Description:

From ships’ muster roll book, September 1773 – September 1774; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 37.
Muster roll for the ship, the William and Mary , from St Vincents, 1773.
The William and Mary spent 3 months or more in St Vincents, unloading its cargo of foodstuffs and manufactured goods, and finding a return cargo of sugar.

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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