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Under the subheading "Cruising" the fourth paragraph reads: "On 1 June 1797, off the Skaw, Astrea captured the Dutch privateer Stuiver of 10 guns and with a crew of 48 men. Stuiver was from Amsterdam and had been out 18 days, but had captured nothing.(12)" De Stuiver was a Dutch Kajuit ship commanded by Captain Gerrit Gerritsz. Blankman, Sr. of Amsterdam. He was taken prisoner with his crew to Yarmouth where on June 13, 1797 Captain Richard Dacres sent a letter to Evan Nepean advising him of said capture. Captain Blankman's son Gerrit Gerritsz. Blankman, Junior, was admitted as a cadet in the Dutch Naval Academy on 1 November 1800. In the registration and introduction to the entries on page 818 in the Comportementsboek devoted to Gerrit, Junior's five years at the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart, it states: " the father (Gerrit, Senior), Captain of the Kajuitschip named "de Stuijver" still in England taken as prisoner in the war." The link to this page 818 is: stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/english/archives_database/genealogy/comportementbooken/search/query.en.pl?!1=18a1=Blankman.
Captain Blankman was kept a prisoner in England about four years and was repatriated after the Treaty of Amiens signed on 25 March 1802. The peace lasted only one year (until 18 May 1803)but Captain Blankman was back in Amsterdam by 9 March 1803 when he registered his second son Hendrikus Arnoldus Blankman at the Naval Academy. On 20 October 1803 Gerrit, Jr. was assigned as a cadet to the ship St. Anthonius, Captain G.G. Blankman for a voyage to Bordeaux and Bilbois (probably Bilbao in Spain).They were gone a year. Gerrit, Jr. was named as Captain of the Dutch Sloop "Maria Elizabeth'(Seventy tons burthen)and sailed with his father to Georgetown, Guyana after 10 July 1815 and was trying to sell the ship there as of 16 March 1816, as reported in the Royal Gazette. Father and son later came to Philadelphia in 1817 where another son Captain Henry A. Blankman was the Captain of the ship "de Vrouw Elizabeth" which brought redemptioners to America. Captain Blankman, Sr. died on his son's farm in Cazenovia, Madison County, New York on 18 July 1820. Son Gerrit, Jr. later settled in Hastings, Oswego Co., New York. Son Henry A. Blankman also settled in Cazenovia and Cicero, N.Y., but later removed to and settled in Philadelphia where he was Captain of the schooner Alfred.In 1837 he was falsely accused of piracy upon the packet ship the "Susquehanna," and the newspapers were full of the story.174.58.238.223 (talk) 23:56, 24 August 2012 (UTC) Don Blankman, The Villages, Florida, revised 8 July 2019.Reply
However Hepper (1994) gives the March date, and he used court-martial records for his information. I would therefore bet that it is Lloyd's List that is in error on this one. As much as I use LL for info, I have found it in error on occasion. I haven't yet caught Hepper out. In this case, Winfield (2008) agrees with Hepper.Acad Ronin (talk) 08:08, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply
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