Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1784 – 1785; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 58.

Muster roll for the ship, the Saville, sailing from Bristol to Jamaica and thence to Bristol.
The Saville was one of many ships going back and forth between Bristol and the Caribbean colonies.

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

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