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From ships’ muster roll book, 29th September 1772 – 29th September 1773; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 178. Muster roll for the ship, The Constantine , from Africa and Jamaica, 1772. The master, John Chilcott and Thomas Baker may have been the same John Chilcott and Thomas Baker who owned and captained a slaving ship in 1774.

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: 1792

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