Description
- Abstract:
- Letter from Benjamin Gardner, a Newport merchant, to Nicholas Brown and Company, May 15, 1765. Gardner relayed information from Captain Gardner - probably his brother Caleb, a slave ship captain - who had encountered Esek Hopkins and the Sally on the African coast the previous December. According to these reports, Hopkins was on the Gambia River with "All well on bord."
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- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Gardner, Benjamin,
"Gardner, Benjamin to Nicholas Brown & Co.:
May 15, 1765
"
(1765).
Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Voyage of the Sally.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:303513/
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