Subject: 1757 Hugh Hughes Petition
Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 22:28:39 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 01:30:46 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
International Standard Book Number: 1-880067-28-5

Friday the 21st day of October 1757.

"... The Council have read a Petition of Hugh Hughes, Late Master of the Ship
Clinton, addressed to the Governor Council & Assembly. And then the Messenger
Withdrew. And the said Petition was read, Setting forth, That the said Ship was
Loaden with a Cargo of Thirty Thousand Pounds Sterling Value, was on the 12th
day of August last cast away upon no man's Land, That Little of any Value was
saved from the Wreck but Eleven Thousand five hundred and Eighty Eight pounds of
Indico, which by a Law of this Province is lyable to the Payment of a duty
amounting To Five hundred and Eighty pounds thirteen Shillings Currency; &
Praying in Consideration of the Great Loss Sustained by the Owners of, and
Others Interested in the said Ship, the said Dutys may be remitted as hath been
done in like Cases. Resolved That the duties upon Indico saved out of the Ship
Clinton, Hugh Hughes, late Master, after deducting the Drawback which the
Exporters of the said Indico are intitled to & the Treasurers Commissions on
re-ceiving & paying the said Duties, be remitted to the said Hugh Hughes...."

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