Contract for employment on the Sloop Louisa, "bound from the Port of Newport, Rhode Island to Africa & from thence to Charleston and then back to said Newport." Includes the name of ship Master Samuel Taggart, first mate Benjamin Weaver, second...
Expense record of Benjamin Weaver aboard the Sloop Louisa, giving sums for "the amount of the cargo homeward as per invoice," disbursements, "neat proceeds" and balance due. Includes note at bottom, "Errers [sic] Excepted Riopongo" [probably Rio...
Disbursement record for the Sloop Louisa listing purchases of food provisions, costs associated with selling slaves, and wages for ship crewmembers Peter Lewis, William Tayer, Richard Everith and William Weeden. Signed by Phillips & Gardner for...
Expense record of Captain Benjamin Weaver aboard the Sloop Louisa in Riopongo [probably Rio Pongo, Guinea], listing purchases of provisions and slaves dated December 22, 1805 through February 26, 1806.
Letter from Captain Samuel C. Taggart, at sea, to Gardner & Deane [Dean] of Newport, Rhode Island, regarding the status of their cargo of slaves and Taggart's poor health.
Letter dated May 11 [?], 1806, from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] regarding cargo on the Sloop Louisa and the Brig Hope.
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] regarding shipments on the Schooner Hannah Barlley [Barley?] and the [Sloop] Louisa.
Rhode Island--Commerce; South Carolina--Commerce; Slave trade--South Carolina--Charleston; Slave trade--Rhode Island--Newport
Letter from Phillips & Gardner [of Charleston South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean of Newport, Rhode Island regarding the arrival of the Brig [Sloop] Louisa and her cargo of 89 "prime negroes."
Slave trade--Sierra Leone; Merchant ships--United States
Expense record of Benjamin Weaver aboard the Sloop Louisa in Islands Deloss [Isle De Los, Sierra Leone], giving sums for the purchase of 70 slaves "on the coast of Africa" and other expenses.
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean, merchants in Newport, Rhode Island, regarding the sale of cargo from the Sloop Louisa, followed by itemized receipt for the "sales of Sixty Seven African...
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] regarding news of Captain Weaver and a cargo of "negroes" headed to the market [in Newport, Rhode Island].
Slave trade--South Carolina--Charleston; Slave trade--Rhode Island--Newport; Merchant ships--United States
Letter from Gardner & Dean of Newport [Rhode Island] to Mess. Phillips & Gardner [of Charleston, South Carolina] giving instruction for the sale of cargo aboard the Ship Mary, and then the sale of the ship itself.
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean, merchants in Newport, Rhode Island, regarding slave trade in the Leeward [Islands, West Indies] on the Brig [Sloop] Louisa.
