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| | slavebc.htm - Questions on Slavery - The Blackheath Connection |
 | | Men of the Hawkins family initiated the English slave trade, and as mayors of Plymouth are credited with helping their port reach maritime eminence. |
| | John Hawkins of Tavistock had a son William (1495-1553), who married Joan Trelawney; the son of the latter was Sir John Hawkins (1531-1595), a slaving merchant and later Treasurer of the Navy, who married Katherine Gonson (1562-1591) as his first wife. |
| | In 1620, Sir Allen Apsley, an investor in the Africa Company of 1618, the New England Company of 1620. |
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