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From ships’ muster roll book, September 1773 – September 1774; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 9.
Muster roll for the ship, the Gambia from West Africa and South Carolina, 1772.
The Gambia was a small ship and so had a small crew for the 170 slaves advertised for sale in South Carolina. Several of the crew had previously sailed in slaving ships such as The King George , Hungerford , or Cornwall .

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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