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Sloop Lydia 
Ship: Lydia
Date: May 1760 (departure)
Departing: Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Arriving: Newport (Hants County), Nova Scotia
Ship Master: Samuel Toby
Size: Sloop
Columns represent: Register No., Name, Gender, Number in Family, Comments
1 Benjamin Borden Male 3 Newport, Rhode Island to Newport, Hants County, NS 2 Caleb Lake Male 7 3 James Mosher Male 8 4 Henry Tucker Male 3NOTES: Among those on the ship were the original grantees for land in Newport, Nova Scotia.
In May 1760 the ships master Samuel Toby billed the British Government at the rate of f1:5 for each person transported. The total charge of pounds 28.15.0. Given that there were 23 people in total on the sloop, and the passenger list tally of family members is 21, there must have been another crew member besides the ship master, Samuel Toby.
Passengers:
Benjamin Borden, total 3 in family
Caleb Lake, total 7 in family
James Mosher, total 8 in family
Henry Tucker, total 3 in family
Document source: John V. Duncanson, "Newport, Nova Scotia A Rhode Island Township", 1985, p. 16..
Contributed by Chignecto Project
Reformatted by Sheila Tate for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 25 February 1999
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