Margaret Gibson

• General Notes
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    "The Earl of Hillsborough
    
    Voyages of the Earl of Hillsborough are listed at ship name on Ship
    List
    
    1766 The Earl of Hillsborough, with Irish protestant passengers,
    arrived at Charleston, South Carolina.
    
    Grateful appreciation goes to Catherine Van Cott for providing the
    data for this listing.
    
    Primary Source: Journal of the South Carolina Council
    
    Secondary Sources:
    "Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773", pages 67-70
    "Ulster Emigration", page 237
    
    Ship and Passenger Information:
    229 passengers (names not available)"
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    Name:    Margaret Laird
    Year:    1766-1767
    Age:    36
    Place:    Charles Town, South Carolina
    Source Publication Code:    7343
    Primary Immigrant:    Laird, Margaret
    Annotation:    From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South
    Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761.
    Source Bibliography:    REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original
    Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia
    [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing
    Co., Baltimore, 1981.
    Page:    70
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    Name:    Margaret Laird
    Year:    1767
    Age:    36
    Place:    Charleston, South Carolina
    Source Publication Code:    3627.37
    Primary Immigrant:    Laird, Margaret
    Annotation:    Place and date of immigrants' or discharged military
    person's petition requesting reimbursements of passage, additional
    land, headrights, bounty, etc. from the South Carolina government or
    of letter expressing satisfaction with the voyage to America.
    Extracted from The South-Carolina Gazette, "The Governor and Council
    Journal" (located at the South Carolina Archives), and "Records of the
    Public Treasurers of South Carolina" (also at the SC Archives in
    Columbia).
    Source Bibliography:    JONES, JACK MORELAND, and MARY BONDURANT
    WARREN. South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770. Danielsville, GA:
    Heritage Papers, 1988. 430p.
    Page:    177