17725 – Gambia (1769 – 1770)

Voyage ID: 17725

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Gambia

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 130.1

Journey

Departure Year: 1769

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1770

Arrival Location: Bristol

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gambia

Principal landing location: Barbados, port unspecified

Number embarked: 129

Number disembarked: 110

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

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), Banfield<>Huntington Library (San Marino, California, USA) HM 57345, Memoirs of Joseph Banfield, Journal of a Life at Sea, BRO, SMV/9/3/3/6,224<>Bristol Record Office (Bristol, UK) Society of Merchant Venturers, Sailors’ petitions for relief from the Society of Merchant Venturers

Individuals (1)

P_10404_0939 - John Fowler

Role: Owner