Immigrant Ships
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Rochampton 
Ship: Rochampton
Date: June 1749 (Arrival)
Departing:
Arriving: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Master: Samuel Williamson
Ship Type: 230 tons
Columns represent: Register No., Name, Gender, Occupation, Comments.
717 Robert Young Male Midshipman Centurion
718 Augustus Caesar Harbin Male Assistant Surgeon Plymouth
719 Alexander Abercrombie Male Apothecary's mate
720 Lawrence Ferara Male Mariner Waterford
721 Daniel Brine Male Mariner Centurion
722 Robert Douglas Male Gardener
723 William Thompson & wife Male Smith
724 William Thompson & wife Male Mariner St. Geroge
725 Benjamin Austin & wife Male Husbandman
726 John Moss Male Smith
727 Samuel Strutin Male Husbandman
728 Peter McLean & wife Male Shoemaker
729 John Abbott Male Shoemaker
730 James King & wife Male Smith
731 Edward Davis Male Husbandman; Carpenter
732 Matthew Morrice Male Husbandman
733 William Merry Male Apothecary
734 John Farrington Male Chemist; Druggist
735 William Johnson Male Husbandman
736 Henry Phillips & wife Male Carpenter
737 John Brickwell & wife Male Gardener
738 William Lane Male Smith
739 John Degle Male Pattounmaker
740 John Twynhoe Male Lieutenant Privateer
741 Benjamin Ives Male Captain Colonel Hale's
742 Joseph Howe Male Furrier
743 Leonard Lockman
(servants of) Male Servant
744 Leonard Lockman Male Major
745 Leonard Lockman
(one servant of) Male Servant
746 William Steele & wife Male Brewer
Formatter's Notes:
Additional information on some of these passengers can be found in
"George T. Bates, The Great Exodus of 1749", in Collections of The Nova
Scotia Historical Society. A description of all of Bates comments from all
1749 ships can be found at: Bates
*Last column did not give reasons or further information concerning
comments. They could possibly represent place of origin or place
occupation was done.
Document Source: Copy of the Mess Book of the Settlers, found in: Akins, Thomas Beamish, editor, "List of the Settlers Who Came Out with Governor Cornwallis to Chebucto, in June 1749". In "Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS: Charles Annand, 1869, pp 506-557. Reprint, Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, 1973 under the title "Acadia and Nova Scotia: Documents Relating to the Acadian French and the First British Colonisation of the Province, 1714-1758", p 531-537..
Contributed by Chignecto Project
Reformatted by David Anderson for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 25 February 1999
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