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 There will be a renactment of the selkirk landing
in Belfast PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada on August 7,8,9 ,2003 for any more in fo on this grand event of the 200 yrs. after the polly landed here in PEI
The following is an attempt at a passenger list reconstruction for the "Polly". The first of the Lord Selkirk's trio of vessels to arrive on Prince Edward Island in 1803. The "Polly" arrived arrived with her passengers from the Isle of Skye on Sunday, August 7th, 1803. Two days later, the "Dykes" arrived with her passengers, and Lord Selkirk aboard, and the Oughton arrived on August 27th, almost a month later, carrying 40 or 50 families from Uist.
Referring to the "Polly", "Her Complement, as Selkirk records in his diary, was "250 full passengers, and nearly 400 souls"" - Hebridean Pioneers, MacQueen, pg. 8. This disagrees somewhat with the following customs registry, perhaps due to the definition of what constituted a "full passenger". Alas, will records ever agree!
Offloaded Orwell Bay, carrying some 300 Presbyterian Passengers from the Isle of Skye, under the pilotage of Capt. Thas. Darby. The Inbound Customs Registry, Accession No. 1291, Public Archives and Records Office, P.E.I., shows a date of entry of 8th August, the day after the actual arrival.
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