muster roll
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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.
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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.
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In the absence of a complete census for the decades after 1624, it is very difficult to determine what proportion of the servants listed in the muster roll of that year subsequently became landowners.
From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
The muster roll gave his name as Isaac Franks, the simple record holding no promise of the day when the Jewish boy, a distinguished veteran of the Revolution, should entertain President Washington as his guest.
From The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
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