Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present dayLanaghan, Mrs.
History
Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2): A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day
Lanaghan, Mrs.
Antigua -- Description and travel; Antigua -- History
i. William Mackinnon, son and heir, succeeded his father, Daniel
Mackinnon, born in 1697, died 8 Oct. 1767, and was buried in
Abbey Church, Bath, where there is a monument erected to his
memory, m. Charity, second dau. of William Yeamans, of Mill Hill,
Antigua, by whom he left issue,
i. William, son and heir, of whom hereafter.
ii. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Fraser, Esq., M.D., of Antigua, by
whom she had, 1. William-Mackinnon Fraser, of London and of
Bath; 2. Jane, m. to Charles Grant, Esq., chairman of the
Hon. East India Company, by whom she had the present Lord
Glenelg; 3. Charity, m. to William Chambers, Esq. M.D., by
whom she was the mother of the celebrated physician of the
same name now living. To revert to the son,
i. William Mackinnon, (the son of William, by his wife, Charity
Yeamans,) who m. Dorothy, the dau. of Henry Vernon, Esq., of an
ancient family of that name, in Staffordshire, and had issue,
i. William, of whom presently.
ii. Daniel, Esq., barrister-at-law, who m. Rachel, dau. of
Thomas Eliot, Esq., and had issue.
iii. Henry, major-general in the army, who was slain at
Badajos, Spain, by the explosion of a mine, leaving, by
Catharine, his wife, dau. of Sir John Call, Bart., (since
re-married to A. R. Prior, Esq.,) 1. George, a colonel in the
army, and of the Coldstream Regt. of Guards, and 2. Donald,
captain in — Regt. of Infantry.
i. William, the eldest son, m. Harriott, the dau. of Francis
Ffrye, of Bermudian Valley, Antigua, Esq., by whom he had,
i. William-Alexander, now a most able and useful M.P.,
representing Lymington, in Hampshire, m. to Emma, dau. of
Joseph Palmer, Esq.
ii. Daniel, colonel in the Coldstream regt. of Guards.
iii. Harriott, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, rector of
Rochdale, in Lancashire.
No. 14.
PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE NEGRO INSURRECTION OF 1736.
“_His Excellency and Council to the Gentlemen of the Assembly,_
“Gentlemen—
“I think fit to lay before you a remonstrance I have received
from the justices who have examined into the intended
insurrection of the negroes. I could not forbear remarking to
this board the grateful sense I have of this great service, and
have found here every member as moved as myself. I cannot doubt
but the Assembly will give a _public testimony_ of their
satisfaction and acknowledgment to the gentlemen, from whose
wisdom, public zeal, and indefatigable care, we found a crime of
the deepest die, and of universal danger, and the public safety
secured by the most criminal having been brought to justice.
“By command,
“De la Court Walsh, &c.”
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“_Members of the Assembly to his Excellency._
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