The Tuohy papers
The Tuohy papers
Collection: Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754-1792 Volumes The Tuohy papers
The documents pertaining to David Tuohy are those of an Irishman who spent fourteen years in the African trade, including the captaincy of four slave voyages between 1765 and 1769 and part-ownership of ten Liverpool slave ships from 1772 to 1786. Tuohy married in Liverpool in 1768 and settled there in 1771. After his experience as a captain of slave vessels, he settled down as a merchant on Merseyside. In Gore’s Liverpool Directory for 1781, he is described as a merchant resident at 48 Old Hall Street. His correspondence indicates that he divided his commercial affairs mainly between trade between Liverpool and Ireland, a trade in which he imported beef, butter and tallow, and exported salt, beer and cheese, and the slave trade. He participated in voyages where he could spread his investment among other partners, as in the voyage of the Brig Nancy in 1774 in which he held a one-sixth share (380 TUO/4/7). His ventures in the triangular slave trade involved sending ships to the Windward, Ivory and Gold coasts, the Bight of Benin, and especially Angola, and then selling the Africans at Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica and Grenada. Tuohy had few mercantile contacts on the North American continent apart from in Charleston, South Carolina. He probably died in the late 1780s or early 1790s; the last mention of him in these papers is a letter addressed to him dated September 1788 (380 TUO/6/4).
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[380 TUO/6]. Transcripts of four letters dating from 1780, 1781 and 1788, for which the originals are no longer extant.
Date:1781-1788Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-6
Transcripts of letters
[380 TUO/5]. From 1771-1781, including a ms. copy of a letter from Liverpool to Capt. Luke Mann, dated 5th April 1774, and a transcription of the directions for sailing contained...
Date:1771-1781Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-5
An inventory of the ship Ranger
[380 TUO/4/12]. Undated.
Date:1765-1786Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-4-12
Sailing directions
[380 TUO/4/13]. Sailing directions for Point Lynas to Hoylake, and for Formby Channel. Undated.
Date:1765-1786Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-4-13
Papers from the brig Minerva
[380 TUO/4/11]. Sailing orders for the captain, dated 31st July 1785.
Date:1785-1785Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-4-11
Papers from the ship Ingram
[380 TUO/4/10]. From 1783-1784, including an account of the ship's cost and outfit in 1784 for a voyage to Africa for slaves. She carried a crew of 46 men.
Date:1783-1784Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-4-10
Papers from the ship Blayds
[380 TUO/4/9]. From 1782.
Date:1782-1782Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-4-09
Papers from the vessel The Hope
[380 TUO/4/8]. Draft statement and covering letter, dated 6th February 1776.
Date:1765-1786Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-tuo-4-08
