I would be very interested in corresponding with anyone that can trace their linage back to one of the immigrants found on the following list of land bounty recipients. Boonesborough Township is located on (or near) Long Cane Creek in Abbeville County. I would like to know if anyone has any proof as to the name of the vessel they arrived on. Boonesborough Township Council Journal 29, page 13 Meeting of February 10, 1763 His Excellency the Governor acquainted the Board that a vessel was arrived in the Port of Charles Town with about seventy persons from Ireland who were come into this Province on the encouragement of Bounty given by an Act of Assembly passed the 25th day of July 1761 That in order no time might be lost in settling those persons in either of the two new Townships lately laid out for foreign Protestants he had ordered those people to attend with their petitions. His Honor the Lieutenant Governor thereupon observed that in order to distinguish those townships from the others in the Province name should be given them and proposed that the one at Long Cane Creek should be called Boonesborough and the other Belfast. The council agreed in opinion with his Honor and it was Ordered accordingly. The petitioners were thereupon call in when they were severally sworn to their family rights and having produced Certificates of their being Protestants the same were read and approved to. The following petitions for Warrants of Survey of land & ca were then presented and read VIZ NAME ACRES John Forsith 100 Andrew Seawright 300 Richard Brown 100 David Martin 100 Mary Martin 100 James Seawright 100 James Wason 100 James McElrath 100 John Dickson 100 William McDowell 250 Michael Dickson 200 Elizabeth Seawright 100 David McCrory 100 Jean Dixon 100 Robert Thompson 100 Alexander McCraken 100 Henry Templeton 350 Elizabeth Mathews 100 Hugh Kingan 100 Francis Martin 250 James Campbell 100 Matuerin Colvill 100 Samuel Paxton 250 George Seawright 100 JAMES R. HATHORN 100 John Baxter 200 Hugh Montgomery 100 John Seawright 100 Samuel Seawright 250 Elizabeth Seawright 100 Sarah Martin 100 John Martin 100 Grizel Dixon 100 JAMES HATHORN 300 John McCulloch 100 Jane McCulloch 100 Elizabeth McCulloch 100 Janet McCulloch 100 Jean McCulloch 100 Alexander McCulloch 100 Helen Seawright 100 Rev. John Baxter 500