Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from the 29th September 1765 – 29th September 1766. Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 237.

Muster roll for the ship, the Indian Prince , from Bristol to Africa and Barbados, 1765.
The Indian Prince sold 187 slaves at Barbados. Several of the crew has sailed on previous slaving voyages, in the ships; the Molly , the Indian Queen and the Anamabot .

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: 1765

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