75866 – Mercury (1719 – 1720)
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<><p>Robert Drury, <em>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</em> (London, 1729)</p>, Secord, pp. 39-41<><p>Secord, Arthur Wellesley, <em>Robert Drury’s Journal and Other Stories</em> (Urbana, Illinois, 1961)</p>, Donnan,IV,187<><p>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., <em>Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III</em> (Washington, DC, 1930)</p>, Wright,40-42<>Wright, Louis B. (ed.), <i>Letters of Robert Carter, 1720-1727. The Commercial Interests of a Virginia Gentleman</i> (San Marino, 1940)., Minch,48-49<>Minchinton, Walter E., Celia King, and Peter Waite (eds.), <i>Virginia</i><i> Slave Trade Statistics, 1698-1775</i> (Richmond, 1984)., PB,22.02.1719<><i>Post Boy</i>
Individuals (2)
P_10433_0628 - Francis Sitwell
Role: Owner
P_10433_1797 - Francis Chamberlayne
Role: Owner