P_10433_2774 – John Barnes
Owner of one voyage in the Africa and co-owner in two further voyages in the same ship with Robert Heatley (q.v.) between 1788 and 1790, all to Gambia. Governor of Senegal (1763-65) and in Africa for upwards of 8 years in total, according to his testimony in 1792. Genealogical material online shows him as d. 1819 and father of Sir Edward Barnes d. 1838.
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Africa
Governor of Senegal (1763-65) and 13 years in Africa).
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Sources: Minutes of the Evidence Taken at the Bar of the House of Lords, Upon the Order.. (1792). John Barnes was added as a party in a suit among slave-factors in 1802, Dick v Snell, C 13/2063/36, possibly flowing from the bankruptcy of Miles Barber (q.v.). John Barnes, London appears as a member of the Liverpool arm of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa 1807, Donnan, Vol. II p. 655.
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Lloyd's of London
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80089 - Africa (1790 - 1790)
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80088 - Africa (1788 - 1789)
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80087 - Africa (1788 - 1788)
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