17434 – Cato (1758 – 1758) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 17434

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Cato

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 182.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1758

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1758

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Sierra Leone estuary

Principal landing location: Charleston

Number embarked: 336

Number disembarked: 288

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown

Sources

Richardson,III<>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), LList, 14 July 1758<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), Elder,62,104,165<>Elder, Melinda, The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth Century Lancaster (Halifax, 1992).

17434 – Cato (1758 – 1758)

Vessel

Journey

Enslaved people

Outcome

Sources

Individuals (3)

P_10404_0718 - William Watson

P_10404_1033 - Richard Millerson

P_10404_1034 - John Braithwaitte