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Ships’ muster rolls from 1748 – 1749; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 84.

Muster roll for the ship, the Marlborough, sailing for Africa and St Christophers, in the Caribbean, 1748.
This was the 10th of 14 slaving voyages for the Marlborough. It sailed for Africa with orders to buy 350 slaves. How many were bought there and sold at St Kitts is not known.

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: 1748

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