 When the four first immigrant ships – "Fifeshire", "Mary-Ann", "Lord Auckland" and "Lloyds" – arrived three months later, they found the town already laid out with streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds.Within 18 months the Company had sent out 18 ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children.However, fewer than ninety of the settlers had the capital to start as landowners.