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Notes
1 Davis, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry, 84–5.
2 Ville, English Shipowning, 2–3; Palmer, Politics, shipping, 12.
3 Davis, The Rise of the English Shipping Industry, 95.
4 The Hobbs-Newman and Ward family trees, Ancestory.com.
5 Ancestory.com.
6 Ward Family tree, Ancestory.com. Information provided by Jane Clayton. I would like to thank her for her help with this paper.
7 See appendix for details.
8 Mount v Larkins (25 Nov. 1831, London) Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law, vol. XXXIV, 631–44, a court case between Mount and an insurance company representative over insurance cover for the vessel.
9 Barratry is any fraudulent act on the part of the master or crew, committed to disadvantage the owners or insurance underwriters. Kemp The Oxford Companion, 62.
10 See note 8.
11 These were General Elliot, Spring and Mary. Clayton, Ships Employed, 127; Jones, Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, vol. 2, 250.
12 Perhaps Annabon off the coast of Gabon.
13 Work clothing.
14 Undated letter from Capt. David to Richard Mount, Capt. Edward David’s papers, New South Wales State Records, intestate file, 6/384, file 73 (hereafter CEDP).
15 CEDP Copy or draft of an undated letter from Capt. Edward David to Richard Mount.
16 Lloyd’s List, 25 Dec. 1821.
17 Jones, Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, vol. 2, 96.
18 What follows is mainly drawn from correspondence in CEDP.
19 Jones, Ships Employed in the South Seas Trade, vol. 1, 77.
20 Ibid., vol. 3, 121.
21 Howard, ‘Thomas Sturge’, 411–33.
22 CEDP.
23 Essex Standard, 11 Feb. 1832.
24 Will of Richard Mount, 18/2/1822, PROB 11/1796/27, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Wills and Letters of Administration, British National Archives; The Courier, 12 Jul. 1834.