Letter from Colonel Simon Fraser to General Forbes, Feb. 1758

The following letter, dated 10 February 1758, is from Lt.-Col. Simon Fraser, Second Highland Battalion [78th Regiment], to Colonel John Forbes, Adjutant General. The main body of the letter focuses on the pending litigation against Serjeant Fraser for his involvement in the death of Corporal Mackay [an indictment laid for murder] in Connecticut, both men of the regiment. The colonel appears to be wrestling with the idea of having to turn the serjeant over for civil trial.

Dear Sir

Capt. Crauford Surprized me greatly yesterday by saying you wanted the Monthly Return of our Regiment for the 24th January, that Return I sent as I did the one for the former Month in a sealed Cover to General Webb, & my Servant deliver'd it Sunday was tonight the 29th at the Genl's house to an Elderly Man who seem'd to be a Servant out of livery.

From what you wrote me some weeks ago I was in hopes to have had Orders for Serjeant Fraser's tryal here by a Court Martial or for sending him to New York for that purpose. I have had great difficulty to prevent him being claim'd hitherto, not that they are desirous of trying him, on the contrary they had rather avoid it but they are afraid if they don't claim him he will not be tryed at all & that his guilt will fall upon the land; they declare all they desire is that he shou'd have a fair tryal, & that they woud chuse it shoud be a Military rather than a Civil one, but unleſs some directions are given imediatly about his tryal by a Court Martial, it will be impossible for me to persuade them that it is intended to be done at all; they consider it as a great compliment taking my word for it for some weeks past, during which time they say they have avoided interfering in order to see if My Lord intended a Military trial, for God's sake My Dear Sir, put My Lord in mind to do something about this poor unhappy Man, whose 'twere pity shoud be in the hand of uncultivated creatures, for the King has not a better Soldier.

I find you heard of a Soldiers being given up for a peccadillo at Stanford, it was done without my knowledge & I have since got him released, I don't know how far My Lord will chuse to have Men given up for triffling Offences when the people are capricious enough to desire it, especialy as our united experience thro all the Cantonments proves, that the people of the Country are apt to grow rather insolent upon great indulgence, & that a mixture of the Soure with the Sweet if necessary to keep upon good terms with them.

                                I am with great regard
                                 
                                                               Dear Sir

                                                                        Your most Obedient & most humble
                                                                            Servant S. Fraser

Stratford Febry 10th 1758

Source:

Colonel Simon Fraser, "Letter of Col. Simon Fraser to Colonel Forbes, Adjutant General, at His House in the Broadway or at the Fort, New York." NAS, GD45-2-29, pp. 15-16. 

©  Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2018.

Colonel Simon Fraser's Recruits

Alexander Fraser [1860-1936], a native of Inverness-shire, who was the first Archivist of Ontario [1903-35], was an acknowledged authority on Scottish history in general and Fraser history in particular. In 1934 he advised a descendant of Malcolm Fraser of Mount Murray that the Rev. Dr. Archibald MacDonald - then quite an old man - had written a short history of the Lords of Lovat. In The Old Lords of Lovat and Beaufort [1934], Dr. MacDonald included the muster roll of 71 recruits raised in 1757 for Colonel Simon Fraser, by James Fraser of Belladrum, as well as extracts of correspondence between Belladrum and Bailie James Fraser, merchant, Inverness, which shed some light on Belladrum's involvement with the Fraser Highlanders. The following except and subsequent soldiers' muster roll originally appeared as part of that publication.

“...In connection with the enlistment of men for the Fraser Highlanders, the following roll of 71 recruits was raised in 1757 by James Fraser of Belladrum, and preserved among the Belladrum papers. The men were drawn chiefly from the district of Inverness, and their interest lies to some extent in the fact that none of them seem to measure more than 5 feet 9-1/2 inches in height.” 

1757, --- Roll of Men Enlisted for the Honble Coll Fraser's Regimt by Jas. Fraser.

Jan 15:

Name: Alex Cameron, Butcher, Invs

Size: 5: 6-1/2

Age: 21
Dn: 1st

Jan 17:

Jno MacKenzie, Do

Size: 5: 3-1/2

Age: 21
Dn: 3d

Jas MacKenzie, Do

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 32
Dn: 3d

Hugh Fraser, Do

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 27
Dn: 3d

Jan 18:

Jno Fraser, Weaver, Do

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 21
Dn: 3d

Jno Grant, Duthel

Size: 5: 9

Age: 31
Dn: 1st

Jan 19:

Willm Fraser, Hyrer, Invs

Size: 5: 5-1/2

Age: 33
Dn: 1st

Jan 20: 

Thos Campbell, Breakachie

Size: 5: 5-1/2

Age: 28
Dn: 3d

Jan 21: 

Jno McDonald, Weaver, Invs

Size: 5: 3-1/2

Age: 19
Dn: 3d

Jno McDonald, Pyper, Kinchyle

Size: 5: 3

Age: 21
Dn: 2d

Walter Simson, Kings, Milns

Size: 5: 5-1/4

Age: 19

Jan 24: 

Wm Mack Queen, Daviot

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 18
Dn: 3d

Jno MacKenzie, from Urray

Size: 5: 3

Age 18
Dn: 3d

Jan 25: 

Wm Williamson, Castlehill

Size: 5: 5-1/2

Age: 18

Collin McDonald, Invs

Size: 5: 6-1/2

Age: 30
Dn: 3d

Jno Shaw, Weaver, Kings, Milns

Size: 5: 3-1/2

Age: 19

Jan 26:

Alexr Vauss, Kings, Milns

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 27
Dn: 2d

John Fraser, Robbie, Invs

Size: 5: 2-1/2

Age, 18

Jan 27: 

Thomas Fraser, Baker, Do

Size: 5: 2-1/2

Age: 15

Alexr Fraser, Do, Do

Size: 5: 1

Age: 16

Dun McTavish, Aberaider

Size: 5: 3-1/2

Age: 23
Dn: 3d

Rod McKenzie, Aberaider

Size: 5: 3-3/4

Age: 18

Angus McArthur, Troternish

Size: 5: 6-1/4

Age: 36
Dn: 3d

Jno Robertson, Bewlie

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 20
Dn: 3d

Jan 28:

Don Fraser, McWilliam, Moniack

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 20
Dn: 3d

Alexr Cameron, Culchuniack

Size: 5: 3-3/4

Age: 19
Dn: 1st

Alexr Vauss, Invs

Size: 5: 6-1/2

Age: 29
Dn: 2d

Geo McKenzie, Weaver, Invs

Size: 5: 9

Age: 20
Dn: 1st

Jan 29:

Jno McLeod, Invs

Size: 5: 3-1/2

Age: 18
Dn: 3d

Jan 31:

Alexr Baillie, Invs

Size: 5: 4-1/4

Age: 26
Dn: 3d

Simon Fraser, Culduthell

Size: 5: 4-1/2

Age: 30
Dn: 3d

Jno Fraser, Muirtown

Size: 5: 6-1/2

Age: 18
Dn: 1st

Alexr MackLeod, Joyner

Size: 5: 8

Age: 28
Dn: 1st

Feb 1: 

Don Cameron. Glenstrafarer

Size: 5: 7

Age: 25
Dn: 1st

Feb 2:

Don Fraser, Croy

Size: 5: 7-1/2

Age: 21
Dn: 1st

Doug McDonald, Invs

Size: 5: 3

Age: 19
Dn: 3d

No. 37

Feb 2:

Archibald Mack Queen, Moy

Size: 5: 7

Age: 38
Dn: 3d

Jany 28:

John Gordon, Duthel

Size: 5: 3

Age: 21

Feb 5:

Alex Munro, Duthel

Size: 5: 3-3/4

Age: 17
Dn: 3d

Feb 7:

Alexr Mackay, Kingussie
Size: 5: 5-1/4
Age: 31
Dn: 4d

Dun McKenzie, Petty
Size: 5: 3-1/4
Age: 18

Jno Fraser, Dunain
Size: 5: 3
Age: 18

Dun Munro, Culkaiback
Size: 5: 5
Age: 18

Feb 9:
Willm Fraser, Cantra
Size: 5: 5-3/4
Age: 20
Dn: 1st

Feb 10:
Andw Mack Lean, Davochgarnoch
Size: 5: 4-1/2
Age: 19

Feb 11:
Alexr Grigor, Croy
Size: 5: 3
Age: 17

Neil Mackleod, Invs
Size: 5: 4
Age: 34

Feb 12:
Jno McDonald senr, Weaver, Invs
Size: 5: 3-1/2
Age: 29
Dn: 3d

Feb 14:
Alex Mackenzie, Weaver, Invs
Size: 5: 3
Age: 34

Feb 15:
Alex Munro, Weaver, Invs
Size: 5: 9
Age: 22
Dn: 2d

Feb 18:
Murdoch Mackenzie, Do
Size: 5: 6-1/2
Age: 39
Dn: 4d

Feb 3:
James Mackdonald, Do
Size: 5: 1-1/2
Age:

Alex Fraser, Joyner
Size: 5: 1-1/2
Age:
Dn: 2d

Feb 15:
Jno Mack, Crae
Size: 5: 2
Age: 18

Feb 16:
Donald Munro
Size: 5: 2-1/2
Age: 20

Mar 1:
Alexr Fraser, serjeant
Size: 5: 6
Age: 23

Mar 3:
Donald McPherson,
Size: 5: 5
Age: 38

James Glass
Size: 5: 2
Age: 18

Donald McIntosh
Size: 5: 2
Age 17

Mar 9:
Donald Cameron, K's, Milne
Size: 5: 3
Age: 19
Dn: 4th

Feb 24:
Farquhar McGilvray, Moy
Size: 5: 4
Age: 28

Mar 2:
James Gregory
Size: 5: 9
Age: 40
Dn: 3d

Mar 11:
John Fraser, Wright, Culloden
Size: 5: 7-1/2
Age: 40
Dn: 2d

James Forsyth, Croy
Size: 5: 4
Age: 29

Mar 14:
John McDonald, Tobacconist
Size: 5: 6-1/2
Age: 19
Dn: 2d

Kenneth Mackenzie, Petty
Size: 5: 5
Age: 19
Dn: 2d

John Fraser, Culloden, 17 years old
Size: 5: 4-3/4
Age: 37

Mar 19:
Jno Shaw, Edenkilie
Size: 5: 8-3/4
Age: 25
Dn: 3d

Angus McDonell, serj, 26 Janry
Size: 5: 9-1/2
Age: 24
Dn: 4th

No. 70

Mar 29:
Neil Mack Lean, Troternish, Culloden
Size: 5: 4-1/2
Age: 19

Ap 2:
Thomas Fraser, Kinmylies
Size: 5: 6-1/4
Age: 27

Abbreviations:
Dn: Division
Do: Ditto

James Fraser of Belladrum was appointed lieutenant in Col. Fraser's regiment on 4 January 1757 and carried with the colonel on the official Army Lists through 1760, where he is listed as "resigns" from the regiment. He reappears as captain in the 87th Regiment of Foot [or Highland Volunteers, Germany] in 1761, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Murray Keith.

Some historians have asserted these 71 recruits never made it to North America with the main body of Fraser's men and were sent to fight with Belladrum in Germany in 1759. Those claims, however, cannot be substantiated. Serjeants Alexander Fraser [March 1] and Angus McDonell [March 19] both appear with the 78th Regiment on the list of 170 Soldiers Discharged in North America; the former in Colonel Fraser's Company, the latter in Captain Alexander McLeod's Company. Additional sources also describe the original recruits of the 87th Foot as a nucleus of drafts from Lord Murray's supernumeraries of the 42nd Foot, the Black Watch. 

Because such a limited amount of paperwork relating to the original recruitment of soldiers for Fraser's 78th Highlanders has survived, this document could prove quite valuable in identifying men from the regiment thought to have ancestral roots in northern Scotland.

A check of the records of the Fraser of Belladrum papers at the National Library of Scotland indicates the absence of this original muster roll from the collection; nor can it be confirmed as being held in private hands.

Sources:

Bulloch, John Malcolm. Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of Scotland during 1759-1814 [Aberdeen, 1914].

Marie Fraser, "The Old 78th Regiment of Foot." Clan Fraser Society of Canada, 2001.

Kronoskaf. Origin and History of the 87th Foot. http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=87th_Foot.

MacDonald, Archibald, Reverend. The Old Lords of Lovat and Beaufort [Northern Counties Newspaper and Publishing, 1934].

War Office Records. List of General and Field Officers as they Rank in the Army, 1757-1761 [National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, U.K.]

"Inventory of Family papers of Fraser of Belladrum." NAS, GB233/Acc.11244.

©  Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2018. 

Payroll Account of Corporal Hugh Tulloch, 1758

Much like today, accounting books were used in the eighteenth century for documenting military pay and other related expenses accrued over periods of time. The payroll account of Corporal Hugh Tulloch, 78th Regiment, covers the period of July 5, 1757, through April 24, 1758.

Note: Category headers and bracketed script have been added for clarification and do not appear in the original document. Additionally, it would not be uncommon to discover accounting errors as these were gentlemen who created inaccuracies the same as you and I.

[Page 5 - Corporal Hugh Tulloch]

Income

To 9 Weeks arrears & Pay Due from y'e. 5th July to y'e. 5th Septr

  £2. 0. 10½

To 5 Weeks arrears of Pay Due from y'e. 5th Septr to y'e. 10th Octr

£0. 8. 1½

To 3 Weeks arrears @ 

To 6 Weeks Pay & arrears Due from y'e. 17th Octr to y'e. 28th Novr

£1. 7. 3

To 21 Weeks arrears of Pay Due from y'e. 28th Novr 1757 to y'e. 24th

Aprl 1758

£1. 14. 1½

[Total]  £5. 10. 4½

To 4 Weeks Pay Due on y'e. march in Ireland from Drummore 

to Cork

£0. 18. 2

[Total]  £6. 8. 6½

Expenses

To 1 Pair Shoes & 1 Napsack

£0. 6. 6

To 2 Haversack & 1 Cocade

£0. 2. 8

To 1 Pair Garters & 1 Sett Buckles

£0. 1. 4

To 1 Kilt & Small Belt

£0. 1. 4

To 1 Turn Key Screw brush & wire

£0. 0. 9

To Provision at Glasgow

£0. 4. 8

To Spruce Beer at Halifax

£0. 2. 8

To 2 Cheq'd. Shirts

£0. 7. 0

To Y'e. Proportion of a Cooks Frock

£0. 0. 8

To 10 months stops for y'e. Payment Serjt. @ 1 1/2p Month

£0. 0. 10

To 7 D'o. D'o. for y'e. barber @ 2p D'o.

£0. 1. 2

To 4 Weeks Pay given into y'e. Hospt. at Halifax

£0. 15. 0

To cash given you at Fairfield

£0. 18. 8

To cash advance by Y'e. Colonel in Ireland

£0. 15. 0

[Total]  £3. 18. 3

[Income minus Expenses equals Cash Paid] 

To Cash Paid him as Ball'ce. of y'e. Above

       £1. 12. 1

[Total]  £5. 10. 4½

To more Cash Paid him as ball'ce for 4 weeks Pay & arrears

in Ireland

£6. 8. 6½

To Cash Paid him as Ball'ce. of y'e. Above

£2. 10. 3½

Halifax 17th May 1758 Rec'd. y'e. above ball'ce. in full of my Pay & arrears of Pay Due from y'e. Date of my attestation to y'e. 24th Apr. Last as witneſs my hand

                                                                                             [signed]  Hugh Tulloch

Source:

Major James Clephane, "Payroll Account of Corporal Hugh Tulloch, 1758." Military Account Book at Halifax. NAS, GD125-34-5, pp. 14-15.

©  Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2018. 

The Colonel's Company

The following is a list of the officers and men of the 78th Regiment [Fraser's Highlanders] attached to Colonel Fraser's Company when the regiment was discharged in 1763. Of the approximately 865 enlisted men and NCOs of the regiment, only 170 men are documented as discharged in America. The other soldiers that stayed were transferred to different regiments in the area.

It should be noted that in these subsistence rolls there are female names appearing in italicised script type. And the more interesting question of what part they played in the regiment can be found in the following notes:

1. In "Louisbourg, Key to a Continent" by Fairfax Downey, p. 160: "--- yet more draft had to be manpower, no animals being available, and it proved to be womanpower as well. Among the parties who tugged on the drag ropes, one thousand strong with frequent shift changes, were several hundred laundresses, a number being allowed to each British regiment by regulation, and carried as 'married and on the strength'. Heavy fire from [the guns of] Louisbourg disconcerted them no more than it did the men."

2. In "The Great Fortress" by William Wood, p. 112: "The practice of assigning laundresses, usually the wives of NCOs to military units was frequently followed. In the U.S. Army, where four were allowed each company, it persisted through the Indian Wars."

3. In "The Fraser Highlanders" by J.R. Harper, p. 73, appears: Included in Wolfe's final orders for embarkation to Quebec from Louisbourg, May 17, 1759: "The regiments are to receive provisions for no more than three women per company of 70, and four per company of 100 men."

These rolls should prove to be of great historic value to those who claim ancestry to soldiers who fought at Louisbourg and Quebec with the 78th Regiment. Many of the soldiers who chose to enlist in Fraser’s Highlanders, did so for the money, and those who stayed when the regiment was discharged in 1763, likely felt that their chances of land ownership were better in the New World than they would have been had they returned to Scotland.

The Colonel's Company
Time of Entry: Aug. 23, 1763
Number of Days Victualled: 21

1. Sergeant Donald Grey
2. Sergeant Donald Fraser
3. Sergeant Alexander Fraser
4. Corporal John Grant
5. Corporal Thomas Ried
6. Corporal Thomas Fraser
7. Drummer Thomas Gunn
8. Private William Anderson
9. Private Alexander Cameron
10. Private Alexander Cameron
11. Private Thomas Cameron
12. Private William Cameron
13. Private John Cameron
14. Private Donald Cameron
15. Private William Cameron
16. Private William Cameron
17. Private Donald Cameron
18. Private Donald Cameron
19. Private Donald Cameron
20. Private Donald Cameron
21. Private Donald Cameron
22. Private Donald Cameron
23. Private Alexander Cameron
24. Private John Fraser
25. Private John Fraser
26. Private John Fraser
27. Private John Fraser
28. Private John Fraser
29. Private Alexander Fraser
30. Private Thomas Fraser
31. Private Thomas Fraser
32. Private Thomas Fraser
33. Private Hugh Fraser
34. Private William Forbes
35. Private John Gunn
36. Private Thomas Maitland
37. Private Donald McBain
38. Private John McBain
39. Private William McDonald
40. Private Alexander McDonald
41. Private Alexander McDonell
42. Private Peter McDonell
43. Private Donald McDonell
44. Private Peter McGregor
45. Private Murdoch McKenzie
46. Private Donald McKenzie
47. Private Donald McKenzie
48. Private Colin McKay
49. Private Alexander McKay
50. Private Alexander McKay
51. Private Evan McPhie
52. Private Hugh Ross
53. Private Alexander Ross
54. Private John Ried
55. Private Robert Robinson
56. Private Walter Simpson
57. Private William Stewart
58. Private Donald Thompson
59. Mary Kennedy
60. Ann Simpson

Time of Entry: Aug. 29, 1763
Number of Days Victualled: 7

61. Private D. Cummins

Time of Entry: Aug. 30, 1763
Number of Days Victualled: 14

62. Captain-Lieutenant Donald McBain
63. Lieutenant Simon Fraser
64. Ensign Malcolm Fraser

Time of Entry: Sep. 6, 1763
Number of Days Victualled: 7

65. Surgeon Mate Donald Morrison

Sources:

Treasury Board Papers, "Subsistence Rolls of Fraser's Highlanders (the 78th), 1763." LAC, T.1, vol. 422.

Ibid., "Subsistence Rolls of Fraser's Highlanders (the 78th), 1763." TNA, T.1, vol. 422.

Marie Fraser, "Subsistence Rolls of Fraser's Highlanders (the 78th), 1763." Clan Fraser Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2001.

McIntosh, Walter H. 78th or Colonel Simon Fraser's Regiment [Topsfield, Massachusetts, n.d.].

©  Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2018.

Major James Abercrombie's Company

The following is a list of the officers and men of the 78th Regiment [Fraser's Highlanders] attached to Major James Abercrombie's Company when the regiment was discharged in 1763. Of the approximately 865 enlisted men and NCOs of the regiment, only 170 men are documented as discharged in America. The other soldiers that stayed were transferred to different regiments in the area.

It should be noted that in these subsistence rolls there are female names appearing in italicised script type. And the more interesting question of what part they played in the regiment can be found in the following notes:

1. In "Louisbourg, Key to a Continent" by Fairfax Downey, p. 160: "--- yet more draft had to be manpower, no animals being available, and it proved to be womanpower as well. Among the parties who tugged on the drag ropes, one thousand strong with frequent shift changes, were several hundred laundresses, a number being allowed to each British regiment by regulation, and carried as 'married and on the strength'. Heavy fire from [the guns of] Louisbourg disconcerted them no more than it did the men."

2. In "The Great Fortress" by William Wood, p. 112: "The practice of assigning laundresses, usually the wives of NCOs to military units was frequently followed. In the U.S. Army, where four were allowed each company, it persisted through the Indian Wars."

3. In "The Fraser Highlanders" by J.R. Harper, p. 73, appears: Included in Wolfe's final orders for embarkation to Quebec from Louisbourg, May 17, 1759: "The regiments are to receive provisions for no more than three women per company of 70, and four per company of 100 men."

These rolls should prove to be of great historic value to those who claim ancestry to soldiers who fought at Louisbourg and Quebec with the 78th Regiment. Many of the soldiers who chose to enlist in Fraser’s Highlanders, did so for the money, and those who stayed when the regiment was discharged in 1763, likely felt that their chances of land ownership were better in the New World than they would have been had they returned to Scotland.

Major James Abercrombie's Company
Time of Entry: Aug. 23, 1763

1. Sergeant John Campbell
2. Sergeant Duncan McPhie
3. Drummer John McDonell
4. Corporal Finley Fraser
5. Corporal Donald McKenzie
6. Corporal Allen Shaw
7. Private John Anderson
8. Private Niel Beaton
9. Private John Clarke
10. Private Donald Cameron
11. Private Donald Fraser
12. Private Donald Fraser
13. Private John Fraser
14. Private John Fraser
15. Private John Fraser
16. Private Alexander Fraser
17. Private Alexander Fraser
18. Private James Fraser
19. Private James Fraser
20. Private Hugh Fraser
21. Private Hugh Fraser
22. Private Duncan Fraser
23. Private William Fraser
24. Private David Fullerton
25. Private Archibald Henderson
26. Private Duncan Kennedy
27. Private John McDonald
28. Private John McDonald
29. Private Donald McDonald
30. Private Donald McDonald
31. Private Alexander McKay
32. Private Donald McPhie
33. Private John McLeod
34. Private Andrew McCulloch
35. Private Colin McCulloch
36. Private Evan McLachlin
37. Private Alexander Mckenzie
38. Private Duncan McKenzie
39. Private Chr. McKenzie
40. Private Gregor McGregor
41. Private John McMillan
42. Private Evan McMillan
43. Private Peter McIntyre
44. Private Alexander McPherson
45. Private Niel McArthur
46. Private William McGillivrae
47. Private James McCulloch
48. Private Thomas Ross
49. Private Donald Ross
50. Private Hugh Shaw
51. Private John Summer
52. Elizabeth McDonald
53. Chr. Fraser
54. Jean McCulloch
55. Major James Abercrombie
56. Lieutenant John Chisholm
57. Ensign Keneth McCulloch
58. Private George McAdam
59. Private Angus McPherson
60. Private Evan McBean
61. Private Archibald Henderon
62. Hugh Tulloch

An additional victual report dated 17 August 1762, while the major and his company were garrisoned, most likely at Berthier-sur-Mer, designated as regimental headquarters on the South Shore of the Saint-Lawrence River. The approximately 20 or so missing men from the report were sent on detachment for the month, which might have included general working party duties to repair roads, clean brush, etc. [TNA, T1/414].

1. Major James Abercrombie

2. Lieutenant John Chissolm

3. Serjeant John Campbell

4. Serjeant Duncan McPhie

5. Corporal Finley Fraser

6. Corporal Allen Shaw

7. Drummer John McDonald

8. Private Niel Beaton

9. Private John Clarke

10. Private John Clarke

11. Private Donald Cameron

12. Private John Fraser

13. Private Alex Fraser

14. Private James Fraser

15. Private James Fraser

16. Private Hugh Fraser

17. Private Hugh Fraser

18. Private Duncan Fraser

19. Private Willm. Fraser

20. Private David Fullerton

21. Private Archd. Henderson

22. Private Dond. McDonald

23. Private Dond. McDonald

24. Private Colin McCulloch

25. Private Evan McLachlin

26. Private Alex McKenzie

27. Private Duncan Mckenzie

28. Private [?] McKenzie

29. Private Gregor McGregor

30. Private John McMillan

31. Private Evan McMillan

32. Private Peter McIntyre

33. Private Alex McPherson

34. Private Angs. McPherson

35. Private Peter McNiel

36. Private Niel McArthur

37. Jane McCulloch

38. Eliz McDonald

39. Cath Fraser

40. Private James Fraser

Sources:

Treasury Board Papers, "Subsistence Rolls of Fraser's Highlanders (the 78th), 1763." LAC, T.1, vol. 422.

Ibid., "Subsistence Rolls of Fraser's Highlanders (the 78th), 1763." TNA, T.1, vol. 422.

Marie Fraser, "Subsistence Rolls of Fraser's Highlanders (the 78th), 1763." Clan Fraser Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2001.

McIntosh, Walter H. 78th or Colonel Simon Fraser's Regiment [Topsfield, Massachusetts, n.d.].

©  Jeffrey Campbell, Fraser's 78th Regiment of Foot, 2018. 

Last updated 19 December 2022.