Description:

From ships’ muster roll book, September 1773 – September 1774; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 8.
Muster roll for the ship, The Golden Grove from Jamaica, 1773.
The Golden Grove must have made regular voyages; another muster roll for a 1771 voyage from Jamaica appears on this site. The ship has the same captain, and some of the crew appear ro be the same.

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: 1773

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