Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 36633
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Polly
Flag U.S.A.
Flag IMP U.S.A.
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered Providence
Year registered
Rig Schooner
Tonnage 61
Standardized tonnage IMP 61
Guns mounted
Vessel owners Seamans, Young
Jenckes, Ebenezer
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 Rhode Island, port unspecified
First place of slave purchase Gambia
Second place of slave purchase Iles de Los
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Iles de Los
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Savannah
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Savannah
Place where voyage ended
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 Georgia
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Georgia
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1796
Date voyage began 1795-12-05
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1796-05-28
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 175
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Carr, Isaac
Kheoth, William
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 67
Total slaves embarked IMP 67
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 57
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 57
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 80.7%
Percentage women IMP 10.5%
Percentage boys IMP 7.0%
Percentage girls IMP 1.8%
Percentage male IMP 87.7%
Percentage children IMP 8.8%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 10
Mortality rate IMP 15.0%
Source Sources Coughtry, 241-85:

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


GG, 2 June 1796: Georgia Gazette
AGI, Santo Domingo 1675:

Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla)


McMillin: McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert.
NARA,Atlanta,RG36Savannahmanifests,bx3,1795-96: National Archives Record Administration, Southeast Region (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)