75866 – Mercury (1719 – 1720) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 75866

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Mercury

Flags: gb

Tonnage: /

Journey

Departure Year: 1719

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1720

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Southeast Africa and Indian Ocean islands, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Rappahannock

Number embarked: 642

Number disembarked: 466

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown

Sources

Drury, pp. 444-55<>Robert Drury, Madagascar: or, Robert Drury's Journal, during Fifteen Years Captivity on that Island. Written by Himself, digested into Order, and now publish’d at the Request of his FRIENDS (London, 1729), Secord, pp. 39-41<>Secord, Arthur Wellesley, Robert Drury’s Journal and Other Stories (Urbana, Illinois, 1961), Donnan,IV,187<>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930), Wright,40-42<>Wright, Louis B. (ed.), Letters of Robert Carter, 1720-1727. The Commercial Interests of a Virginia Gentleman (San Marino, 1940)., Minch,48-49<>Minchinton, Walter E., Celia King, and Peter Waite (eds.), Virginia Slave Trade Statistics, 1698-1775 (Richmond, 1984)., PB,22.02.1719<>Post Boy

75866 – Mercury (1719 – 1720)

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Individuals (2)

P_10433_0628 - Francis Sitwell

P_10433_1797 - Francis Chamberlayne