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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 , 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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Papers of the Duncomb family.
List of vessels arrived at Jamaica from the coast of Africa, since the 12th Aug 1751.

Ships on list from Bristol, with names of captains:

Indian Queen – Captain Rice
Jason – Captain Gally
Juno – Captain Host
Molly – Captain Fowler
Triton – Captain Boucher
Britannia – Captain Pemberton
Molly – Captain Rigby
Cape Coast – Captain Strowd

Date: Starts 12 Aug 1751

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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Letter 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 5 1776

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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.

Page 1 of 3. For pages 2 and 3, see ids 2896 and 2897.

Date: 26th July 1775

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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 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.

Page 1 of 2. For page 2, see id 2898.

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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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Permit to load 180 gallons of rum aboard the ship, the Cornwall, to Bristol.

Date: 19th May 1764

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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.

For letter detail, see id 2894. For list of those on board, see id 2895.

Date: 23 March 1791

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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Invoice from James Laroche and Co to William Jefferies for the ship, the Cornwall , 1763, for various goods, including tar brushes, mending flags (stores ordered by Captain Duncomb, plus brooms, mops, brushes, sheeting and nets. Total value, £10 9s 10d.

Date: 1763

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Papers of the Duncomb family.
Copy of orders and invoices for J R Herbert. Nevis, 29th July 1777. Items to be shipped on the ship, the Nevis Planter . The order includes sugar ladles, horse harness, womens shoes, flour, rope, linseed oil, blue Negroe cloathing (cloth for making clothes), cut glass finger bowls for the dinner table, axles for the wheels of dung carts, dried peas, bacon, cheese, paint, locks and Wedgwood(?) teapots.

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.

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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.

Page 1 of 3. For pages 2 and 3, see ids 2892 and 2893.

Date: Dec 19 1763

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