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Muster roll

Muster roll

Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1787 – 1788; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 163.

Muster roll for the ship, the Thomas , sailing from Africa, 1787.
The Thomas sailed for New Calabar and bought 409 enslaved Africans. 400 or 402 were sold at St Vincent. It seems that the ship could not get a cargo for the return voyage 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: 1787

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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