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From ships’ muster roll book, 1793 – 1795; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive. Muster roll no: SMV 171.
Muster roll for the ship, the Favourite , 1792.
The Favourite left Bristol bound for Calabar in West Africa. 156 enslaved Africans were carried to Jamaica, with 38 dying before the ship left Africa, or on the Atlantic voyage.

See also Articles of Agreement for the ship, the Favourite .

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: 1792

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