This is not a passenger list, per se, but rather a record of only those people who arrived on the Earl of Hillsborough and subsequently petitioned the South Carolina government for bounty land or passage.
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Council Journal 33, Pages 41-50
Meeting of 27th. February 1767
His Excellency informed the Board that a vessel with poor Irish protestants had lately arrived here on the encouragement of the Bounty given by the Act of the General Assembly passed the 25th July 1761 and that he had now directed them to attend and they being called into the Council Chamber they presented the following Petitions for Warrants of Survey for Land on the Bounty VIZ'T
[In the following list, the number after the name indicates the number of acres of land petitioned for by that person.]
John Montgomery--300 Andrew Youart--300 John Kennedy--150 Alexander McBride--300 James Youart--250 Arthur Watts--100 Thomas Watts--400 John Lindsey--250 Andrew Youart--150 Robert Boggs--200 William Little--100 Thomas Ross--100 Jane Ross--100 William Ross--150 John Mordack--350 John Jones--250 William Anderson--200 Henry Linden--150 John Wright--200 Isabella Lindsey--100 Samuel Lindsey--100 John Wright--200 James Ellis--150 Catherine McAdam--250 David Willey--150 Moses Bradford--100 Thomas Bradford--150 John Bradford--150 Neal Raverty--250 Fanny Bennison--100 Agnes Crosier--150 James Crosier--100 Mary Crosier--100 Thomas Crosier--100 Sarah Crosier--100 James Miscampble--250 John Miscampble--100 Elizabeth Kirkwood--250 Robert Young--100 Elizabeth Young--100 Samuel Young--100 Margaret Gray--200 Jane Gray--100 Archibald Porter--100 Alexander Porter--100 Willialm Baillie--100 James Patterson--100 Edward Herthrington--100 George McCulloch--100 Thomas Nellson--100 Samuel Dickson--100 Patrick Bell--100 James Heron--100 Robert Beath--100 Alexander Robinson--100 Mary Brown--100 William McGuire--100 |
John Cameron--250 Samuel Leard--300 Mathew Shanks--150 David Pressley--350 William Hanvey--250 John McFarlan--350 George McComb--150 Christopher Russell--250 William Thomson--150 Robert McCrachen--150 James Wood--150 Robert Reid--500 James Mordack--200 William Sloan--200 Alexander Forster--150 John Anderson--300 Thomas Humphreys--200 Mary Humphreys--100 Jane Humphreys--100 John Humphreys--100 John Patterson--100 Josias Patterson--100 James Patterson--250 James Major--300 John Major--100 William Major--100 Thomas Lindsey--400 John Bennison--200 William Bennison--100 George Johnston--100 Samuel Boggs--100 William Gibson--100 Henry Montgomery--100 James Greer--100 Thomas Dickson--100 James Moore--100 John Sims--100 Thomas Turner--100 James Graham--100 Samuel Arnot--100 John Ingram--100 Mary Harvey--100 Samuel Bruce--100 William Purse--100 John Hughes--100 James McWilliams--100 John McElwean--100 Samuel Foster--100 William Robinson--100 John Gibson--100 Hugh Porter--100 Agnes Bradford--100 Samuel Lindsay--100 John Young--100 Andrew Crosier--100 Andrew Reed--100 Hugh McCormack--100 |
In Boonesborough or Belfast Township.
ORDERED, that the Secretary do prepare Warrants of Survey on the Bounty agreeable to the prayers of their petitions and that the public Treasurer do pay the Bounties given by the said Act to Messrs. Torrans and Pouag and Mr. Robert Bath for the owners of the ship Hillsborough in consideration for their passages to the said province agreeable to the directions of the said Act.
The following persons also presented petitions setting forth that they were protestants and had come into this Province in the said ship Earl of Hillsborough on the encouragement of the said Act and therefore prayed to be allowed the Bounty given by the same. [Name and age given.]
Marg't Kennedy--35 Mary Yourat--30 James McCradam--13 John Cameron--8 Marg't Cameron--5 Mary Miscampble--30 James Miscampble--15 Robert Miscampble--9 Robert Kirkwood--15 James Kirkwood--13 Mary McBride--33 James McBride--8 Andrew McBridge [sic]--3 Elizabeth Boggs--33 Elizabeth Boggs--10 Jannett Young--45 Robert Bath--17 Samuel Young--7 Martha Forster--21 Elizabeth Youart--25 Samuel Youart--2 Mary Youart--6 Rachel Montgomery--30 Samuel Montgomery--13 William Montgomery--12 Latitia Montgomery--9 Rachel Youart--60 Sarah Bennison--45 George Bennison--14 Agnes Lindsey--35 John Lindsey--7 Robert Lindsey--5 Elizabeth Lindsey--3 Sarah Watts--35 James Watts--14 Jellie Camron--46 James Camron--13 Margaret Camron--17 Agnes Humphries--40 Agnes Humphries--11 Jane Patterson--40 Alexander Patterson--14 Agnes Patterson--13 Margaret Laird--36 John Laird--6 Mary Laird--4 Samuel Laird--2 James Shanks--3 Ester Plessley--36 Samuel Plessley--11 David Pressley--6 Agnes Pressley--4 Sarah Hanvey--26 Jane Hanvey--3 Rose McParlin--36 Archibald McParlin--7 Jane McParlin--5 George McParlin--3 |
Margaret Watts--12 Andrew Watts--6 Thomas Watts--4 Margaret Murdagh--35 Joseph Murdagh--7 Mary Murdagh--6 Elizabeth Murdagh--3 Marther Ross--25 Margaret Willey--25 Catherine McCadam--26 John McCadam--10 Catherine McCadam--7 James McCadam--2 Isabell Ellis--25 Arabella Linder--21 Alexander Anderson--8 Mary Anderson--6 John Anderson--1 Agnes Jones--35 James Johns--13 John Jones--7 Jannet Reid--4 William Reid--12 Mary Reid--8 Sarah Reid--5 Hannah Reid--3 Agnes Murdagh--25 Jannett Murdack--4 Margaret Wright--26 Agnes Slone--29 Thomas Slone--3 Ann Branford--58 Mary Raverty--45 Margaret Raverty--10 Malcolm Raverty--8 Rebecca McCombe--21 Eliz'h Major--35 David Major--13 Mary Major--15 Jane Russell--34 Ester Major--7 Mary Russel--8 Martha Russel--3 Eliz'h Lindsay--35 Agnes Lindsay--13 Eliz'h Lindsay--4 Thomas Lindsay--1 James Lindsay--3 Elizabeth Thomson--25 Jane McCrahen--30 Jane Wood--30 Isabell Wood--25 William Anderson--6 Elizabeth Anderson--2 Elizabeth Porter--25 Margaret Gray--14 James Patterson--25 |
The Petitioners set forth that they were protestants and that they had lately arrived in this Province on the encouragement of the Bounty given by the Act of the General Assembly of this Province passed the 25th. July 1761 and therefore praying the same and they having severally produced Certificates required by the Act
IT WAS ORDERED that the public Treasurer do pay the several Bounties to Messrs. Torrans and Pouag and Bath in Consideration for their passages in the said Ship.
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Source: A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773, by Janie Revill, 1939, Columbia, South Carolina. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1968, 1974, 1981, 1996. Transcribed for the Long Cane Webpage by Lynne Bernard.
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