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The Lady McNaughton
Letters The
Sydney Monitor 19 April 1837 |
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1. To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor. Sir, I am requested by the emigrants
from on board the Lady M'Naughton, to beg that you will give insertion to
the annexed vote of thanks to the Colonial Secretary. I am, Sir, Your
obedient servant, Jeremiah Ledsam 2.
To The Honourable The Colononial
Secretary. Through
the tender mercies of our God, we were privileged to witness our ship, the Lady McNaughton, enter the Heads of
Port Jackson, and cast anchor on Sunday 26th February; and though the
remembrance of the afflictive season we witnessed, in consequence of the
effects of the disease which was permitted to prove so fatal to many of our
company, is not, neither can be, erased from our memory; yet, our
judgments were mingled with mercies, when we saw a deep and lively interest
for our comfort, and for our restoration to health so anxiously evinced by
you. The
experience of these last seven weeks, while under quarantine at Spring Cove,
developed in lively characters the spirit of philanthropy which actuated your
honourable mind. Our
wants were promptly and abundantly supplied, and we should ever reproach
ourselves if we hesitated to deny you the expression of the grateful emotion
of our hearts. With one consent we pray for the long continuance of your
valuable life; and that every blessing of the present time may, by the God of
Providence, be imparted to you. (Signed) Jeremiah Ledsam,
Peter M'Swiney, Distiller. Alexander Aberdeen,
Daniel Kennedy, Cornelius Sheehan, G. T. Daunt, Archilles
Daun't .
John Logan; Senior, William Logan, Thomas Logan, John Logan, John Duros, Thomas Lovett. 3.
Sydney, April 7th, 1837. We,
the Emigrants, by ship Lady McNaughton,
now in quarantine at Spring Cove - anticipating our immediate release, having
been, by a wise and unerring Providence, the subjects of peculiar and painful
visitations since our departure from our fatherland - most respectfully
desire to express our unanimous, sincere, and grateful thanks to the
Surgeon-Superintendent of Quarantine, Dr. Inches, R.N., for the success
attending, under the Divine blessing, his skill and unremitting
attention to us, while under his care; conceiving it would be a dereliction
of duty if we did not make this public acknowledgment of our heartfelt thanks
to this eminent and distinguished gentleman. (Signed) -Jeremia
Ledsam, Peter M'Swiney,
distiller, Thomas Lovett, Kingamill Gillinan; Henry Downey, Cornelius Sheehan, James
O'Connell, Edward Mullins, George Thos. Daunt, Matthew Galbraith, John Duros, Achilles Daunt, William Wilson, Alexander
Aberdeen, Farysher Aberdeen, Thos. Lineham, John Callison. Spring
Cove, Port Jackson, April 13, 1837 4. On the arrival of the emigrants by the ship Lady M'Naughton,
we were by an Act of Council, in Consequence of disease, appointed to Spring
Cove to undergo quarantine, and on our landing there, Henry Bingham, Esq.,
(cabin passenger), tendered his services in carrying into effect the wishes
of the Surgeon-Superintendent, Doctor Ipches, in
the distribution of the supplies ordered us (by a Government, of which we are
proud to be subjects), and having impartially discharged the duties he
gratuitously and voluntarily undertook, and considering also the happy
results of his judicious counsels, we cannot, without doing violence to our
feelings, decline presenting him with our best thanks, and our warmest wishes
for his future welfare in this the land of his intended adoption. (Signed) - Jeremiah
Ledsam, Peter M'Swiney,
Distiller, Thomas Lovett, Kingsmill, Giltinan, Henry Downey, Cornelius Sheehan, James
O'Connell, George Thos. Daunt, Matthew Galbraith, John Duros,
Achilles Daunt, William Wilson Alexander Aberdeen, Faryaker
Aberdeen, Thomas Lineham, John Callisan.
Spring Cove, Port Jackson, ApriI 13, 1857 |