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Muster roll
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Ships’ muster rolls from 29th Sept 1763 – 29th Sept 1764; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: 214.
Muster roll for the slave ship, the Nancy, which sailed from Bristol to West Africa in 1763, where 320 enslaved Africans were purchased. The ship then sailed to Jamaica in the Caribbean where the slaves were sold, before heading back in 1764.
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: 1763
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
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