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muster roll

British  

noun

  1. a list of the officers and men in a regiment, ship's company, etc

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She sent him electronic copies of those items and he sent her copies of Smith’s widow’s pension claim and muster roll.

From Washington Times Sep. 20, 2014

Well aware are they cf the fact that their muster roll in the 72nd Congress will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the title, Queen Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text—surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head.

From Time Magazine Archive

He enlisted April 24, 1775, June 10, 1775 signed advance pay order at Cambridge, Aug. 1, 1775, Private on muster roll at that date.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

The regiment was sworn in during the latter half of July, the muster roll showing 1,195 men and 46 officers, every one of whom was of African descent except one private in a Chicago company.

From The Colored Regulars in the United States Army by Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould)

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