Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1793 – 1794; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 203.

Articles of agreement for the ship, The Levant.
The Levant traded at New Calabar, West Africa, for a cargo of 348 slaves. 324 were sold at Jamaica.

Articles of agreement set out the terms and conditions of a voyage. The Articles was a standard printed form, listing the food rations and financial arrangements the crew would receive.

The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors’ Hospital Fund (insurance).

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1792

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