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Appraisal by the assessor of the Tribunal of Booty (Tribunale delle prede) of Palermo, of 25 'Turks of the Barbary Coast' captured by Italian corsairs from the Kingdom of Sicily and detained in Palermo

Title	Appraisal by the assessor of the Tribunal of Booty (Tribunale delle prede) of Palermo, of 25 'Turks of the Barbary Coast' captured by Italian corsairs from the Kingdom of Sicily and detained in Palermo
Publication Date:	5 August 1811
Type	belge
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID	AWE_it_128
Library Location	State Archives of Palermo
Date	5 August 1811
Notes	In this document the assessor of the Booty Tribunal of Palermo explains that the magistrate has declared the booty captured by the captain corsair Domenico Pantò e Trifone Citarrella to be legitimate; they had plundered a Turkish boat and captured 25 Turks from the Barbary Coast. Upon request of the ship-owner, the assessor has been charged to appraise the value of the captives, so that they could be sold at auction. The captives included an entire family of “Barbary Turks”, composed of Salem, “husband” (60 years old, valued at 60 piastres), Cadduccia, “mother” (48 years old, 80 piastres), Agmet, “brother” (24 years old, 80 piastes), Lima, a 21 year old widow with her 2 year old son Ali, together valued at 100 piastres, and a 14 year old black servant called Fatuma, valued at only 20 piastres. Seven of the other captives were sailors, aged from 23 to 60 years old and valued a price ranging from 25 to 50 piastres, and two were passengers, whose commercial value was estimated at between 30 and 40 piastres.
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Appraisal by the assessor of the Tribunal of Booty (Tribunale delle prede) of Palermo, of 25 'Turks of the Barbary Coast' captured by Italian corsairs from the Kingdom of Sicily and detained in Palermo

Publication Date 5 August 1811

Type belge

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Record ID AWE_it_128

Library Location State Archives of Palermo

Date 5 August 1811

Notes In this document the assessor of the Booty Tribunal of Palermo explains that the magistrate has declared the booty captured by the captain corsair Domenico Pantò e Trifone Citarrella to be legitimate; they had plundered a Turkish boat and captured 25 Turks from the Barbary Coast. Upon request of the ship-owner, the assessor has been charged to appraise the value of the captives, so that they could be sold at auction. The captives included an entire family of “Barbary Turks”, composed of Salem, “husband” (60 years old, valued at 60 piastres), Cadduccia, “mother” (48 years old, 80 piastres), Agmet, “brother” (24 years old, 80 piastes), Lima, a 21 year old widow with her 2 year old son Ali, together valued at 100 piastres, and a 14 year old black servant called Fatuma, valued at only 20 piastres. Seven of the other captives were sailors, aged from 23 to 60 years old and valued a price ranging from 25 to 50 piastres, and two were passengers, whose commercial value was estimated at between 30 and 40 piastres.

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Renata DE SIMONE