3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

George Nelthorpe, London tobacco merchant and co-owner of two slaving voyages from London both to unknown places in Africa and then to York River/Virginia in 1700 and 1707, and both alongside Benjamin Hatley (q.v., George Nelthorpe’s partner and father-in-law)) and Houlditch & Brooke among other co-owners. One of Pettigrew’s elite separate traders. With Benjamin Hatley, Henry Offley and others he co-owned the George Frigate [not a slave-ship] under letters of marque in 1707.  George Nelthorpe appears in Chancery litigation as late as 1719 and was alive when Benjamin Hatley made his will in 1723 (when Hatley left him £10 for mourning). No will or bankruptcy has been found for George Nelthorpe to date.