Benjamin Carver operated a grocery shop in London and his friends and business associates wrote a letter of appeal, requesting that he be transported on one of Winchester and Co. ships to the town of St. Johns, the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the oldest English-founded city in North America / Canada.

The signatories were;

1. Mssr. Winchester & Co. 61 Strand - Merchants, trading to the Islands including the Island of St. John's, Newfoundland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. William Winchester (1748-1820) lived in the Strand, (61 Strand, Mdx.) where he ran the stationery firm of Winchester and Co. and other partners included Vanham, Kirkham, Yockney, Harris and Company. He later moved to Cecil Street and Acre Hill, Malden, Surrey.

2. William Rouse, Wigmore Street.

3. Jasper Taylor, 38 Holbourn, London, (wax chandler) - Son of Elliott Taylor deceased pre. 1790. - Jasper Taylor snr & jnr. Salter, 17 Holborn St. (extractor or trader of salt )

4. Benjamin Bryan, 39 Red Lion St, Holbourn, London (butcher),

5. John Bull, Wigmore Street.

6. J Greed, 6 Little Ryder street, St James.

7. John Healey, (Possibly Healy J. Tobacconist & Snuff maker, 197, Bishopsgate without)

8. Richard Marm, & Co., New Bond Street.

9. William Miller, 73 Fleet Market - possibly, a Miller . Note: In 1794 one W., Jeweller & Gold-worker, 15, Wine Office-court, Fleet-str. <http://www.londonancestor.com/kents/kents-m.htm>

10. John Morison, 3 Charles Street, Tottenham Court

11. Thomas Price, Great Marylebone Street. (merchant and tailor), Leadenhall St. (Possibly Price Thomas, Perfumer, 150, Leadenhall-str.)

12. James Wightman, New Street, Covent Garden - legal / lobbyist

Note: There was a John Appleby of Middlesex, who may be the same person who joined the 46th Regiment, in Australia on garrison duty in New South Wales under Sgt. Robert Broadfoot. Appleby discharged to pension.