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Muster roll

Muster roll

Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1784 – 1785; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 47.

Muster roll for the ship, the Alert, sailing from Africa and South Carolina, 1783.
The Alert sailed from Bristol for the Gold Coast, West Africa, leaving Africa with a reported 212 slaves. In South Carolina, 199 were sold.

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: 1783

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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