P_10433_1588 – Robert Aynsley

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Captain for John Shoolbred in 1773 in the Providence, to Gambia and Charleston, and then owner-captain for another slaving voyage in 1777 to St Domingue in the Camelia. Given as Robert Aynstie and Robert Aynstey, but in fact Robert Aynsley, active on the coast of Gambia in the 1770s and subsequently establishing a factory at Pisania (Karantaba) where he was based in 1791.  His business there was continued by his mixed heritage son, also named Robert Aynsley.