End
Notes
[i]
Michael Craton "A History of the Bahamas", 3rd
edition, San Salvador Press 1986, 166
[ii]
See : Michael Duffy "Soldiers, Sugar and Seapower",
Oxford 1987, and David Geggus
"Slavery, War, and Revolution : The British Occupation of
Saint Domingo 1793-1798",
Oxford 1982
[iii]
Portland to Forbes 21.1.1797, CO24/14
[iv]
See, e.g., Bahama Gazette for 25-28 October 1796, front
page
[v]
Forbes to Portland 20.2.1797, CO 23/35
[vi]
Major Ross-Lewin "The Life of a Soldier", London
1834, 77ff
[vii]
Forbes to Portland 28.2.1797, CO23/35
[viii]
Forbes to Portland 20.2.1797, CO23/35
[ix]
Forbes to Portland 28.2.1797, CO23/35
[x]
Forbes to Portland 20.2.1797, CO23/35
[xi]
Portland to Forbes 24.4.1797 CO24/14
[xii]
Hunt to Portland 5.6.1797 and Forbes T./Haven S. to Portland
8.6.1797, CO23/36; Ross-Lewin, op.cit. 77 also refers to the 32nd's having been
"completed by convalescents
from other corps" prior to embarkation for the Bahamas
[xiii]
Bahamas Department of Archives, Chalmers Correspondence, 14.10.1797
[xiv]
Michael Craton and Gail Saunders "Islanders in the Stream.
A History of The Bahamian People
from Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery", The University of
Georgia Press
1992, Vol 1 208
[xv]
Chalmers 30.4.1797; Chalmers 1.1.1798 f97; see also Additional
Instructions to ships'
master issued by Portland and published in the Bahama Gazette
in March 1798
[xvi]
Hunt to Portland 8.9.1797, CO23/36
[xvii]
Portland to Hunt 27.10.1797,
CO24/14
[xviii]
Hunt to Portland 5.6.1797, CO23/36
[xix]
Hunt to Portland 8.9.1797, CO23/36
[xx]
references at Note 7; one might also argue that the delayed
appearance of the illness among the townsfolk is attributable to incubation period, or that it
coincided with the 32nd's coming ashore, there being no other indication of when
exactly they did so; Hunt
may only have referred to young men because his concern was with those of military
age - it would not have been pertinent to mention that older people also
died - though Forbes' executors'
reference to new settlers could encompass people of all ages.
[xxi]
Bahama Gazette 14-17.5.1799 front page
[xxii]
ibid; the
identity of the "Inhabitant" is debatable - a local might have styled
himself "citizen", or "Civis", as did another correspondent in the
discussion about the marshes; the Inhabitant's opening remarks suggest he could have been a
(military?) doctor, so he might have been Samuel Bryson, Assistant Surgeon of the 32nd,
defending the regiment against blame for all the recent sickness
[xxiv]
See Duffy op. cit. 334ff
[xxv]
Hunt to Portland 27.1.1798 with enclosures, CO23/37
[xxvi]
Bahama Gazette 8.11.1799
[xxvii]
Numbers come from field returns in the CO23 series
[xxviii]
See the Bahama Gazette for the relevant dates
[xxix]
James Fergusson ed. "Notes and Recollections of a Professional
Life" by William Fergusson, London 1846, 85 and 53
[xxx]
Bahamas Department of Archives, Christ Church marriage registers
[xxxi]
notices in various editions of the Bahama Gazette
1797-99
[xxxii]
Bahama Gazette
12-15.3.1799 front page
[xxxiii]
Bahama Gazette 25-29.5.1798 and 22-26.3.1799
[xxxiv]
Portland to Hunt 10.11.1797, CO24/14;
Chalmers 1.1.1798 f96
[xxxv]
Dowdeswell to Portland 18.11.1798, CO 23/38;
Portland to Dowdeswell 20.4.1799, CO24/14
[xxxvi]
Hunt to Portland 8.9.1797, CO23/36
[xxxvii]
Dowdeswell to Portland 25.5.99 annex, CO23/38
[xxxviii]
Dowdeswell to Portland 9.12.1799, CO23/39
[xxxix]
Bahamas Department of Archives, Christ Church baptism registers;
Bahama Gazette 22-26.11.1799
