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[ xviii ], Esq.) went to the West Indies in 1770, and, in about two years, visited all the islands, English and French, and was employed by Government in Grenada. He directed a sugar estate for a short time in the West Indies; but he carried on sugar works many years at Bencoolen in the East Indies.—[IV. 241.]

, (Mr. ) was in the African employ, from 1765 to 1776, mostly on the Windward Coast, as third, second, and chief mate. He was also eight months resident as a factor at the head of the River Sierra Leon, and seventeen or eighteen months at that of the River Scaffus in Africa.—[IV. 112.]

, Esq.) was upwards of twenty years in Maryland.—[IV. 249.]

, (Mr. ) was at Jamaica in 1762 and 1763, and from 1768 to 1778, and from 1786 to 1789. For the first two years he was in the seafaring line, but the rest of the time as wharfinger and pilot.—[IV. 207.]

, (Mr. ) sailed in the Garland, for Africa, in 1788, as surgeon's mate, and there, on the Bonny Coast, commenced surgeon to the Young Hero slave-vessel.—[IV. 23.]

, (Captain) of the 89th regiment, was in Barbadoes, St. Lucia, St. Kitt's, &c. in 1780 and 1781. [IV. 199.]

, (Mr. ) arrived In Jamaica in 1774, and left it 1790; was three years in the planting business; the rest of the time as clerk and schoolmaster there.—[IV. 889.]

, Gent.) was in Jamaica fifteen years, ending in 1774, as a mill-wright, chiefly in