9713 – East India Merchant (1693 – 1694) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 9713

Was this a corporate crossing: Yes

Vessel

Name: East India Merchant

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 321.4

Journey

Departure Year: 1693

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1694

Arrival Location: London

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Whydah

Principal landing location: Jamaica, port unspecified

Number embarked: 650

Number disembarked: 195

Number of deaths: 455

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

T70/11,114<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/1222,162-3<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/947,86-7<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/61,166<>BNA (Kew) (), Rawl,C747,347<>Bodleian Library (Oxford, UK) Rawlinson mss, C745-747, Law,EWA,docs37,241,729,958,1239-40,1350-51,1392-95<>Law, Robin, The English in West Africa, 1691-1699: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England (Oxford, 2007).

Individuals

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