Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Entry Detail

Code: DD/DN
Entry Text:

Accounts of the Dickinson family, merchants originally of Bristol and sometimes of Kingweston, Somerset, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Including trade with Africa, Amsterdam, St Petersburg, Carolina, Virginia and Calcutta; the sugar and slave trade to the West Indies, including accounts of Barton Isles plantation, Jamaica; Newcastle coal trade, 1745; shipping accounts for trade between Bristol and Newcastle, 1729-46

Date Range: 1500 to 1900
Keywords: slavery, sugar
Location: Somerset Record Office