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Muster roll

Muster roll

Description:

From ships’ muster roll book, September 1773 – September 1774; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 67.
Muster roll for the ship, The Hope , from Bristol for Jamaica, 1773.
The Hope would be carrying foodstuffs and manufactured goods to Jamaica. Six of the thirteen crew ran away, and one died. Seven men were taken on in Jamaica to replace them on the homeward voyage.

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

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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