14908 – East India Merchant (1691 – 1691) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 14908

Was this a corporate crossing: Yes

Vessel

Name: East India Merchant

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 343.1

Journey

Departure Year: 1691

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1691

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Whydah

Principal landing location: Jamaica, port unspecified

Number embarked: 635

Number disembarked: 580

Number of deaths: 55

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

T70/57,55<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/11,41<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/61,165<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/916,67<>BNA (Kew) (), Rawl,C747,284<>Bodleian Library (Oxford, UK) Rawlinson mss, C745-747, CO142/13<>BNA (Kew), T70/945,f.61v<>BNA (Kew) (), Law,EWA,docs661,1188,1342<>Law, Robin, The English in West Africa, 1691-1699: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England (Oxford, 2007).

Individuals

No information