To set off from
I'm not sure if here 'to set off from' means: to get back from musket practice or to go to musket practice?

...people all about to set off from musket practice.

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To set off from
I'm not sure if here 'to set off from' means: to get back from musket practice or to go to musket practice?

...people all about to set off from musket practice.

Answer

"Set off from" means to leave the place that follows "from"
"Set off for" means "to leave where one is right now for the purpose of travelling to the place following "for"

So, for what you transcribed it means "people all about to leave musket practice."

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"Set off from" means to leave some place or to leave and stop doing what you were doing.  "Set off to" means to begin to travel to some new place or to start a new activity.  So, here, "set off from" means that they were at musket practice but then left to go somewhere else.

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