TY - JOUR
T1 - The Burgh of Stade and the Maryland 'Court of Admiralty' of 1672
AU - Murdoch, Steve
AU - Forte, Angelo
AU - Furgol, Edward
N1 - First published in 2004 in Forum Navale, this article was revised in 2010 for online publication by the Maryland State Archives.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The documents relating to Sweden published in this article provide an interesting puzzle for Maryland historians, especially those expert in admiralty law. The definitive work on courts of admiralty in colonial Maryland is Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America, The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776, by David R. Owen and Michael C. Tolley. They include an appendix of every admiralty case they could find from the Maryland and British records that related to Maryland (appendix A, pp. 237-337), but there is a curious gap between 1671 and 1676 into which the Burgh of Stadt case falls. It suggests the Swedish owners and crew were victims of a corrupt court and the case provides an interesting insight into the workings of the Maryland Admiralty Court.
AB - The documents relating to Sweden published in this article provide an interesting puzzle for Maryland historians, especially those expert in admiralty law. The definitive work on courts of admiralty in colonial Maryland is Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America, The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776, by David R. Owen and Michael C. Tolley. They include an appendix of every admiralty case they could find from the Maryland and British records that related to Maryland (appendix A, pp. 237-337), but there is a curious gap between 1671 and 1676 into which the Burgh of Stadt case falls. It suggests the Swedish owners and crew were victims of a corrupt court and the case provides an interesting insight into the workings of the Maryland Admiralty Court.
KW - Colonial America, Maryland, Admiralty Court
UR - http://mdhistory.net//burgh_of_stade/html/index.html
M3 - Article
VL - 60
SP - 94
EP - 111
JO - Forum Navale, The Naval Journal of the Swedish Military Archives
JF - Forum Navale, The Naval Journal of the Swedish Military Archives
ER -