Salisbury : Journal
IOR/L/MAR/B/478A
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The record is made up of 1 volume (188 folios). It was created in 12 Jan 1742-9 Nov 1744. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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This volume consists of a journal of the first voyage of the East India Company ship the Salisbury , the Commander of which was Christopher Burrows, recorded by the First Mate The sailor subordinate to the Captain. William Foreman.
The journal is inscribed: ‘This my Originall Journall W[illia]m Foreman’, ‘Witness Rob[er]t James’, and ‘Rec.[eive]d 9 Nov.[embe]r 1744 –’.
The journal entries are dated 12 January 1742 to 9 November 1744.
The entries record the ship anchoring in the following places: Gravesend (31 January to 11 March 1742); Portsmouth (14 to 21 March 1742); St Augustins Bay [St Augustine’s Bay] (9 to 28 July 1742); Bombay Harbour (6 September to 3 October 1742); Annanore [Kannur, also spelled Ananore in the volume] (24 to 26 October 1742); Tillicherry [Thalassery] (1 to 9 November 1742); Bombay Harbour (26 November to 1 January 1742/3); Gombaroone [Bandar Abbas, also spelled as Gomberoom in the journal] (20 to 31 January 1742/3); Bombay (16 February to 1 March 1742/3); Surratt [Surat] (9 to 16 March 1742/3); Bombay (19 to 21 March 1742/3, and 26 March to 11 April 1743); Compta [also spelled Comtaw and Crompta in the volume] (18 to 20 April to 1743); Ananore (20 to 21 April 1743); Tellechery [Thalassery] (24 to 29 April 1743); Callecutt [Calicut or Kozhikode] (30 April to 7 May 1743); Fort St Davids (22 to 25 May 1743); Madrass [Madras] (26 May to 27 September 1743); and Table Bay and Cape Bona Esperanca [Cape of Good Hope, also spelled Cape Bonesperencia in the volume] (28 December 1743 to 26 April 1744). The ship reached St Helena on 15 May 1744, and Tinmouth [Teignmouth] on 8 September 1744, before mooring at Deptford on 2 October 1744.
Entries for when the ship was at sail consist of tables recording the following: hours (H), knots (K), fathoms (F), courses, winds, weather etcetera, and comments. The comments mostly relate to the following: wind and other weather conditions; actions performed by the crew; sightings of land and other ships; and navigational measurements.
Entries for when the ship was at anchor or in port mainly record: wind and other weather conditions, actions performed by the crew, goods and provisions received on board the ship, and goods unloaded from the ship and taken ashore.
The journal also includes:
- A list of the officers and seamen on board the ship, dated 1742 (folios 4 verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. to 5) recording number (N), names, quality (position), whether they were dead, whether they had run away from the ship, and when and where they had died or run away; a list of soldiers on board the ship bound for Bombay (folio 6); a list of the passengers bound for Bombay, and a list of the passengers from Bombay to Tellecherry [Thalassery] (folio 6)
- A list recording the dates of the ship’s arrival at, and departure from, the ports at which it stopped from 30 January 1742 to 15 May 1743 (folios 185 verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. to 186).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (188 folios)
- Arrangement
The journal entries are mostly recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear (entries on folios 61 and 132 verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. are out of chronological order).
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 190; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- English in Latin script
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- IOR/L/MAR/B/478A
- Date(s)
- 12 Jan 1742-9 Nov 1744 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Title
- Salisbury: Journal
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:189v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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