Catalogue description Document type: abstracts and letters. Recipient(s): Committee of Correspondence, Royal...

Document type: abstracts and letters.

Recipient(s): Committee of Correspondence, Royal African Company.

Recipient(s) location: African House, London.

Sender(s): merchants, captains, and agents based in miscellaneous locations in Britain, the Caribbean, Ireland, continental Europe, and Africa.

Sender(s) location: Nevis; Montserrat; Antigua; Barbados; Virginia; Deale [Deal, Kent, England]; Limrick [Limerick]; Clove Valley; Jamaica and Port Royal; Amsterdam; Cape Coast Castle; Commenda; Whydah [Ouidah, Benin]; Portsmouth; Downes; Bristol; Dublin; Sierra Leone; Sherbrow [Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone]; Gambia; St Malo Castle [France]; London; Spitthead [Spithead, Hampshire, England]; St Helens [? Island of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]; Exon [Exeter, Devon, England]; Madeira; Ireland; Orkney; Plymouth; Falmouth; Middlesborough; Annamaboe [Anomabu, Ghana]; Tunbridge; Millford; Sherbrow [Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone] and York Island; Bence Island [Bunce Island, Sierra Leone]; Fort Rio, Gambia [James Fort, Kuntah Kinteh Island, Gambia]; The Hague; Fayal [Faial Island, Portugal]; St Leonards [? Kent]; Accra; St Thomas [? St Thomas Island, Caribbean]; Cork.

Subjects: departures and arrivals of trade ships; bills of exchange, invoices, and bills of loading; personnel disputes and dismissals; shipment and trade of enslaved people; trade and shipment of valuable goods, sugar, and rice; whereabouts of trade ships; dealings with the Portuguese; demand for enslaved people; transfer of goods within Africa and the Caribbean; Dutch West India Company.

Original reference: No 5.