Passengers on the Annabella!


09/27/1770

Annabella.

Dep July, 1770
Capt. Dugald Stewart
Campbelltown, Scot.

P.E.I. &
poss. Carolinas *

*100 Pass. Wrecked off Lot 18 See "The Princetown Pioneers - Anatomy of an Emigration", James P. Lawson, The Island Magazine, Issue 38, Pg. 11.

In October, 1770, the barque Annabella was wrecked off Princetown with some sixty families and about two hundred people.

A cairn to the Annabella stands in Cabot Park at Malpeque (formerly Princetown) the inscription on which is as follows:

"On this shore the barque Annabella from Campbellton, Scotland was wrecked in October 1770. Her passengers, having lost all their possessions found welcome shelters in French homes. In spite of extreme hardship, these emigrants and their descendants by their faith and courage made worthy contributions to the development of a progressive community, province and country.

Sixty families arrived on the Annabella and included such names as: Allanby, Carr, English, Inglis, MacKendrick, MacNeill, MacMillan, MacIntosh, MacArthur, MacDougall, MacGougan, MacKay, MacKenzie, Murphy, Montgomery, Sinclair, Stewart, Smith, Ramsay, Taylor and Woodside.

"To honour these pioneers and commemorate the arrival of the Annabella this monument is erected. September 6, 1964"

Warburton's "History of P.E.I.", names some of the Annabella passengers:

Robert Stewart,
John Ramsay, six sons and two nephews,
and continues naming many of the surnames listed above, but not their numbers or given names.