16079 – Portobello Merchant (1711 – 1712) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 16079

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Portobello Merchant

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 92.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1711

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1712

Arrival Location: Africa., port unspecified

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Kingston

Number embarked: 278

Number disembarked: 240

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Returned direct to Africa after bringing slaves to the Americas

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), C113/280,pt2<>British National Archives, Chancery Records, Various Six Clerks, Series I, 1715-1758 (Kew, UK), T70/356,35<>BNA (Kew) ()

16079 – Portobello Merchant (1711 – 1712)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (2)

P_10404_0131 - Edward James

P_10404_0132 - Edward Curtis