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Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
Sir
Captain Jeynson, according to your Directions to him received at Barbados,
brought your ship Walpole to this place on Thursday the seventh of last
month, and Immediately sent Notice into all these parts of the Country of
the sale on Monday following. I had the Pleasure of seeing many more
people than usually come on such occasions, and I knew from the sales of
their Pork last winter, and Tobacco this summer, they had money enough to
purchase more than I had to sell, but the sort of slaves did not please
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
Sir
Captain Jeynson, according to your Directions to him received at Barbados,
brought your ship Walpole to this place on Thursday the seventh of last
month, and Immediately sent Notice into all these parts of the Country of
the sale on Monday following. I had the Pleasure of seeing many more
people than ususally come on such occasions, and I knew from the sales of
their Pork last winter, and Tobacco this summer, they had money enough to
purchase more than I had to sell, but the sort of slaves did not please
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
Sir
Captain Jeynson, according to your Directions to him received at Barbados,
brought your ship Walpole to this place on Thursday the seventh of last
month, and Immediately sent Notice into all these parts of the Country of
the sale on Monday following. I had the Pleasure of seeing many more
people than ususally come on such occasions, and I knew from the sales of
their Pork last winter, and Tobacco this summer, they had money enough to
purchase more than I had to sell, but the sort of slaves did not please
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
Sir
Captain Jeynson, according to your Directions to him received at Barbados,
brought your ship Walpole to this place on Thursday the seventh of last
month, and Immediately sent Notice into all these parts of the Country of
the sale on Monday following. I had the Pleasure of seeing many more
people than ususally come on such occasions, and I knew from the sales of
their Pork last winter, and Tobacco this summer, they had money enough to
purchase more than I had to sell, but the sort of slaves did not please
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
Sir
Captain Jeynson, according to your Directions to him received at Barbados,
brought your ship Walpole to this place on Thursday the seventh of last
month, and Immediately sent Notice into all these parts of the Country of
the sale on Monday following. I had the Pleasure of seeing many more
people than ususally come on such occasions, and I knew from the sales of
their Pork last winter, and Tobacco this summer, they had money enough to
purchase more than I had to sell, but the sort of slaves did not please
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
and I thought it the fastest method to accept of anything that looks like a
Reasonable offer, & yet it was impossible to sell them fast enough some
that seem'd to ail not much woud dye the Day following, and the case of
one Thos Franklin a Poor man of sixty years of age is much to be pitied. He
paid all the money he had in the world for a lusty Boy who I had reason to
believe was subject to Fitts and as I was afterwards inform'd he had
tumbled down for dead the very first Day he went a shore, which the
Negroes did for two or three dayes before the sale to air themselves, the
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
In short, Sir, it is impossible to describe the wretched
condition these slaves were in. The Capt. writ to me from York,
where he was taken ill in his way from Hampton, That he had
two hundred & nine slaves aboard his ship but all I ever could
see was far short of that Number. He sayes he brought two
Hundred & ninety off the coast, of which he sent twenty six
Shirley Aug. 1, 1738.
& it must needs be a sad sale, when I was Forsed to
sell one & twenty of the young slaves (except an old
woman, Mother to one of the children) to Capt Thos.
Brewer for two hundred & five pounds current money;
& Eleven men, nine women, four boys & one girl, to Mr.
. I cannot say, how these may go off that are gone to the Eastern Shore, having desir'd the Capt. to sell them for wheat or any thing else I may be
able to turn into money afterwards. He recovered much Immediately after coming to this place; but undergoing a great deal of fatigue afterwards,
and going out to see the Slaves buried every night, he seem'd to be in a very bad way, when he set off for the Eastern Shore However he was very
diligent & would not be perswaded from going there. And yet I fear, after all, that many of the Slaves will die on their Passage. Mr. Fillingham seemed
to be very sick of a Tedious Long Voyage, but would not be prevail'd on to put of [sic] his Journey to Maryland, where he went with some Letters from
the Captain on your Business. A Friend of mine lent him A very Good horse, and I sent one of my Servants to be a Guide for him the First day; and
about a fortnight afterwards a Messenger brought back the Horse with answers to the Captain's Letters, and he informed that the young Gentleman
had been very Ill at Hobbs Hole but was on the Recovery, and intended to pursue his Journey, since which I have heard nothing concerning him. I
believe you will think this a very Melancholy account of an unfortunate Voyage; and indeed I never Intend to be concerned in such another Sale. If you
or your friends think fit to send Gambia, or Gold Coast Negroes, to me, I will endeavour to serve you, but will not accept of a Consignment from any
other part. I have made what Interest I could, and hope to have near a Load of Tobo. for Bristol ready for your Ship by the time she has been hove
down, and made ready to take it in; and the Constant Freight of this River being seven pounds per Ton, you must not Expect more. By her I shall make
you a remittance of what I shall have received in bills or in [illeg. Tobo.?], and if a Considerable part happens to be of the latter sort, I shall give you
timely notice, that you may Insure it. And by the same opportunity you shall have an account of sales, and an account currt. the Captain was so much
afflicted for the loss of the Slaves, and so much in a hurry to get to ye Eastern Shore to dispose of the rest of them, that he could not write to you
by this opportunity; but desir'd I would give his service to you, and that you would excuse him.
John
Carter to
Richard
Gildart,
esq.
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Description:
John Carter
recounts a sale of
slaves gone
wrong, where
many died and
then recounts his
preferences for
the geographical
origins of slaves.
Date: August 1,
1738
British America in
the Slaving
System
Buying and
Selling Slaves
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