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an

alphabetical list

of the

Names of the Witnesses

examined by the

Select Committee of the House of Commons,

on the part of

The Petitioners of Great Britain

for the

Abolition of the Slave-Trade.





BAILLIE (George, Esq.) resided 25 years in South Carolina and Georgia, first as a merchant, afterwards as a planter, and then as Commissary General of Georgia. He was in Jamaica also from about December, 1778, to February or March, 1779.— [III. [1] 181.]

Beverley, (William, Esq. Lincoln's Inn) was born in Virginia, and lived there the first 16 years of his life: he returned in 1786, and resided afterwards above two years in different parts of America.—[IV. 215.]

  1. The Evidence, according to the method in which it was printed for the House of Commons, is divisible into four Parts: the Roman Capitals therefore shew the part in which the Evidence of the person is to be found, and the Figures the Page where it begins.

Botham,

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