1752 Betty

Captain: Robert Warden
From: Hellevoet Roads, Rotterdam 16 May 1752
Arrival: St. George's Island, 24 Jul 1752

Left with 161 passengers and arrived with 154 persons. Only 7 (4.3 %) persons died on the voyage. The ship Betty traveled together with the ship Speedwell. Captain Warden wrote on 24 Jul 1752 right after his arrival at Halifax concerning the 68 day journey during which only four young children and one adult died and the rest were, "very well contented. The worst man I had aboard was the schoolmaster-- but I put up with him very well as all the Rest, poor Souls as I may say with Truth now." The schoolmaster apparently left immediately after arrival for the French settlement at Frankfurt (Dresden), Maine.

Most of the passengers on this ship were from Montbeliard, a protestant province in France ruled by the ducal family of Württemberg. A few of these settlers shortly after arriving in Nova Scotia moved south to join friends and relatives who had come over earlier and settled in the town of Frankfurt (later called Dresden), Maine (see the Priscilla 1751). A number of other passengers on this ship were from Switzerland and a few from Germany. The names on the reconstructed list have been rearranged according to their place of origin from the southwest to northeast.

It is not possible to identify all the people on the ship because often a family would take an older parent or step children who are not easy to identify in the available sources, however all those in each household were listed under "Freight". Following are the abbreviations used here: 1m = 1 (adult) man, 1w = 1 (adult) woman, 1 hf = 1 half freight (i.e. child between 4-14 years old), 1c = 1 child under 4 (goes free), 3f = 3 freights (total, e.g could be a family of five: parents, two children between 4-14, and one child under 4), 5h = 5 heads (i.e. total number of people in the group).

The place of origin was generally the state, province, or city-state, however in some cases a town was listed (or the town might have been a small duchy or independent town in 1753). The actual towns of origin of these people will be verified in the future and updated on this site as time permits.