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[? Answer] from Richard Miles, Thomas Westgate, Robert Collins and Martin Watts,...

Catalogue reference: T 70/1535/11

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This record is about the [? Answer] from Richard Miles, Thomas Westgate, Robert Collins and Martin Watts,... dating from 1778 June 25 in the series Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading with Africa and successors: Records. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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T 70/1535/11
Date
1778 June 25
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[? Answer] from Richard Miles, Thomas Westgate, Robert Collins and Martin Watts, concerning, 'the price of "slaves" being risen'; 'the considerable [? number] of "slaves" in the Royal African Company African Company's [? time] Accounted for'; 'Ivory trade road to be [? much opened]'; 'gold trade'; 'mode proposed, for encouraging the expansion there of into Great Britain'; 'a private trade set up and carried on by the Governor and Chiefs'; 'the Committee carrying on trade [..]'; 'spirits and tobacco'; 'Governor and other chiefs concerned in shipping'; 'the purchase of Portuguese tobacco'; '13 American vessels [..]'; 'extent of the slave trade at the forts on the Gold Coast [Ghana]'; 'Governors neglecting to open the trade paths'; 'Committee's officers intriguing with the nations of "negroes", so as to keep the path strait'; 'Lagos, Bem[..] and Gaboon "slaves"'; 'the Governor selling Company's "slaves" off the Coast contrary to the statute'; 'the nature of Mr Miles's furnishings receipts explained in reply'; 'nature of the currency held in public Accounts'; 'Select Committee of Liverpool's Report'; 'Apollonia'; 'Dixcove'; 'Succondee'; 'Commenda'; 'Cape Coast Castle'; 'Annamaboe'; 'Tantumquerry'; 'Winnebah'; 'Accra'; and 'Whydah'

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