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Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls from 29th Sept 1763 – 29th Sept 1764; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 12.
Muster roll for the ship Ruby, which sailed from Bristol to Martinique and St Christopher on the Caribbean.
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: 18th century
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
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