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From ships’ muster roll book, 29th September 1772 – 29th September 1773; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 211.
Muster roll for the ship, the St James from Bristol to Jamaica and back, 1772.
the same ships often appear in the listing of the crewmen’s last ship – The Eagle , Windsor , Ann and Polly all appear elsewhere on this site.

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: 1772

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