Early Newfoundland Inhabitants

Avalon South ~ Conception Bay South

Newfoundland Census: 1675 - 1681

Bell Island

1675 Fishing Ship Census - Captain Sir John Berry, of HMS Bristol.

(Colonial Office 1.35 Folios 137 - 148)

(Ship census data includes: Vessel name if known_Port of origin_ Nationality_Master's name)

Bell Island

Samson, Dartmouth, Richard Cratt

1676 Fishing Ship Census - Captain Russell of HMS Reserve.

(Colonial Office 1.38 Folios 222 - 224)

Bell Island

?, Dartmouth, Thomas Griggs

?, Plymouth, Jon. Cotten.

1677 Fishing Ships - Captain Sir Robert Robinson, of HMS Assistance

(Colonial Office 1.41 Folios 168 - 172)

Bell Island

The Speedwell, Dartmouth, British, William Downs

1680 Anon Census

(Colonial Office ?, Folio 121)

212 English Planters in Newfoundland

97 vessels fished in the English ports in Newfoundland.

1681 Census - Captain James Story of HMS Antelope

(Colonial Office 1.47 Folios 113 - 122)

Bell Island

Nonsuch, Dartmouth, British, Thomas Cross - Fishing Admiral.

Thomas and Mary, Dartmouth, British, Elias Cock

Joseph Waterman – Planter

	Endnotes:


*How many of these early Newfoundland folk listed, were English, Irish, or Channel Island, merchant Factors?  Planters?



*****The reader is advised to always check with the original Census material for possible correction
of names of individuals contained in this file.  The originals are very faded, in cases.  Sourced 
Census material, appears mixed on some LDS microfilm.  Other typed transcripted sourced material may 
contain surname spelling errors.  Since the info within this file is derived from plural sources over
many years, often not being of original material transcription, a caution flag must be thus placed.

P.S.  The author for the earlier posted 1675 Newfoundland Census file here in this Early NL Census has realized 
some 1676 Census individuals, are included with the 1675 folk.  The reason being, the LDS microfilm sourced; 
contains mixed Census info for 1675 and 1676.  This current file, will be considered a correction to any
discrepancy noticed in the former posted file, when compared withoriginal Census materials.

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*Seventeenth
century references to early Newfoundland Census materials. These originals reside in a variety of repositories in 
Newfoundland.  The following list comes from the NEHGS publication Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research. 


1675 – Sir John Berry Census –
list of planters from Cape de Razo to Cape Bonavista; names planters
for thirty harbours.

1676 – Capt Russell’s Census
– account of English inhabitants between Bonaventure and Petty
Harbour; includes names in 18 settlements.

1677 – Sir
John Berry Census – Cape Race to Cape Bonavista; names each
community, inhabitants, numbers of wives, children, servants, houses,
boats, stages, animals, and pasture land.

1677 – Sir
William Poole’s Census – Cape Bonavista to Trepassey;
names inhabitants, number of wives, sons, etc., covering 28
settlements.

1675-1677 – A short list of planters at
Renews in 1663, and a list of 19 planters in St. John’s in 1669
by John Yonge.

1681 – Captain James Story’s Census
– planters from Trepassey to Bonavista to Fair Island.

1682
– Captain Daniel Jones’ Census.

And there are
census returns for 1691 and 1693.

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Early Newfoundland Census

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1708	List of inhabitants Names, and the number of their families, in 28
settlements from Ferryland to Bonavista.  

CO 194/4.  Pages 253-6.

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A
History of Newfoundland from the English, Colonial and Foreign
Records, by D. W. Prowse.  Page 199.
*Bay Bulls a convoy destination in 1682?  Captain Daniel Jones, R.N., H.
M. S. Diamond.

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The Bristol Registers of Servants: Sent to Foreign Plantation 1654-1686. 
By: Peter Wilson Coldham.  (1663 - 1679)

Page 349.  March 8, 16??
Lawrence Tanner to Thomas Harris, 7 years Newfoundland by "Olive Branch".

William Allen to Thomas Edwards.  5 years Newfoundland by "Olive
Branch".

Thomas Boone to Thomas Edwards, 7 years Newfoundland by "Olive Branch".

Page 374.
Robert Stephens of Bridport, Dorset, to Richard Downe, 3 years Newfoundland
by "Supply"

Henry Chapman of Sutton, Dorset, to Shadrach Burt, 4 years Newfoundland by
"Jeremy"