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Queries and answers from muster rolls regarding seamen engaged in African trade, 1788. Read at Committee 17th Nov 1788 and agreed to.

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: 17th Nov 1788

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