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Duke of York

Ship: Duke of York
Date: 1 May 1772 (Arrival)
Departing: Liverpool, England
Arriving: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Columns represent: surname, given name, comments, ship and date, destination 
Master Dixon Charles                  Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Dixon        Susanna     plus 5       Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Freeze       William                  Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Freeze       William     plus wife &  Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
                         2 children
Lowerison    Ann                      Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Lowerison    Elizabeth                Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Lowerison    Joseph                   Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Lowerison    Mary                     Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Lowerison    Mary                     Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Lowerison    Richard                  Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Lowerison    Thomas                   Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Metcalf      James                    Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Siddell      Francis     plus 3       Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Siddell      Ralph       plus wife    Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Wood         Elizabeth                Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
Wood         Valintine   plus         Duke of York  1 May 1772  Halifax
                         2 females
NOTES: "One of the first group of Yorkshire settlers left from Liverpool on March 16, 1772 on board the Duke of York. Following a voyage of 45 days its 62 passengers were landed safely at Halifax. The settlers then went by schooner to Fort Cumberland and landed on May 21st. More settlers subsequently followed in other ships with the larger groups arriving in 1774."(http://degaulle.hil.unb.ca/genealogy/yorkshir.html, (Oct 1997)) *[URL no longer operative, but retained to show source of information] Charles Dixon, one of the passengers, later wrote: "We had a rough passage. None of us having been to sea before, much sea-sickness prevailed. At Halifax we were received with much joy by the gentlemen in general, but were much discouraged by others, and the account given us of Cumberland was enough to make the stoutest give way." --The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers, Howard Trueman (1837-1908). Project Gutenberg June 1998. Transcribers notes: An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the orginal recorder not the transcriber. The ? indicates letters or words that cannot be read due to the quality of the orginal document.

Document source: Smith, L.H. & Norma H. Smith, Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co. Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book of Emigrants, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993..
Orginially transcribed by Joan Settle, list editor, Nov 1997

Contributed by Chignecto Project

Reformatted by Terry Cook for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
25 February 1999


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