The following is a list of men who were held at the guard house on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, Quebec, Canada, and received daily subsistence in the summer and fall seasons of 1761. This facility may have contained an orderly room, guard room, and detention cells, which could have been considered typical construction in the mid-eighteenth century.
The two columns represent the prisoner's name and the number of days victualled.
1 Augt. 1761:
William Thomas - 25 days [47th Regiment]
Patrick McGuire - 8 days [2d Battalion, 60th Royal American Regiment]
Miles Carmichael - 4 days [78th Regiment]
4 Augt. 1761:
Paul Wood - 3 days [2d Battalion, 60th Royal American Regiment]
19 Augt. 1761:
Willm. Powell - 5 days
Willm. Cooper - 4 days
Jos. Howe - 4 days
Fras. Coffield - 4 days
29 Augt 1761:
Thos. Lee - 4 days
5 Sepr. 1761:
Robt. McGregor - 5 days
25 Sepr. 1761:
Angus McDonald [78th Regiment]
Jos. Dusel
27 Sepr. 1761:
John Browne
30 Sepr. 1761:
Nicholas Tryer [Tyer; Fryer; Fyer?]
16 Oct. 1761:
Francis Warren
Source: List of Prisoners Victualed at the Main Guard [1761]. Treasury: papers. TNA, T 1/406, n.p.
© Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2023.