Johnstone, Gideon
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| Dates | 1780s | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Liverpool; London | ||
| Vocation | Sailor; merchant | ||
| Place of Birth | Westerkirk | ||
| Marriage | Fanny Colquitt | ||
| Issue | |||
| Place of birth | Source | E. Rothschild, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Pinceton, 2011) |
1739-1788. Joined navy as a young man, and served in West Indies. Discharged, and joined East India Company, serving in Murshidabad and Benares. Also lived for a time in Basra, Mauritius and Cape of Good Hope. Re-joined the navy (1780), and was stationed successively at Liverpool, Nantucket and New York. Lived in London following discharge.
