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Ships’ muster rolls from 1794 – 1795; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 139.

Detail from the muster roll of the ship, the Wasp, 1794.
John Person, the botswain, was handed over to the governor of Cape Coast Castle (in Ghana, West Africa), for a mutiny on board the ship.

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: 1794

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