16500 – Shepherd (1727 – 1728) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 16500

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Shepherd

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 218.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1727

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1728

Arrival Location: Bristol

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Whydah

Principal landing location: Kingston

Number embarked: 373

Number disembarked: 295

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

Law,Corr, 35<>Law, Robin, Correspondence of the Royal African Company's Chief Merchants at Cabo Corso Castle with William's Fort, Whydah, and the Little Popo Factory, 1727-1728 (Wisconsin, 1991), 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), DJ,28.12.17.<>Daily Journal, DPB,28.10.10.<>Daily Post Boy, DJ,28.12.13.<>Daily Journal

16500 – Shepherd (1727 – 1728)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (3)

P_10404_0476 - James Thompson

P_10404_9990 - John Smith

P_10404_0288 - Abel Grant