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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byAlison Kilpatrick
CommentIndex of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past.". by Minden Wilson 1908.

Surname  Mackenzie    
Forename  John    
Chapter  Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past    
Sub-title  Biographical sketch: John Mackenzie    
Page nos.  220-221    
Description  Had a severe illness, 1833; took a trip home intending to return to India in a year after. However, reports of fortunes to be made in Canada induced Mackenzie to give that country a trial. However, Mackenzie found �things were not what they had been painted, and they much regretted they had ever left the Lewis.� Acted as Agent for the Canadian Land Company; edited a paper in that Company�s interests; had �a roving commission from the British American Land Company.� Acted as a Volunteer during the Mackenzie riots in Canada; was given a commission as a Captain in a battalion of the County Sherbrook in Canada, 28 April 1835; was appointed by Lord Aylmer, Captain-General-in-Chief, Provinces of Lower Canada. Had 100 men who hailed from Lewis [Isle of, in Scotland] placed under him as Volunteers, 1838.    
Indexer Notes  See also index entries for �Mackenzie, J.F.�, and �Mackenzie, John F.�    
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Index of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past. History of Behar Light Horse
Volunteers". by Minden Wilson 1908.
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