1727 - Little John of Bristol

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Date	1727
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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.]^[1]

Source notes

The printed source is a structured summary of an entry in MS E190/1201/2, SMV Wharfage books (NA).

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

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Notes

↑ 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

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[1] 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

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