The captain is John Whyte, there are 16 crew, and the ship’s surgeon is Isaac Featherston who would become Wellington’s leader and one of the colony’s most eminent politicians. On board are 27 married couple emigrants, including yourselves, 16 single men, 11 single women, and 45 children including 5 infants. The males are mostly farm workers with a sprinkling of trades and the females are mostly sempstresses and servants. The ship also carries four hundred barrels of flour to feed the new colony.
