Surnames: Baily, Beechey, Blackmore, Buchan, Campbell, Chappel, Clark, Cormack, Curtis, Howley, Lewis, Micmacs, Nicholas, Parry, Peyton, Power, Saunders, Sweetman, etc. Contemporaries of famous Americans � M. Lewis and William Clark� who with others and a Newfoundland dog completed a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the years 1804 to 1806, in search of a North West Passage water route. Question: What were the names of the individuals who accompanied Lewis and Clark? �Timeline�....."quotations"..taken from the publication titled �The Beothucks or Red Indians...the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland� by James P. Howley, F.G.S. ...Cambridge: at the University Press 1915 1780-1813...page 176...�David Buchan was born in Scotland in 1780. In 1806 he held a Lieutenant�s commission in the British Navy. Exactly when he first came to Newfoundland I have been unable to ascertain, but Lieut. Chappel in his Voyage of the 'Rosamund' speaks of Buchan in 1813 as having been several years engaged in surveying the coast line.� 1802-1803....page 179...�He married a Miss Maria Adye about 1802-03. From his granddaughter, Miss Eva Buchan of 17 Kidbrooke Park Road, Blackheath, S.E., England, I have learned some few further particulars of Capt. Buchan, and have been also kindly furnished with a photograph of him copied from an oil painting.....Her father was his eldest son and was with him on his Arctic Expedition, and she often heard him describe it. He died when she was quite young. She does not say what other descendants Capt. B. left. On her grandmother�s side, two of her great uncles were distinguished officers, the one under Wellington, and the other a Flag-Lieut with Nelson.� abt. 1805-1810 birth of a son named David, to Capt. David Buchan and his wife (nee Adye/Eddy)..from another source: 1833.....on July 4th, 1833 Capt. David Buchan of the yacht �Forte� married at Halifax, son of David Buchan, High Sherriff of this Island (Newfoundland) 1808...page 176..�I find the name of Capt. David Buchan, J.P., together with the names of R. Parry, Surrogate, and Josiah Blackmore, J.P., signed to a decree of the Surrogate Court at Placentia, Sept. 12, 1808, in a suit of Maurice Power versus Thos. Baily, agent for Saunders, Sweetman & Saunders. 1810-1820....caption under photo: �Capt. David Buchan, R.N. who made the memorable expeditions to Red Indian Lake in 1810-11 and again in 1820.� another source: 1810....�His vessel, schooner (the Adonis) was anchord in Ship Cove (now Botwood) and made secure for the winter by heavy chains passed around the trunks of stout trees on shore.� 1813....page 177...�In 1813 his ship, together with the �Rosamund�, Capt. Campbell, convoyed the Newfoundland fishing fleet home to England. They left St. John�s in December, and had a very stormy passage. from Prowse::1815...26th of August, Captain David Buchan, R.N., took possession of St. Pierre and Miquelon...source Prowse, page 655...also Battle of Waterloo. Second Treaty of Paris. Last Treaty made between England and France about the Newfoundland Fishery. 1816...page 177....�In 1816 he was promoted to Commander, and was again on this station. During the absence of the Governor that winter he acted as his deputy in command here.� 1817-1818...page 177...�Again during the following winter of 1817-18�.....�From the records we learn that Buchan had the distribution of 10,000. pounds stg. sent by the British Government for the relief of the distressed.� 1818....page 177...�During the summer of 1818 two celebrated Arctic expeditions were undertaken, the one in command of Ross and Parry, was sent in search of a North West Passage, the other in command of Capt. Buchan and Lieut. Franklin, proceeded towards the pole by way of Spitzbergen. Capt. Buchan in the �Dorothea� was in chief command, while Lieut. Franklin in the �Trent� was second. This was the celebrated, and ill-fated Sir John Franklin�s first expedition into Arctic waters. Other heros of Arctic fame took part in this expedition, Beechey was First. Lieut;, and Back, Admiralty Mate on board the �Trent� with Franklin.� 1819....page 179...�Substance of Mr. Curtis�s Story...In the October of 1819, I left St. Mary�s to go to Twillingate where Mr. John Peyton wanted me to build a schooner......� 1820....page 178...�During the year 1820 Buchan acted as floating Surrogate in the �Egeria� at Harbour Grace.� 1822....page 178...�In 1822, Buchan was tried by court-martial, at St. John�s on board H.M.S. �Albion� for some alleged disobedience of orders, but he was honourably acquitted. The charge was brought against him by Capt. Nicholas. 1824...page 176...�In 1824, two Canadian Indians (Micmacs?) reported seeing a party of Red Indians, with two canoes, on the right bank of the Exploits River, about half way between the coast and the great lake.� 1825-1826...page 178...�In 1825 he was appointed Surrogate, and at the first term of the Supreme Court in 1826, High Sheriff. Previous to this date he had been made a Justice of the Peace for the Island.� 1828...page 179...�I learn from a letter of Mr. W.E. Cormack that Buchan was in Newfoundland as late as 1828.� from another source: 1833.....on July 4th, 1833 Capt. David Buchan of the yacht �Forte�married at Halifax, son of David Buchan, High Sherriff of this Island (Newfoundland) 1835...page 179...�Again from the records, a letter from Col. Secretary, Mr. Joseph Crowdy of date Sept. 1, 1835 acknowledges receipt of a letter from Capt. Buchan tendering his resignation of the High Sheriffship, dated August 27th, 1835. He probably left the country for good that year.� 1838-1839....page 179...�I learn from Barrow�s �Arctic Voyages� that Buchan was lost in the �Upton Castle�, coming from India, a ship that was never heard of after the 8th of December 1838. His name was removed from the list of living Captains in 1839. Dear Fellow Listers, I would be delighted to receive more 'timeline' information about this man named David Buchan and his family of inlaws, ancestors and descendants. Sincerely, Lloyd __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com