es, Amity's Production, Tartar,
Duchess of Gordon, Littledale, William and Mary, and Free Briton,
which are to carry Companies commanded by Sylvanus Whitney, Joseph
Gorham, Henry Thomas, John Forrester, Thomas Elms, John Cock,
Joseph Clarke, James Hoyt, Christopher Benson, Joseph Forrester,
Thomas Welch, Oliver Bourdet, Asher Dunham, Abia. Camp, Peter
Berton, Richard Hill and Moses Pitcher, will certainly fall down
on Monday morning; it will therefore be absolutely necessary for
the people who are appointed to go in these companies, to be all
on board To-Morrow Evening.

"New York, June 7th, 1783."

Of the seventeen companies whose captains are named above, those of
Christopher Benson and Richard Hill went to Annapolis, and that of
Moses Pitcher, to Shelburne; the others (with the possible exception
of Thomas Welch's company) came to St. John. We learn from a document
entitled "A Return of the number of Loyalists gone to St. John's River
in Nova Scotia, as pr. returns left in the Commissary General's
Office in New York" that the number enrolled in the various companies
for provisions, etc., was as given below:--

Men. Women. Children. Servants. Total.

Capt. S. Whitney 42 27 87 12 168
Capt. J. Goreham 31 20 78 7 136
Capt. H. Thomas 32 26 52 12 122
Capt. J. Forrester 51 30 73 31 185
Capt. Thos. Elms 30 19 27 45 121
Capt. John Cock 32 21 48 10 111
Capt. J. Clarke 36 25 48 52 161
Capt. Jas. Hoyt 42 31 61 85 219
Capt. Jas. Forrester 35 25 47 15 122
Capt. O. Bourdet 55 36 47 42 180
Capt. A. Dunham 31 19 57 5 112
Capt. Abi. Camp 52 36 67 48 203
Capt. P. Berton 31 20 51 30 132
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Total 500 335 743 394 1972

If all who gave in their names to Brook Watson at the commissariat
office actually embarked for St. John in the June fleet, it would
appear that nearly two thousand persons were carried in that fleet.
But it is not unlikely that some of those who gave in their names did
not go at this time. Among the papers in the archives