On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 11:17:24 -0500 "jimmcdonald" <jim91429@email.msn.com> writes: >7-8-2000 > >George Majoribanks arrived in Virginia Colony in >1716 aboard the ship "Elizabeth and Ann." > >An account of this voyage is available on >RootsWeb.com ... >Jim McDonald OK I followed your instructions & arrived at: http://istg.rootsweb.com/v2/1700v2/elizabeth&ann17160114.html I compared what Leigh Smith wrote us (the list) 8 Jun 2000 and guess this is where she read of KB8/66 at Kew because this web page mentions KB8/66 at Kew and is word for word the same but has more. This web page tells us that William R. Williams is the researcher & is researching because some think his Kerrs descend from the Kerr deported on this ship. It says the book that Leigh mentioned came to him via interlibrary loan from Jacksonville University Library. That makes it easier to order it. It says: "* [means] These prisoners were probably some of the followers of the Pretender captured at Preston", so you Georges need to get an asterisk for Geo. Marchbanks. The only one with a star is Alexr Kerr and he has a link to the same page. I wonder if they would like to give a link from George to Leigh's web page on George. So, Roger, you will want to look at that url when you have time. I think Williams & the webmaster of that page could use your help as you look at the papers at Kew. I found it interesting that this is the only passenger list for Yorktown VA. I guess there are other passenger lists & they will be put on the web later. Also on this web page it said "convicted at Chester of high treason; accepted 'transport' rather than hanging until not dead etc.;"? Could you spend a little time hanging from a rope & then go free? I thought hanging almost always broke your neck & you died quickly. I could see being hoisted off the ground & shocking a while as a punishment, but I think this is surely miswritten when it says "hanging until NOT dead". I thought the sentence "You shall be hung until dead", was just for emphasis on this being a death sentence. Is this like a trial by water, except that trial by water was a "mo win" situation. The link from this page to http://istg.rootsweb.com/v2/scansv2/docsv2/elizabeth&ann17160114_pprs.htm l sounds familiar. It is James Urquhart deposition that some prisoners bought their freedom at Cork & other places, but he was in chains & it would be too noisy to beat them off so he arrived in VA then there is the complaint that deportation was to be their punishment & not deportment + indenturing. It calls the book "Harrison Ainsworth's 'Preston Fight.'" while the 1st web page just stated the publishers of this book. This page also has a list of the prisoners on the ship plus names those that bought freedom at Liverpool & at Cork. Seeing the clans on the list, I wonder if I should print the list & take it to the other tents next time I go to the games, to see if they are researching their clansmen on this ship & what they have read from Kew or elsewhere. Actually that is a job for Georges. We need more people to attend the games. This would give a George something to do at the games. -- James W. Green III/285 Agnew Rd/Winnsboro SC 29180 CSA home: 803-635-9236 http://www.Genealogy.Org/~green & http://millennium.fortunecity.com/byker/362/ ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.