to the . Lloyd's Register of Shipping states that... in the nearest Registers to 1770 there is only one Falmouth , a small packet of 25 tons, sailing between Cork and ??? certainly not an emigrant ship. The Falmouth Passengers: William Drummond 's Diary It is most regrettable that there was apparently no passenger list for the Falmouth , but from the diary of the Reverend William Drummond , one of the passengers, we have a description of the voyage, and the names of some of the people who came to Stanhope on this ship. Drummond received his M.A . from Edinburgh University in 1761, was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and served in Glasgow, Paisley, and Stanage. It is probable that he was recruited by Montgomery to accompany this contingent of settlers. David Lawson is the only person mentioned by Drummond on the voyage (he was very sea-sick!), but the diarist stayed on the Island from June 8,1770 until May, 1771, and his journal gives details of the settlers' life, with names, during this period. He moved to the Thirteen Colonies in 1771, and in 1772 became minister of a church in Canaan, Connecticut . In 1777 ... he became embroiled in a bitter dispute with some of the members of his congregation, which resulted in his being dismissed from his charge and deposed from the ministry. He died later that year. ( David Weale , Island Magazine, No. 2, 1977, p. 28). It is suggested that the dispute was political rather than spiritual or doctrinal: Drummond was a staunch Royalist and his congregation supported the American Revolutionary cause. The present whereabouts of Drummond's original manuscript are unknown, but typed copies exist; one... bound into a note-book collection is with the New Canaan, Conn. , Historical Society, and there is one at the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa. Whoever transcribed the diary was unfamiliar with Island names and there are a number of errors: M. Swan for McEwan, McNale for McNab or McNeill, Denar for Dewar, as well as Francadie and Arcadie for Tracadie and for Malpeque . Corroboration of Drummond's entries in his diary have been found in David Lawson 's A Coppy of my Misfortunes, and in family histories such as those of the Aulds, Browns, MacEwens and Millars. In estimating the number of passengers on the Falmouth , David Lawson mentions ... Betwixt fforty and ffifty servants being at Stan?? hope just after the landing; and in his article on the Falmouth passengers in the Island Magazine, No. 10 Fall and Winter 1981, Andrew B.W. MacEwen accounts for about fifty. First, there was David Lawson , of Callendar, and his wife Helen Moore , with their three sons, William, John and James, and two daughters, Isabella or Belle, and Elizabeth, and also John Lawson's wife. Then there was Robert Auld , his wife 13