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Ships’ muster rolls from the 29th September 1765 – 29th September 1766. Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 199.

Detail of muster roll of the ship, the Pierpoint .
25 of the 47 crew died before the ship reached Jamaica. One of them was killed. The others, including the captain, Samuel Whiting, presumably died of disease at the African coast or during the Middle Passage.

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: 1763

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