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Hay family (Carleton County)

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  • [ca. 1822] -

The Hay family of Carleton County, New Brunswick, is descended from William and Martha Hay of Northampton, NB. Originally from Scotland, William Hay came to New Brunswick as a child in 1822. William married Martha, a woman of Irish descent, born in New Brunswick. They lived in Northampton where William was a farmer, later moving to Millville. According to the census, in 1871 William and Martha had nine children living at home. The family members included: Walter (1844-1922), John, Mary, Mildred, William Allen, Alice M., James H., Anne, and Margaret. Hannah, a widow, aged 85, who was possibly William's mother, was also living with the Hay family. Walter was listed as a farmer. James and William Allen would later work as partners in a lumber business in Millville until James moved to Woodstock and formed a partnership with his sons. At the time of the 1871 census, all members of the Hay family except Hannah were Methodists.

Bliss family (Saint John)

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  • Branch begins in 1742

Jonathan Bliss (1742-1822), a lawyer from Massachusetts, was appointed Attorney-General of New Brunswick in 1785 and Chief Justice of New Brunswick in 1809. From 1791 to 1801 he was the business advisor of Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), who lived in Saint John from about 1786 until he returned to England in 1791.

Jonathan Bliss was born in Springfield, Mass., the son of Rev. Samuel Bliss (1750-1803). He graduated from Harvard in 1763 and lived in Concord, Mass. He was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts in 1768 and was banished from the state in 1778. He was granted a townlot at Carleton in 1785 and became a Freeman of Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1785. He was admitted as an Esquire. He was appointed Attorney General of N.B. in 1784, was a member of the House of Assembly for St. John County in 1786, the Chief Justice for N.B. from 1808 to 1822 and President of the Privy Council. He died in Fredericton in 1822 and buried in the Old Burial Ground. His first wife, Mary, the daughter of the Hon. John Worthington of Springfield, Mass., died in Saint John in 1799, aged 39. His second wife was Sally, daughter of the Hon. Judge Upham. His children include: John Worthington (1791-1810); Lewis (1793-1882); William (1795-1874); and Henry (1797-1873).

His third son, William Blowers Bliss, married Sarah Ann Anderson, the adopted daughter of the Hon. Sampson Blowers, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. Sampson Blowers was a good friend of Jonathan Bliss and the two had graduated from Harvard together in 1763. William Blowers Bliss was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in 1834. William and Sarah's children were: Elizabeth Ann (1824-1901), who married the Hon. William Odell (1811-1891); Mary, who married the Rev. Hibbert Binney; another daugther, who married Bishop Kelly; and two sons.

Jonathan's son Henry Bliss was a lawyer and author in London, England.

Jonathan's son Lewis Bliss presented a chancel window to Trinity Church in 1880 as a memorial to the Bliss family.

Sources:
New Brunswick Loyalists, 1983;
Some Loyalists and Others, 1976;
Graves fonds, political biographies, 1960s

Barker family (Sheffield, Sunbury County)

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  • Branch begins in the 18th century

Brothers Joseph Barker (d. ca. 1796) and Benjamin Barker (d. ca. 1799) were living in the parish of Sheffield, Sunbury County in New Brunswick by 1785. Their family had probably arrived there with a group of Planters or pre-Loyalist settlers from New England in the 1760s. They both signed a land petition in 1792 as dissenting Protestants and they may have been Congregationalists or Puritans. Joseph married Sarah Burt and had 4 children: Jacob, Isaac, Peggy and Betty. Benjamin died in 1799 or 1800, leaving his estate to his wife Peggy and a son and daughter.

Sources: Hale, R. Wallace, Early New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835

Brill family (Grand Lake)

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  • Branch begins in 18th century

Jacob Brill was born in Germany and settled in Dutchess County, New York. In 1783, he and his family and many of his neighbours, all Loyalists, took ship for Saint John, New Brunswick. Jacob later settled in the area of Grand Lake, Queens County.

Jacob Brill married Mary Smith and they had nine children -- Elizabeth married Isaac Smith, remained in the United States; Catherine married Stephen Thorne; Mary remained unmarried; Eleanor married Moses Pickard; Phoebe married Dow Vandine; Hannah married Samuel Burns; Joseph returned to the United States; David married Lydia Pickard in 1788; and Jacob married Hannah Jewett in 1788.

Jacob and Mary's son, David Brill, 1762-1848, was a young man when he arrived in New Brunswick in 1783 with his father. He married Lydia Pickard in 1788. In 1795, he became a captain of a company in the militia of Queens County. His brother, Jacob, was enlisted under his command.

David and Jacob shared a land grant of 200 acres in the Maquapit Lake area of Sunbury county which they acquired in 1786. Their brother, Joseph, also acquired a grant in the same area which he shared with John Snow. Joseph later returned to the United States.

Sources:
Marriages 1766-1888, Vol. 1, Sunbury County
Jack, D.R. , Loyalist Families of New Brunswick, Vol.1, A-C

Vaughan family

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  • Branch begins in 1806

Henry Vaughan (1806-1888) married Hannah Moran of St. Martins in 1839. His children were: Elizabeth (d. 1882); LeBaron; Hannah (married Golding), Emeline, Emma, Madina, and Lorenzo.

LeBaron Vaughan lived in Liverpool, England, in the 1880s where he worked for the family shipping firm, S. Vaughan & Co., and also for H. Barrs and Co. He returned to New Brunswick several years before he died in Saint John in 1894. He had married in 1860, Amelia, daughter of Amasa Durkee. His son, Frank, born in 1874, in Liverpool, was an electrical engineer at the Vaughan Electric Co. Ltd. and married H. Gross in 1906. Frank wrote a number of articles on electricity. LeBaron's other children included George Carey, Estella, Eleanor and Octavia.

Buckingham family

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  • 1783 -

The Camp family were probably descended from Captain Abiathar Camp, a Loyalist who arrived in New Brunswick in 1783. They settled in Sunbury County, New Brunswick. Neil and Abigail Camp had 3 children, Mary, Hiel, and Calvin. Hiel died in 1811. Calvin married Hester Veits in July 1813. He died in 1829.

Mary wed Samuel Buckingham prior to 1804. She died in 1816 survived by a small child, possibly an infant, some other older children, and her husband. The Buckingham family lived in Oxford, Connecticut.

Sources: Early Marriage Records of New Brunswick; Hale, R. Wallace, Early New Brunswick Probate Records 1785-1835; and Arrivals 99 - Our First Families in New Brunswick, N.B. Genealogical Society, Saint John Branch, 1999

Darling family (Darling's Island)

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  • Branch begins in 1730

Benjamin Darling (1730-1810) came to New Brunswick some time prior to the American Revolution to trade with the Indians who were settled on what became Darlings' Island (Hampton), New Brunswick. He purchased the island from the Indians and built a log house, but never settled there nor remained in the winter months.

Benjamin's eldest son, Henry (b. 1760), appears to have spent time in New Brunswick, as his first wife died there. He and his second wife Hannah Doolittle had one child, Olive (1799-1874). Another of Benjamin's sons, also named Benjamin (b. 1769), was a Loyalist who went directly to Darling's Island when he left the United States in 1783 and took up residence in the house his father had built. His descendants, Benjamin and Frances, were living in Hammond River between 1869 and 1885.

Olive Doolittle Darling married Ziba Hayden of Killingworth, Connecticut, in 1818 and they had 12 children. By 1885, only 5 were living. The children were: Henry, who suffered from inflammatory arthritis and died around 1885; Mary Holloway, widow; Minerva, a teacher; Celestia and Phebe, both unmarried; Helen Francis (Mrs. Edgar), a teacher; Jennie, married George Chamberlain and died around 1885; Esther, Seth, and Anna died, each leaving a child behind; Alpheus was unmarried and had also died, as well as a child who died in infancy.

Sources:
Wood-Holt, B., Early Marriage Records of New Brunswick

Pigeon family

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  • Branch begins in 19th century

Charles Pigeon was a ship's carpenter in Saint John, New Brunswick, who had received a freeman's certificate in 1846. He possibly had a son, Charles T. or D., who was a dealer in provisions and received his freeman's certificate in 1869. His business may have been located on Charlotte Street in Saint John around 1869-1870.

Magee family

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  • Branch begins ca. 1822

William (1822-1894) and John (1824-1885) Magee emigrated, with their parents, from Enniskillen, Ireland, to Saint John, New Brunswick, in the early 1830s. In 1836, William apprenticed with W.G. Lawton, dry goods merchant. Some time later William opened a dry goods business and millinery store with his sister. They were soon joined by their brother John, who had also worked with Lawton.

In 1858, William and John entered into a formal partnership agreement to carry on business as Magee Bros.; in Saint John as wholesale and retail dry goods merchants and importers; and in Granville, Nova Scotia, as mill owners and manufacturers. Magee Bros. were also involved in cattle breeding and farming. The firm gave up the dry good business in 1877, and turned its interests to coal and shipping. On John's death in 1885, his share in the company was transferred to William.

John Magee married Maria Julia Merritt (1827-1898) in 1854. They had three sons: William Clarence Magee (1856-1923), John Buchanan Magee (1857-1939), and Arthur Merritt Magee, who were clerks at Magee Bros. & Co. By 1882, William C. and John B. formed William C. Magee and Co., shipbrokers. After their father's death, William C. and John B. were again employed with Magee Bros., and William C. Magee and Co. no longer appeared in city directories until 1916. After 1904, William C. was listed with Magee Bros. and John appears as an insurance agent and later as an employee of Manchester, Robertson and Allison.

John B. Magee and his wife Minnie had a son, Arthur, who was killed April 1915 in France. They also had a daughter, Edith Marion Magee (1888-1980).

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