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Muster roll

Muster roll

Description:

Ships’ muster rolls from 1785 – 1786; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 153.

Muster roll for the ship, the Rebecca , from Bristol to Africa, 1785.
The Rebecca sailed to the West coast of Africa, and returned direct to Bristol. The cargo was presumably timber rather than slaves.

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: 1785

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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