Royal Artillery Regiment Memorial To the Right Honorable Lord SIDNEY, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State &c &c &c The Memorial of the Officers, Artificers, & Labourers of the Civil Branch of the Ordnance Humbly Sheweth That they conceive a reduction of the Civil Branch of the Ordnance will take place when the Peace Establishment is form'd. That several of the Artificers having Applied to Brigadier General MARTIN Commanding the Royal Artillery to be discharged the service, he gave them Discharges, and are already settled in Nova Scotia. That the memorrialists actuated by other Principles, and holding it as a maxim, that their private intrest, is not to interfere with their public duty, have declin'd making any application for a Settlement as they are conscious that their labours and their Services must be wanted, while the Ordnance and Stores continue to be attach'd to the Service of the Army. That they present this address with no view to an immediate provision, That they mean only to inform His Excellency that a Sett of men who has zealously done their duty thro' the whole course of this War, and many of them thro' the former War, are determined to continue to do it while their services are required, and only wish for an Asylum for themselves and their families, when their personal exertions are no longer necessary. That trusting to His Excellency's unremitting Attention to relieve the distresses and grant protection to those who have faithfully done their duty They humbly pray. That His Excellency would be pleas'd to order that an allotment of Lands may be granted and set apart for them, in Nova Scotia, where they may shelter themselves and their families, when the Service shall no longer have occasion for them and their Labours. Stations Names Wives Children Commissary & Paymaster Alexander SCHAW Commissary of Stores George WRAY 1 2 Clerks of Stores Thomas Charles MAN 1 2 Robert MEAD 1 4 Conductors of Stores Henry UHTHOFF William HALL Thomas AUSTIN William PLANT 1 1 Lawrence R. STEPHENS William LAING Adam FIFE 1 2 David HARPER Agents of Transports James GREEN 1 5 William GIBSON Overseer of the Works Thomas AUSTIN Storekeeper & Paymaster Ordnance Francis STEPHENS 6 Clerk of Cheque Ordnance William SINCLAIR Paymasters Clerk William GORDON Carpenters Edward JOHNSTON Alexander COWAN 1 2 Coopers Thomas WALKER 1 3 Robert TILL 1 1 Armourers Joseph RUSSELL 1 4 William MOUNTFERD 1 Wheelers William COOK 1 1 Jacob Van RIPER John FITZPATRICK Harmon VAN RIPER 1 John SNIDER Smiths Joseph NIX 1 James LOVE 1 1 Collarmakers Henry COWER 1 2 Thomas BIRD 1 Printer William PARKER 1 2 Labourers John McNAIR 1 Lewis GREENFIELD 1 3 John McCAY 1 Richard MEAD Alexander McBEAN 1 1 John McCRAW 1 Zebulon SCOFIELD 1 1 William TAYLOR Asst. Commsys. of Horse Charles CURTIS 1 1 James FRASER 1 4 Jacob WYKOFF Conductors of Horse James STOKES 1 2 Peter DAVIDSON 1 Thomas THOMSON 1 3 Farriers Martin MARIGAN John BELL 3 John LAWSON 3 Drivers Thomas STEWART Robert COVENTRY John McBEAN Barny DONNALLY John HASTY James LAM, Junr. 1 1 Thomas GRIMMER 1 John FOSTER John GRAHAM John CORVAN William COLE Thomas GRACE 1 1 Daniel LAFFERTY William ROSE Malachah JONES James MAXWELL Mathew KENTON 1 1 John COLVIL Samuel MEAD Thomas WHITE David RICHARDSON Edward BRISTOL 1 Andrew BETTINGER 1 Francis BROOM John RYAN Peter AILWOOD Thomas ADDINSON George SURBERT John NOBLE John BARCLAY 1 William BOLTON James LANE, Senr. Robert CONYERS Drivers Joseph FREEMAN Baker STEAD John FITZPATRICK Conductors of Horse Ebenezer WHIPPLE Owen WILLIAMS Belonging to the Storekeeper Assistant in the Stores Peter McCAY 1 4 Master Armourer Henry WALKEYS 1 4 Cooper George CROSBY 1 1 Armourers & labourers Nathaniel CAMPBELL Mathew FORD 1 2 Edward TALLEN 1 Edward ANNELY Joseph HOLDSTOCK 1 John RYAN 1 4 George JACK 1 2 John STAKER Richard SPARKS Artillery Smith Robert SAMSON Artillery Carpenter John WARNOCK Great Britain, Public Record Office, Headquarters Papers of the British Army in America, PRO 30/55/9756. http://www.royalprovincial.com/military/civil/rar/rarmem1.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.362 / Virus Database: 199 - Release Date: 5/7/2002