Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 36422
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Active
Flag U.S.A.
Flag IMP U.S.A.
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered Newport
Year registered
Rig Schooner
Tonnage
Standardized tonnage IMP
Guns mounted
Vessel owners Vernon, Sam
Vernon, Wm
Mason, Benj
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Voyage completed as intended
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 Newport
First place of slave purchase Gambia
Second place of slave purchase Sierra Leone, port unspecified
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Sierra Leone estuary
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Barbados, place unspecified
Second place of slave landing Providence
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Barbados, place unspecified
Place where voyage ended Rhode Island, port unspecified
Region where voyage began IMP Rhode Island
First region of slave purchase Senegambia and offshore Atlantic
Second region of slave purchase Sierra Leone
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Sierra Leone
First region of slave landing Barbados
Second region of slave landing Rhode Island
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Barbados
Region where voyage ended Rhode Island
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1772
Date voyage began 1771-08-26
Date trade began in Africa 1771-10-26
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1772-05-26
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 274
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Elliot, Robert
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 25
Slaves carried from second port of purchase
Slaves carried from third port of purchase
Total slaves embarked
Total slaves embarked IMP 105
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 82
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 82
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 Coughtry, 241-85:

Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981).


Donnan,III,249-50,260:

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


CO28/33,gg74:

Colonial Office BNA (Kew)


LList, 21 July 1772:

New Lloyd's List (later, Lloyd's List), (London, England)


NYHS,Vernon,Bx2/5,Elliott,71.12.05.:

New York Historical Society (New York, New York, USA) Vernon ms, boxes 1-2