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Description:: Once a ship was fully loaded, owners delivered a formal letter of instructions to the captain, specifying his destination, outlining his responsibilities, and making provision …
Year:: 1764
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-6, item 1
Collection:: Brown University Library; Voyage of the Sally; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

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Description:: On July 17, 1765, the Brown brothers finally received a letter from Esek Hopkins, sent from Africa two months before. The news revived the hopes …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 7
Collection:: Brown University Library; Voyage of the Sally; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

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Description:: Copy of a letter sent by the Brown brothers to Esek Hopkins, dated December 30, 1764, offering news of other local ship captains, as well …
Year:: 1764
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 2
Collection:: Brown University Library; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice; Voyage of the Sally

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Description:: By early June, 1765, the Brown brothers were growing anxious about the fate of Esek Hopkins and the Sally, having received no word of either …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 4
Collection:: Brown University Library; Voyage of the Sally; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

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Description:: By mid-July, 1765, ten months after the Sally's departure, the Brown brothers had still had no word from Esek Hopkins. Their anxiety was increased by …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 5
Collection:: Brown University Library; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice; Voyage of the Sally

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Description:: On July 17, 1765, ten months after the departure of the Sally, the Brown brothers finally received a letter from Esek Hopkins. The letter, which …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 6
Collection:: Brown University Library; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice; Voyage of the Sally

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Description:: On July 17, 1765, the Brown brothers finally received a letter from Esek Hopkins, sent from Africa in May, describing his progress in acquiring a …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 7
Collection:: Brown University Library; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice; Voyage of the Sally

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Description:: Esek Hopkins and the Sally finally reached the West Indies in October, 1765, thirteen months after departing from Rhode Island. Of some two hundred enslaved …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 8
Collection:: Brown University Library; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice; Voyage of the Sally

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Description:: The Brown brothers only learned the full scope of the Sally disaster in mid-November, when they received a letter from Hopkins, dated October 9, 1765 …
Year:: 1765
Contributor:: Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator); Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Genre:: letters (correspondence)
Local ID:: BFBR 643-2, item 10
Collection:: Brown University Library; Voyage of the Sally; Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

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