London 
Includes both the Passenger List and Description by George T. Bates, The Great Exodus of 1749, in Collections of The Nova Scotia Historical Society
Ship: London
Date: June 1749 (Arrival)
Departing:
Arriving: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Master: John Barker
Ship Type: 550 tons
Columns represent: Register No., Name, Gender, Occupation, Comments
913 Samuel Budd & wife Male Midshipman Royal Oak
914 Ezekiel Budd & wife Male Carpenter
915 Cochran Dickson & wife Male Surgeon
916 Hugh Stewart Male Mate Assistance
917 James Bannerman Male Mate Captain
918 Robert Moss & wife Male Mariner Sunderland
919 John White & wife Male Quarter Gunner Boyne Privateer
920 Robert Campbell Male Lieutenant H.R.H. Independent Company
921 Robert Vowles & wife Male Carpenter Folkston
922 Alexander Hume Male Mariner Rainbow
923 Joseph Piercy Male Husbandman
924 Richard Badcock Male Mariner Dunkirk
925 Benjamin Bishop Male Mariner Essex
926 George Appleby Male Mariner Essex
927 Barnaby Cavanah Male Mariner Stratford
928 Lawrence Henry Male Mariner Diamond
929 Thomas Grange Male Mariner Jersey
930 James Smith & wife Male Husbandman
931 Henry Kirk Male Marine Colonel Frazer's
932 John Prosser & wife Male Private man General Irwin's
933 Matthew Moon Male Sawyer
934 Christopher Collier Male Shipwright
935 George Taylor & wife Male Carpenter Deptford Yard
936 Daniel Malone & wife Male Carpenter Deptford Yard
937 Francis Yarrow Male Shoemaker
938 Robert Swail & wife Male Husbandman
939 John Kennedy Male Private man Colonel Price's
940 Patrick Farrell Male Mariner Whitehaven
941 James Cheshire Male Private man Honeywood's Dragoons
942 Peter Byrne Male Mariner Anglesea
943 George Young & wife Male Mariner Royal Oak
944 William Hays & wife Male Mariner Centurion
945 George Swindon Male Mariner Sheerness
946 Hugh Factor & wife Male Corporal Furnace Sloop
947 Thomas Wright & wife Male Mason
948 John Tool & wife Male Mariner Porcupine Sloop
949 James Hay & wife Male Mariner Shark Sloop
950 David Jonathan Carter & wife Male Shoemaker
951 John Read Male Edgetoolmker
952 Benjamin Mayer Male Husbandman
953 Mark Smith & wife Male Watch Glass maker
954 Robert Lard wife Male Mariner St. George
955 John Kaine Male Mariner Anglesea
956 Robert Norman & wife Male Smith Deptford Yard
957 James Guilliford Male Carpenter
958 William Dwight & wife Male Mariner Nottingham
959 Jos. Simpson & wife Male Mariner Serpent Bomb.
960 Henry Wright Male Husbandman
961 Daniel Casey Male Husbandman
962 James Skelley & wife Male Husbandman
963 Barnaby Fox Male Husbandman
964 William Watson Male Midshipman South Sea Castle
965 Robert Shepherd & wife Male Mariner Royal George
966 Edward Brown Male Private man Edinburgh Regiment
967 James Thompson & wife Male Carpenter
968 William Hogg & wife Male Mariner Falcon Sloop
969 Alexander Waters& wife Male Mariner Barfleur
970 Joseph Thornwell & wife Male Midshipman Edinburgh Regiment
971 John Harney Male Mariner
972 Patrick Lamb & wife Male Brickmaker
973 John Davis & wife Male Mariner Russell
974 Thomas Kirby Male Mariner Russell
975 Hawkins Halley & wife Male Mariner Nottingham
976 Thomas Hill & wife Male Mariner Deptford Store ship
977 Thomas Langley Male Mariner Nottingham
978 Joseph Webb Male Mariner Edinburgh Regiment
979 Walter Wright Male Mariner Milford
980 Henry Chambers & wife Male Midshipman Yarmouth
981 James Cooling Male Mariner Shoreham Prize
982 Thomas Hall & wife Male Private man Wentworth's
983 Ellis Jones & wife Male Private man Wentworth's
984 James Welner Male Mariner Launceston
985 John Welner & wife Male Mariner Launceston
986 Andrew Welner & wife Male Mariner Prince George
987 Bartholomew Walsh Male Mariner Launceston
988 Thomas Moor & wife Male Private man 1st Regiment Guards
989 Henry Swaine Male Carpenter
990 Thomas Betts & wife Male Gardener
991 Daniel Bromwell Male Carpenter
992 Josiah Symonds Male Mariner Seahorse
993 Patrick Williams & wife Male Weaver
994 James Careless & wife Male Private General Richbell's
995 John Gent Male Sawyer Deptford Yard
996 John Cummings & wife Male Mariner Nightingale
997 Edward Reynolds & wife Male Fisherman
998 John Swynny & wife Male Mariner
999 William Trumball Male Boatswain Lord Torrington's
1000 William Trumball, Junior Male Mariner Colchester
1001 Brian Hardman Male Private Duke of Montague's
1002 Joseph Rogers Male Shipwright Plymouth Yard
1003 William Brown & wife Male Mariner Rainbow
1004 Richard Scott & wife Male Mariner Granado Bomb
1005 Hugh McNeil & wife Male Mariner Revenge
1006 Job Savage Male Mariner Lenox
1007 Joseph Scott Male Quartermaster Colonel Shirley's Artificers
1008 Philip Connolly & wife Male Labourer
1009 Richard Farrell Male Labourer
1010 Garret Dailey & wife Male Mariner Dreadnought
1011 Thomas Wilder & wife Male Mariner Grampus Sloop
1012 Michael Furnier & wife Male Mariner Merchant Service
1013 Michael Burne Male Mariner Boyne Privateer
1014 Thomas Golding Male Mariner Boyne Privateer
1015 Robert Brown Male Smith
1016 William Hands Male Mariner Hampshire
1017 Matthew Tagart Male Private Cornwall's
1018 Robert Baker Male Private Cornwall's
1019 Thomas Mayhew Male Sawyer
1020 Henry Yateman Male Private 3rd Troop Horse Guards
1021 Daniel Beeson & wife Male Husbandman
1022 Jean Coradt Sutor Male Cook
1023 James Flemming Male Mariner Pembroke
1024 Robert Hipsley & wife Male Mariner Nassau
1025 William Young Male Sawyer Deptford Yard
1026 Ezra Hammond & wife Male Husbandman
1027 Lawrence Smith & wife Male Watch Glass maker
1028 William Barber Male Husbandman
1029 Henry Wynne & wife Male Bricklayer
1030 William Howard Male Carpenter
1031 Charles Cook & wife Male Husbandman
1032 John Henry & wife Male Carpenter
1033 Verby Livermoore Male Carpenter
1034 Edmund Field Male Carpenter
1035 Benjamin Wildes & wife Male Shoemaker
1036 John Harry & wife Male Private Colonel Holmes's
1037 Simon Thorowgood Male Husbandman
1038 Heny Hooper & wife Male Brickmaker
1039 James Nicholas Male Husbandman
1040 Simon Wynn Male Gardener
1041 Ralph White & wife Male Mariner Royal George
1042 Joseph Butler Male Mariner Wolf Sloop
1043 Matthew Watts Male Marine Sir Andrew Agnew's
1044 Peter Kingwell & wife Male Mariner Princessa
1045 William Booth & wife Male Private Lord Sempill's
1046 Frederick Fitzgerald & wife Male Cooper
1047 George Pederick Male Mariner Assurance
1048 John Carpenter & wife Male Husbandman
1049 John Wood & wife Male Husbandman
1050 Matthew Cooper & wife Male Carpenter
1051 Edward Gaddard Male Husbandman
1052 William Weston & wife Male Shoemaker
1053 Thomas Storer Male Plumber
1054 James Cato Male Gunstock maker
1055 Patrick Radcliff & wife Male Mariner Weymouth
1056 Helen Meathers Female
1057 David Carnegie Male Surgeon
1058 James Jordan & wife Male Husbandman
all to Halifax
Columns represent: Name, Area From (**In between these two columns was
written the words: Bates says "Disappeared from Halifax - likely
slipped way to New England.")(George T. Bates, The Great Exodus of 1749,
in Collections of The Nova Scotia Historical Society) This information
is all from that book, and describes the same passengers as above.
Appleby, George ** Essex
Badcock, Richard Dunkirk
Baker, Robert ** Cornwall's
Bannerman, James Captain
Barber, William Bates says "See Jane Barber, Colliers
Division, Block F, Lot 8."
Beeson, Daniel & wife **
Betts, Thomas & wife **
Bishop, Benjamin ** Essex
Booth, William ** Lord Sempill's
Bromwell, Daniel **
rown, Edward Edinburgh Regiment
Brown, Robert ** Edinbugh Regiment
Brown, Robert **
Brown, William & wife Rainbow
Budd, Ezekiel & wife
Budd, Samuel & wife Royal Oak
Burne, Michael Boyne Privateer
Butler, Joseph ** Wolf Sloop
Byrne, Peter ** Anglesea
Campbell, Robert H.R.H. Independent Company
Careless, James & wife General Richbell's
Carnegie, David **
Carpenter, John & wife **
Carter, David Jonathan
& wife
Casey, Daniel **
Cato, James **
Cavanah, Barnaby Stratford
Chambers, Henry & wife ** (Bates) also says "see Charles
Chambers buried 6 March 1751." Yarmouth
Cheshire, James Honeywood's Dragoons
Collier, Christopher
& wife Bates says: "See Sarah Collier
buried 4 Jan 1750"
Connolly, Philip & wife
Cook, Charles & wife **
Cooling, James ** Shoreham Prize
Cooper, Matthew & wife Bates says: "See Elizabeth Cooper,
widow, buried 12 Nov 1750"
Cummings, John & wife Nightingale
Dailey, Garret & wife Dreadnought
Davis, John & wife ** Russell
Dickson, Cochran & wife **
Dwight, William & wife ** Nottingham
Factor, Hugh & wife ** Furnace Sloop
Farrell, Patrick ** Whitehaven
Farrell, Richard **
Field, Edmund **
Fitzgerald, Frederick
& wife **
Flemming, James ** Pembroke
Fox, Barnaby **
Furnier, Michael & wife ** Merchant Service
Gaddard, Edward
Gent, John Deptford Yard
Golding, Thomas Boyne Privateer
Grange, Thomas Jersey
Guilliford, James **
Halley, Hawkins & wife ** Nottingham
Hall, Thomas & wife ** Wentworth's
Hammond, Ezra & wife. Bates says: "See Hannah Hammond
married Dorell Smalt, 20 Jul 1749.
Also, Ann Hammon, buried 29 Aug 1753."
Hands, William ** Hampshire
Hardman, Brian ** Duke of Montague's
Harney, John **
Harry, John & wife ** Colonel Holmes's
Hays, William & wife Centurion
Hay, James & wife Shark Sloop
Henry, John & wife
Henry, Lawrence ** Diamond
Hill, Thomas & wife Deptford Store ship
Hipsley, Robert & wife ** Nassau
Hogg, William & wife Falcon Sloop
Hooper, Heny. & wife
Howard, William **
Hume, Alexander ** Rainbow
Jones, Ellis & wife ** Wentworth's
Jordan, James & wife
Kaine, John ** Anglesea
Kennedy, John ** Colonel Price's
Kingwell, Peter & wife Princessa
Kirby, Thomas ** Russell
Kirk, Henry ** Colonel Frazer's
Lamb, Patrick & wife **
Langley, Thomas Bates says: "See Mary Langely, widow,
married John Cocks, widower, 5 Jun
1750" Nottingham
Lard, Robert & wife ** St. George
Livermoore, Verby **
Malone, Daniel & wife ** Deptford Yard
Mayer, Benjamin **
Mayhew, Thomas
McNeil, Hugh & wife ** Revenge
Meathers, Helen Bates says: "See Eleanor Meakners
buried 23 May 1750"
Moon, Matthew **
Moor, Thomas & wife 1st Regiment Guards
Moss, Robert & wife Sunderland
Nicholas, James On 10 July 1749 he married Jane
Brunsdon in Halifax, ceremony
performed by William Anwyl. She died
6 months later. From: " George T.
Bates, The Great Exodus of 1749, in
Collections of The Nova Scotia
Historical Society, Volume 28,
1973, p 30."
Norman, Robert & wife Deptford Yard
Pederick, George ** Assurance
Piercy, Joseph **
Prosser, John & wife General Irwin's
Radcliff, Patrick & wife** Weymouth
Read, John **
Reynolds, Edward & wife Bates says: "See James Reynolds
married Elizabeth Cavenaugh, widow,
19 May 1752. A son of Edward"
Rogers, Joseph Bates says: "See Joseph Rogers married
Elizabeth Tate, 19 Jul 1760" Plymouth Yard
Savage, Job ** Lenox
Scott, Joseph Colonel Shirley's Artificers
Scott, Richard & wife ** Granado Bomb
Shepherd, Robert & wife ** Royal George
Simpson, Jos. & wife Serpent Bomb.
Skelley, James & wife Bates says: "See James Skelby
buried 19 June 1754"
Smith, James & wife
Smith, Lawrence & wife **
Smith, Mark & wife **
Stewart, Hugh Assistance
Storer, Thomas **
Sutor, Jean Coradt
Swail, Robert & wife
Swaine, Henry Bates says: "See x Swain, Lot 5,
Block D, South Suburbs.
Humphry, Henry or ??"
Swindon, George ** Sheerness
Swynny, John & wife **
Symonds, Josiah ** Seahorse
Tagart, Matthew Cornwall's
Taylor, George & wife Deptford Yard
Thompson, James & wife
Thornwell, Joseph &
wife ** Edinburgh Regiment
Thorowgood, Simon **
Tool, John & wife Porcupine Sloop
Trumball, William ** Lord Torrington's
Trumball, William Junior** Colchester
Vowles, Robert & wife ** Folkston
Walsh, Bartholomew ** Launceston
Waters, Alexander & wife ** Barfleur
Watson, William ** South Sea Castle
Watts, Matthew Sir Andrew Agnew's
Webb, Joseph ** Edinburgh Regiment
Welner, Andrew & wife Prince George
Welner, James ** Launceston
Welner, John & wife Launceston
Weston, William & wife **
White, John & wife Boyne Privateer
White, Ralph & wife ** Royal George
Wilder, Thomas & wife Grampus Sloop
Wildes, Benjamin & wife
Williams, Patrick &
wife **
Wood, John & wife **
Wright, Henry **
Wright, Thomas & wife **
Wright, Walter ** Milford
Wynne, Henry & wife
Wynn, Simon **
Yarrow, Francis **
Yateman, Henry ** 3rd Troop Horse Guards
Young, George & wife ** Royal Oak
Young, William ** Deptford Yard Yorkshire
Formatter's notes:
**was written: Bates says "Disappeared from Halifax - likely slipped away
to New England." (George T. Bates, The Great Exodus of 1749, in
Collections of The Nova Scotia Historical Society)
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..
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