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Muster roll

Muster roll

Description:

Ships’ muster rolls, 29th September 1769 – 29th September 1770; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 180.

Muster roll for the slave ship the Prince of Wales, which sailed from Bristol to Africa and then to Dominica in the Caribbean. It left Bristol in July 1769.

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: July 1769

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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