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Ships’ muster rolls from 1794 – 1795; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 6.

Muster roll fro the ship, The Colin, of Bristol, from Nevis and St Christophers, 1794. The Colin would have been taking manufactured goods out and bringing slave-produced commodities back.

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: 1794

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