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1824 JAMAICA ALMANAC

JAMAICA MILITIA

[Date following a name is the date of appointment to the position or rank. Month/Day/Year]

Captain-General and Commander in Chief: His Grace William Montagu, Duke of Manchester

Aides-de-Camp: Lieut. Col. Walter Minto 12/19/1816; Lieut. Col. Charles Grant 11/26/1819

Adjutant-General: Col. John William Spencer Griffith 7/3/1823

Assistant Adjutant-General: Lieut. Col. Thomas P. Rogers 10/12/1820

Assistant Adjutant-General: Lieut. Col. William Dawes Quarrell 4/24/1819

Quartermaster-General: Col. William Jackson 6/14/1821

Deputy Quartermaster-General for Middlesex: Lieut. Col. Thomas William Horlock 9/5/1818

Deputy Quartermaster-General for Surrey: Lieut. Col. Thomas Addison 8/30/1814

Deputy Quartermaster-General for Cornwall: Major Luke Bramwell 3/9/1812

Assistant Quartermaster-General: Lieut. Colonel William Shand 11/30/1819

Muster-Master-General: William Dollar

Deputy Muster-Master-General for Surrey: Ensign Abraham Alexander Lindo 6/12/1811

Deputy Muster-Master-General for Cornwall: Ensign Philip Levys 12/24/1810

Judge-Advocate-General: John Gale Vidal 3/13/1822

Assistant Judge-Advocate-General: Henry John Ross 10/2/1820

Deputy Assistant Judge-Advocate-General for Surrey: Thomas James Hall 6/28/1821

Deputy Assistant Judge-Advocate-General for Cornwall: Frederick Burt Zincke 1/31/1811

Inspector General of Hospitals and Physician General: Sir Michael B. Clare, Knight, M.D. (with rank of Major-General) 1/17/1809

Deputy Physician General: James W. Buchanan 9/5/1818

Deputy Physician-General and Inspector of Hospitals for the County of Middlesex: William Dutton Turner 11/3/1821

Surgeon-General: Richard Chamberlaine 7/8/1820

Apothecary-General: Andrew Barclay 7/20/1819

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MAJOR-GENERALS

Thomas Murphy 7/1/1801

David Kerr 4/1/1805

Charles Grant 1/18/1806

Hon. P. Robertson 11/26/1807

John Shand

Nathaniel Marston 9/16/1809

Hon. William J. Stevenson 12/21

James Stewart 1/3/1812

George Marshall 11/21/1816

Hon. James Clayton White

Hon. John R. Jackson 6/10/1820

Alexander Stevenson 3/24/1821

James C. Pownall 11/1/1822

 

Major Commandant of Artillery for Middlesex: Thomas Bainbridge 5/29/1813

Major Commandant of Artillery for Surrey: Hon. Joseph Barnes 8/1/1810


MIDDLESEX REGIMENT OF HORSE

Colonel: Charles McDermot 6/19/1818

Lieut. Colonels: Robert Charles Gibb 7/15/1818; Francis Bowen 10/6/1818

Majors: Alexander McInnis 6/24/1818; David Hollingsworth 4/16/1819

ST. CATHERINE'S TROOP

Captain: Thomas B. Smith 11/28/1821

Lieutenant: Diederick Cooper -/23/1819

Lieutenant: John Lorenzo Edwards 10/10/1821

Lieutenant: J. B. Burrowes 11/28/-

Cornet: James McIntosh -/21/1819

Cornet: James Tulloch 12/10/1821

Quartermaster: Burke Prendergast

Surgeon: George Cox 1/30/1822

ST. JOHN'S TROOP

Captain: John Gaynor 10/24/1818

Lieutenant: Michael Garvey

Lieutenant: Adam Steel

Cornet: William Hanson 3/15/1823

Quartermaster: Fitzherbert Batty 2/5/1823

Surgeon: Marcus W. Loane 10/2/1806? [last number smudged]

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John Skelton 11/19/?

ST. DOROTHY'S TROOP

Captain: John Townshend 11/6/1819

Captain en seconde: 5/10/1822

Lieutenant: Andrew Handyside 8/11/1817

Cornet: William Septimus Greene 7/4/1822

Quartermaster: Francis McCook 10/11/1821? [last number pale]

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John Skelton 11/19/1806

ST. THOMAS' IN THE VALE TROOP

Captain: Francis John French 4/24/1819

Lieutenant: Alexander Gilzean 7/14/1818

Lieutenant: Don. McIntosh 4/17/1819

Cornet: Colin Graham Simpson

Quartermaster: Richard H. Sharpe

Surgeon: John Ewart

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John Cairncross

CLARENDON TROOP

Captain: William Ayton 2/15/1820

Lieutenant: Thomas Montgomery

Cornet: William H. Duke

Surgeon: William Murray 6/12/1821

Surgeon en sec.: John McNaught 10/3/1818

Deputy Judge-Advocate: William Page Clarke 8/22/1822

VERE TROOP

Captain: John Hewitt Smith 2/25/1809

Lieutenant: William Goodall 10/14/1819

Lieutenant: Samuel Booth 3/8/1821

Cornet: George Burrell

Quartermaster: Arthur Murray 2/28/1821

Surgeon: James Hare 5/1/1822

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John Penny 9/10/?

MANCHESTER TROOP

Captain: William King 9/5/1823

Cornet: Ezekiel Wright

Quartermaster: Charles J. Forbes 11/25/1822

Surgeon: John Britton 10/6/1821

ST. MARY'S TROOPS

EASTERN

Captain: John Wade 1/31/1822

Lieutenant: William Kelly 11/10/1820

Lieutenant: Matthew Armstrong 2/14/1822

Cornet: Robert Dunbar 3/20/1822

Quartermaster: William Mostyn 2/8/1822

Quartermaster en sec.: John Hoseason[? first letter faded] 12/13/?

Surgeon: William Norman 10/13/1809

ST. MARY'S TROOPS

WESTERN

Captain: John Kelly 11/4/1820

Lieutenant: William Oldaker 7/13/1818

Lieutenant: David Hislop 8/24/1822

Cornet: R. C. Plunkett

Quartermaster: Charles Boyd 8/23/1823

Surgeon: John Nicol 1822

Deputy Judge-Advocate: David MacVicar 2/16/1807

ST. ANN'S TROOPS

EASTERN

Captain: T. Geohagen 6/16/1817

Lieutenant: Ferdinand Hansbrow 1/8/1819

Lieutenant: Isaac Higgin

Cornet: James Betty

Quartermaster: Richard Weightman 2/23/1819

Surgeon: John Johnson 12/22/1817

Deputy Judge-Advocate: Anthony Bury 1/30/1819

ST. ANN'S TROOPS

WESTERN

Captain: Samuel Whitehorne Rose 1/29/1814

Captain en sec.: John Lynch 7/13/1818

Lieutenant: John Hawthorn 1/17/1809

Lieutenant: David Ingram 10/11/1821

Cornet: William Codner 10/11/1821

Quartermaster: William Ross 7/5/1822

Surgeon: John Anderson 1/29/1814

Deputy Judge-Advocate: Anthony Bury 1819

Adjutant: Isaac Higgin 3/13/1815

Surgeon: James McIntyre 5/23/1821

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John Alves 3/15/1809


MIDDLESEX REGIMENT OF FOOT

ST. CATHERINE's REGIMENT

Colonel: John Gordon Jackson 8/2/1820

Lieutenant Colonels: William Hewitt 5/18/1822; Rowland Williams 12/30/1822

Majors: Thomas Groser 12/30/1822; Herbert Jarrett James 10/18/1823

Artillery Company:

Captain: John Mitchell 12/5/1823

Lieutenant: John Dempster 5/31/1816

Lieutenant: George Groves 11/6/1823

Captains:

Alexander Deans 5/23/1809

Edward T. Guy 6/22/1821

Hugo James 4/30/1822

William Myers 5/17/?

George James Marshall

David Skaife 12/30/?

John Archer 8/1/1823

Alexander Grant 11/6/?

Lieutenants:

William McLeod Howatt

William Duncan 5/18/1822

William F. Clement

James Holden 8/22/?

Samuel Dare, acting Adjutant 9/27/?

James Dawson 12/30/?

Thomas James Bernard 7/28/1823

Walter G. Stewart 11/30/?

Edward Shaw

Ensigns:

John R. Phillips 5/17/1822

John D. Smith

William Hylton

Andrew G. Dignum

Richard R. Parker 11/6/1823

Colin Flyter 1/26/1824

Chaplain: Rev. Lewis Bowerbank

Quartermaster: William George Nunes 2/1/1821

Surgeon: Benjamin Whittaker 4/15/1813

Deputy Judge-Advocate: Edward Biggs 7/29/1822

Marshal: David Fonseca

ST. JOHN AND ST. DOROTHY's REGIMENT

Colonel: Thomas Smith 8/22/1822

Lieutenant Colonel: Gilbert Fairfax Wallis 4/11/1823

Major: Basil Pourie 12/29/1823

Captains:

Thomas Scott 8/25/1820

Alexander Lumsden 4/13/1822

William Robertson 1821

Duncan Forbes 4/15/1823

John Stiff 12/30/?

Lieutenants:

Timothy Flanagan 7/31/1819

James McIntosh 4/13/1822

Thomas Fraser 8/24/?

Robert Jackson 4/24/1823

Ensigns:

Turner Haslam 1/3/1817

John Blair 7/18/1821

Duncan Hamilton 4/13/1822

Stephen Hannaford, Adjutant 8/30/?

Chaplain: Rev. Thomas Alves

Quartermaster: S. P. Mendes 2/16/1815

Surgeon: William Smith 5/6/1809 [or 1800?]

Deputy Judge-Advocate: William G. Harrison 8/31/1816

Marshal: Stephen Crosby (St. John's)

ST. THOMAS' IN THE VALE REGIMENT

Colonel: Samuel Hyde 12/30/1823

Lieutenant Colonel: James Seton Lane 1/15/1824

Major: George Barriffe 1/15/1824

Captains:

Robert Page 12/24/1816

William Lord

James Grant 6/3/1823

John Campbell 8/29/?

George William Hamilton 1/15/1824

Jeremiah Hewer, acting Adjutant

Lieutenants:

Hugh D. McKay

Peter F. Garrigues 1/22/1823

William Palmer 8/30/1823

John McPherson 9/9/?

Edmund Sharp 1/15/1824

Ensigns:

Henry P. Bicknell 1/22/1823

John Hall 6/3/?

Edward Clouston 8/14/?

Henry Lowndes

F. Maynard

Chaplain: Rev. William G. Burton

Quartermaster: John Scarlett 12/19/1823

Surgeon: Hugh Edwards 6/21/1806

Deputy Judge-Advocate: J. Cairncross

Marshal: John Avis

CLARENDON REGIMENT

Colonel: Thomas Parkes Howell 2/15/1817

Lieutenant Colonels: Andrew Dunn 4/29/1823; Rowland Israell 11/6/1823

Majors: Charles Ayrey 4/22/1823; William Powell Trench 11/16/1823

Captains:

James Miller 3/31/1820

William King Stewart 7/21/1821

William W. Fearon 1822

William C. McKenzie 4/1/1820

Benjamin Binger 1823

William Collman

James W. Turner 7/25/?

Hibbert Oates 11/7/?

Edward Williams

Lieutenants:

Adam William Thorburn 2/14/1821

James Keith 3/7/?

Augustus E. Grant 1822

George Russell

William Rose 8/30/?

Alexander Campbell

Ronert Innes 4/18/1823

John Rickard 4/24/1823

John Stirk 7/17/1821

Evan McPherson 11/22/1823

Valentine B. Cock, Acting Adjutant, Lowland Division

Andrew Drummond

Ensigns:

Donald Dingwall 10/11/1822

Donald McLean 11/27/?

William Mitchell 12/28/?

Curtis Phil. Berry 4/11/1823

Peter Anderson, Acting Adjutant Mountain Division

Colin Campbell 11/22/?

Joseph Grose

John Fearon

Chaplain: Rev. G. C. R. Fearon

Quartermaster: James Sinclair 4/23/1819

Quartermaster: Walter J. Carruthers 9/26/1822

Surgeon: William Sells 2/12/1816

Assistant Surgeon: William McCartney 11/15/1815

Deputy Judge-Advocate: Edward Bunn 8/8/1820

Marshal: John Thompson

VERE REGIMENT

Colonel: John Holmes 12/8/1817

Lieutenant Colonel: George Allen 2/22/1820

Major: Edward White 6/17/1820

Captains:

Malcolm McLeod 8/13/1812

Patrick Mahon 6/16/1821

John D. Padmore 10/20/1822

Walter Huey

Lieutenants:

James McIntosh 7/4/1822

Charles Sconce 10/21/?

David Neave 4/26/1823

Randall Kent 7/15/?

Ensigns:

William Lewis 7/4/1822

James Williams 10/25/?

Henry P. Matthews 5/2/1823

William Lowe 7/15/1823

Adjutant: Joshua Dunham 9/5/?

Chaplain: Rev. Joseph Jefferson

Quartermaster: William Owen 4/23/1822

Surgeon: John Nesbit [?]

Assistant Surgeon: Patrick B. Ferguson

Deputy Judge-Advocate: George Cosens Richards

Marshal: William Baldwin

MANCHESTER REGIMENT

Colonel: Thomas Powell 2/3/1823

Lieutenant Colonel: James Brown 2/4/1823

Major: Henry Rhodes Morgan 4/13/1823

Captains:

Adam White 8/16/1815

Thomas W. Sill 1816

John Kent Boorn 11/5/1819

George Lindsay 9/30/1820

Samuel Glanville 5/23/1821

Alexander Robertson

Lieutenants:

Randall Dale 6/14/1817

William Abell 11/2/1819

Thomas Pitter

Richard Bygrave

Theodore Stone 9/30/1820

John Coley 1/25/1823

Ralph Thompson 2/19/?

Ensigns:

Andrew B. Delap 10/29/1819

James Sutherland 11/1/1819

John Dobson

George Powell

William Williamson 1821

John Davy, 1/25/1822 Adjutant 8/15/?

Hugh McKay 2/24/1823

Chaplain: Rev. Robert W. Dallas

Quartermaster: George McCorkell 2/21/1823

Surgeon: Isaac McCorkell

Assistant Surgeon: Samuel Cunningham

Deputy Judge-Advocate: Charles James Pitter 6/3/1823

Marshal: William Manning

ST. MARY's REGIMENT

Colonel: Hon. Henry Cox 3/24/1821

Lieutenant Colonels: Larchin Gordon 4/26/1821; William Heslop 11/15/1822

Majors: John Waters 4/26/1821; Charles Smith 11/16/1822

Captains:

William Peterswald 10/29/1816

James Lawes

Ray [or Bay] Hagart 11/19/1817

William McDowall 9/23/1818

Robert S. Thompson 11/10/1820

James Bigsby 4/21/1821

Alexander Cameron

Fred. Tharp 6/21/?

John Ray 7/20/?

James Grant

Lieutenants:

James Walker 5/16/1820

Donald Brearcliffe 8/19/?

Donald Stewart

William John Neilson 7/18/1821

James Deans

George Merrillies 8/23/1822

Thomas Hooper, Adjutant, 1822

Israel Merrick 6/30/1823

John Bridges 7/1/1823

John Clark 11/11/?

Nicholas Gyles

Ensigns:

Thomas Inkson 11/11/1820

Alexander Ritchie 7/25/1821

James H. Neilson

Alexander Paterson 12/15/?

Henry F. McPherson 8/24/1822

James Walker 9/7/?

Richard Gordon 4/5/1823

Moses Mawson

Henry Cox, junior 10/2/ ?

John Joseph Meatley

Chaplain: Rev. William Girod

Quartermaster: John Sutherland 9/3/1817

Surgeon: William Russell

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John R. Forbes 2/23/1819

Marshal: William Hendrick

ST. ANN's REGIMENT

Colonel: Thomas Ashmeade 11/29/1820

Lieutenant Colonels: Thomas Raffington 6/11/1812; George Fletcher Coward 11/14/1821

Majors: William Leevers 12/22/1821; William Parke 7/11/1822

Artillery

Captain: John Wilson 12/11/1820

Lieutenant: Adrian R. Tucker 2/24/?

Lieutenant: Alexander Chrystie 11/29/?

Captains:

James L. Hilton 2/1/1816

James Johnston 5/15/1817

Robert Grier Hamilton 11/7/1818

Adam Anderson 12/7/1818

Hamilton Brown 11/13/1819

David Brydon 5/20/1820

Samuel Drake

Gilbert William Senior 11/16/?

Bennett William Smith, junior 8/14/1822

Lieutenants:

David Chrystie 12/5/1818

Robert Fairweather 12/7/1818

James Austin

James Townson

Patrick McDonnell 2/7/1817

Ralph Walker 11/13/1819

George McFarlane 6/21/1820

Charles Smith

Henry Smallwood 3/15/1816

John Frederick Nembhard 12/31/1820

Henry A. Hull 11/30/1821

John Higginbottom 10/10/1822

E. F. Stanley 3/17/1820

Thomas Taylor 12/7/1822

Ensigns:

Jonathan Brown 11/21/1818

Peter Burbidge

Hugh Stewart 2/22/1820

Thomas Jobson

Alexander Pearson 6/14/?

John Codner

George Lennox 12/8/?

Raymond Shelly

George C. Pottinger 1/11/1821

Michael Smith, acting Adjutant

James Lowe 11/13/1819

Robert Grant 7/23/1821

Richard Hopkins 11/14/?

Robert Robinson 1/24/1822

Thomas McKean 4/13/?

William Rob 7/11/?

David McCaw 12/3/?

George Smyth 9/15/1823

Chaplain: Rev. George W. Bridges

Quartermaster: Samuel Summers 12/18/1822

Quartermaster: Thomas Taylor 7/28/1823

Surgeon: Francis Rob 9/23/1822

Assistant Surgeons: James Laing, Edward Tucker, G. R. Stennett

Deputy Judge-Advocate: John Banbury 12/11/1805

Marshal: Isaac Hyman


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