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Ships’ muster rolls, from 29th September 1770 – 29th September 1771; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 236.

Muster roll for the ship, the Nevis Planter, which sailed from Bristol to the Caribbean island of Nevis and back again in 1770. The ship would have been taking supplies to the plantations on Nevis. It would have brought back goods produced on the island’s plantations, such as 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: 1770

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