Description by George T. Bates, The Great Exodus of 1749, in Collections of
The Nova Scotia Historical Society
Last Name First Name Ship Register Occupation Comment
Cannon Thomas Baltimore Esquire Bates says "Disappeared from
Halifax - likely slipped away to New England."
Ship: Baltimore
Date: June 1749 (Arrival)
Departing: unknown
Arriving: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Master: Edward Cook
Ship Type: unknown
Columns represent: Register Number, Ship*, Year,* Master*, Gender*
Destination*,
First Name, Last Name, Comment, Occupation, Accompanied by, Total in party,
Comments.
1085 Thomas Cannon Esquire 4 Male Servants 5
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.
Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Ann
Gravesend, England to Savannah, Georgia
1 February 1733
The commander of the ship was Captain Thomas. The Ann was a galley of above
200 tons.
The settlers for the new colony of Georgia in America sailed from England
in November of 1732. The colonists, sent at Trustees' expense, sailed from
Gravesend on Friday, November 17, 1732. They disembarked first on January
20. 1733 at Beaufort, Port Royal Island, South Carolina, where they stayed
until January 30. They then boarded a 70 ton sloop and 5 small sloops and
sailed up the Savannah River. They disembarked February 1, 1733, on Georgia
soil at the foot of a pine-covered bluff.
The colony, led by James Oglethorpe was established as a refuge for English
debtors and also served to create a buffer between Carolina and Florida,
which was controlled by Spain.
The columns are Name, Age, Occupation or Family Connection, and Disposition
by 1754. The Official Position in Georgia is also given for those
passengers marked with (*). The positions are listed below in the
Formatter's notes.
6 Cannon, Clementine 3 Daughter to Richard Supposedly
murdered (?)
7 Cannon, James 7m Son to Richard Died on Ann
Nov 26, 1732
8 Cannon, Marmaduke 9 Son to Richard No record
after 1741
9 Cannon, Mary 33 Wife to Richard Dead, July
22, 1733
10 Cannon, Richard 36 Caldendar & Carpenter Dead, 1735
46 Hicks, Mary Servant to Richard Cannon No record
after 1733
47 Hodges, Elizabeth, 16 Daughter to Richard Dead, August
4, 1735
48 Hodges, Mary 42 Wife to Richard Apparently
in Georgia
49 Hodges, Mary 18 Daughter to Richard Dead, March
24, 1738
50* Hodges, Richard 50 Basketmaker Dead, July
20, 1733
51 Hodges, Sarah 5 Daughter to Richard Apparently
in Georgia
Formatter's notes:
Passenger numbers were added by the formatter.
The following 2 infants died on the voyage:
7 James Cannon
The source for this list and information about the voyage was: "Georgia
Journeys, Being an Account of the Lives of Georgia's Original Settlers and
Many Other Early Settlers from the Founding of the Colony in 1732 until the
Institution of Royal Government in 1754." By Sarah B. Gover Temple and
Kenneth Coleman, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1961,
Appendix, pages 295-299
Ship: Charlton
Departing:
Arriving: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Master: Richard Ladd
Ship Type: Frigate, 395 tons
Columns represent:
Register No. Name, Occupation, Comments (other columns included captains
name - Ladd, ship name - Charlton, Gender - all male, Destination - all
Halifax)
6 William Cannon & wife Mariner Anson
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
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..
Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Fortune
Arrived Plymouth, Massachusetts
November 9, 1621
Burthen 55 tons
Thomas Barton, Master
8 John Cannon
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality..to the American Plantations
1600-1700. Edited by John Camden Hotten. Along with other sources compiled
including "Saints and Strangers"
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