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Flushing's
Notable Residents

Samuel Trefusis


Packet Agents
 Zachary Rogers
 Joseph Durden
Joseph Penhallow
Stephen Banfield


Packet Captains

Baldock

Lt. John Binney
(Star, Drowned 1836)

Henry Blight (died 1810)
Princess of Brunswick

John Bull
(Marlborough)

Richard Dodd (died 1809)
Marquis of Kildare
Townshend

William Dorset Fellowes
(Lady Hobart)

William Kempthorne  (Antelope)

Peter Lean/Leaine

Captain Niven

Zachary Rogers
Prince (1689-1703)

Adoniah Schuyler Sr.

Adoniah Schuyler Jr.
(Buried Mylor 1851)

Lt. Christopher Smith
(Star, Died 1845 )

Richard Stevens
(Princess Amelia 1798)

Noel Tonkin





Admiralty

Sir John Borlase Warren

Sir Edward Pellew


Commodore Sulivan (Sullivan?)

The Hon Captain Trefusis to Sapphire (in 1832)

Lt. Walter Leslie (1814)
( Penguin 1841 - 1846)

Lt. R.S.Sutton ()


Others

 James Silk Buckingham (b. Flushing 1786)

James Tilley
(Master Seaman & Merchant )

Shipbuilders

1758 - Peter Symons
William Symons
Richard Symons
Charles Symons
1851- John Trethowan
Joseph Blight


Packets built at Flushing

Nocton (1807)

Earl of Sandwich (1810)
180-tons bm

Lady Wellington (1813)
191-tons bm

Stanmer (1817) 212bm
82' 9" x 24' 1.3/4" x 6' 4"

Marquis of Salisbury (1820) later HMP Swallow
87 x 25 x 6 ft. 236-tons bm

Lord Melville (1823)
100ft x 30ft? 230-tons bm