16591 – Shepherd (1729 – 1729) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 16591

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Shepherd

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 218.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1729

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1729

Arrival Location: Bristol

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Kingston

Number embarked: 351

Number disembarked: 350

Number of deaths: 1

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

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), StJEP,30.02.03.<>Saint James’ Evening Post, Morice,2,Basnett,Tymms,Hyde,1730.03.17<>Morice, Humphry, Slave Trade Journals and Papers (microform). Part 1: the Humphry Morice Papers, 4 reels (Marlborough, 2000).

16591 – Shepherd (1729 – 1729)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (3)

P_10404_0546 - Thomas Smith

P_10404_9990 - John Smith

P_10404_0288 - Abel Grant