The Family of Loyalists John Thorn Craft and Susannah Wetmore

This is a work in progress. It contains inaccuracies although best efforts have been made to avoid same.

The source of the information on this family is varied in nature, to wit:

PANB databases from NB Cemeteries, Vital Statistics, and NB newspapers

Ancestry.com

Family trees posted on rootsweb.com

State of Maine marriage and death records

Family records

Recollections of family members

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Harry MacDonald

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Introduction

The New Brunswick Genealogical Society maintains an internet database of the Loyalist “First Families” of New Brunswick. It has these entries about John Thorn Craft and his wife Susannah Wetmore, and as well, John Thorn Craft’s brother, Reuben Craft and his wife Alithea Wetmore.

CRAFT: John Thorn Craft born c1753 in NY, died 2 Nov 1807, possibly s/o John and Jerusha Thorneycraft: married 30 Jul 1780 at Hempstead, Long Island, NY, Susannah Wetmore born 22 Apr 1753 in Rye, Westchester County, NY, d 4 Apr 1850, d/o James Wetmore and Elizabeth Abrahams : came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled at Carleton, Saint John:

Children:

1) Elizabeth Craft born c1785, d 25 Jun 1868, married (1st) Joseph Littlehall born 29 Aug 1779, died 1 Apr 1812, married (2nd) 2 May 1813 James Moody Brittain b 1779, d 29 Sep 1857:

2) John Thorn Craft b 27 Mar 1787, d 15 Jul 1862, married 26 Aug 1808 Pheobe Dunham:

3) William H. Craft born c1789, died 21 Oct 1877, married 5 Jul 1810 Nancy McKinsey or McKenzie b c1890:

4) Mary/Polly Craft b c1791, died 12 Apr 1875, married Joseph C. Dunham born c1786, d 6 Jun 1838:

5) Sarah Craft b 1794, died 8 Nov 1852, married 11 Aug 1813 Griffith Jenkins b c1787, d 19 Apr 1841.

Sources: MC1/Craft, 20 pages: file contains a copy of report titled The Craft Family of New York, New Brunswick, and Maine by Hebron E. Adams: John and his brother came to NB in 1783: both married into the Loyalist Wetmore family of Rye, NY: see also MC80/1423 Hebron E. Adams’ The Craft Family of New York, New Brunswick, and Maine: see also MC80/2354 Saint John Branch, NBGS: Arrivals 99: our first families in New Brunswick, page 65.

CRAFT: Reuben Craft born c1760 possibly at Rye, NY, d c1801: he came from Long Island, NY to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist: settled at French Village, Hampton Parish, Kings County: married c1786 Alithea Wetmore b 19 May 1771 Rye, Westchester County, NY, d 23 May or Jul 1834, d/o James Wetmore and Elizabeth Abrahams :

Children born in Hampton, Parish are listed in an estimated order: