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Rank	Name	Signature	Township
Capt.	John J. Maxwell		(G)
Lieut.	Thos. Good		(N)
Ensn.	John Hill
Sergt.	R. Pollock	(Robert Pollock)	(G)
Sergt.	John Rielly		(R)
Sergt.	Peter Eamer		(R)
L Sergt.	M. Baxter		(R)
Bugler	Thos. Mills	(Thomas Mills)	(G)
Corp.	Jas. Hill	(James Hill)
Corp.	A. Wright		(R)
Corp.	A. J. Birtch		(R)
L. Corp.	Wm Spearman	(X) (William Spearman)	(G)
Privates:
	Thos Armstrong	(Thomas Armstrong)	(G)
	Henry Bennett
	John Brownlee		(G)
	Robt. Brownlee
	Thos Becket	mark) (Thomas Becket)	(M)
	Jas. Brown	(James Brown)	(G)
	R. Collins	(R. A. Collins)
	F. Dawson	(Francis H. Dawson)	(G)
	Thos. Donnelly	(Thomas Donnelly)	(M)
	Geo. Evans	(George Evans)	(R)
	Jno Good	(John Good)	(M)
	W. J. Good		(NG)
	Wm. Good n g	(X ) (Wm Good)	(NG)
	Wm Good Mlg	(Wm Good Mrlb)	(M)
	John Gracy	(his mark John Gracy)	(N)
	Wm. Gemmill	(W. Gamble)	(G)
	A. Gemmill	(Alex. Gamble)	(G)
	B. Gordon	(Benjamin Gordon)	(G)
	J. R. Hill		(M)
	R. Hill	(Robert Hill)	(M)
	Jno Huitt	(John Hewitt)	(G)
	Jas. Huitt	(his mark Jas. Huitt)	(G)
	H. Huitt	(H. Hewitt)	(G)
	Thos. Hall	(X Thos. Hall)
	Thos. Miller	(X Thos. Miller)	(R)
	Wm McEwen
	I. Moore	(Isaac Moore)	(M)
	Geo. Moore	(George Moore)	(M)
	Henry Montgomery		(M)
	Wm Mills	(William Mills)	(M)
	J. F. Mills	(James Mills)	(M)
	M. Pettepiece	(Mathew Petipiece)
	R. Roe	(? Roe)
	Thos. Stewart	(Thomas Stewart)	(R)
	F. Smith		(G)
	A. Shillington		(R)
	Wm. Farmer
	Thos. Wilson	(Thomas Wilson)
	John Lusk	(J Lusk)
	Thos. Birtch	(T. Birtch)
	Jas Ling	(James L??g)	(R)
	Thos. Duffy	(T. Duffy)
	Jno Stewart	(John Stewart)	(R)
	Dan Beatty	(Daniel Beatty)	(R)

Glossary for Items Ordered by George Lyon

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Glossary of Terms used in George Lyon Invoice Book

Alum	- Mineral salt used for dying, tanning and medicinal purpose.
Amaranth	- Purple colour.
Anniseed Oil	- used medically for a variety of problems (ms)
Antimoniac Wine	- Medicinal wine used to induce vomiting  (ms)
Anvil (146 lbs.)	- a block of metal against which a blacksmith strikes the hot metal he is shaping – 146lbs. indicates a large anvil (IW)
Aquaforte	- Nitric acid.
Aromatic Vinegar	- acetic acid highly flavoured with fragrant substances – used as smelling salts  (ms)
Arrow Root	- food supplement for babies & for gastro-intestinal problems (ms)
Auger	- Carpenter's tool used for boring holes.
Baftas, Baflais	- Type of cotton cloth, but originally fine muslin.
Bandannoes, Bandannas	- Silk handkerchiefs - coloured with white spots.
Bark, Peruvian	- Source of quinine used to treat malaria.  Also known as Jesuit's bark.
Barugan, Bariga, Bassinet	- Type of silk cloth.
Bath coating	- Cloth used in fashionable male clothing.
Batiste	-  Type of cloth, similar to Cambric
Beaker	- Open cup or drinking vessel
Beaverteen	- Cloth made of cotton twill
Bedtick	- Bag stuffed to form a mattress
Bellows	- used by blacksmith to blow air onto the fire to supply it with oxygen to keep the fire burning hot – he often has to reheat the metal on which he is working to enable him to keep it malleable. (IW)
Bengal Stripe	-  Striped gingham cloth, originally made in India, later in Scotland.
Blacking	- A stain to darken leather or to beautify iron fireplaces.
Bladder of Putty	- Putty was formerly kept moist by keeping it in animal bladders
Blanket, Whitney	- White woollen cloth, originally from Whitney in Oxfordshire
Bombay Cloth	- Grey cotton sheeting
Bombazett	- Cloth made from English single worsted yarn
Bootine	- A leather boot or half boot
Braces	- Suspenders
Brads, Cut	- Thin flat nails having the same width throughout their length.
Brimstone	- Sulphur – medically used to induce sweating to < fever, as laxative and for skin diseases  (ms)
British Oil	- A patent medicine made from oil of petre or mineral turpentine  (ms)
Britannia Handkerchiefs	- Made from a grey linen fabric.
Britannia Metal	- An alloy of brass, tin, antimony and bismuth. Also alloyed with copper.
Burgundy Pitch	- resinous substance used in medicinal plasters & for caulking  (ms)
Bushels	- 4 pecks or 8 gallons, a dry measure
Butt. Window	- Hinges for windows
Fig Blue	- Soluble blue
C.C. Crockery
Cambric	- Linen. Originally made in Cambrai, Flanders
Camomile Flourses	- Medicinal herb – used as a tea for a general tonic or sedative –also in compresses applied to wounds and eczema (jd)
Candle Wick	- Unbleached muslin sheeting. or fine dress fabric
Cashmere	- Woollen fabric often used for shawls
Castor	- Iron Wheel on swivel. to assist in moving furniture
Chamber Pot	- Vessels used in bed chamber
Cocks, Brass	- Taps
Colander	- Strainer for vegetables and other food
Curry Comb	- Comb used for grooming horses
Mane Comb	- Comb used on horses' manes
Comforter	-Long woollen scarf or coverlet
Compasses, Coopers'	-  Large pair of compasses used by coopers in making barrels
Cooperage	- Making of casks and barrels
Court Plasters	- Sticking plaster made of silk and isinglass
Derry Cloth, Derries	- an Indian cotton dress fabric
Domell Cloth	- Possibly dowet, a white flannel
Dowlas Cloth	- Coarse linen or claico, originally made at Doulas in Britanny
Drawers, Cotton	- Undergarment for lower part of body
Driver, Cast iron	- Wheel
Drops, Anderson	- Unidentified - probably medicinal
Duffle	- Coarse woollen cloth. originally made at Duffel near Antwerp
Embden Groats	- oats from which husk is removed –used to make gruel for fever cases  (ms)
Epsom Salts	- Magnesium sulphate, used for medicinal purposes
Emery	- Coarse corundum used for polishing metals
Escutching	- Scutcheons - plates for drawers. etc.
Essence Peppermint	- Used for topical relief of headaches, muscle pain and respiratory issues  (ms)
Ferret	- Silk or cotton tape
Fire Holders	- Small grate on a long handle - the predecessor of blow lamps
Flag	- Type of cloth nor otherwise identified
Fleam	- Lancet
Flushing Cloth	- Rough thick woollen cloth originally made in Flushing
Flour Sulphur	- Used internally as laxative – used externally, when mixed with lard, as salve for itch (ms)
Frocks	- Upper garment, then worn by men
Frocks, Guernsey	- Sailors' upper garments. From Guernsey in Channel Islands
Fustian	- Coarse cotton cloth or blanket
Glasgow	- Type of cloth otherwise unidentified
Glasgow Gingham	- Gingham made in Glasgow, England
Gaged Plates	- Probably jet black plates
Glauber Salts	- Sodium sulphate - used medically as a cathartic & diuretic(ms)
Gudgeons	- Metal pivots
Hair Cord	- English cotton dress fabric
Hames, wood	- Two curved pieces of wood to go over the collar of a draught horse
Heelball	- Mixture of hard wax and lampblack used for polishing
H. Hinge	- Hinge made in shape of letter H
Holland, Brown	- Linen cloth, originally made in Holland
Hoop Iron	- Iron used to make hoops for casks
Hops	- Plant used to flavour beer
Hose	- Stockings
Huckaback	- A stout linen cloth
Huil Antique	- A perfumed oil used by barbers  (ms)
Images	- Kind of crockery otherwise unidentified
Iron, English	- Cast iron. (See note at end)
Iron, Swedish	- Cast iron used to make steel (better quality than others at this) (See note at end)
Iron, Smoothing	- Used for ironing clothes
Irons, Fire	- Tools used for tending a fire
Juniper Berries	- The oil from the berries was used as a medicine, but their principal use was to make gin
Jack, Flemish	- Probably used for weighing goods
Lamp, Passage	- Lamp used to light passages
Lanthorn	- Lantern
Latch	- Fastening for door or gate which could be opened from outside
Lavender Drops	- Used for digestive complaints as well as pain relief from headaches & toothaches (ms)
Lawn	- A fine linen resembling cambric
Lead, Black	- Graphite of plumbago - used to polish fireplaces
Lead, White	- White paint
Line, Hambro	- Not identified
Linseed Oil	- Used for paint and medicinally
Logwood	- a natural source of dye  - also used medicinally for diarrhea and excessive bleeding (ms)
Looking Glass	- Mirror
Lucerne	- Type of clover
Lustres	- Thin light dress material with a highly lustrous surface
Mace	- A spice made from the outer coating of nutmeg
Mill Dogs	- spikes or hooks used to hold a log or lumber in place while it is being sawn (in a mill) (IW)
Mill Saw Files	- these 12 inch files were used to sharpen the teeth of saws (IW)
Mill Saws ( 6 ½ foot)	- either pit saws or Muley Saws as circular saws had not yet been invented (IW)
Minot	- A measure of salt - usually 3 bushels
Moleskin	- A strong soft cotton fustian cloth
Morocco Skin	- Leather from goats, tanned with sumac, originally from Morocco
Muff	- Cylindrical covering used to keep the hands warm
Muscatel	- Raisins
Nails, 14d	- Nails were often classified according to their cost
Nails, Horse	- Nails used to fasten horseshoes
Nails, Rose	- Nails with conical heads hammered in to the shape of a rose
Napt Cloth	- Cloth with the rough projecting layer of fibres removed
Niccanit, Niccanees	- Type of Indian cloth
Night Caps	- Caps worn to keep the head warm in bed
Nippers, Sugar	- Tools used to break up sugar loaves for use
Nitre, Spirits of	- Saltpetre or potassium nitrate – used as diuretitic, diaphoretic & anti-spasmodic  (ms)
Oakum	- Coarse flax or old rope, used for caulking
Opodeldoc	- a solution of soap in alcohol with the addition of camphor & essential oils such as lavender & rosemary  - applied externally to relieve joint and muscular pain  (ms)
Osnaburg	- Coarse linen cloth, originally made in Osnabruck, Germany
Overall	- Leggings. loose fitting trousers made of canvas
Paregoric Elixir	- Camphorated tincture of opium - used medicinally for gastro-intestinal problems or as an expectorant   (ms)
Pasteboard	- Sheets of paper pasted together and compressed to form a stiff writing material
Patent Groats	- Oat flour – used for food for infants & invalids  (ms)
Pearl Barley/Patent Barley	- Barley reduced by attrition to small round grains. Used in broth and barley water
Pepper Grass	- Common garden cress. So called from its pungent taste
Pink Root	- used to eliminate tapeworm & roundworm (ms)
Pipe	- Tobacco pipe
Pit Saw	- Saw used by two men in a sawpit
Plates, Edged	- Plates with decoration round the edges
Plough Mold (Mould)	- The metal part of the plough which is pulled through the earth  and turns over the sod (IW)
Porter	- Beer of dark brown colour and bitter taste. Originally drunk by porters
Potash Kettle	- Iron kettle used to reduce wood ashes to potassium carbonate (used for making soap, glass, saltpetre for gunpowder and for  cleaning wool in a fulling mill, but mainly for fertilizer – settlers often cleared trees by burning them; the ashes were then leached and boiled down in cast-iron “potash-kettles” which had thick walls) (IW)
Puncheon	- Large cask of 70 to 100 gallons used to hold liquids
Quill	- Pen, usually made from large goose feathers
Quinine	- Anti-malarial drug  - reduces fever & kills pain – isolated from bark of cinchona tree and named in 1820  (ms)
Rag Stone	- Hard, coarse or rough stone used for sharpening tools
Rape Oil	- Oil from rapeseed, used for lubricating
Rapper, Brass	- Probably a door knocker
Rasp	- A coarse file
Red Lavender	- a medicinal cordial  - main ingrediants lavender & red wine (ms)
Ream of paper	- 480 sheets of paper
Rod Iron	- Iron in form of rods, used for making needles, pins, etc.
Rod, Nail	- Similar rod used for making nails
Rods, Brazing	- Brass rods used for brazing metals
Root Ginger	- Medically used for nausea & indigestion  (ms)
Root Liquiorice	-  Medically used for a variety of ailments including those caused by bacterial infection
Rosin	- Turpentine residue with many industrial uses
Salem Print	- Indian cotton material
Salimpore Cloth	- Blue cotton cloth from Nellore in India
Saltpetre	- Potassium nitrate, used in making gunpowder  - it can also be used as a food preservative in hams & bacon  (ms)
Sana	- Medicine – probably a laxative (ms)
Sand Stone	- Rough stone used for sharpening tools
Sarsnet, Sarsenet	- Fine soft silk used for linings, or thin silk ribbon
Sash Tool	- Tool used in making sash (guillotine) windows
Screw Auger	- A hand operated drill whose ‘bit’ is shaped in the form of a screw. In early 19th century it was used to drill a long straight hole in a suitable piece of wood to turn it into a pipe, sometimes up to or over three metres long. Such pipes would be used to transport liquids in a distillery, brewery or other industrial complex. (metal, rubber, plastic pipes were not available) (IW)
Scriber, Timber	- Tool used to make identifying marks of ownership on timber
Scythe	- Used for cutting grass and crops
Seidlitz Powder	- A patent medicine used as a laxative  (ms)
Seine Twine	- String used to make vertical fishing nets
Sewings. Raven	- Sewing thread or silk
Shalloon	- Closely woven woollen cloth, used for linings
Shoe Horn	- Curved implement used to help heel slip into a shoe
Shrub	- Drink of rum mixed with sugar and orange or lemon
Sickle	- Reaping hook with serrated edge. used to cut grass
Snuff	- Tobacco powdered so that it can be inhaled
Snuffers	- Tool used to remove excess wick from candles
Spermaceti Oil	- Oil from the sperm whale, used in lamps
Squills, Syrup of	- Medicine made from the root of the sea onion
Stay Lace
Steel Blisters	- Steel was originally made by hammering iron and carbon while heating it. The steel appeared as blisters on the iron bar. (See note)
Still, Copper	- Used for distilling spirits
Stock, Bond Street Silk	- Fashionable neckwear, from Bond Street, London
Sugar Loaf	- Sugar was originally sold in large conical loaves
Swanskin	- Fine thick cloth flannel
Syrup of Squills	- used medicinally as an expectorant (ms)
Taffety, Taffeta	- Light thin lustrous silk
Tea, Green or Hyson	- Tea leaves roasted immediately after gathering.  Black tea is exposed to the air before roasting
Tierce of Codfish	- Cask holding 40 gallons of dried cod
Tippet	- Cape of fur or wool worn over shoulders
Tobacco, Plug	- Tobacco pressed into an oblong cake or stick
Tow Sheeting	- Coarse flax sheeting
Trigrain	- Cloth woven in special irregular fashion
Tumbler	- Drinking cup, originally with a round bottom
Turban	- Ladies' headress, imitation of Eastern turban
Tureen	- Oval earthen ware dish used for soup
Twist	- Thread
Wafer	- Imitation seal made of flour and gum - later of red paper
Water of Ayer stone	- This is a spelling error. A “Water of Ayr” stone is a small honing stone for sharpening knives and other cutting implements. (IW)
Whip Thongs	- Used to overlay cord in making whips
Windsor Soap	-brown soap made in Windsor, England & shipped worldwide –contained lavender, bergamot (lemonlike), caraway, petitgrain (distilled orange leaves), cinnamon & clove  (ms)
C.T. Wine	- Common table wine
Wool Cards	- Probably used for combing wool in straighten the fibres

Note - Iron, English, Iron Steel, Steel Blisters - Prior to the 1860s, steel was made by pounding cast iron while heating it.  The pounding changed the chemical structure of the iron into steel.  Until the Bessemer process was developed, less than 3 tons of steel was produced annually in Britain.  Most of the cast iron for steel making came fr