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Ships’ muster rolls, from 29th Sep 1772 – 29th Sep 1773; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 89.

Muster roll for the ship York, which left Bristol in 1773 and sailed to Virginia, USA and then back to Bristol. The ship would have carried goods to trade with the plantation owners in Virginia and returned with plantation produce.

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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