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Ships’ muster rolls from 1767 – 1768; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 126.

Muster roll for the ship, the King David , from Bristol to Africa and America, 1766.
The King David sailed for Old Calabar and St Kitts. The number of slaves bought and sold is not known. 15 of the crew died before the ship left America.

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: 1766

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