Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1783 – 1784; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 93.

Muster roll for the ship, the Alfred, from Africa and St Vincents, 1784.
The Alfred probably sailed for Bonny in West Africa, and bought an unknown number of slaves there. 380 of them were sold at St Vincents, in the Caribbean.

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: 1784

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