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Shipping at
Extracts are from the Cornwall
Chronicle & General Advertiser, and its Supplement, printed every
Saturday in Montego Bay by James Fannin, and there is a natural bias towards
events in the
The date given is the date of publication
and not the exact date of any ship movement. As there are issues missing, and
as lists were sometimes incomplete, announcements of intended sailings are
noted as ‘In Port’. Safe arrivals at British ports were sometimes reported by
captains arriving at the island, much to the relief of merchants, and these are
also included. Losses to enemy action were also reported but are excluded; they
were not always given accurately by captains understandably keen to put as much
sea as possible between themselves and any hostile attention. Under the heading
‘Additional Information’ it is possible, in some cases, to link merchants’
notices of sale with a particular ship and cargo, especially slave imports.
Such notices (in which the ship and master are named) have, on occasion, been
used to fill a gap where shipping lists are incomplete as they were usually
dated with the original date in subsequent issues of the paper. Other
merchants’ announcements are also given here. Where a Christian name can be
found elsewhere in the newspaper, it is inserted, the spelling is contemporary,
idiosyncrasies and misprints are left well alone.
Several of the ships’ captains had
relatives in
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1776 |
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Oct 5 |
Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
Additional
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Brothers |
Wm. Ruggles |
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for John &
James Palmer, Mo.Bay |
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Alexander |
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for Colin & Alex. |
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Ann Gally |
Sherry |
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for |
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Harriot |
Mill |
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Dec 14 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
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Crozier |
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for Evans
Crozier & Co. Lucea |
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Alexander |
Fraser |
Lucea |
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325 Eboe slaves
from Calabar for William Brown, Lucea |
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Annabella |
Leatherbarrow |
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Tortolla |
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Benjamin |
Allen |
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Betsy |
Bragg |
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Foord |
Laurence |
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Robinson |
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Granville |
Wallice [sic] |
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Dec 21 |
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Entered |
Jane |
Boyd |
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433 slaves from
Bonny for Parkinson & Hill |
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Will |
Joseph Fayrer |
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Anamaboe ( |
288 Gold Coast
slaves for Hibberts, Bernards & Montague |
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Abson |
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Sally |
Parker |
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Gaspee |
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Swan |
Chambers |
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Bristol &
Grenada |
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Grace |
Bundy |
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Hume |
McClean |
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Active |
Cleater |
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Ladd |
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Mary |
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Liverpool &
Cork |
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Master |
Port |
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Cleared |
Sally |
Collart |
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Benjamin |
Allen |
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Dolphin |
Langdale |
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Reported safely
arrived off |
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Townsend |
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Port Antonio |
McCulloch |
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St. Andrew |
Mecular |
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Success |
Crooks |
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Amelia |
Fairbrother |
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Reported safely
arrived at Liverpool |
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by Capt.
Anderson, Mary |
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Chambers |
Quick |
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Dick |
Pearce |
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1777 |
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Feb 15 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
Additional
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In port |
Britannia |
Stephen Madge |
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‘To sail March 5
for |
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Colston |
Joseph Jackson |
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‘To sail March 1
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Reported safe arrived at Glasgow |
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Alexander |
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Janet |
Cunningham |
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Feb 22 |
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Entered |
Dawes |
Brown |
Lucea |
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Addis |
Lucea |
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Blagrove |
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Lucea |
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Salt Spring |
Ogilvie |
Lucea |
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Duncan
Campbell’s |
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George |
Trenham |
Lucea |
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Pitt |
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Lucea |
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Mary |
Walkinshaw |
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St. James
Planter |
Stewart |
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Mars |
Crawford |
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for Charles
Holdsworth, |
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Betsy |
Knight |
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Friendship |
Dunn |
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Golden Grove |
Watson |
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George |
Trenham |
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Beard |
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Liverpool &
Gibraltar |
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Betsy |
Towers |
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Liverpool &
Cork |
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Sally |
Clarke |
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Reported safe arrived at Liverpool |
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Betsy |
Crosswhite |
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Barnet |
Fletcher |
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Commerce |
Messinger |
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Mar 8 |
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Entered |
Port Antonio |
McCulloch |
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for |
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Mar 15 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
Nanny |
James Hurst |
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Liverpool &
Antigua |
for James Hurst,
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Hope |
Thomas Fletcher |
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Anamaboe ( |
270 slaves for
Parkinson & Hill |
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Luny |
Lucea |
London &
Antigua |
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Somervell [sic] |
Lucea |
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Duncan
Campbell’s |
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Betsy |
Robertson |
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Stanbury |
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Laurie |
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Mar 22 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
Martha |
Rimmer |
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Moyes |
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‘expected today’ |
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Chambers |
Ainsworth |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
For |
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Lively |
Johnson |
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Fly |
Roblin |
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Polly |
Thomson |
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Dispatch |
Carman |
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Fanny |
Richards |
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Hope |
McKenzie |
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Mar 29 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
John |
Teasedale |
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Sophia |
Chambers |
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Patsy |
Bond |
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Liverpool &
Cork |
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Master |
Port |
For |
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Cleared |
Minerva |
Love |
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Blenheim |
Haggey |
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Mary & Ann |
Amiel |
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St. James Packet |
Swan |
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Britannia |
Madge |
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Duncan
Campbell’s |
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Colston |
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Annabella |
Ladd |
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Apr 12 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
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Birch |
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Content |
Wilkinson |
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Dolphin |
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Fly |
Roblin |
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a cruise [ |
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Ann Susanna |
Johnson |
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Reported safe
arrived at Cove of Cork |
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Jamaica ships
reported left Cork with convoy 10th
February |
by Capts.
Wilkinson & Baldwin |
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Fryer |
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Mercury |
Hendry |
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Cyrus |
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Good Hope |
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Spencer |
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William Harris |
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Fowler |
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William &
Charlotte |
Lindsay |
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Betty |
Fairclough |
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Fortune |
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Abby |
Brownrigg |
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Chambers |
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Anna Susanna |
Johnson |
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Beckford |
Hayhurst |
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William |
Lorrain |
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Bacchus |
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Brothers |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
For |
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Cleared |
Maria |
Abernethie |
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Favourite |
Christie |
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Friendship |
Morris |
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New Duckinfield |
Foster |
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Standlinch |
Gowland |
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Sally |
Cleland |
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Clarendon |
Amery |
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Ann |
Stott |
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Hazard |
Burnice |
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Juno |
Dealey |
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Britannia |
Crookshank |
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Industry |
Wade |
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Apr 19 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
Amelia |
Fairbrother |
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William Harris |
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Seaman |
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William &
Charlotte |
Lindsay |
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Apr 26 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Peleg Clarke |
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240 Coromantee
slaves for Malcolm & Nevinson |
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May 3 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
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Peck |
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for Thomas
Brown, |
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Henry |
Richards |
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Nathaniel Bayley |
Morse |
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Mary |
Goodwin |
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Susanna |
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Industry |
Darling |
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British Queen |
Hodge |
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Northside
Planter |
McIntosh |
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Watt |
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Duncan
Campbell’s |
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Watt |
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Betty |
Angus |
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Port Antonio |
McCulloch |
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Ashley |
Parker |
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Power |
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Ann |
Raffles |
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Princess Royal |
Frazier |
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Augustus Caesar |
Deffel |
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Princess Royal |
Stephenson |
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Manning |
Brewer |
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Fowler |
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Maria |
Dyson |
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Barrett |
Wood |
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Liverpool &
Cork |
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Bowers |
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Liverpool &
Cork |
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Bess |
Fletcher |
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Liverpool &
Cork |
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Sally |
Wilkinson |
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Liverpool &
Waterford |
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May 10 |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
From |
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Entered |
Wolf |
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Brown |
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Bryon |
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Lachlan McNeal
& ‘imported in the
last ships’ |
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Ship |
Master |
Port |
For |
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Cleared |
Sally |
Chubb |
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In port |
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William Harris |
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‘will sail with
the June convoy’ |
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Nanny |
James Hurst |
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‘will sail with
the June convoy’ |
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Ladies Adventure |
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‘will sail with
the first convoy’ |
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Ends the issues available
for 1776-1777. The next issue is 18th
August, 1781.
Miscellaneous items on shipping
On fleet rendezvous
‘…[escort] will sail for
On increased cost of freight
[Printed 29 March 1777]
‘…increase…attending the
West India navigation…to make good the whole additional expence…rates of
insurance… the following rates of freight homeward for 1777…may be deemed
reasonable between shipper and owner. From
On losses to American action at sea.
[Printed, 8 March 1777]
‘Governor Johnstone* and Captain Laurel has been most
indefatigable in procuring exact lists of all the captures, at Sea, made by the
Americans, the present account in their hands stands thus: The Provincial
privateers have taken to the amount of
African £ 187,000
Canada & Nova Scotia £ 16,500
Transports, victuallers
and store ships £ 167,000
Irish £ 3,500
Mediterranean £ 14,000
Sundry traders £ 60,000
£1,675,500
This will be brought into the House of Commons as proof of Lord
Sandwich’s care in guarding trade and commerce.’
*Possibly, George Johnstone of
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