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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: 75.
Muster roll for the slave ship, Cornwall, sailing from Bristol in 1761 to Cape Coast, West Africa, where 450 enslaved Africans were purchased. The ship then sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the island of Antigua.
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: 1761
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
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