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Ships’ muster rolls from 29th Sept 1762 – 29th Sept 1763; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 14.

Muster roll for the slave ship, the Phoenix, which sailed from Bristol in 1761 to West Africa where it collected 285 enslaved Africans. It then sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean island of Jamaica, coming into port in Kingston. The ship returned to Bristol in 1762.

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: 1761 - 1762

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