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Letter regarding Dutch ship taken
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter from James Mctaggart to Henry Bright and Company, 1758. Report that the ship, the Tryall , had captured a Dutch ship loaded with sugar and coffee from St Eustatia and that it was now bound for Bristol.
Date: 1758
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Letter regarding Dutch ship taken
Description:
Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter from James Mctaggart to Henry Bright and Company, 1758. Report that the ship, the Tryall , had captured a Dutch ship loaded with sugar and coffee from St Eustatia and that it was now bound for Bristol.
Date: 1758
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Letter detail regarding damaged goods
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Detail of letter from PS(?) to Garaway and Baillie, Barbados. Letter is regarding damage to goods shipped. Candles are stuck together because badly packed, meat rotten because not properly processed, poor quality tobacco.
Date: Aug 5th 1776
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Note of goods to be shipped on Pembroke
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Note of goods to be shipped from Bristol, on the ship, the Pembroke , to Garaway and Baillie, in St Vincent.
Includes oats, potatoes, cheese, raisins, pickled bacon, clay tobacco pipes, beer, candles, beef, refined sugar, lead, a still for making rum and boiling coppers for boiling. Also a note of the goods shipped to Bristol; sugar and rum, and bills due.
Date: 26th July 1775
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Letter regarding cargo of slaves
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter from James laRoche, Richard Farr, Samuel Munckley and John Gresley, Bristol, to Stephen Brizzard and William Warner, agents on Antigua, informing them that Captain Duncomb in the ship, The Cornwall, is on his way from the Gold Coast. Duncomb has a cargo of Negroes, which Brizzard and Warner are to sell, for at least £33 per head. Then to find a cargo for the return journey to Bristol.
The language used to describe people of African descent in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is unacceptable in today’s terms. We cannot avoid using this language in its original context. To change the words would impose 20th century attitudes on history.
Date: June 20 1762
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Note of goods to be shipped on Pembroke
Description:
Papers of the Duncomb family.
Note of goods to be shipped from Bristol, on the ship, the Pembroke , to Garaway and Baillie, in St Vincent.
Includes oats, potatoes, cheese, raisins, pickled bacon, clay tobacco pipes, beer, candles, beef, refined sugar, lead, a still for making rum and boiling coppers for boiling. Also a note of the goods shipped to Bristol; sugar and rum, and bills due.
Date: 26th July 1775
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
List of passengers on delayed ship
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter from James Henderson, of the ship, the David , to the owners (Lowbridge and Richard Bright), informing them that the last goods have been loaded and the ship delayed by the bad weather. Includes a list of those on board.
Date: 23rd March 1791
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Letter; ship delayed, list of passengers
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Detail of letter from James Henderson, of the ship, the David , to the owners (Lowbridge and Richard Bright – names shown here), informing them that the last goods have been loaded and the ship delayed by the bad weather. Includes a list of those on board.
Date: 23rd March 1791
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Letter; poor sales, family and friends
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter from David Duncomb in Bristol to his father in Antigua, regarding the poor sales of a cargo of sugar and rum and news about family and friends.
Date: Dec 19th 1763
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
Letter; poor sales, family and friends
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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter from David Duncomb in Bristol to his father in Antigua, regarding the poor sales of a cargo of sugar and rum and news about family and friends.
Date: Dec 19th 1763
Copyright: Copyright Bristol University
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