Abstract of the evidence for the abolition of the slave-trade… (1791)
“ Duncan, (Mr. William) was in Antigua from January 1785 to July 1789, first as clerk in a store for six or eight months, afterwards as overseer for about two years and a half. The rest of the time he kept a store for himself.— [IV. 141.] Ellison, (Mr. Henry) gunner of the Resistance man of war, was in the slave-trade from 1759 to 1770. He has been in many West India islands, particularly Barbadoes and Jamaica. He has also been many voyages to Virginia and Maryland, and often on the tobacco plantations while the slaves were at work.— [III. 361.] ”
