Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000370
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3805
Case Name Two Cousins
Register Date 1808
Year 1808
Recaptive Number 75
Person Name Dick Gore
Alternative or Transcribed Name D[...]G[...]
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 25
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Man
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) {...}
Height (in) 64
Height (cm) 162.56
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Large scar left wrist [...........] on right side of neck
Digits
Disposal } Entered on board H Majesty's Sloop "Derwent"
Language Association
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
Travel & Court Related Information
Government Department Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court Condemned Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown
Embarkation Region Western Savanna
Embarkation Port The Gambia
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Derwent
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1808-11-25
Intended Destination Region British Caribbean
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/24; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 75-78
Digitization Endangered Archives Programme, 2009. “Before the War, After the War: Preserving History in Sierra Leone,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP284; Endangered Archives Programme, 2011. “Nineteenth Century Documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP443. Padraic Scanlan donated materials from CO267.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7542
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)