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.