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From: Lloyd Rowsell <>
Subject: [NF-ROOTS] 1764-1851 "Good Intent" and Surnames: CHEATER, CLARK,GRANT, HORNET, LESTER, MILLER,
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:44:10 -0800 (PST)

1764 Irish in NL and "Good Intent" ....following 1763 Xmas & New
Year in Boston (BOSSTOWN):

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1764-1767 "Good Intent" shewed by compasonate English
Governors??

Here are 3 excerpt from pages 53 and 54 of the 1999 book by Mike
McCarthy titled "The Irish in Newfoundland 1600-1900"

(a) The first reference to an Irish settler in Newfoundland was a
Mr. RUSSELL, who was reported living in St. Mary's.........In
fact, all reports both from the English and French colonial
records indicate that Trepassey, which had both English and French
inhabitants, was the only settled community in St. Mary's Bay
prior to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.

(b)...." In 1764 with the appointment of Sir Hugh PALLISER as
governor of Newfoundland, a concerted effort was made to reduce
the number of Irish residing in the island. On the 31st of
October, 1764, he issued a new set of rules and regulations aimed
at controlling the number of Irish Papists remaining in
Newfoundland over the winter. The orders read:

The better for preserving the peace, preventing robberies,
tumultuous assemblies and other disorders of wicked, idle people
remaining in the country during the winter, ordered:
#1. That no Papist servants, man or woman shall remain at any
place where they do not fish or serve during the summer preceding.
#2. That not more than two Papist men shall dwell in one house
during the winter except such as have a Protestant master.
#3. That no Papist shall keep a public house or vend liquor by
retail.
#4. That no person shall keep dyters during the winter.
#5. That all idle and disorderly men and women be punished
according to law and sent out of the country.

Every Justice of the Peace in Newfoundland was to see that these
orders were copied and posted and read in all courthouses.

At St. John's, Governor Palliser seized an opportunity to deport a
number of Irishmen back to Ireland at no cost to the governor's
office. He was informed that the master of the brig "GOOD
INTENT" had illegally carried 60 men from Newfoundland to New
England. He had the captain appear before him and on finding the
report true ordered the captain to take 60 persons home to Ireland
as part of his sentence.

(c).....".....Thomas GRANT, appeared in court in St. John's in the
summer of 1767 with a request that he be returned to Ireland. He
had come to Newfoundland in the spring of 1767 to look for work in
the fishery. However because of his age he could not find any
master willing to employ him. Now, realizing he was too old and
infirm to work he wanted to return home. The governor ordered
that as the captain who brought him over from Ireland had not
first secured a job for him, he was not liable for his passage
out. The governor secured him a passage back to Ireland."

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Excerpts from "NL History Timeline Document"

1764....William ROWSELL apprenticed to merchant at
Trinity...D.Anstey

1779-1791 from the report of George Christopher PULLING:
"...they went from Beaver Cove head to Indian arm where they took
away a Punt belonging to Mr. Lester with three Salmon-netts &
cross'd over to Charless's brook where three of MILLERs humane
heroes came up with them--Joseph HORNET the man who carries on y/e
ffishery for Mr. LESTER at Indian arm describ'd his Punt to Mr.
MILLERs Crew w/ch prov'd to be the same, I saw it at upper Sandy
Point yesterday --
Jo HORNET told young Captain CHEATER and Mr. CLARK when they
call'd at Indian arm on their return from the Exploits that if He
was not to keep watch every night while his nets were set that the
Indians wou'd steal some from him every Year.--" page 130 of 1989
book by I.C.L. MARSHALL.


1792....from list of vessels which cleared the port of Harbour
Grace for foreign ports....Oct ? 1792
Good Intent P. BISSON?
Schooner
Nfld 1792
Philip BISSON & Co. ?
Bristol / Jersey

1818...(GA...51 tons..1818/30... Owner:Wm.J.H. ANDREWS..Mstr. J.H.
Andrews)

1820...DAW, Capt. Joh...."Good Intent" .... reg.#.1820024

also:1824-039...Capt. Edward RYAN....Good Intent

1825.....Capt. John Dawe was master of a 51 ton schooner named
Good Intent


also: 1825...Capt. Isaac RICHARDS...Good Intent

also: 1825-229 ....Capt. John Dawe...Good Intent

also: 1835-049...Capt. George PERRY...Good Intent

1843-1847...sojourn of Rev. R.T.S. Lowell at Bay Roberts, CB
NL..those words preceeded his 400+page novel written for a New
England audience in 1857...quote: ".One, to whom I owe all, will
He take this at my hand, the best I have? August, 1857 .......and
.....Religious Novels there are many: this is not one of them.
These Figures, of gentle, simple, sad and merry, were drawn, (not
in a Day,) upon the Walls of a House in Exile.--Will the great
World care for them?"


also: 1851...Capt. J. SNOW...Good Intent

also: 1851...Capt. Abraham Snow...Good Intent

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