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Advert for the sale of a ship
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of the ship Success, lately fitted out for a voyage to Jamaica.
Date: Nov 17th 1781
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Cargo of tobaccco for sale
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Cargo of tobacco for sale, from a captured foreign ship.
Date: Nov 10th 1781
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Advert for sale of tobacco
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of tobacco from plantations in Maryland, USA.
Date: Oct 27th 1781
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Advert for the sale of a ship
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of the ship Constantine.
Date: Nov 10th 1781
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Advert for sale of cargo of ship
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advert for the sale of some of the cargo from a ship captured by a British vessel. The ship had tobacco, coffee and cocoa on board from the Americas.
Chocolate was first used as a drink, sweetened with sugar to mask the bitter flavour of the chocolate. Later it was used for making eating chocolate. At this period, most people drank beer, wine or spirits. Water was not safe to drink, tea coffee and chocolate were expensive. Quakers promoted drinking chocolate as an alternative to alcohol.
Date: Sept 22nd 1781
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Advert for sale of copper, brass etc
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of copper, brass, battery, pewter, etc. Brass goods were often included in the cargos of ships trading with Africa.
Date: July 14th 1781
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Advert for the sale of imported goods
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advert for the sale of imported goods from the Americas, including tobacco and indigo (used for making dye).
Date: July 21st 1781
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Advert for sale of elephant teeth
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From Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal.
Advertisement for the sale of 7 tons of elephant teeth, imported into Bristol from Africa.
Date: July 7th 1781
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Articles of agreement
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Ships’ muster rolls from 1794 – 1795; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 186.
Articles of agreement for the ship, the King George, 1790.
The King George purchased 360 slaves at Bonny, West Africa. The ship was wrecked on the rocks of Barbados, and only 80 of the slaves survived. The ship was insured for £10,000.
Articles of agreement set out the terms and conditions of a voyage. The Articles was a standard printed form, listing the food rations and financial arrangements the crew would receive.
The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).
The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.
Date: 1790
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Shipping news
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Bonner and Middleton’s Bristol Journal. August 12th 1780.
Shipping news, noting ships arriving and leaving , including the ship, the Lucea for Newfoundland and Jamaica, and the ship, the Nancy for Antigua.
Date: Aug 12th 1780
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