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The National Archives: C 103/25. Masters Exhibits.

Accounts of the ship Buck of Whitby. 1728 - 1746.

This account book, one of the pieces belonging to C 103/25 contains a detailed set of accounts of the building & fitting costs of the ship Buck of Whitby, and of every voyage undertaken between 1728 and 1746.

The following statement has been added to the flyleaf:

In Chancery/  Between John Yeoman Complt and John Wilkinson Defendant 
This Book and the fourteenth, thirtieth, forty first, sixty seventh Eighty ninth, One hundred and Twelfth, One hundred and thirtieth, One hundred Fifty Eighth and One hundred and sixtieth Pages of the same Book were severally shown to William Kitchingham at the time of his Examination on the part of the said deft on the Twentieth day of October One thousand seven hundred and sixty three before us And also the same book and the several pages referred to in and by the respective Depositions of William Linskill, Isaac Stockton hannah the wife of Nathan Pickering Martin Kildill and Francis Wardale were also shown to them respectively at the time of their several Examinations on the part of the said Defendant the day and year abovesaid before us
Willm Lawson
?Wm Hunby?
Marm: Prickett
Chris Harrison

The account book was deposited with the Court as part of the cause Yeoman v Wilkinson, but for some reason was never retrieved. For other documents related to this cause, see:

• C 12/857/14: Complaint of John Yeoman, Whitby, County of York, Gentleman surviving executor of the will of James Yeoman the elder of Whitby, Gent & the Answer of John Wilkinson 
• C 12/883/34: Depositions taken on behalf of both parties.

• 1728: 2 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal, commencing 26 July 1728.
• 1729: 6 voyages from Newcastle to London, and 1 Voyage from Sunderland to London, delivering coal & small freight.
• 1730: 11 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal & small freight such as butter and passengers.
• 1731: 7 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal & small freight such as bottles.
• 1732:10 voyages from Newcastle to London, and 1 Voyage from Sunderland to London, delivering coal & small freight such as butter & glass.
• 1733: 6 voyages from Newcastle to London, delivering coal, and 1 Voyage from London to Stockholm, returning to Lynn Regis with a load of iron & deals.
• 1734: 6 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal & freight such as grindstones, lead, iron, Egg casks, glass & glass bottles, and 1 return voyage from London to Saltkiell with unspecified freight.
• 1735: 6 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal & freight such as glass & glass bottles, and 1 return voyage from London to Stockholm, returning with iron & deals.
• 1736: 1 voyage from Newcastle to Stockholm with coal, returning to London with tar & iron, and 1 voyage from London to Stockholm, returning with iron, tar & deals.
• 1737: 1 voyage London to Alicante with freight, Ivaca to Riga with salt, and Riga to London with timber. 1 voyage from Newcastle to London delivering coal.
• 1738: 1 voyage Newcastle to Lisbon with coal, St Ubes to Copenhagen with salt, and Stockholm to London with iron & tar. 1 return voyage from London to Stockholm, returning with iron.
• 1739: 1 voyage Newcastle to London with coal. 1 voyage Newcastle to Stockholm with coal, Stockholm to London with iron. 1 return voyage London to Stockholm, returning with iron & tar.
• 1740: 3 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal & glass. 1 Newcastle to Stockholm with coal, and Stockholm to London with iron. 1 return voyage to Stettin/Woolgastt ?returning? with pipe staves.
• 1741: 1 voyage Newcastle to London with coal & glass bottles. 1 voyage Whitby to Stockholm returning to London with iron. 1 return voyage from London to Stockholm, freight outwards, returning with iron.
• 1742: 1 voyage from Whitby to Stockholm, returning to London with iron. 1 voyage from London to Stockholm, overwintering in Stockholm (note this is also mentioned in the Chancery Bill referenced above, which claims the overwintering was due to the Master having been arrested).
• 1743:  Return voyage to London with iron & other freight. 3 voyages from Newcastle to London delivering coal, and 2 voyages from Sunderland to London with coal.
• 1744: 5 voyages from Newcastle to London with coal.
• 1745/46: 8 voyages from Newcastle to London with coal & bottles. Repairs are recorded in early 1746, and no further voyages are recorded in this account book. 
• According to the Chancery Bill the ship was wrecked in 1747 near Yarmouth. It can be implied from the depositions associated with the Chancery case that there were two account books at one time, but only that transcribed here has been found.