Caribbeana Entries for Individuals from St. Vincent
Posted on April 16, 2007
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All names listed here appear on the Obelisk at St. Vincent unless otherwise noted. Reference to the obelisk is found in Caribbeana, Volume 1, Page 193[NOTE: The names appearing on the Obelisk at St. Vincent are individuals who fell in battle during the Second Carib War of 1795 - 1796.]
ALLEN, Mr.
ASHBURNER, Mr.
BROWN, Mr. (Adjutant of the Rangers)
CLAPHAM, Thomas
CRUIKSHANK, Duncan
CRUIKSHANK, Peter
DICKENSON, Mr.
FORBES, Mr.
GIBSON, Mr.
GILLIES, Mr.
GORDON, Mr. - Matson Letters - Dominica, Volume 1, Page 130 - 131
GORDON, Mr.
GRAEME, Mr.
GRANT, Alexander
GRANT, Thomas
GREIG, William
GREY, William
HAWKER, Lt. Thomas Jones (70th Regiment) - Monumental Inscriptions in Bath, England Volume 1, Page 127
HEPBURN, Mr.
HEPBURN, Philip
HODGSON, Mr.
HOWARD, Mr.
KEANE, Mr.
LAWSON, Mr.
LITTLEDALE, Mr.
McBROOM. John
McKAY, Mr.
McQUERTER, Mr.
MARSHALL, Mr.
NAGLE, Mr.
OLIVER, Dr. (Ensign of the Rangers died of his wounds)
OLIVER, Richard Smith, of Grenada, Volume 1, Page 152 & 155
OLIVER, Robert (Ensign in Colonel SETON’s Rangers)
PAYNE, Mr.
POPPLEWELL, Mr.
PRESTON, Joseph
ROBERTSON, Mr.
ROBINSON, Mr.
RYAN, Mr.
SEYMOUR, Mr.
SIMMONS, Mr.
SMITH, Mr.
STEEL, Mr.
TAYLOR, Mr.
TAYLOR, G.
TAYLOR, Thomas B.
WEIR, Mr.
WHITELAW, Mr.
WISEMAN, Mr.
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Other Caribbeana Entries for St. Vincent
YOUNG -
Volume I
Page 83 - A West Indianman.
This is an excellent illustration of a type of vessel formerly much used a
century ago. It is a reproduction of an oil painting, which I saw in a shop
window near Leicester Square last year, and recognizing the name Delaford
as the family estate of a former West Indian Governor, Sir William YOUNG,
1st Bart, I became the purchaser. The picture is on canvas, 4 feet by
2 feet 5 inches, and the salesman informed me that it was by HUGGINS,
marine painter to William IV, but it is signed “R. DODD 1787,” an artist who
also excelled in the same style as the former.
It will be noticed that this vessel carries a broadside of eleven guns, and is
apparently to all intents a fast sailing, lightly armed, 22-gun frigate. The
question arises, for what purpose were these vessels built? They were
no doubt owned privately, intended chiefly for passenger traffic, and
being strong enough to beat off most privateers, sailed independently,
whereas the ordinary heavy, slow-sailing, sugar-laden West-Indiamen
were always collected in a large fleet, and convoyed by several men-of-war.
On referring to the will of Sir W. YOUNG, 1st Bart., third Codicil, dated
6 April 1788 at St. Vincent (”Antigua,” iii. 280), it will be seen that he gave
to “Capt. George YOUNG of the ship Delaford now in St. Vincent L50.”
(This, of course, relates to our ship.) The Hon. George YOUNG, Member
of Council of St. Vincent, signed an affidavit as to the will, on 11 April 1788,
before Governor James SETON. He may have been related to the testator,
and the Captain was probably a Scotch cousin. There was, however,
another William YOUNG, Governor of Tobago, 1771, also of Grenada 1775,
who died s. p. about 1776 or 1777. — EDITOR
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Volume I
Page 354 - 355, Sir William YOUNG, Bart., F. R. S., M. P.
Sir William YOUNG, 2nd Bart., was born 1749, the eldest son of
Sir William YOUNG, 1st Bart., Governor of Dominica, and a native of
Antigua. He was at University College, Oxford, in 1768, travelled abroad
later, and published his “Journal” in 1774. In 1782 he was deputed by the
proprietors of Tobago to negotiate their interests at the French Court.
He entered Parliament in 1784, and sat for St. Mawes till 1806. In 1786
he was elected F. R. S., and in 1791 F. S. A. In 1791 he visited the W. I.,
and wrote “A Tour through the Windward Islands,” published in 1801
as an appendix to “An Historical Survey of St. Domingo,” by Bryan EDWARDS.
In 1795 he wrote “An Account of the Caribs of St. Vincent,” and in 1807
“The West Indian Common Place Book.” In 1807 he was appointed
Governor of Tobago, dying there January 1815. His portrait was engraved
by Tho. HOLLOWAY for the “European Magazine.” I do not know whence
the present one was derived. It is signed “J. BROWN delt. 1788.” “J. COLLYER sc.”
{See “D. N. B. for further details, also “Antigua,” iii. 280.}
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