Author: HECTOR JOHN MUNN
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493151401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In the summer of 1806 the vessel the Spencer left Oban, Scotland headed for Canada to pick up a load of lumber. But first it came to anchor off the island of Colonsay and took aboard 115 Gaelic speaking emigrants and their baggage. They were going to Prince Edward Island where Lord Selkirk had promised them land to be bought outright or on contract. The passengers were related in some way to two family heads named McNeill and McMillan. For example 20 year old James Munn had just married Elizabeth McMillan and their siblings James McMillan and Ann Munn would be married as soon as they reached PEI. Why these couples and their other family members wanted to leave Colonsay is the story told here. Events of Scottish history may have made it necessary to emigrate at that time and we speculate as to how it was financially possible. The McMillans and the Munns would fit with prior Selkirk Settlers by taking up property as neighbors in Belle River and Wood Islands where they would raise double cousin children, start a school, start a church and begin businesses and farms. Eventually, after two generations at Belle River, circumstances urged grandson James H. Munn to migrant to western Canada and on to the Washington Territory where homestead land was available to hardened pioneers. The story is only one many that track the western migration from Europe to the Americas.
THE 1806 VOYAGE OF THE SPENCER:
Author: HECTOR JOHN MUNN
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493151401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In the summer of 1806 the vessel the Spencer left Oban, Scotland headed for Canada to pick up a load of lumber. But first it came to anchor off the island of Colonsay and took aboard 115 Gaelic speaking emigrants and their baggage. They were going to Prince Edward Island where Lord Selkirk had promised them land to be bought outright or on contract. The passengers were related in some way to two family heads named McNeill and McMillan. For example 20 year old James Munn had just married Elizabeth McMillan and their siblings James McMillan and Ann Munn would be married as soon as they reached PEI. Why these couples and their other family members wanted to leave Colonsay is the story told here. Events of Scottish history may have made it necessary to emigrate at that time and we speculate as to how it was financially possible. The McMillans and the Munns would fit with prior Selkirk Settlers by taking up property as neighbors in Belle River and Wood Islands where they would raise double cousin children, start a school, start a church and begin businesses and farms. Eventually, after two generations at Belle River, circumstances urged grandson James H. Munn to migrant to western Canada and on to the Washington Territory where homestead land was available to hardened pioneers. The story is only one many that track the western migration from Europe to the Americas.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493151401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In the summer of 1806 the vessel the Spencer left Oban, Scotland headed for Canada to pick up a load of lumber. But first it came to anchor off the island of Colonsay and took aboard 115 Gaelic speaking emigrants and their baggage. They were going to Prince Edward Island where Lord Selkirk had promised them land to be bought outright or on contract. The passengers were related in some way to two family heads named McNeill and McMillan. For example 20 year old James Munn had just married Elizabeth McMillan and their siblings James McMillan and Ann Munn would be married as soon as they reached PEI. Why these couples and their other family members wanted to leave Colonsay is the story told here. Events of Scottish history may have made it necessary to emigrate at that time and we speculate as to how it was financially possible. The McMillans and the Munns would fit with prior Selkirk Settlers by taking up property as neighbors in Belle River and Wood Islands where they would raise double cousin children, start a school, start a church and begin businesses and farms. Eventually, after two generations at Belle River, circumstances urged grandson James H. Munn to migrant to western Canada and on to the Washington Territory where homestead land was available to hardened pioneers. The story is only one many that track the western migration from Europe to the Americas.
A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the Year 1760 to 1819, with an Appendix
Author: Charles Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the Year 1760 to 1810
Author: Charles Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795–1798
Author: Mr Andrew David
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409482294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with letters and the journal of his journey across Mexico (1793). Aiming to complete the work left unfinished by Cook's third voyage, Broughton surveyed the coasts of Japan, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin and Korea, despite being wrecked on an uncharted reef off the Ryukyu Islands in the middle of the mission.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409482294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with letters and the journal of his journey across Mexico (1793). Aiming to complete the work left unfinished by Cook's third voyage, Broughton surveyed the coasts of Japan, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin and Korea, despite being wrecked on an uncharted reef off the Ryukyu Islands in the middle of the mission.
A Voyage to the South Atlantic and Round Cape Horn Into the Pacific Ocean
Author: James Colnett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108048358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
An account of an expedition to Antarctica in 1793-4, written by the Ship's Captain and first published in 1798.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108048358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
An account of an expedition to Antarctica in 1793-4, written by the Ship's Captain and first published in 1798.
William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798
Author: Andrew David
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1134767501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1134767501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.
Catalogue of the Public Library of Haverhill
Author: Haverhill Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1766
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
... Thurston Genealogies
Author: Brown Thurston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Proceedings of the eighth American scientific congress held in Washington May 10-18, 1940
Author: Paul Henry Oehser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description