16049 – Happy Return (1709 – 1710) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 16049

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Happy Return

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 146.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1709

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1710

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Cess

Principal landing location: Martinique, port unspecified

Number embarked: 120

Number disembarked: 95

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Captured by the French - after embarkation of slaves

Sources

Richardson,I<>Richardson, David, Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade to America: Volume 1, The Years of Expansion, 1698-1729 (Bristol, 1986); Volume 2, The Years of Ascendancy, 1730-1745 (Bristol, 1987); Volume 3, The Years of Decline, 1746-1769 (Bristol, 1991); Volume 4, The Final Years, 1770-1807 (Bristol, 1997), ANSOM, C8A 18:ff56-56v<>Archives Nationales, Section d’Outre-mer (Aix-en-Provence, France), Hallier, 22<>Hallier, Valérie, Le lancement de la traite négrière à Nantes de 1688 à 1713 (Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Nantes, 1996), ADLA B4574<>Archives Départementales de Loire-Atlantique, Nantes, France, T70/356,loose sheet<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/356,15<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/355,48<>BNA (Kew) (), Post Man,10.05.02.<>Post Man (London)

16049 – Happy Return (1709 – 1710)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (2)

P_10404_0031 - Joseph Way

P_10404_0083 - Robert Poole