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Slave trade

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01/12/12: CSG, created page

Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.

The Guinney slave trade appears in a number of depositions and cases in HCA/71.

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

• Which voyages involved trade with Guinney?
• What can be learned about the social and financial connections of the financiers and crews of these ships?

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Trade goods for slaves in West Africa

Copper bars delivered to Guinney

XXXX

• "3. Isaac Jacquett of Wapping in the County of Midds Mariner

4. Late one of the Company of the sayd shipp the Anne, aged
5. 34 yeares or thereabouts a witnesse sworne ánd examined
6. saith as followeth.
7. To the first second ánd third arles of the sayd Libell This deponent saith that in
8. ffebruary ˹last˺ was twelve month the sayd John Carey sayled in the sayd shipp Anne
9. as master of her from this port on a voyage for Guinny whither hee
10. therewith safely att Guinny and about or not long before Midsummer
11. last did there sell to the sayd Gilbert Christopher master of the
12. Peter and James for a good quantity of the sayd Copper barrs of good value
13. which he this deponent being one of the Company of the Anne
14. in the delivery thereof. And hee did heare at Guinny the tyme
15. aforesayd that the sayd Gilbert gave the sayd John Carey a Bill for the
16. paying for the sayd Copper barrs, ánd did see then and there a certayne
17. writing in the hands of the sayd Carey which the sayd was the sayd
18. Gilbert Christophers bill for the paying for the sayd barrs. And further
19. not knowing the value of the sayd Copper barrs nor what they were
20. so sold for nor being positively able to sweare that the Bill
21. now sworne him was or is the originall true bill aforesayd, he
22. cannot depose."

- HCA 13/71 f.140v Case: On the behalfe of Mary Carey touching goods delived out of the shipp Ann John Carey Master into the shipp Peter and James Gilbert Christopher Master and against 1/8 part of the sayd shipp Peter and James belonging to the sayd Gilbert and against William Christopher Executor of the sayd Gilbert. ("Examined upon the sayd Libell"); Deposition: 3. Isaac Jacquett of Wapping in the County of Midds Mariner Late one of the Company of the sayd shipp the Anne, aged 34 yeares (Signature of "Isaac Jacquett" at end of deposition); Date: 18/04/1656 "same day". Transcribed by XXXX^[2]

Ex-prisoners as servants

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• "1. To the 4th hee saith fower servants shippes for Accompt of the

2. arlate Cooper did at Gravesend make an escape out of the shipp the
3. Edward and John, which servants were never taken charge of by any of the
4. shipps company that this deponent ever heard of, they being persons that
5. had bin released out of Bridewell, and noe order given to restraine them
6. of their liberty in the shipp that ever this deponent heard of, And hee
7. saith the Captaine being absent when they escaped was made acquainted
8. therewith when hee came on board, and the Compa shipps company
9. telling him that they doubted least hee should make them pay for the
10. sayd servants escape, the sayd Captaine Tolty openly before his
11. Mates Hygger and Hugger and Turpin and this deponent and divers others
12. of the shipps company and some of their wives then alsoe on board,
13. did promise that the shipps company should not bee troubled or
14. questioned touching their escape, for hee would satisfie their
15. Master with other passengers in the shipp who had noe Master,
16. and spake to this deponent and desyred him to lett ˹him˺ have one of his
17. this deponents servants then on board to make to helpe to make up
18. their number, And further to this article hee cannot depose/"

1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.140v
3. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.359r