Miscellaneous documents from the Liverpool Record Office

[387 MD 54]. The Robert Bostock letterbooks, covering the period 1779-92, include much business correspondence on the slave trade. Bostock was both a ship captain and a merchant. He was...

Pages:174
Date:1779-1790
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-387-md-54
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa The Caribbean West Africa 1780s The Americas United States of America (USA) West Indies 1790s Grenada Correspondence Barbados Antigua The Gambia Sierra Leone British West Africa Ivory Coast Liberia Saint Kitts Robert Bostock

[387 MD 55]

Pages:184
Date:1789-1792
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-387-md-55
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa The Caribbean West Africa 1780s The Americas United States of America (USA) West Indies 1790s Grenada Correspondence Barbados Antigua The Gambia Sierra Leone British West Africa Ivory Coast Liberia Saint Kitts Robert Bostock

[920 MD 409]. John Newton is the best-known captain in the history of the British slave trade. He was the captain of three slaving voyages between 1748 and 1754, and...

Pages:113
Date:1750-1760
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-920-md-409
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa The Caribbean West Africa The Americas West Indies 1760s 1750s Correspondence British West Africa John Newton Reverand Dr. Jennings

[920 NOR 2/179]. The sailing instructions of 10 October 1700 for the captain and supercargo (i.e. travelling agent) of the ship Blessing is the first business letter that survives on...

Pages:4
Date:1700-1700
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-920-nor-2-179
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Notes Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa The Caribbean Ghana West Africa The Americas West Indies Ireland (Eire) 1700s Bight of Benin Correspondence British West Africa Benin

[942 HOL 10]. These folios from vol. 10 of the Holt & Gregson Papers comprise important contemporary statistics on the Liverpool slave trade and material relating to the abolitionist movement....

Pages:54
Date:1787-1790
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-942-hol-10
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa Inventories The Caribbean West Africa 1780s The Americas West Indies 1790s Ledgers Registers Correspondence British West Africa

[380 MD 127]. John Tomlinson’s Account Current with John Knight covers shares in slave vessels between 1757 and 1777. Tomlinson was the first owner of thirty Liverpool slaving voyages that...

Pages:19
Date:1757-1777
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-380-md-127
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa Inventories The Caribbean West Africa The Americas United States of America (USA) West Indies 1760s 1750s 1770s Ledgers John Tomlinson John Knight

[387 MD 56]. The log of the brig Ranger concerns a slave voyage from Liverpool to Lisbon, Anamaboe and Jamaica in 1789-1790.

Pages:14
Date:1789-1790
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-387-md-56
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa The Caribbean Logbooks Ghana West Africa 1780s The Americas Southern Europe West Indies 1790s Portugal Jamaica British West Africa

[387 MD 62/1]. The logs kept on board HMS Agamemnon, the Count du Nord and the Madampookata, with related papers include daily entries about the progress of these slaving vessels....

Pages:159
Date:1782-1786
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:147-387-md-62-1
Europe 18th Century United Kingdom Manuscript North America Northern Europe Western Europe Modern History Africa The Caribbean Logbooks West Africa 1780s The Americas West Indies Ledgers British West Africa