P_10433_2133 – Robert or Richard Skerrett
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D.O.D: 1722
Given as Richard Skerrett in TASTDB. In a letter to Isaac Hobhouse (q.v.) dated Montserrat 04/01/1723, Patrick Goold [or Gould], one of the co-investors in the voyage of the Mary and Catherine, recorded the arrival of the ship with 102 captive Africans, and described the death of ‘Mr Skerrett’ following a fall from his horse after the two men had sailed with the ship to St Kitts to sell the enslaved people ‘at an extraordinary price’: ‘soe our partnership ended.’ ‘Mr Skerrett’ is indexed as Robert Skerrett in this source, and given as Robert Skerrett in a letter of 16/04/1723 from Patrick Goold (p. 93).
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Skerrett
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Skerrett, Richard
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London
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Sources:
Bristol Records Society's Publications, Vol. XX The trade of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century p.82.
No Richard Skerrett is shown by Vere Langford Oliver in his History of Antigua.
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