TYPICAL SAILING SHIP

Emigrants to AMERICA on the DIANA

September 1774.

From: No. 14 Autumn 1983 issue of "The KINTYRE Antiquarian & Natural History Society MAGAZINE" page 27.
"In No.1 [hard copy] of this Magazine, Mr. Angus MacVicar gave a list of Kintyre emigrants to North Carolina who sailed on the Ulysses in August, 1774.
Here follows a list of those who sailed from Greenock in September of the same year in the DIANA (Dugald Ruthven, Master).
The reasons given for their departure from their native shores was invariably given as "High Rents and Better Encouragement."
Their destination is described as- Wilmington, North Carolina, which was the port for the Cape Fear River basin, where Kintyre natives had settled as early as 1739.
In the list women are given their maiden names as was the Scottish custom. The men are farmers except where otherwise stated:" (Age in parentheses.)
William McDonald (40),
Isobel Wright (36),
Mary (4) & Jessy (2) McDonald;
Archibald Campbell (38),
Jean McNeil (32),
Mary (7),
Lachlan (2),
Grizel (6) Campbell,
Findlay Murchie (45),
Catherine Hendry (35),
Archd (10),
Charles (5),
Neil (3),
Barbara (½)
Duncan McRob, Taylor (26),
Elizabeth McMurchy (8);
Hugh Sillar (55),
Catherine Currie (62),
Mary Sillar (27).
Catherine Sillar (23);
Gilbert McKenzie (34),
Mary McKenzie (27);
Archd McMillan,
Patrick McMurchy (17), email a descendant
Elizabeth Kelso (50),
Hugh McMurchy (46),
Archd McMurchy (21),
Mary McMurchy (17). email a descendant
Elizabeth McMurchie (14),
Robert McMurchy (9);
Neil Hendry, Tailor, (27),
Coll McAlester, Tailor, (24),
Mary McAlester, (31)
John McVicar, Glasgow, Tailor (36),
Alexander Speir, Glasgow Clerk (19). email a descendant