of 254£ in 15 Days from this Time to prosecute with’ effect the S® Case in England with good Surety and in Case he does not reverse the Decree to pay the Double all Costs and charges accruing thereon from this time forward within a Twelve month and a Day from this Time Upon which the App1* does protest ags* the Appeal if Cap* Dickinson does not [agree] to pay the money Decree’d into Court and to give in Sufficient Bond to pay Treble Costs in case he does get the Decree revers’d within a Twelve month and a Day
The Libell being read and allowed and having heard the Pleas and Allegations with the Evidences on both Sides and maturely considered on the Same I find that no Freight ought to be paid for the Goods which were bought of Jonathan Dickinson dec® by the Appell* in Jamaica and carried down to the Bay of Hondoras I find also that their was Seven Tun and three hundred of Logwood shipt on board the sa Sloop Concord in the Bay of Hondoras by the Appell4 on his own Acc4 upon Freight one half for the other which was brought to Rhode Island and then carried to Boston and there Sold at i8£ per Tun which (after Freight to Boston Wastage Commissions for Sale and other Charges deducted) amounts to fifty four pounds fifteen Shillings I further find that the appellant was at exterordinary Charge in loading sa Sloop in the Bay more than he Was obliged to by Articles which I allow to be fifty one pounds ten shillings New England Currancy And likewise that there was a boat brought away in sa Sloop from the Bay to Rhode Island belonging to the Appel4 which I adjudge to be worth fourteen pound New England Currancy all which Sums amount to one hundred twenty pounds five Shillings Curr4 money of New England which the Appl4 ought to have Credit for Therefore I Decern and Decree that the sa One hundred and twenty pound five Shillings be paid to the Appl4 Wm Watkins and that the sa Sloop be Sold at a Publick Vendue By the Marshall of sa Court for Satisfying and paying the Same and the Remainder or to be returned to the Owner or Owners of sa Sloop after the Costs of this Court amounting to £7/1/10 and other Costs and Charges are deducted unless the Owner or Owners of sa Sloop shall Appear and Satisfy and pay the Decree.
Whiting