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Ships muster rolls from 29th Sept 1763 – 29th Sept 1764; Society of Merchant Venturers archive.
Muster roll no: 211.

Muster roll for the slave ship Albany , which sailed from Bristol to Angola in West Africa, where 378 enslaved Africans were purchased. The vessel then sailed to Barbados in the Caribbean and later to Cuba, before returning to Bristol.

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: 1764

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