A List of the Slaves belonging to his Majesty’s Bagnio at Tangiers
Hammet of Tunis
Haggi Hammett of Susa
Shahiri of Constantinople
Abdella of Algiers
Mahomet of Aleppo
Hammet of Bibsheg
Hammet of Giggeri
Fetta of Algiers
Haggi Abai
Mahomet of Constantinople
Hallil of Adana
Ussain of Cipri
Ibrahim of Constantinople
Hassan of Constantinople
Alli of Alexandria
Mustapha of Rumellia
Dominico Neopolitano
Ramadani of Smyrna
Bedell of Adalia
Sellim of Medelli
Ismael of Caisheri
Alli of Santa Lia
Mustapha of Algiers
Murat of Smirna
Haggi Hammet of Algiers
Babbanebed di Smyrna
Hammet di Sally
Hammett di Alexandria
Hammet of Smyrna
Vely of Constantinople
Haggi Hammett of Damiatta
Hosman of Negroponte
Abdrohaman of Negroponte
Alli of Cipri
Sahadedin of Damiatta
Hamett of Boinae
Mahomet of Smyrna
Zefer of Bursac
Mahomet of Tripoli
Alli of Santa Maura
Hosman of Rhodes
Mahomet of Constantinople
Alli of Smyrna
Ahomet of Smyrna
Ahomet of Constantinople
Alli of Constantinople
Mahomet of Constantinople
of Damiatta
Hallil of Smyrna
Ahomet of Tripoli
Shaban of Santa Maura
Alli of Tripoli Soria
Mahomet of Constantinople
Alli of Tunis
Salem of Tripoli
Mahomet of Satalia
Mahomet of Adrianpoli
Alli of Bona
Hassan of Bossina
Hammett of Grand Cairo
Haggi Issuff of Algiers
Cassum of Algiers
Mahomet of Bona
Hammet of Bossiniae
Hassan of Alexandria
Bravin of Bossina
Cassum of Rinnellia
Giovanni of Angola
Mustapha of Algiers
Indians2
Joseph
Anthony
Stephen
John
James
Daniel
Robin
Joseph
John, the Father
John, the Son
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Certification:
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These are humbly to certify that upon this day were delivered into my custody by the honorable Sir Palmes Fairborne, His Majesty’s Commander in Chief here the seventy-nine slaves above written, being pursuant to an order3 of the honorable the Navy Board for the said slaves being transferred to me for the service of His Majesty’s mole.4 Witness my hand, Henry Sheres
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Notation:
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Sir Palmes Fairborne has delivered Mr. Sheres the galley slaves [ illegible ] gave them the profit of their work [ illegible ]. Will transmit an account of his imbursements for them. Tangier, February 20, 1676
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Endorsement:
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Tangiers, February 20, 1676. A List and Receipt for 79 Slaves
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Docketing:
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133, 134
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- 1. The OED defines Bagnio as “an oriental prison, a place of detention for slaves, a penal establishment;” however, the Tangier bagnio has been described more as a “prisoner-of-war camp.” In 1680, three hundred slaves were housed there. Robert Latham and William Matthews, eds., The Diary of Samuel Pepys, vol. 10 “Companion,” (Berkeley, 2000), 410.
- 2. It is difficult to establish beyond doubt the identity of these New England Indian captives. However, some of them may be of those eleven Hassanemesits taken by Capt. Samuel Mosely and sent to Boston in late August 1675, James Acompanet, Daniel Munups, John Cquasquaconet, John Asquenet, and Watapaoson alias Joseph Spoorant. Samuel Gardiner Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 4th Edition (Boston, 1835), 79.
- 3. Warrant to the Lords of Admiralty (1676.12.16.00).
- 4. Sir John Lawson drew up plans for a defensive harbor at Tangiers that included a v-shaped stone pier or breakwater called “the mole” made with the stone from a nearby ledge. Construction started in 1663 under the supervision of engineer-general Hugh Cholmley and, in 1669, his assistant Henry Sheres, who later replaced Cholmley in 1676. Workers blasted the ledge with explosives buried in mines dug underneath it and bound the rock together with cement, which was then placed in large wooden chests and dumped into the sea. The mole in 1683 was 1438 feet long, 110 ft wide, and 18 feet high, consisting of over 10,000 tons of rock. After the Moors reclaimed the town in 1683, officials were directed to dismantle the mole, a task which took 2000 men working for five months to accomplish. E. M. Routh, Tangier: England’s Lost Atlantic Outpost, 1661-1684 (London, 1912) 141, 214, 248-249; Helen Andrews Kaufman, Tangier at High Tide: The Journal of John Luke, 1670-1673 (Geneva, 1958) ; “Tangier Breakwater and the use of Trass,” Cement Age, vol. 6 (April 1908), 399-400.
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