The total number of males, exclusive of children, was 1546; of this
number above 500 were man-of-war sailors.[5]
[Footnote 5: But one death, a child, occurred during the voyage. This
was attributed to the care of the Board of Trade and Plantations in
providing ventilators and air pipes for the Transports, a new invention
then lately introduced.]
The names of the principal settlers, with the rank and calling as they
appear in the register, are as follows:
Leonard Lockman and Ezekiel Gilman, Majors in the Army; John Lemon,
Foot Major and Commissary; Otis Little, Edward Amherst, Thomas Lewis,
Benjamin Ives, Frederick Albert Strasburger, and Francis Bartelo,
Captains in the Army; David Lewis, George Burners, George Colly, Richard
Partridge, Thomas Newton, _John Collier_, _Robert Ewer_, _John
Creighton_, Thomas Voughan, _John Galland_, Richard Reves, William
Joice, Joseph Wakefield, Augustus Graham, _Alexander Callendar_, David
Haldame, Robert Campbell, William Bryan, and T. Vaughan, Lieutenants in
the Army; James Warren, Thos. Reynolds, and Henry Wendell, Ensigns; John
Hamilton, Adam Cockburn, and Wm. Williams, Lieutenants in the Navy; John
Steinfort, Dennis Clarke, William Neil, Gustavus Mugden, and John
Twinehoe, Lieutenants of Privateers; Chas. Mason, Robert Beatie, Charles
Covy, Samuel Budd, John Ferguson, Nicholas Puxley, William Watson,
Joseph Tomwell, Henry Chambers, Nicholas Todd, Roger Lowden, Joseph
Gunn, John Thompson, Robert Young, Thomas Burnside, Timothy Pearce,
Richard Drake, Newbegin Harris, William Vickers, Richard Cooper, Richard
Mannering, Thomas Dumster, and Robert Cockburn, Midshipmen in the Royal
Navy; John Jenkins, Cadet; Rene Gillet, Artificer; John Grant, John
Henderson, Edward Gibson, William Hamilton, and William Smith,
Volunteers; Lewis Hayes, Purser; John Bruce, Engineer; William Grant,
Robert White, Patrick Hay, Mathew Jones, Thomas Wilson, M. Rush, James
Handeside, H. Pitt, George Philip Bruscowitz, Cochran Dickson, Joshua
Sacheveral, Thomas Inman, John Wildman, David Carnegie, and John Willis,
Surgeons; John Steele, Lieutenant and Surgeon; William Lascells,
Augustus Carsar Harbin, Archibald Campbell, John Wallis, John Grant,
Daniel Brown, Timothy Griffith, Henry Martin, Robert Grant, and
Alexander Hay, Surgeon's Mates and Assistants; Robert Thorckmorton,
Surgeon's Pupil; Mr. Anwell, Clergyman; _John Baptiste Moreau, Gentleman
and Schoolmaster_; William Jeffery, Commissary; William Steele, Brewer
and Merchant; Daniel Wood, Attorney; Thomas Cannon, Esquire; John
Duport, and Lewis Piers, Gentlemen; Archibald Hinshelwood, John Kerr,
_William Nisbett_, and Thomas Gray, Governor's Clerks; David Floyd,
Clerk of the Stores.[6]
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