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Week Three Team Exercise

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Created 15/06/14 by CSG

Purpose of page

This page sets our a team exercise which Team Three will we working on in Week Three of the MarineLives 2014 Summer Programme

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Goals

• To develop our research skills to explore places and material goods, using Virginia and Tobacco as a case example

Search hints

General search hints

Search the three major wikis (in terms of numbers of pages transcribed and searchable)

AnnotateHCA1371 Front_Page
AnnotateHCA1372 Front_Page
AnnotateHCA1373 Front_Page

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AnnotateHCA1364 Front_Page

Researching Virginia in the Admiralty Court Records

Think about geographical search terms and their spelling variants, e.g.

• Virginia
• Yorke River/York River
• Jamestowne/Jamestown/James Towne/James Town

Researching Tobacco in the Admiralty Court Records

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Questions to explore

What were the ports of origin of ships visiting Virginia, and what routes did they take?

• Direct voyages from London and Bristol to Virginia?
• Indirect voyages from London (and elsewhere) via Guinea Coast and Angolan Coast of Africa?

Can you identify trading links between Virginia and Barbados, between Virginia and New England, and Virginia and the Bermudas?

• What goods were traded between these places?

What was the cost of passage for a passenger from London to Virginia, and how did it compare with the cost of passage for a passage for a passenger from Bristol to Virginia?

Can you identify the names of correspondents or agents of London merchants in Virginia?

• Were these correspondents or agents family members? If not, how were they related to the London merchants?

Interesting cases

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Interesting individuals

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Interesting ships

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Synthesis: Virginia

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Synthesis: Tobacco

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