Captain Owens Servants Listing
The listing consists of the persons name, trade, and the wages earned. Unfortunately there is no date given for the listing. However the paragraphs at the bottom is interesting and provides some insight. (Unfortunately we do not have a date indicating when this article was written.)
NO. , NAME, QUALITY OR TRADES, RATE OF WAGES
1.) Wm Isherwood Esqre., Clerk and Assistant, L60 increased to L100 per ann.
2.) John Montgomery, My Servant
3.) Sarah Haslam, Housekeeper
4.) Jane Johnson, Housemaid, 1s 6d per week
5.) Richard Atwood, Armourer and Blacksmith, 7s per week
6.) Wm Rylands, Fisherman and net weaver, 6s per week
7.) Evan Williams, Fisherman and net weaver, 6s per week
8.) Wm Drinkwater, Husbandman and Labourer, 6s per week
9.) John Drinkwater, Husbandman and Labourer, 6s per week
10.) Benjamin Mather, Butcher, 6s per week
11.) Charles Whitnell, Brickmaker, burner and labourer--our shoemaker, 6s per week
12.) Lewis Jones, Mariner and fisherman, 6s per week
13.) John Holliday, Shipwright, caulker and seaman, L3 per month
14.) Joseph Caldwell, Tailor, 6s per week
15.) John Lawless, Barber and gardener, 6s per week
16.) Catherine Lawless, Cooks, Housewives, Washerwomen and spruce beer brewers 6 each per - At 2s and 1s 6/week
17.) Mary Lawless Cooks, Housewives, Washerwomen and spruce beer brewers 6 each per - At 2s and 1s 6/week
18.) Elizabeth Whittal, Cooks, Housewives, Washerwomen and spruce beer brewers 6 each per - At 2s and 1s 6/week
19.) Eleanor Newell, Cooks, Housewives, Washerwomen and spruce beer brewers 6 each per - At 2s and 1s 6/week
20.) Mary Jones, Cooks, Housewives, Washerwomen and spruce beer brewers 6 each per - At 2s and 1s 6/week
21.) James Gregson, Labourer, 6s a week
22.) John Clark, Husbandman and labourer, 6s per week
23.) Richd Clayton, Husbandman and labourer, 4s per week
24.) John Unsworth, Carpenter, Joiner and Boatbuilder, 8s per week
25.) John Clotton, Carpenter, Joiner and Boatbuilder, 8s per week
26.) John Lockitt, Ploughman and labourer, 6s per week
27.) Wm Mollineaux, Potash burner, 6s per week
28.) Wm Douglas, Miller and Husbandman, 6s per week
29.) Thomas Green, Cooper and labourer, 6s per week
30.) Thos Gregory, Carpr, Joiner and Wheelright, 8s per week
31.) John Hurst, Ploughman and gardener, 6s per week
32.) James Bate, Gardener, claycaster and delver, 6s per week
33.) Joseph Henshaw, Bricklayer, maker & burner, 9s per week
34.) John Robotham, Potter and labourer, 6s per week
35.) Adam Kingsley, Mason slater and plasterer, L25 per annum.
36.) Nicholas Rollin, Fisherman and labourer, 13s 6d per mo.
37.) Edmund Mahar, Labourer, L1 11s 6d per month
38.) John Gendergrass, Fisherman, L1 per month
By the foregoing list it appears that I took out with me people of almost all trades and callings, and that I was thereby enabled to carry on the business of my infant colony without calling in any auxiliary or further mercenary aid; but justice obliges me to say, that I found upon all occasions, cheerful and efficacious assistance from about fifteen good men that composed the crew of the "Owen" during their stay:
Let me also acknowledge the superior abilities I met with, in the New Englanders, when upon any particular emergency I thought it proper or necessary to employ them, especially in felling, squaring, and providng the "Owen's" lading of timber and lumber, and lastly let me not forget the friendly assistance of Sir Thomas Rich and the company.
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Of these 34 (or excluding those of women alone, 30) family names nearly all have disappeared from Campobello and the neighbouring parts of New Brunswick and Maine. It is known that soon after 1771 most of the settlers left Campobello and they may have returned in a body to England. The names are not Welsh, but as Rev. Mr. Williamson of Milltown NB who knows Welsh, tells me they are typical Warwickshire. How and where these people were collected together by Captain Owen we have no information, but the naming of the settlement for Warrington may mean they were natives of that place.
Several of the names are everywhere so common that it cannot be inferred that those now bearing them in this region are descendants from those settlers. Such are Williams, Jones, Clark, Douglas, Green and to a lesser degree Montgomery and Gregory. Green occurred on Campobello some 70 years ago and descendants now live in the vicinity. Holliday formerly occurred in St. Stephen, is said to have come from Nova Scotia. Lawless will be mentioned below. A Gregson lived some 65 years ago lived at Campobello and afterwards at Treat Island. Bates formerly occurred at Campobello and descendants or relavives now live at Eastport. Edmund Maher is known to have settled on the Cobacook (See Courier Series XXXVIII and Eastport Sentinel June 8 1892), and the name still occurs there; perhaps Meagher occurring in New Brunswick is the same. With Maher from Campobello went Clark, but his name is given as William, not John and he is therefor not the one on the list but probably a friend of Wilson and perhaps one of the three New England Families. Possibly other names now survive in an altered form but Batson is known not to be connected with Bate not Calder with Caldwell not Lawler with Lawless. Creighton formerly occurring on Campobello may have been Clayton. Of the others nothing is known.
The most interesting names on the list are those of John, Catherine and Mary Lawless, for Mary, the daughter, married Andrew Lloyd and became the grandmother of William Lloyd Garrison. "In the Life of Garrison" edited by his children (William Lloyd Garrison, New York, 2 Vols. 1886) we read as follows (Vol. 1 p. 14): "He (Andrew Lloyd) came out of the province of Nova Scotia in 1771 as a prentice bound to the captain (Plato Dana) of the ship which also brought over John Lawless, an Englishman, who had been a sergeant under Wolfe at Quebec; his wife Catherine, said to have been a native of Limerick, Ireland and there only daughter Mary who was certainly born there. ****He (Andrew Lloyd) married Mary Lawless on March 30 1771, the day after they had landed on the Island of Campobello". The daughter of Andrew Lloyd and Mary Lawless was Fanny, who married Abijah Garrison, a descendant of Maugerville settlers and there son was the great abolitionist. This present document shows a slight error in the above account - they could not have been married "the day after they landed." The name Lawless has disappeared entirely from this region.