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John Matthews (who died in 1798) was an English sailor and writer active in the late eighteenth century. Despite being commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 1 March 1783, he failed to find a position in the navy. He gained employment with Samuel Hartley and Company, a London based business involved in the Atlantic slave trade. Two of Matthews' journals of his life in Sierra Leone were acquired by Firestone Library, Princeton University in 2017. They were previously unknown to scholars.
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