Ship:
Ann
Date: June 1750
Departing: Helvoetslys/Rotterdam
Arriving:
Master: John Spurrier
Ship Type: Galley
"Sir, I am directed by my
Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to inform you, that the bearer of
this, John Spurrier, Master of the Ann from Rotterdam, has on board his vessel
280 Foreign Protestants or thereabouts procured by Mr. Dick, Merchant at
Rotterdam. These their Lordships desire you will receive and dispose of in the
best manner you are able, as a means of encouraging others of their countrymen
to follow, and that you will dismiss the vessel as soon as you conveniently
can."-- Thomas Hill to Governor Cornwallis,
"We have received a letter from Mr. Dick dated the 27th June NS, acquainting
us that the Ship Ann, John Spurrier, Master, has sailed from Helvoetslys with
312 foreign Portestants on board, a list whereof we herewith enclose to you,
together with a copy of Mr. Dick's instructions to the master of the
ship."
Mr. Dick in his letter acquaints us that there is a German gentleman on board,
John Eberhard Klages, who is a man of Fortune and Figure in his own county,
that he has paid the passage of sixteen people and a boy on condition that they
are to give him their fifty acres of land each and to continue with him and
cultivate it.
We recommend this gentleman to your particular countenance and regard, as you
must be sensible that his favorable representation of his reception and the
state of the settlement to his countrymen will be a great inducement to others
to resort to the Province and when the settlers who have engaged to convey
their fifty acres to him shall have cultivated them according to their
engagement with him we see no reason why you should not make fresh grants to
them.
We don't doubt but you will receive all these foreign Protestants in general in
kindest manner as our procuring a large number next year will depend upon the
accounts they send home.." Lords of Trade to
Cornwallis, 26 June 1750,
The attached list is dated 21 June 1750. There is a second list, dated 5 July
1750, but the spelling of the names is very botched. However, the head count on
this later list increases by 10 from the June list. These 10 may have been
picked up after initial departure. For this 2nd list, consult the above text,
page 69. Reconciliation will be a chore, and a good knowledge of German
surnames will likely prove useful.
[The Ann was a galley. On an earlier trip, in Sept 1746, she sailed from
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