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Slavery Collection, 1709-1864
Mayberry, Freeman Malone, David Bigley, John Castoff, Peter Lyndon, Nathaniel Austin, Job Pollock, James Mathews, Vincent Two Brothers (Sloop) Orange (Brig)
[Affidavit for the Brig Orange]
1799-04-04
Petition for insurance funds for the Brig Orange after wrecking upon a reef "about three mites to the Eastward of Man of War Kry near the Island of Abaca, one of the Bahama Islands" after leaving the port of Havana [Cuba] on March 6, 1799, carrying 120 slaves.
nyhs_sc_b-02_f-07_002 Mss Collection - Slavery Collection
Merchant ships--United States Slave trade--Rhode Island--Newport Slave trade--Cuba--Havana Slave trade--Bahamas
Affidavits
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