A LIST OF THE COLONELS… G.B. War Office Colonel Blakeney’s Regiment of Foot. Lt.Robert Dalrymple. 26 Dec 1739 (son of ................... ?) Ensign John Dalrymple 12 Jan 1740 (d. 1789 at Culhorn, Wigtownshire, 5th Earl of Stair ?) Title in 1929. “The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers” http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p_BfsBzDzWYC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22Ensign+Robert+Dalrymple%27&source=bl&ots=A-pMtnyhVu&sig=Ndd9xO28p5ZtK3XpDmkCDY-eeMI&hl=en&ei=1iArTYnQGIrQcYLv_KkB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Dalrymple&f=false ………………………………………………………………………………………………. CALENDAR OF TREASURY BOOKS. Vol. 4. 1739-41 March 8 1739. 35. Memorial to Sir Robert Walpole from Col. William Blakeney, dated Westminster. Is under orders to proceed to America to raise a regiment of foot of 30 companies. Clothing for same has been already provided, part of which will come with Lord Cathcart, For the subsistence money 7437l. 8s. 6d. may be sufficient for him to carry with him in specie, but other charges for provisions, transport, intelligence, &c., will arise which will be uncertain and cannot be depended on “which, as he has heard, was the case under Major General Hill in the year 1711. That the value of each specie of money ought to be so far ascertained as it may be the same with the specie and value in which the body of the troops under Lord Cathcart is to be paid for preventing all occasions of mutiny on their joyning. That be is credibly informed the men in America have an aversion to listing themselves as soldiers, apprehending that they will be engaged for life, therefore to encourage them to take on it will be necessary that his Majesty's proclamation be issued assuring them that such as desire it shall be discharg'd the service and set down again in their respective provinces after the expedition is over.” 1½ pages. [Treasury Board Papers CCCII. No. 34.] http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91934 ……………………………………………………………………………………………… “America’s First Marines” “By 21 June 1740 Col. William Blakeney had arrived at New York from England with Lieutenants. http://www.marinecorpsgazette-digital.com/marinecorpsgazette/201011?pg=56#pg56 Regiment in Battle of Culloden Moor. 16 April 1746. Blakeney’s Regiment. IRISH …………………………………………………………………………………………… George Osborne Sayles - 1982 - History - 371 pages Col. William Blakeney. A Lt. Col. in the Army— supported Lord Carlisle — and was recommended for a military pension, but it has not yet been granted. ... books.google.com.au/books?isbn=0907628125...