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Muster roll
Description:
Ships’ muster rolls, from 29th September 1770 – 29th September 1771; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 184.
Muster roll for the slave ship, the Elizabeth, which sailed from Bristol in 1770 to West Africa and then to the Caribbean island of St Vincent.
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: 1770
Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers
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