2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
August 23, 1779-Dated Revolutionary War Period, Manuscript Document, Receipt for Supplies to the Historic Transport Ship "Hector", Choice Very Fine. This original Revolutionary War dated Manuscript Document Receipt measures about 6" x 2.5". This short receipt reads, in full: "Rec'd of Shedrick Ham Twelve Pounds of Beef for Ship Heckter (sic) - (Signed) Ebenezer Mecham". A full rigged Fluyt (a Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed by the shipwrights of Hoorn as a dedicated cargo vessel), the Ship Hector (built in the Netherlands before 1750) was employed in local trade in waters off the British Isles as well as the immigrant trade to North America, having made at least one trip about 1770 carrying Scottish emigrants to Boston, Massachusetts. A tribute "replica" of the original ship "Hector" being the early 18th-century fluyt, was constructed in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada and launched in 2000. The replica being in commemoration of the original historic ship, which in the summer of 1773 carried 189 Scottish immigrants to Nova Scotia. The "Hector" replica was constructed according to line drawings from the Maritime Museum Rotterdam, and built using traditional shipbuilding techniques. Currently, as of 2017, the new "Hector" is operated by the Hector Quay Society and is open to the public.
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