The question was asked: Has anyone found a list of the passengers on the Capt. Scott that the Second Colony came in to America?
Forty-eight names that appear to have been on the ship Scott are known. This is only a fraction of the seventy-odd Germans that Spotswood referred to, or the about eighty that the Germans themselves sometimes referred to. That we have such a list is due to the use of the names of these people by Spotswood as headrights in paying for a tract of land.
The names were published in the book series " Cavaliers and Pioneers " but the report there contains some inaccuracies. Reading the actual patent itself yields a more correct reading.
These names have been given here, I believe.
Why were only forty-eight of the names given? Spotswood had partners in the land acquisition project. He specifically mentioned Robert Beverley (the historian), and implied there were others (probably minor). There is good evidence that George Moyer was one of the people for whom Robert Beverley had paid the way. Unfortunately, though, the other names that would make up the difference between the forty-eight and the "seventy-odd" are not known.
(15 Nov 00)
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