1727 - Little John of Bristol

Record
Date	1727
Topic	The Little John of Bristol brought slaves from Africa to Barbados and brought home a cargo of redwood.

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Bristol.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-24. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-24.

Record

[30 Sep. 1727:]
[The 70 ton vessel Little John of Bristol, owned by Samuel Day and with William Barry as master, made a voyage to Africa, bringing slaves to Barbados and 20 tons of redwood to Bristol, to which it returned on 30 Sep. 1727.]

Source notes

The printed source is a structured summary of an entry in MS E190/1201/2, SMV Wharfage books (NA). The above bracketed text was constructed by IRHB, expanding the summary on the basis of keys provided elsewhere in the printed source.

IRHB comments

There are several examples of vessels names after Little John or Robin Hood, see Ship names.

Lists

• Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• Richardson, David, ed.; McGrath, Patrick, gen. ed.; Ralph, Elizabeth, assist. gen. ed. Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America. Vol. 1: The Years of Expansion, 1698-1729 (Bristol record Society's Publications, vol. XXXVIII) ([s.l.], 1986), p. 157, and see p. xii

Also see

• Little John (Bristol)
• Ship names.

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