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Ships’ muster rolls, from 29th Sep1771 – 29th Sept 1772; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 104.

Muster roll for the ship Colston, which sailed from Bristol to Philadelphia USA, Barbados in the Caribbean and Carolina before coming back to Bristol.

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: 29th Sep 1771 - 29th Sep 1772

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