Muster Rolls, Royal Nova Scotia Volunteers - 1784

Muster Rolls of the following Disbanded Officers, Discharged and Soldiers and their respective families being a party of the late Royal Nova Scotia Volunteer Regiment that are settled in the Island of St. John, taken by order of Major General Campbell this 12th June 1784.

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No.
Name
Rank
 Men Women Child10+ Child-10
Where Land Granted
 Acres
How Held
 Age
Quantity of Provisions
already Received
General Remarks
1 Chas Stewart Lieut11     Wheatley River, Lot 24500 Grant from His Majesty25 6 months for 1 man Has cleared and improved 10
acres on Hillsboro' River
2 Geo Sutherland Corporal11     d.o.100 d.o.48 6 months Was detained at Chedebucto all
winter, is now settled at Lot 24
3 Michael OBrian Private1       d.o.100 d.o.37 6 months d.o.
4 Mich'l ? wnohan d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.32 6 months d.o.
5 Mich'l Mahoney d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.28 6 months d.o.
6 John Purcell d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.40 6 months d.o.
7 John Begg d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.33 6 months d.o.
8 Peter Roubier d.o.11     d.o.100 d.o.30 6 months for himself Has Improved a farm and has a stock of cattle at
Tryon River by lease of Phillips Callbeck
9 David Hoare d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.27 6 months which he sold to his Excellency Gov. Patterson
suspended and not certified
10 Barnaby McCrawson d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.32 6 months Sold to his excellency, Gov.
Patterson - not certified
11 William Giles d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.25 6 months  
12 John Murray d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.28 6 months settled on Wheatley River, Lot 24
13 James Doherty d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.36 6 months d.o.
14 Rob't Keating d.o.1       d.o.100 d.o.36 6 months d.o.
15 Peter Mullet d.o.1       York River, Lot 32100 d.o.30 6 months * These 4 men have built a home
and improved near Charlotte Town
16 Thomas English d.o.1       York River, Lot 32100 d.o.24 6 months * These 4 men have built a home
and improved near Charlotte Town
17 James Simmons d.o.1       York River, Lot 32100 d.o.28 6 months * These 4 men have built a home
and improved near Charlotte Town
18 John Benhoe [Burrow?] d.o.1       York River, Lot 32100 d.o.27 6 months * These 4 men have built a home
and improved near Charlotte Town
19 Stephen McConnell d.o.1       Elliott River, Lot 65100 d.o.40 6 months Has planted potatoes on his land
and improved several acres
20 Pat'k Griffin d.o.1       Belfast Village Lot 57 ? d.o.25 6 months  
21 Dan'l Dennock [Dymock] d.o.1       d.o. ? d.o.29 6 months Has planted and improved near Charlottetown
22 Francis Jemmison [nn] Drummer1       d.o. ? d.o.16 6 months  
23 William Rielly Private1       Wheatley River, Lot 24 ? d.o.22 6 months  
24 James Osborne d.o.1       York River, Lot 32 ? d.o.28 6 months  
25 Alex'r Fraser ?11  2 East River, Lot 47 ? d.o.42 6 months  
26 Daniel Connolly Private1       Lot 24 ? d.o.   6 months Gone a fishing not Certified
27 Patk Washington d.o.1               6 months  
28 Thomas Tankard d.o.1       Lot 24 ? d.o.45 6 months  
29* John Hardy Quartermaster1               * One of two men lost in Ice. See Below.

N.B. The original party was 33. Three of them returned to Halifax from Chedebucto, and 2 were lost in the Ice last April.

*Note: Quartermaster, John Hardy, formerly with Captain Hierlihy's Connecticut Regiment and now with the Royal Nova Scotia Volunteers, drowned, April, 1783 at Chedebucto Bay, on their way to Halifax N.S. Apparently their ship became icebound and in attempts to free same, Hardy and one other, both referred to in the line above lost their lives. This information from J. David Clark.

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