by Roy Adkins
7. From 1707 to 1711. Roger Elliott (not Eliott) was born 1665, married a sister (Charlotte) of Eliott’s mother in 1712 and died in 1714, before Eliott’s birth.
8. Eliott was born at Wells House near Stobs Castle, and different sources say he was the 7th, 8th or 9th son; Tancred (1907, p. 35) says he was the 11th and last child, with one girl and ten sons, two dying as infants; DALSS 346M/F103.
9. Eliott-Drake 1911, p. 254.
10. Caledonian Mercury 22 July 1790. Anne Eliott died in London in February 1772.
11. Upton 1781, pp. 4, 19. She is cited as Catharine in this publication, but as Catherine elsewhere (e.g. in Upton 1784 and her marriage licence).
12. BL Add MS 50260.
13. Anon 1782, p. 39.
14. REM 946.8ʹ1799ʹ.
15. BL Add MS 45188.
16. REM 5601.49.1.
17. See McConnell 1988 for details of guns.
18. REM 946.8ʹ1799ʹ; Ancell 1784, p. 6. In his 1793 edition, she is identified as Mrs Skinner.
19. Skinner 1891. William Skinner died 25 December 1780.
20. REM 5601.49.1.
21. REM 5601.49.1.
22. BL Add MS 50256.
23. Ancell 1784, p. 6.
24. BL Add MS 50256.
25. Ancell 1784, pp. 6–7.
26. BL Add MS 50256.
27. BL Add MS 50256; BL Add MS 45188; Spilsbury 1908, p. 5.
28. Spilsbury 1908, p. 5; TNA PRO 30/85/1; REM 5601.49.1.
29. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
30. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
31. Drinkwater 1785, p. 69.
32. BL Add MS 45188; Drinkwater 1785, p. 69.
33. Gordon 1784, p. 12.
34. Gordon 1784, p. 12.
35. BL Add MS 45188.
36. BL Add MS 45188; REM 946.8ʹ1799ʹ.
37. Cranfield 1844, p. 11.
38. Anon 1785, pp. 8–9.
39. Spilsbury 1908, p. 7.
40. BL Add MS 50256.
41. REM 5601.49.1; TNA PRO 30/85/1; TNA WO 25/435.
42. BL Add MS 50256.
43. Drinkwater 1785, p. 32.
44. James 1771, p. 351.
45. James 1771, p. 296.
46. Crespo and Galliano 2013, p. 54.
47. Crespo and Galliano 2013, pp. 55–6.
48. Drinkwater 1785, p. 70.
49. Drinkwater 1785, p. 70.
50. BL Add MS 50256.
51. BL Add MS 45188.
52. BL Add MS 45188.
53. Ancell 1784, p. 11.
54. Anon 1782, pp. 2–3.
55. REM 946.8ʹ1799ʹ.
56. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
57. Ancell 1784, p. 12.
58. BL Add MS 45188; Paterson gives the balls as 9 pounds, the powder 1–1½ pounds, elevation 12 degrees and range 450–537 yards.
59. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 71–2.
60. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
61. Drinkwater 1785, p. 72.
CHAPTER FIVE: SHORTAGES
1. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
2. Drinkwater 1785, p. 75.
3. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
4. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
5. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
6. Drinkwater 1785, p. 75.
7. Spilsbury 1908, p. 7.
8. Macdonald 2004, pp. 21–5.
9. Ancell 1784, p. 24; Spilsbury 1908, p. 8.
10. Drinkwater 1785, p. 40.
11. Twiss 1775, p. 272. He visited in 1773.
12. Based on Spilsbury 1908, opp. p. 1.
13. Ancell 1793, p. 18fn; see Garcia 2016, Lyall 2009.
14. Ancell 1784, pp. 10, 12.
15. Spilsbury 1908, p. 10.
16. Holmes 2002, pp. 281–2; Venning 2005, p. 27.
17. REM 946.8ʹ1799ʹ.
18. REM 946.8ʹ1799ʹ.
19. BL Add MS 45188.
20. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
21. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
22. Crespo and Galliano 2013, p. 53.
23. BL Add MS 45188.
24. REM 5601.49.1.
25. Bell and Ayala 1845, pp. 174–5.
26. Benady 2005, pp. 85–6, 96–7.
27. Benady 2005, pp. 94–5.
28. BL Add MS 45188.
29. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
30. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
31. Spilsbury 1908, p. 10.
32. Drinkwater 1785, p. 76.
33. Ancell 1784, p. 18.
34. BL Add MS 45188.
35. Drinkwater 1785, p. 77.
36. Ancell 1784, p. 18; Drinkwater 1785, p. 77; Anon 1785, p. 15.
37. Drinkwater 1785, p. 79.
38. REM 5601.49.1.
39. REM 5601.49.1.
40. Spilsbury 1908, p. 10 with additions from his manuscript in the Garrison Library.
41. BL Add MS 45188.
42. James 1771, p. 359.
43. Upton 1781, p. 6.
44. Creswell 1863.
45. Upton 1784, p. 11.
46. Manchester Mercury 19 March 1771. The family of Joseph Budworth, who would become a lieutenant in the 72nd, most likely owned her school premises.
47. BL Add MS 45188.
48. Drinkwater 1785, p. 80; REM 5601.49.1; GNA 1777 census.
49. Ancell 1784, pp. 14–15.
50. Ancell 1784, p. 20.
51. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
52. Ancell 1784, p. 20.
53. BL Add MS 50256.
54. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
55. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
56. BL Add MS 45188.
57. Drinkwater 1785, p. 82; TNA PRO 30/85/1.
58. London Courier and Evening Gazette 31 July 1827. Price married Ann Stewart in 1791 at Clifton, Bristol.
59. BL Add MS 50256.
60. Crespo and Galliano 2013, p. 56; GNA 1777 census.
61. BL Add MS 50256.
62. Spilsbury 1908, p. 13.
63. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
64. REM 5601.49.1.
65. Anon 1785, p. 16.
CHAPTER SIX: MOONLIGHT BATTLE
1. REM 5601.49.1; Drinkwater 1785, p. 85.
2. REM 5601.49.1; BL Add MS 45188.
3. TNA WO 25/435.
4. BL Add MS 50256; REM 5601.49.1; TNA PRO 30/85/1.
5. BL Add MS 50256.
6. BL Add MS 45188.
7. BL Add MS 45188; TNA PRO 30/85/1.
8. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
9. REM 5601.49.1.
10. Crespo and Galliano 2013, p. 56.
11. GNA 1777 census; GNA History of Inhabitants Houses 1778.
12. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
13. Drinkwater 1785, p. 86.
14. REM 5601.49.1.
15. Skinner 1891, King’s Chapel MS ‘Baptism in the year 1780’. He was baptised on 13 or 18 July 1780.
16. James 1771, p. 296.
17. Drinkwater 1785, p. 86.
18. Ancell 1793, p. 15.
19. Upton 1781, p. 3; Drinkwater 1785, p. 85.
20. REM 5601.49.1.
21. Evelegh 1965. He married Ann Guest in 1764, became an ensign in 1765, lieutenant in 1771 and captain-lieutenant in 1779. Their oldest daughter, Ann, died in 1781, aged twelve, and was buried at Southport.
22. TNA 25/435.
23. REM 5601.49.1.
24. Baynes is also spelled Baines.
25. Hennen 1830, p. 89; Benady 1994; GNA 1777 census. The apothecaries were William Chapman and Thomas Grand; the midwife was Madalena Manusa.
26. Coad 2013, p. 358.
27. James 1777, p. 343.
28. Ancell 1793, p. 15.
29. See Patterson 19
60; Syrett 1998.
30. Mundy 1830, pp. 205–6.
31. Mundy 1830, pp. 211–12.
32. Mundy 1830, p. 213.
33. Macdonald 1906, pp. 43–4.
34. Macdonald 1906, p. 44.
35. Vernon 1792, p. 13.
36. Macdonald 1906, pp. 44–5.
37. Mundy 1830, pp. 218–19; Syrett 1998, p. 85.
38. Mundy 1830, pp. 219–20.
39. Smyth 1795, pp. 36–7.
40. Smyth 1795, p. 225.
41. Mundy 1830, pp. 220–1.
42. Macdonald 1906, p. 46.
43. Vernon 1792, p. 16.
44. Vernon 1792, pp. 16–17.
45. See Syrett 1998.
46. Vernon 1792, p. 17.
47. Vernon 1792, p. 18.
48. Mundy 1830, pp. 222–3.
49. Vernon 1792, pp. 18–19. The ship was driven ashore, the crew saved and the British contingent taken prisoner.
50. Gordon 1784, p. 10. Before joining the 73rd, Gordon was a labourer at Chapel of Garioch, near Aberdeen, in Scotland; TNA WO 120/17.
51. Mundy 1830, p. 223.
CHAPTER SEVEN: RODNEY’S RELIEF
1. Ancell, 1793, p. 15.
2. REM 5601.49.1.
3. REM 5601.49.1.
4. REM 5601.49.1.
5. Syrett and DiNardo 1994, p. 364.
6. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 89–90.
7. Anon 1806, p. 181.
8. BL Add MS 50256.
9. REM 5601.49.1.
10. BL Add MS 45188.
11. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
12. Lawrance 1994, p. 13; Anon 1785, p. 21.
13. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 90–1.
14. REM 5601.49.1.
15. Anon 1785, p. 19; Ancell 1793, p. 26; BL Add MS 50256.
16. BL Add MS 50256; BL Add MS 45188.
17. BL Add MS 45188.
18. Barnes and Owen 1936, p. 194.
19. 346M/F102-161, with kind permission of Devon Archives and Local Studies Service.
20. Drinkwater 1785, p. 121.
21. Upton 1781, p. 3.
22. REM 5601.49.1.
23. REM 5601.49.1.
24. Ancell 1793, pp. 28–9.
25. Drinkwater 1785, p. 97; BL Add MS 50256.
26. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 97, 102.
27. Owen 1933, p. 77 (letter from Hood at Portsmouth Dockyard to Henry Shales, 29 February 1780).
28. Barnes and Owen 1936, p. 195.
29. Barnes and Owen 1936, p. 195.
30. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 93–4.
31. Anon 1784, p. 127.
32. BL Add MS 50256.
33. Crespo and Galliano 2013, p. 57.
34. BL Add MS 50256; TNA PRO 30/20/13 cited in Syrett 2007, p. 326.
35. Macdonald 1906, pp. 47–8.
36. Gordon 1784, p. 10.
37. Macdonald 1906, p. 48.
38. TNA MPHH 1/79 (plan of The Mount).
39. REM 5601.49.1.
40. BL Add MS 50256.
41. Huish 1837, pp. 67–8.
42. REM 5601.49.1.
43. REM 5601.49.1.
44. REM 5601.49.1.
45. Mundy 1830, pp. 235–7.
46. REM 5601.49.1.
47. BL Add MS 50256.
48. TNA PRO 30/20/13 cited in Syrett 2007, pp. 318–19, 335.
49. REM 5601.49.1.
50. Mundy 1830, pp. 257–8.
51. BL Add MS 50256.
CHAPTER EIGHT: SMALLPOX
1. REM 5601.49.1.
2. REM 5601.49.1.
3. REM 5601.49.1.
4. Many thanks indeed to Dr Jane Richards for the professional analysis of the symptoms.
5. REM 5601.49.1.
6. REM 5601.49.1.
7. BL Add MS 45188. They arrived on 30 January 1780. Mawhood is spelled Maud here, probably reflecting its pronunciation.
8. REM 5601.49.1.
9. Atkinson 1947, p. 111; Caledonian Mercury 9 March 1785.
10. REM 5601.49.1.
11. BL Add MS 50256.
12. Macdonald 1906, p. 48.
13. REM 5601.49.1.
14. REM 5601.49.1; Drinkwater 1785, p. 104; Ancell 1793, pp. 36, 38.
15. REM 5601.49.1.
16. REM 5601.49.1.
17. REM 5601.49.1.
18. REM 5601.49.1.
19. Drinkwater 1785, p. 105.
20. Ancell 1793, pp. 36–7.
21. BL Add MS 50256.
22. BL Add MS 50256.
23. Ancell 1793, p. 38.
24. Drinkwater 1785, p. 107.
25. Ancell 1793, p. 38.
26. REM 5601.49.1.
27. REM 5601.49.1.
28. REM 5601.49.1. She was 6 feet tall.
29. REM 5601.49.1.
30. REM 5601.49.1.
31. Ancell 1784, p. 46.
32. REM 5601.49.1.
33. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 82–3; Marshall 1955, p. 54; Pocock 1955.
34. BL Add MS 50256.
35. BL Add MS 50256.
36. Ancell 1784, p. 48.
37. Ancell 1784, p. 49.
38. REM 5601.49.1.
39. Ancell 1784, pp. 48–9.
40. Crespo and Galliano 2013, pp. 57–8.
41. BL Add MS 50256.
42. BL Add MS 50256.
43. TNA PRO 30/85/1.
CHAPTER NINE: GUNBOATS
1. Ancell 1793, p. 44; BL Add MS 50256.
2. Ancell 1793, p. 44.
3. REM 5601.49.1.
4. REM 5601.49.1.
5. Carter 1777, pp. 237–8.
6. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 36–7.
7. Carter 1777, pp. 231–2.
8. Twiss 1775, p. 269, talking about 1773.
9. Drinkwater 1785, p. 36.
10. Ancell 1793, p. 47.
11. Ancell 1793, pp. 47–8.
12. REM 5601.49.1.
13. Anon 1785, pp. 36–7.
14. GNA 1777 census, which implies that Moubray left Gibraltar with his wife in 1779 and that Mackellar left in 1777, though he was certainly back in 1780; GNA List of Inhabitants Houses 1778; REM 5601.49.1.
15. REM 5601.49.1.
16. TNA PRO 30/85/1; GNA 1777 census; REM 5601.49.1.
17. REM 5601.49.1.
18. GNA/MSP/2a/1780–1783.
19. GNA/MSP/2a/1780–1783.
20. Drinkwater 1785, p. 114.
21. Anon 1785, pp. 37–8.
22. REM 5601.49.1.
23. Ancell 1784, pp. 62–3.
24. REM 5601.49.1.
25. REM 5601.49.1.
26. Landmann 1854, p. 6.
27. Fortescue 1902, p. 201. The battle took place on 3 January 1777.
28. BL Add MS 50256; Spilsbury 1908, p. 20.
29. REM 5601.49.1.
30. REM 5601.49.1.
31. With many thanks to Dr Jane Richards for her professional analysis.
32. REM 5601.03.3.
33. REM 5601.49.1.
34. REM 5601.49.1.
35. REM 5601.49.1.
36. REM 5601.49.1.
37. REM 5601.49.1.
38. REM 5601.49.1.
39. REM 5601.49.1.
40. REM 5601.49.1; BL Add MS 50256.
41. Ancell 1784, pp. 86–7.
CHAPTER TEN: SCURVY
1. Drinkwater 1785, p. 115.
2. Stamford Mercury 21 September 1780.
3. Drinkwater 1785, p. 118.
4. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 119–20.
5. Upton 1781, p. 5.
6. REM 5601.49.1.
7. One daughter was stillborn, Susanna lived three days and Albert four months. Source: familyhistorybyclaytontalbot.weebly.com/george-gledstanes.html
8. REM 5601.49.1; they were probably Ensign George Gregory and Lieutenant Nathaniel Cooke.
9. REM 5601.49.1.
10. REM 5601.49.1; Anon 1785, p. 44; Ancell 1793, p. 56.
11. Ancell 1793, pp. 57, 59; Spilsbury 1908, p. 22.
12. Upton 1781, pp. 4–5; REM 5601.49.1.
13. REM 5601.49.1.
14. GNA/MSP/2a/1780-1783.
15. Drinkwater 1785, p. 119.
16. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 119–20.
17. Drinkwater 1785, p. 115.
18. Ancell 1793, pp. 54–5; Spilsbury 1908, p. 21.
19. Drinkwater 1785, p. 117.
20. Drinkwater 1785, p. 117.
21. Ancell 1793, pp. 55, 56.
22. Ancell 1793, pp. 67–8.
23. BL Add MS 50257.
24. Ancell 1793, p. 34; Drinkwater 1785, p. 126.
25. REM 5601.49.1. Also spelled Montagu’s bastion.
26. Anon 1785, pp. 58–9.
27. TNA PRO 30/85/2.
28. Ancell 1793, pp. 62–3.
29. REM 5601.49.1.
30. Ancell 1793, pp. 63–4.
31. BL Add MS 50257.
32. BL Add MS 50257; Ancell 1793, p. 66.
33. Ancell 1793, p. 66.
34. BL Add MS 50257.
35. BL Add MS 50257; REM 5601.49.1.
36. Ancell 1793, p. 57.
37. BL Add MS 50257, REM 5601.49.1.
38. REM 5601.49.1.
39. Ancell 1793, p. 70.
40. REM 5601.49.1.
41. REM 5601.49.1
42. Conn 1942, pp. 190–8; Hills 1974, pp. 320–5.
43. BL Add MS 50257; REM 5601.49.1.
44. Anon 1785, p. 68.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: DARBY’S CONVOY
1. BL Add MS 50257, REM 5601.49.1. The settee was captured about 29 December 1780.
2. REM 5601.49.1.
3. REM 5601.49.1.
4. Upton 1781, pp. 18, 19.
5. Upton 1781, pp. vi–vii, 2–3.
6. Anon 1785, p. 76.
7. Gordon 1781, pp. 13–14.
8. Drinkwater 1785, pp. 141–2; Ancell 1793, p. 80.
9. GNA/MSP/2c/1781.
10. GNA/MSP/2c/1781.
11. GNA/MSP/2c/1781.
12. BL Add MS 50257.
13. Drinkwater 1785, p. 137.
14. BL Add MS 50257.
15. Ancell 1793, pp. 81–2.
16. BL Add MS 50257; REM 5601.49.1.
17. Atkinson 1919.
18. BL Add MS 50260 (letter to his brother-in-law Charles Bell in Cupar, Scotland). The Hanoverians arrived in 1775.
19. TNA PRO 30/85/1; Anon 1785, p. 71; REM 5601.49.1.
