 |
How to Use This Site
Disclaimer and Warnings Lookup Volunteers Volunteers Needed Return to Main Page Site Map Contact Ginny |
The Earl of Hillsborough sailed for South Carolina from Belfast on Christmas Eve 1766 arrived Charleston February 19, 1767
Journal of the South Carolina Council
Council Journal 33, page 41-50
Meeting of the 27th, February 1767.
ORDERED that the Secretary do prepare Warrants of Survey on the Bounty agreeable to prayers of their petitions and that the public Treasure 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 of their passages to the said prvience 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 the said ship Earl of Hillsborough on the encouragement of the said Act and there forth to be allowed the Bounty given by the same.
| Marg't Kennedy | 55 | |
| 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 McBribe | 33 | |
| James McBribe | 8 | |
| Andrew McBribe | 3 | |
| Elizabeth Boggs | 33 | |
| Elizabeth Boggs | 10 | |
| Jannett Young | 45 | |
| Robert Bath | 17 | |
| Samuel Young | 7 | |
| Martha Foster | 21 | |
| Elizabeth Youart | 25 | |
| Mary Yourat | 6 | |
| Rachel Montgomery | 30 | |
| Samuel Montgomery | 13 | |
| William Montgomery | 12 | |
| Latitia Montgomery | 9 | |
| Rachel Youart | 60 | |
| Sara Bennison | 45 | |
| George Bennsion | 14 | |
| Agnes Lindsey | 35 | |
| John Lindsey | 7 | |
| Robert Lindsey | 5 | |
| Elizabeth Lindley | 3 | |
| Sarah Watts | 35 | |
| James Watts | 14 | |
| 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 Wiley | 26 | |
| Catherine McCadam | 26 | |
| John McCadam | 10 | |
| Catherine McCadam | 7 | |
| John McCadam | 2 | |
| Isabell Ellis | 26 | |
| Arabella Linder | 21 | |
| Alexander Anderson | 8 | |
| Mary Anderson | 6 | |
| John Anderson | 1 | |
| Agnes Johns | 35 | |
| James Johns | 13 | |
| John Johns | 7 | |
| William Reid | 12 | |
| Mary Reid | 8 | |
| Sara Reid | 5 | |
| Hannah Reid | 3 | |
| Agnes Murdack | 25 | |
| Jannett Murdack | 4 | |
| Margaret Wright | 26 | |
| Agnes Stone | 29 | |
| Thomas Slone | 3 | |
| Ann Branford | 58 | |
| Mary Raverty | 45 | |
| Margaret Raverty | 10 | |
| Malcolm Raverty | 8 | |
| Jellie Camron | 46 | |
| James Camron | 13 | |
| Margaret Camron | 17 | |
| Agnes Humphries | 40 | |
| Agnes Humphries | 11 | |
| Jane Patterson | 40 | |
| Alexander Patterson | 14 | |
| Margaret Laird | 36 | |
| James Shanks | 3 | |
| Ester Plessley | 36 | |
| Samuel Plessley | 11 | |
| David Plessley | 6 | |
| Agnes Plessley | 4 | |
| Sarah Hanvey | 26 | |
| Jane Hanvey | 3 | |
| Rose McPharlin | 36 | |
| Archibald McPharlin | 7 | |
| Jane McPharlin | 5 | |
| George McPharlin | 3 | |
| Rebecca McCombe | 21 | |
| Eliza'h Major | 35 | |
| David Major | 13 | |
| Mary Major | 15 | |
| Jane Russel | 34 | |
| Ester Major | 7 | |
| Mary Russel | 8 | |
| Martha Russel | 3 | |
| Eliz'h Lindsay | 35 | |
| Agnes Lindsay | 13 | |
| Elza'h Lindsay | 4 | |
| Thomas Lindsay | 1 | |
| James Lindsay | 3 | |
| Elizabeth Thomson | 25 | |
| Jane McCrahen | 30 | |
| Jane Wood | 30 | |
| Isobell 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 lately arrived in this Province on the encouragement of the Bounty given by the said Act of the General
Assemble 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 Treasuer do pay several Bounties to Messers. Torrans and Bath in the said Ship.
Sources:
Journal of the South Carolina Council
Meeting of the 27th, February 1767.
The Earl of Hillsborough sailed for South Carolina from Belfast on Christmas Eve 1766.
She reached Charleston February 19, 1767 " with two hundred and thirty protestant settlers, encouraged by the large given by this province, and the success their country men with in the several settlements here."
[South Carolina and American General Gazette, February 20, 1767.]
Copyright © 2002-2004 All Rights Reserved |
|||