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Hello Vince,
Two things made me think of you recently.
1. I found a page from a Montreal auction catalogue, dated June 20, 1997, which states: "Lot Z1001 (George II): Royal Warrant for payment of half pay for officers, some North American interest, 52 pages manuscript, contemporary boards, folio." I can remember looking at the warrant when I previewed the auction, and at that time I wrote in "1751" and copied the following information: "Addit(iona)l Compa(ni)e: etc of the Ens(ig)ns: Royal Reg(imen)t of Foot, Lieu(tenan)t Gen(era)l St Clair's, John Mcfie, £0 s1 d10". As I remember it, it was a paylist for British troops in North America which showed an Ensign John McPhee somewhere in North America, perhaps Nova Scotia, in about 1751. The date is quite early for Scots in the British army. Since your McPhees claim that they were in Quebec before 1760 and your ancestors were named John, is there any connection? By the way, to this day I regret not buying the paylist. It sold for $260.
2. A couple of years ago I discovered references to a shipwreck off Anticosti in 1821. My great-great-great grandparents, Alexander Murray and Janet Cameron, and their two daughters, Mary (my gg grandmother) and Catherine were on the brig that went down. There were also three large McPhee families who went on to Quebec City. When I was doing research at the Mitchel Library in Glasgow in September, I came across an article in the Glasgow Herald of 1821 which stated that some of the passengers had disembarked on Cape Breton Island. Although your family was in Nova Scotia much earlier, do you think some McPhees could have got off on Cape Breton, perhaps to join relatives who had arrived earlier?
Food for thought.
Regards,
Cecil McPhee
Montreal
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