P_10433_2364 – Robert Stubbs
Owner or co-owner of three voyages from London 1765-1770 to Bonny (twice) and St Louis and then to Antigua, Jamaica and Maryland, and captain of two earlier voyages 1756-1761 that currently have no ownership information. Given as Stubbs (Capt) but almost certainly Robert Stubbs. Robert Stubbs was active on the coast of Senegambia in 1760, Governor of An[n]amaboe fort and an ambivalent eye-witness in the case of the Zong, on which he had been a passenger, and possibly in command of the ship at the time of the killings. The will of Robert Stubbs mariner of Dartmouth Hill proved 1787 is likely but not definitively his.
Title: Captain
First name: Robert
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Last name: Stubbs
Aliases: Stubbs, Stubbs, Robert, Stubbs (Capt)
Primary cohort: London
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: T 1/401/185-186, reporting the capture of his snow by the French and his jettisoning of mail and parcels. This was voyage no 75525, of the Friendship. Andrew Lyall, Granville Sharp's cases on slavery (2017), pp. 368-74 PROB 11/1159/222.
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Crossings (5)
75525 - Friendship (1761 - 1761)
Role: Captain
77814 - Union (1765 - 1765)
Role: Owner
77228 - Union (1766 - 1767)
Role: Owner
78265 - Mary (a) Mary and Samuel (1770 - 1771)
Role: Owner
77672 - Black Joke (1756 - 1757)
Role: Captain
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Death
Date: 1787
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Occupation: Mariner (Labourer)
Slave-ship captain and then slave-trader.
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Occupation: Mariner
Town/City: Blackheath (Kent)
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In the will of Robert Stubbs mariner of Dartmouth Hill near Blackheath made 13/10/1787 he left 1 shilling each to his children Robert, John, Elizabeth, Mary and Helen having spent 'large sums of money in their maintenance and education.' He left his wearing apparel to his son Henry, and made his wife Mary, and sons George and Henry his residuary heirs. His executor was George Browne of the Westminster Insurance Office.
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