QUAKER-ROOTS-L Archives

From: <>
Subject: Caledonia
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:49:58 EDT

Richard, If you get any information re this list, I'd love to see it. I
think one of my husband's BAIRD ancestors may have been on that ship. It was
mentioned at one time by another BAIRD researcher.

The information I have copied from "SOME VENABLES OF ENGLAND & AMERICA" has
this footnote:

"John Reed, the overseer, gives the date of his departure from Scotland in the
following memorandum: We went to Leith for our voyage to America the 2nd of
August 1683. Came aboard the ship the next day at Aberdeen, where we stayed
to the 28th...To Elizabethtown [New Jersey] December 23, 1683 and to
Woodbridge the 10th of January 1683-4. STILLWELL MISCELLANY, VOL.V, page
495."..............the next paragraph states:

"According to the BAIRD and BEARD FAMILIES, page 172, the name of the ship on
which John Baird sailed was the EXCHANGE. Bill Baird, in his letter to
Emerson Venable in 1958, wrote that his father, William Hull BAIRD, had been
told by his grandfather, Abram Britton Baird, that the BAIRDS came over from
Scotland in the ship CALEDONIA which sank in New York harbour. BAIRD and
BEARD FAMILIES, page 175, gives several versions of landings of BAIRDS, one of
which is that "three brothers, James, Alexander and John came over on the
CALEDONIA supposedly from Scotland."

My husbands ancestor, John BAIRD settle in Topanemus, now Marlboro, New Jersey
where he purchased land in 1688 from Thomas Warne.

In no place does it mention where they obtained the information re the above
statements.

Hope this is some help in pinpointing the date and where your ship might have
sailed from.

Sincerely,
Marilyn Haworth Cummings

This thread:

• Caledonia by <>