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Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls, 1768 – 1772; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 13.
Muster roll for the ship, the Prudent Sally , owned by Isaac Hobhouse. From Barbados to Bristol.
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: 19th Sept 1767
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
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