Thomas Gray of Boston
Thomas Gray of Boston (d. c. 1782) has been inferred to have been the owner of the Countess of Sussex, which made a slaving voyage from London to Gambia and Charleston in 1768 which currently has no ownership information in TASTDB. Lloyd’s Register 1764 shows Thomas Gray as owner-captain of a ship named Countess of Sussex (formerly the Queen of Portugal) destination Africa; in 1765 Captain Thomas Gray carried a group of two dozen German ‘pioneers’ to Philadelphia in the Countess of Sussex; in 1774 Thomas Gray petitioned after his ship the Countess of Sussex was requisitioned at Senegambia. In 1764 the ship had been on the coast at Goree.
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Sources: T 1/506/60-62 Description: AFRICA: Senegambia: Petition of Thomas Gray. His ship the Countess of Sussex was requisitioned at Fort St James in the Gambia to assist in repelling an insurrection by the 'negroes', thus incurring loss in freight. Asks for relief Date: 1774 May 31 (received). SP 78/263/89 Description: Folio 208: Governor of Gorée to Debat. He has given aid to British ship Countess of Sussex, but the crew were found to be inciting the natives against the French and he has arrested the ship. He asks for friendly relations and thanks him for the cheese, pigeons andmadeira. Date and place: 1764 Feb 25 Gorée. Note: Enclosed in f.182. Translation. Copy. Date: 1764 Feb 25 PROB 11/1094/173.
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75298 - Countess of Sussex (1768 - 1769)
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Will of Thomas Gray merchant of Boston.
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