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Ships’ muster rolls, from 29th September 1770 – 29th September 1771; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 146.

Muster roll for the slave ship, the Phoenix which left Bristol in 1770 and sailed to New Calabar and Bonny in West Africa. the ship then sailed to the Caribbean island of Dominica.

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: 1770

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