Barton (1810 ship)
Barton was launched at Liverpool in 1810 as a West Indiaman, trading primarily between Liverpool and Barbados. Her owners, Barton, Irlam and Higginson, had just sold another and their new vessel was almost twice the size of her predecessor. One of her captains was involved in the manumission of over 40 slaves at Barbados. She was wrecked at Charleston, South Carolina, in December 1836. Career Barton entered Lloyd's Register in 1810 with W. Lewtas, master, Barton & Co., owners, and trade London–Barbados. Captain William Lewtas acquired a letter of marque on 24 May 1810. Captain John Gillespy acquired a letter of marque on 1 March 1813. Lloyd's List reported on 25 May 1813 that Ann, which Barton had detained as Ann was sailing from Baltimore to Lisbon, had arrived at Liverpool on 20 May. Barton, Gillespie, master, was at St Thomas on 8 November and was expected to sail that day in a convoy for England under escort by . Captain John Gillespie (or Gilespy) of the ship Barton, trading between Liverpool and Bridgetown, was involved in 43 transactions involving manumissions of slaves in Bridgetown between 1806 and 1818. In November 1812, the American privateer General Armstrong captured Lucy &