Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1783 – 1784; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 97.

Muster roll for the ship, the Rebecca , sailing from Africa, 1783.
The Rebecca was trading directly with Africa and returned to Bristol from Africa, probably with a cargo of timber.

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: 1784

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