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That having been exchanged at the peace of 1783, from attachment to the Royal cause, she embarked on board a transport with part of Delancey's and Chalmer's Corps, was ship- wrecked on Seal Island in the Bay of Fundy, when near three hundred men, and numbers of the women and children were lost, that she suffered unparallelled distress, being pregnant, with a child in her arms ; remained for three days on the wreck, was taken up, with her husband and 'child, by Fishermen of Marble Head, and shortly after being landed, delivered of three sons ; two of whom, are in the 104th, the other dead ; lastly, that she has had the honour of being mother of twenty two children, viz., 18 sons, and 4 daughters, seven of the former being alive, and three of the latter.

That Memorialist humbly prays, that you may con?ider her a fit object for some

allowance from the Compassionate fund' towards her maintainance in her old age ;: having lost all her property, and as a reward for her long and faithful service to her King, and as in duty bound, shall ever prar.

E. HOPKINS.

Fredericton, New Brunswick, 12th April 1811.

[Endorsed]

In consideration of the very extraordinary circumstances stated and although it is a departure from the general rules by which the fund is governed allow 81. p* ann.

(Signed) P.* 20 June 1811. E. H. FAIRBROTHER.


 * Lord Palmerston.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84.)

LORD CADOGAK'S Regiment of Dragoons was formed as one of the Inniskilling regiments of horse in 1689, under the command of Sir Arthur Cunningham. In the Army List of 1754 it is styled the " Sixth (or Inniskilling) Regiment of Dragoons," although it is not- clear when this title came into use. The regiment is now designated the " 6th (Innis- killing) Dragoons," the only cavalry regiment which still retains its original local title :

Lord Cadogan's Regiment of Dragoons.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Cornets

Lord Cadogan(l) James Gardiner (2) Montagu Farrer

(Lord Chrichton (3)

\ Sir John Whiteford (4)

^ John Dalrymple

John Dalrymple /"William Nugent I William Tonyn < George Brodie I Patrick Agnew (5) I Paul Torin

'Ralph Cook .. John Young Hugh Whiteford (6) Thomas Hooper Henry Farrer. . .David Chapeau

Dates of their present commissions.

19 June 1734.

24 Jan. 1729-30. 15 Aug. 1734.

27 May 1723.

25 Dec. 1726. 17 Mar. 1735-6.

25 Dec. 3 Jan.

1726.

1718-9. 25 Dec. 1726.

ditto.

31 May 1727. 25 Oct. 1737.

29 April 1731. 31 May 1727. 12 Oct. 14 Feb. 24 Jan. 1 Feb.

1732. 1731-2. 1737-8. 1737-8..

(1) Charles, 2nd Baron Cadogan of Oakley, Major-General. See ' D.N.B.'

(2) See D.N.B.'

(3) William Dalrymple, Lord Crichton. He became 4th Earl of Dumfries in 1742.

(4) Fecond Baronet, " Whitefoord of Blaquhan." Became Lieutenant-General hi 1760. in 1763, when the baronetcy became extinct.

(5) One of the twenty-one children of Sir James A., 4th Baronet, of Lochnaw. ((5) Younger brother of Sir John W. See note 4 supra.

He died