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Ships’ muster rolls, 29th September 1769 – 29th September 1770; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 167.

Muster roll for the slave ship Duke of York which left Bristol on 18th January 1769 for Old Calabar on the west coast of Africa. After colleting a cargo of enslaved Africans, the ship sailed to the Caribbean island of Dominica.

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: 18th Jan 1769

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