UNOFFICIAL PASSENGER LIST The Brig TRUE BRITTAIN, Liverpool to Quebec, 1830. As gleaned from the newspaper, THE GLEANER AND NORTHUMBERLAND SCHEDIASMA. Chatham N.B.
This is a partial list as there were some 50 passengers aboard.
This presentation by Paul Delicaet.July 13,1830
The following memoranda was discovered in a bottle, which was picked up on the 30 June by Renaud Ashea, at the entrance to Shippagan Gully.I, Smith Grey, Linen Bleacher, a native of Beverly Yorkshire, with nearly 50 passengers on board, at present, the Brig True Britain, bound for Quebec, Capt. Balderson, Commander, about 200 miles from the above mentioned place, all of us at present being in tolerable good health, left Liverpool England, on the 27 April, 1830.
Its in our native country, we might have lived well, but trade being bad and taxes high, we were forced our land to sell. So straight into America, we all have ventured o'er. Hoping for better living yet, than were had heretofore.
31 May, 1830 Smith Grey, in the River St. LawrenceWitness: Johnathon Hunt.
Whoever finds this, please to publish it in the public papers, if it arrives in England, all witness their mark.
HORRISON, Mark Bleacher Native of Yorkshire McKAIR, John Bleacher Ireland WILLIAMS, Thomas Labourer Wales JONES, William Labourer Wales WALKER, Johnathon Labourer Yorkshire CLARKSON, Francis Labourer Yorkshire RANDLER, John Labourer Yorkshire WRAY, William Labourer Yorkshire SMITH, John Labourer Yorkshire GOODBURN, William Lead Miner Westmorland GOODBURN, George Lead Miner Westmorland GOODBURN, John Tailor Westmorland GOODBURN, Henry Miner Westmorland SAVAGE, Thomas Miner Westmorland