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1787 JAMAICA ALMANAC

ARMY AND NAVY

Throughout the following Lists, those marked * are Members of the Council, and those marked with this mark @ are Members of Assembly.

LIST OF THE ARMY IN JAMAICA

STAFF

Major of Brigade, Captain Charles McMurdo

Commissary General, William Dunlop, Esq.

Commissary General of Musters, Hon. Thomas Wallen Esq.*

Contractor for supplying his Majesty's Troops, Alexander Donaldson, Esq.

HOSPITAL STAFF

Surgeon to the Forces, John Weir, Esq.

Assistant Surgeons

Thomas Aery
T. Duffie
John Dryden
Robert Gordon
George McLamburgh
Alexander Robertson


III (East Kent) REGIMENT OF FOOT, OR BUFFS

Colonel, Lieutenant General Thomas Hall

Lieutenant Colonel, Alexander Stewart (brevet Colonel)

Major, Hon. John Leslie (brevet Lieutenant-Colonel)

CAPTAINS

W. M. Richardson
Oliver R. Lambert
Francis Incledon
Josiah Champagne
William Shewbridge
David Douglas

Captain Lieutenant and Captain, Charles McMurdo

LIEUTENANTS

Edward Scott
Edward Silvester
George Kay
George A. Prevost
G. D. Bowes
John Blair
John Gardiner
Alexander Petrie

ENSIGNS

A. Gordon Stewart
John Willington
George Montgomery
Thomas Francis Davison
John Lea
James. T. Warren
Robert McMurdo
Arch. John McDonald

STAFF

Chaplain, Reverend Humphry Jones
Acting Chaplain, Rev. John Campbell
Adjutant, John Gardiner
Surgeon, James Muir
Quartermaster, William Burr


X (North Lincolnshire) REGIMENT OF FOOT

Colonel, Lieut. General Sir Robert Murray Keith, K.B.

Lieutenant Colonel, Sir Andrew Cathcart, Baronet

Major, Jeffery Armherst

CAPTAINS

John Barker
Richard Bassett
John Hawthorn
John Wemyss
Ralph Bates
J. Charles Kerr
Captain Lieut. and Captain Meyrich Shawe

LIEUTENANTS

James Pettigrew
Henry de Berniere
Richard Sandys
Edward Leche
John Blair
Thomas Lucas
Solomon Holmes
John Frith
John Strother Kerr
William Hamill
Robert Smart

ENSIGNS

Charles Cumberland
Thomas Hall
----- Stewart
George Canning
Alexander Ker
John Walhouse
William Thomas
George Collis

STAFF

Chaplain, Edward Storey
Quartermaster, Arthur Leversuch
Surgeon, Archibald Menzie


XIV [14th] (Bedfordshire) REGIMENT OF FOOT

Colonel, Lieutenant-General Robert Cuninghame

Lieut. Colonel, James Rooke (brevet Col.)

CAPTAINS

Alexander Ross
William Brown
William Ramsay
William Burnett
Alexander McBean
George Clewlowe
Captain Lieutenant and Captain, Thomas Fraser

LIEUTENANTS

James Grant
Thomas B. Tyndale
Hugh Perry
Hercules Harrison
Thomas Cochran
Frederick Meard
Benjamin Roche

ENSIGNS

T. G. Elrington
Francis Elrington
Richard Topp
Thomas White
W. A. Oliver
Thomas Robert Gray
Robert Campbell
John Bower

STAFF

Chaplain, Reverend John Wright
Acting Chaplain, Rev. R. S. Woodham
Adjutant, James Grant
Quartermaster, John Langton
Surgeon, James Snagg
Mate, Will Henderson


XIX [19th] (1st Yorkshire North Riding) REGIMENT OF FOOT

Colonel, General David Graeme

Lieutenant-Colonel, James Coates (brevet Colonel)

Major, Colebrook Nesbitt

CAPTAINS

John Magill
John Smith
John N. Skerret
David John Bell
Colin Campbell
William Houston
Samuel Graham
Captain Lieutenant and Captain, William Giles

LIEUTENANTS

Richard Gem
George Taggart
William Wray
Matthew Scott
William Vincent
William Caulfield
James O'Connor
William Grant
John Grant
George Fuller

ENSIGNS

John S. Browne
John Lyne
Alexander Gray
John Majoribanks
Thomas Eland
Thomas Edward Hay
Richard Patterson
Charles Dolphin

STAFF

Chaplain, Reverend Bacon Bedingfield
Acting Chaplain, Rev. John Campbell
Adjutant, Richard Gem
Quartermaster, W. McLaren
Surgeon, John Denholme
His Mate, James Johnston


DETACHMENT from the First Battalion of the Royal Regiment of ARTILLERY

Major, William Borthwick

Captains

David Scott
Thomas Hosmer
William Grant

Captain Lieutenants and Captains

George L. Hamilton
Thomas Judgson
William Bentham

First Lieutenants

James Miller
Charles Neville
William Borthwick
Charles Norris Cookson
Philip Riou
Richard Hamilton

Second Lieutenants

John Quayle
Millan Egerton

STAFF

Chaplain, Rev. David Fullerton
Deputy Chaplain, Rev. William Bell
Adjutant and Quartermaster, W. Borthwick, junior
Surgeon, McMillan Jameson
Surgeon's Mate, James Shaw
Clerk of Ordnance Stores, Joseph Innes


ENGINEERS

Major, Alexander Mercer

Lieutenant, William Gordon


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