I am trying to find out information about the HMS Lydia. Specifically a trip it made in September of 1740.

I know it came to Philly September 27, 1740. I also know for sure one person on that ship, possibly 3 others. But that's really all I know, and google is giving me a tough time with anything other than a fictional ship in a movie.

If y'all have any resources that could give me extra insight (a manifest, if they kept one then, or if it can be found would be AMAZING) let me know, I will love you forever!

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM. Reason : ]

4/20/2010 9:01:15 PM

does this help?

4/20/2010 9:20:02 PM

4/20/2010 9:24:53 PM

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4/20/2010 9:26:07 PM

http://www.napoleon-forum.de/index.php?showtopic=1856

4/20/2010 9:27:16 PM

looks like there's nothing out there but that horatio hornblower dude.

4/20/2010 9:29:06 PM

Yeah I was mostly getting that stuff about some movie where there was a ship named HMS Lydia...but that's all I saw.

^^I'm working on my German, but there isn't much I can understand from that.

[Edited on April 20, 2010 at 9:35 PM. Reason : ]

4/20/2010 9:34:54 PM

Oh well, I've given up for the night...I've found a few things that have listed manifest, none of the names that I was looking for were on it, but I have several other things that say that the names that I'm looking for should be on it.

I mean I suppose those records weren't exactly a work of art. How important was it for the manifests to be super accurate during those times?

I know for a fact that he came to America in the early 1740s from Germany and was in Pennsylvania then about 1747 came to North Carolina.

Everything I've seen has said he was on the Lydia, but everything that I find on the Lydia says he was not on the Lydia...
I also cannot find him on any of the other manifests of any of the other ships of that time.

4/20/2010 10:11:50 PM

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4/20/2010 10:19:29 PM

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4/20/2010 10:35:02 PM

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Sadly, I have no use for it.

4/20/2010 10:36:06 PM

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4/21/2010 11:11:34 AM

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4/21/2010 12:15:48 PM

I would think ships' logs and things would be pretty accurate, especially in HMS's (british navy), unless they were captured (or very close to it) at some point on that voyage. If that was the case, you'd find all that info at the bottom of the sea, tied to some roundshot

naval papers were supposed to be in damned good order and ready for spontaneous inspections/pressings

4/21/2010 1:30:31 PM

Okay thanks.

Maybe the websites that I've gotten the information from aren't that accurate...I need to find the sources of the info that I have already.

Or was there an age that someone wouldn't be recorded? Like this person was probably around 15 give or take a year.

[Edited on April 21, 2010 at 1:43 PM. Reason : ]

4/21/2010 1:36:13 PM