Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 21218
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Two Brothers
Flag Great Britain
Flag IMP Great Britain
Place constructed England, place unspecified
Year constructed 1687
Place registered London
Year registered 1700
Rig
Tonnage 180
Standardized tonnage IMP 281
Guns mounted 14
Vessel owners Starke, Thomas
Keach, William
Burrell, Hamey
Armiger, William
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP Slaves disembarked in Americas
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP Not captured
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP Delivered slaves for original owners
African resistance
Voyage Itinerary Place where voyage began IMP London
First place of slave purchase
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands, port unspecified
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing York River
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP York River
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP England and Wales
First region of slave purchase
Second region of slave purchase
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands
First region of slave landing Virginia
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Virginia
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1701
Date voyage began 1700-10-30
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1701-07-09
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 252
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Gray, Roger
Crew at voyage outset
Crew at first landing of slaves
Crew deaths during voyage
Slave (numbers) Number of slaves intended at first place of purchase
Slaves carried from first port of purchase
Slaves carried from second port of purchase
Slaves carried from third port of purchase
Total slaves embarked
Total slaves embarked IMP 71
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 60
Number of slaves disembarked at first place of landing
Number of slaves disembarked at second place of landing
Number of slaves disembarked at third place of landing
Total slaves disembarked IMP 60
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP
Percentage women IMP
Percentage boys IMP
Percentage girls IMP
Percentage male IMP
Percentage children IMP
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP
Mortality rate IMP
Source Sources DHC, 3327A add/ PZ3, ff. 78v-80:

Devon Heritage Centre (Exeter, UK)


Donnan,IV,81,173:

Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930)


Tattersfield,294,428: Tattersfield, Nigel, The Forgotten Trade: Comprising the Log of the 'Daniel and Henry' of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade from the Minor Ports of England, 1698-1725 (London, 1991).
Minch,4-5: Minchinton, Walter E., Celia King, and Peter Waite (eds.), Virginia Slave Trade Statistics, 1698-1775 (Richmond, 1984).
Price,1986: Price, Jacob M.,"Sheffeild v. Starke: Institutional Experimentation in the London-Maryland Trade c. 1696-1706," Business History, 28 (1986) 3: 19-39.
T70/175,179:

British National Archives (Kew)


T70/350,83,84,90:

British National Archives (Kew)