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Ship Fair Lady 
Ship Fair Lady
Ship: Fair Lady Date: June 1749 (Arrival)
Departing: Glasgow
Arriving: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Master: Isaac Forster
Columns represent: FirstName, LastName, Occupation, RegisterComment. All passengers listed are male. Blank columns left out to save space: Comment, Boys, MaleServants, FemaleServants, Total. (girl column left in as only one applicable) The two items in the RegisterComments column might belong in one of the blank colunms. They seem to be at the end of the line and don't fit any of the other columns.
1. Archibald Hinchelwood Governor's Clerk total 1 2. Edward Amhurst Captain 2 girls total 3 Phillip's 3. James Handasyde Surgeon total 1 4. John Kerr Governor's Clerk total 1 5. William Nesbitt Governor's Clerk total 1 6. Ezekiel Gillman Major 2 girls total 3 Colonel Moor's Transcriber's Notes: The first four columns: Ship, Master, Gender, and Destination, which had the same information for all passengers were left out to save space. 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
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 Patty MacFarlane Prather for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 27 February 1999
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