Click on any image to enlarge it. Capt Peter Gwinn Boston September 4th 1761 Sir- You having the Command of my Briggt Phillis your Orders are to Embrace the First Good Wind + Proceed to the Coast of Affrica. Touching first at Sinagall. & there dispose of as much of your Cargo as you can … Read more
Click either image to enlarge it. Boston — 8th November 1760 Facsimile of the transcription Letter reference number: A(7)
Click any image to enlarge it. Boston — 8th November 1760 Capt: Peter Gwin Sir___, You having the command of my Brigg Phillis your Orders are to Imbrace the first favourable opportunity of Wind & Weather to proceed to the Coast of Affi-ica- Touching first at Sinagall, at your arivall at the Barr, after seeing … Read more
Click any image to enlarge it. Capt Peter Gwinn Boston 12th January 1760 Sir You Haveing Comand of my Schooner Phillis your Orders Are to Imbrace the First Favourable Opertunity of wind & wheather & proceed Directly for the Coast of Affrica, Touching First at Senegall if you fall in with it. On your arrivall … Read more
Click either image to enlarge it. Bridge Town, Barbados — Aug 21, 1759 Facsimile of the transcription Letter reference number: P:10
Click any image to enlarge it. Capt: William Ellery Boston 14th January 1759 In The Snow Caesar whereof Marmaduke Master-man is master being fully loaded an Equipt for the Sea, His Orders are from me to follow Your Directions in every particular & deliver you & Cargo being Consign’d you. My Orders are to you … Read more
The Medford Slave Trade Letters — 1759-1765 The “Medford Slave Trade Letters” as they were called in their original accession are a series of letters spanning between the January of 1759 and October of 1765. A six-year correspondence between Timothy Fitch, a merchant and Medford resident, and his employee named Peter Gwinn. The letters are … Read more