EBENEZER BRIGGS, LOYALIST SOLDIER

 

AND

 

WIFE DIADEMA CHASE

 

HOMESTEAD IN NEW BRUNSWICK

 

AFTER THE PEACE IN 1783

 

 

This work is bound to contain errors since historical records are, for the most part, based on hearsay, double hearsay and triple hearsay. Please submit errors and corrections to harrymac@kos.net.

 

This document is not to be used as the basis of any legal claims.

 

For the most part, the source of this information is as follows:

 

The US Census of 1850. 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 & 1930 as found on Ancestry.com

The NB census of 1851 http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1851/001005-100.01-e.html

The Canadian census of 1881, 1901 http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/cache/index.html  and 1911 http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/Test6.jsp?province=New+Brunswick

The Cemeteries database of the Provincial Archives of NB (PANB) http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NBCemeteries/?L=EN

The Vital Statistics database of PANB http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/GovRecs/VISSE/?L=EN

The Johnson Record of Vital Statistics from NB newspapers to 1895 database at PANB http://archives.gnb.ca/APPS/NewspaperVitalStats/?L=EN

The First Families database of the NB Genealogical Society http://www.nbgs.ca/firstfamilies.html

The Queens County (New Brunswick) Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbqueens/.

The York County (NB) Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbyork/

The Carleton County (NB) Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcarlet/

The Sunbury County (NB) Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbsunbur/

The Kings County (NB) Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbkings/

The Obituary databases of the various funeral homes in NB and Ontario

The Obituary databases of the Saint John Telegraph Journal, the Fredericton Daily Gleaner and the Moncton Times, and to a much much lesser extent, the New York Times, and various newspapers in Maine and Massachusetts.

The Osprey Newspaper group Obituary database in Ontario

The Vital Statistics databases provided by the State of Maine and various other States and maintained at Ancestrty.com.

The various other databases of Vital Statistics maintained at Ancestry.com

The various family tree databases maintained at Rootsweb.com

A very few oral histories, mainly in the family of Ephraim Briggs and Hannah Ferguson, provided by family members, most of which could be verified through records found online.

Where family trees from online databases were used, it was found they were in substantial agreement with the government records, usually starting around 1850, that are found online as above. The dates, names and people identified from the government records were used where there were conflicts or omissions.

 

Your humble scribe, much like yourself, was educated at a university whose professors insisted that he provide a footnote for each of his sources and that he weigh thoroughly the surrounding or collateral evidence that gives the ring of truth to any writings. Your humble scribe certainly did the latter but is congenitally unable to undertake the former because it slows down the accumulation and allocation of data which is the fun part. Sources will be remitted on request right cheerfully. Please research the above databases first and you may render your requirement for a request righteously redundant.

 

Harry MacDonald

Gananoque, Ontario

July 7, 2007

 

Briggs: Ebenezer Briggs** born 15 Nov 1758 (extrapolating back the age on the tombstone) at Freetown, Bristol County, MA, d. 28 Mar 1807 aged 48 yrs 4 mos 13 days at Sheffield, NB buried at the Babbitt Cemetery or Jacksonville Community Cemetery in Lower Burton, Queens County, his estate being administrated by his wife and his brother Abiel Briggs. Ebenezer was Loyal to the British in the Revolutionary War serving as a soldier. He arrived in NB with the Spring Fleet in 1783 with a wife and one child under 10. He was settled in Sheffield, NB by 1786 and it was after his death that his family received the formal papers certifying his 300 acre free grant on 1819/07/08.  He married 3 Sep 1781 by the Rev. Joshua Hart of Smithtown, Long Island, Diadema/Diodamy Chase b. about 1767 at Freetown, Bristol County, MA, d 1822 at Queens County, NB, (d/o James P. Chase and Elizabeth Douglas and a descendant of William Chase who came to New England on the Arabella with the first governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop, in 1630). After Ebenezer’s death, the widow and children moved to Grand Lake and settled at Whites Cove. [St John Daily Sun 25 Jan 1893 from Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 89 Number 2075: ... In the early settlement of this country Eben Briggs and Abial Briggs located as what is now known as Sheffield (Sunbury Co.) N.B. Both of them were married before they came to this country and perhaps the former had the shortest courtship on record. Having gone to a Quaker meeting, he and his future wife were married by the preacher at the close of the meeting. These men settled near Loader place, so called. As their families with the other settlers increased, the school teacher became a necessity and one John Palmer's services were called into requisition, who in his humble way 'taught the young idea how to shoot'. At this time it was not unusual to see a troop of horses on Sunday mounted by people of both sexes going to Maugerville to attend divine service. If the like could be seen in this day, it would astonish the natives…Eben remained in Sheffield until a family of ten children were born, when he sickened and was called away, leaving his widow to care for the large family. The freshets had so often interfered with the progress of people that many determined to leave the low intervale land for higher ground, where the water would not interfere with the progress of cultivation. Abial removed to the Washademoak and there by farming and ship building, made a competency for his family. Eben's widow with ten children moved to Grand Lake (Queens Co.) and settled at White's Cove on a farm now owned by L.P. Ferris, M.P.P. Here she began the struggle for life anew, assisted as best they could by her two sons, Eben and Hiram Briggs. The former settled on the Salmon River about 1825 where he became a prosperous farmer and mill owner and raised a large family, one of whom is the wife of G.G. KING, ex-M.P. for Queens. He died a few years ago. Hiram, the other son, became owner of the homestead. For a time he was a successful farmer and lumberman, but through some cause unknown to the writer, lost his property and removed to Salmon River about 1840 and farmed a small holding until his death. One of his sons lives in Harcourt (Kent Co.) and the other in the State of Maine. Both of them are prosperous farmers. Of this family of eight girls, Olive Briggs married William Lawson and lived at Musquash Island (Queens Co.); Damy Briggs married Israel LAWSON and had a home in St. John, from where her husband crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic as master of a vessel; Betsy Briggs married Duncan Cameron; Sophia Briggs married John Dross, who was a seafaring man; Mary Briggs and Hetty Briggs married Jacob Wiggins and John Wiggins, both of whom settled at Grand Lake. Mary Briggs married John Williams and settled near Gagetown, where he owned a large farm of high and intervale lands; and Katie Briggs married Henry McFarlane, who also settled on Grand Lake at a place called Scotchtown. All of this family, with their husbands, with one exception, are dead, having acted very well their part, became prosperous, left to their progedy a good heritage, and also a good name which is better than riches Ebenezer and and Diadema had children

a)      Lemuel or Samuel Briggs b. 1 Jan 1782 born in NY, died 30 May 1783 scant days after arriving by ship at St John, NB (Sheffield town records say d 13 May 1782 but that must  be out by a year for the actual date is late May, 1783, scant days after the Spring Fleet landed at St John, NB making him the first, or one of the first, Loyalists to die in the new country)

b)     Olive Briggs b. 26 Oct 1783 born in Sheffield, NB, died 10 Feb 1865 at Sussex, NB, married 4 Jan 1804 at Sheffield, Sunbury County, NB, William Lawson born 1778, d. 27 Aug 1854 at Sussex Vale, Kings County, NB, settled at Musquash Island, Queens County and had children they had eleven children:

1.      Ebenezer Lawson b 16 Mar 1806 at Hampstead, Queens County, NB,  d 1 Jan 1858 at St John, NB, married 11 Oct 1827 at St John, NB, Margaret Peters Akerley b 6 Nov 1808 at Gagetown, Queens County, NB, d 7 Feb 1857 at St John, NB, had 7 children

2.      Nancy Diadama Lawson b: 18 Nov 1804 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB, d 11 Sep 1886 at St John, NB buried at Macdonalds Point Cemetery, Wickham, Queens County, NB, married 27 Jan 1827 at Hampstead, Queens County, NB, Thomas Bulyea b 1783 at Wickham aforesaid, and they had children

a]        James William Bulyea b 17 May 1823 at Wickham aforesaid, d 26 Jan 1911, farmer and/or sea captain, married 20 Jan 1864 in Queen's co, NB or Parish of Portland, Saint John, NB Sophia Anne Williams b: 23 May 1831 and they had children

[a.]    Sophia A Bulyea b: 8 Dec 1864, d 1 Apr 1922 married after 1881 'Capt' Garret D. Bulyea b: 29 Oct 1862 in NB and they had children

                                                                                                                                       i.      Flossie M. Bulyea b: Jan 1901

                                                                                                                                     ii.      Living Bulyea

                                                                                                                                    iii.      Evelyn J. Bulyea b: Nov 1905 in or October? - S Coleman

James William Bulyea Marriage 2 Margaret E "Maggie" Dickie b: 3 Jun 1844

b]        Caroline Belyea b: 1 Apr 1830, d 14 Mar 1907 married Daniel N Smith b 1820, d 29 Mar 1888 aged 68 years buried with wife at Macdonalds Point Cemetery, Queens County, NB and they had children

[a.]    Albert Smith b: 1850

[b.]    Charles B Smith b: 1853, d 30 Jun 1888 buried with parents at Macdonalds Point Cemetery, Queens County, NB

[c.]     Annie Ellen Smith b: 3 Feb 1855 married Roland Hill MacDonald b 19 May 1837 and they lived at Belyeas Cove, Queens County, NB and had children

                                                                                                                                         i.      Charles MacDonald b Dec 8 1890

                                                                                                                                       ii.      George MacDonald b Aug 1 1894

[d.]    F. Wesley Smith b: 1858

[e.]    Thomas W Smith b: ABT 1859

[f.]       Robert William Smith b: 1862

[g.]    Deborah B Smith b: 1867

[h.]    Harry M Smith b: May 1872, d 1944 buried with wife at Ripples Community Cemetery, Sunbury County, NB, farm labourer and mill worker, married Clara Mae Sparks b Feb 1888, d 1970, and in 1911 they lived in Sheffield, NB and had children

                                                                                                                                         i.      Havelock Smith b Apr 1911 (1 month old), d 19 Apr 1912 buried at Ripples Community Cemetery, Sunbury County, NB

[i.]       Alberta D Smith married 14 Sep 1892 [Daniel F Johnson : Volume 87 Number 1515 September 21, 1892 edition of Saint John Messenger and Visitor] at her late father’s home in Wickham, Queens County, NB by the Rev’d AB MacDonald, Charles T Bailey of St John, Barrister

c]         Deborah Ann Bulyea b: 18 Dec 1832 married 10 Oct 1868 at St John, NB, Davenport Gilchrist b 1830/1831 and they had children

[a.]    Caroline ‘Carrie’ Gilchrist

d]        Thomas Moses Bulyea b: 21 Sep 1842 married Olivia VanWart b 1842 and they had children

[a.]    Margaret Bulyea b 1889

3.      Armanilla Lawson b: 24 May 1812 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB, married Valentine Peters Ackerley b: 10 May 1807 in Gagetown, Queens, NB, d 18 May 1844 in Hampstead, Queens County, NB buried at Upper Hampstead Baptist Cemetery, Hampstead, Queens County, NB

4.      Delilah Lawson b: 23 Jan 1819 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB married 7 Feb 1838 at Hampstead, Queens County, NB, George William Carpenter

5.      Emily Lawson b: 25 May 1826 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB, d 1 Jun 1900 at St John, NB, married 19 Feb 1844 at Cambridge, Queens County, NB, Robert Slipp b 1819 at Cambridge aforesaid, d 19 Oct 1884 buried at Slipp Graveyard, Queens County, NB [Daniel F Johnson : Volume 61 Number 2631 October 21, 1884 Saint John Daily Telegraph -- d. Hampstead (Queens Co.) 19th inst., Robert Slipp, 71st year. Funeral from his residence Wednesday 1 o'clock.  ] and they had children

a]        Eliza Slipp b 1845 [Daniel F Johnson : Volume 23 Number 423 October 28, 1865 Saint John Globe -- m. At residence of bride's father, by Rev. G.T. Hartley, 26th Oct., William H. Maxwell, St. John / Eliza M. eldest d/o Robert SLIPP, Cambridge (Queens Co.)  ] married 26 Oct 1865 at Cambridge, NB, William H Maxwell  b 1836 at NB, Lumber Dealer, lived in Saint John, NB, and they had children

[a.]    Henry Maxwell  b 21 Sep 1865 married Annie b 24 May 1877 and they had children

(i.)      Lyman W Maxwell b 21 Apr 1899

[b.]    Robert Maxwell  b 1869

[c.]    William Maxwell b 1871

[d.]    Emma Maxwell  b 29 Jan 1874, d 28 Dec 1854, married 22 Feb 1898 at York County, NB, Elijah Burpee Yerxa b 12 Apr 1868, d 25 Nov 1932 buried at Fredericton Rural Extension Cemetery, York County, NB with spouse, and they had children

(i.)      Harold M Yerxa b 28 Feb 1900 at Fredericton, NB

(ii.)     Alfred Cliff Yerxa b 15 Mar 1902 at Fredericton, NB, d 9 Feb 1972 buried with wife at Fredericton Rural Extension Cemetery, York County, NB married 5 Sep 1928 at Sheffield, NB, Effie Barker Keirstead b 19 Feb 1903, d 22 Apr 1992, and they had children

a.      Kathleen Mae Yerxa b 21 Sep 1929, d 30 Jan 1933 buried at Fredericton Rural Extension Cemetery, York County, NB

[e.]    Edith Maxwell b 1874

b]        William Odber Slipp b 1850 married Annie Mcleod and they had children

[a.]    Jessie Holden Slipp b 14 Jan 1875, married Royal Wilford Ferguson (his 1st wife was Ada E Worden m 28 Jan 1890, d 29 Oct 1904 St John County and they had 3 children by 1901 – Olive, Lottie and Alice) and he and Jessie had children

(i.)      Ruth Ferguson

(ii.)     Mildred Ferguson

(iii.)   Donald Ferguson

c]         Codelia Augusta G Slipp b 14 Dec 1851, d 1945 in NB, married 22 Sep 1875 at St John, NB, Amasa Merritt b 1840 in Hampstead, Queens County, NB, and they had children

[a.]    Olive Lillian Merritt b 24 Jul 1880 in Queenstown, Queens County, NB

d]        Helen Anna Slipp b 1871 married 1893 at Queens County, NB, (There are many newspaper and PANB records suggesting she used Sleep as well [Daniel F Johnson : Volume 85 Number 1718 September 8, 1893 Sussex Kings County Record Rev. Frank Frizzle of Jerusalem (Queens Co.) and his newly wedded bride, nee Anna L.H. Slipp, same place, were in Summerside, P.E.I. and proceeded to Cornwall. They were married in St. John Tuesday eve. and are on their wedding tour - 'Guardian' - Mr. Frizzle was stationed at Sussex at one time, as assistant on the Methodist circuit.]  Frank Frizzle The Rev’d  of Cornwall, PE, and they lived in Queens County and had children

[a.]    Raymond Frizzle 6 Jul 1894 [Daniel F Johnson : Volume 93 Number 2436 July 28, 1894 Saint John Daily Telegraph -- Birth - Jerusalem (Queens Co.) July 6th, to the wofe of Rev. Frank Frizzle, a son] AND [PANB Births -- Child Frizzelle, Raymond Sex M Date of Birth 1894 | 07 | 06 Place New Jerusalem County Queens Father Frizzelle, Frank Mother Sleep, Anna Lucinda H.]

[b.]    Anna Frances Mildred Frizelle b 16 Aug 1899 at New Jerusalem, Queens County, NB

6.      Joshua Calkins Lawson b: 26 Mar 1818 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB

7.      Mary Lawson b: 3 Jul 1808 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB

8.      Matilda Lawson b: 27 May 1826 Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB, d 8 Aug 1906 in St. John, NB, buried Old Cedar Hill Cemetery, St. John, NB (next to her husband Daniel in lot # G-1918) Married: 24 Jan 1845 in Hampstead, Queens, NB, Daniel S. Cameron b: 1817 in Hampstead, Queens, NB, and they had children

a]        Priscilla Jane Cameron b: Jul 1845 in St. John, NB, d after 1930 in Somerville, Middlesex, MA, seamstress, Lived at: 294 Riverway, Boston, MA. (14 May 1922, from letter to her daughter-in-law upon death of her son Arthur). In the January 1920 census she is shown as living at 256 Broadway, Somerville, MA. She came to Boston with her family in 1873 from Canada and was naturalized in 1891. Married 1st  27 Jun 1862 in St. John , NB, John Frith MILLS b: 1838 in St. John, NB, and they had Children

[a.]    Arthur Cameron Mills b: 18 Dec 1864 in St. John, NB, d 12 May 1922 in Mansfield, Richland, OH, interred at Bellevue Cemetery, Bellevue, Huron, OH, moved to US in 1893, real estate agent, married 9 May 1891 by bride’s uncle, Horace Place in Bellevue, Huron, OH, Alice Elizabeth Place b: 30 Nov 1872 in North Fairfield, Huron, OH and they had children

                                                                                                                                       i.      Helen Gertrude Mills

                                                                                                                                     ii.      Kendrick Cameron Place Mills b: 27 Mar 1895 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, d 25 Aug 1976 in Altadena, Los Angeles, CA married Audrey Margaret Alice Ritchie b: 1 Dec 1904 in Providence, Providence, RI and they had children

A.)   Kendrick Cameron Mills b: 4 Nov 1926 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, d 15 Jan 2002 at Pasadena, CA married Miss Sanford and had one child, remarried to second husband

                                                                                                                                    iii.      Donald John Mills b: 5 Sep 1900 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, Real Estate Broker, owned his own $8500 home in CA in 1930, married 20 Mar 1924 in Tijuana, Baja, Mexico, Gala Chiu Franklin b: 9 Nov 1904 in Tomsk, Siberia, Russia and had children

A.)   Gala Donna Mills b: 13 Feb 1925 in San Diego, San Diego, CA, d 28 Dec 1994 at La Mesa, CA, lived at 5952 Germaine Lane, La Jolla, CA, married Paul Wolcott b 22 Mar 1919 at Butte, Silver Bow County, MT and had three children

B.)   Patricia Arnold Mills b: 1 May 1926 in San Diego, San Diego, CA, d 28 Aug 1997 at La Jolla, CA, was Ms North Park 1949, married Mr Hodgson and had three children

Donald John Mills married 2nd 30 Mar 1936 in Yuma, Yuma County, AZ Valerie Clinton Higgin b: 12 Oct 1914 in Berkeley, Alameda, CA and they had children

C.)  Living Mills

                                                                                                                                   iv.      Priscilla Jane Mills b: 4 Jan 1910 in Toledo, Lucas, OH, d  21 Jun 2000 in Montrose, Los Angeles, CA, married 6 Jul 1935 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA, Arthur Raymond Purnell b: 21 Mar 1911 in Ft. William, Ontario, and they had children

A.)   Living Purnell

B.)   Living Purnell

[b.]    Mabel O. Mills b: Dec 1867 in St. John, NB,

[c.]     Gertrude H. Mills b: 3 Apr 1872 in St. John, NB,

Priscilla Jane Cameron married 2nd Mr Currier

b]        Olive L. Cameron b: 1847 in St. John, NB,

c]         Margaret M. Cameron b: 27 Jul 1849 in St. John, NB,

9.      William Lawson b: 31 Aug 1825 (1901 census) Christened 1826 in Hampstead, Queens, NB married Ann b 1837, d b/w 1881 and 1891 at NB and in 1871 his mother Hannah Lawson b 1800 was living with them they had children

a]        Walter John Lawson b 2 Aug 1858 at NB, d 21 Jan 1936, married Mary Jane Long b 25 Mar 1859 and they lived in Lorne Ward of St John, NB in 1901 and they had children

[a.]    Lewis C Lawson b 13 Feb 1886 at Queens County, NB

[b.]    George M Lawson b 3 Sep 1888

[c.]    Annie E Lawson b 19 Jan 1891

[d.]    Murray Walter Lawson b 16 Jul 1901 at St John, NB

b]        Hannah Lawson b 1861 at NB

c]         Bessie Lawson b 1863 at NB

d]        Adam Lawson b 1866 at NB

e]        Arthur CM Lawson b Aug 11 1868 at NB, d 1941 buried at Gagetown United Methodist Church Cemetery with wife, Queens County, NB,  married Carrie C. Oct 29 1862, d 1945  and they had children

[a.]    William John Lawson b May 26 1894

[b.]    Lawson B. Mildred F   Daughter S Nov 1 1895

[c.]    Lawson C. Jean F   Daughter S Sep 8 1898

f]           Murray Lawson b 1872

g]        David Lawson b Jan 1873 married Alice b Jul 1873 and they lived in Lorne Ward of St John, NB, in 1901 and they had children

[a.]    Russell Lawson b 1897

c)      Diadema/Diadamy Briggs b. 26 Dec 1785 born in Sheffield, NB, d. 10 Sep 1867, married Israel Lawson, b 1782, d. 6 Feb 1855, an innkeeper in Saint John and a sea captain, they settled in Saint John and they had children

1.      John Lawson b: 1802 c: 3 Mar 1806 in Hampstead, Queens, NB

2.      Hiram Lawson b: 28 Aug 1808 in Hampstead, Queens, NB,

3.      Israel Shearer Lawson b: 26 Aug 1810 in Gagetown, Queens, NB, At the 1881 census, Isreal Lawson, Ship Owner, b 1810 in St John, NB, was living (in the house of Amos Roberston, Master Mariner, b 1830 in St John, NB,) in Liverpool, England, with Elizabeth b 1834 at St John as his wife

4.      Mary Ann Lawson b: 3 Sep 1815 in , Queens, NB,

5.      Charlotte Ann Lawson b: 1 Jan 1818 in St. John, NB,

6.      Henry Lawson b: 20 Oct 1820 in St. John, NB,

7.      Micah Yeamans Lawson b: 3 Apr 1822 in St. John, NB,

8.      John Peter Lawson b: 3 Apr 1825 in St. John, NB,

d)     Elizabeth Briggs born 4 Dec 1787, married 17 Apr 1810, John Lawson Jr b 1784 and 2nd Duncan Cameron and she and John Lawson had children

1.      Elizabeth Lawson b 14 Mar 1814 at Wickham, Queens County, NB

2.      John Lawson b 14 Mar 1814 at Wickham, Queens County, NB

e)     Sophia Briggs, of Sheffield, b. 23 Nov 1789,  d 6 Jul 1848, married 1st 22 Jun 1807 at Sunbury County, NB, John Drost, of Lancaster Parish, St John County, NB,, a sea captain, b 1785, d before 22 Feb 1815 , had 4  children, married 2nd John Ford (NBGS First Families http://www.nbgs.ca/firstfamilies/FAMILY-D-2006.pdf which appears to contradict daughter Sophie’s baptismal record unless his name went in the baptismal record posthumously which is quite probable) and they settled on Grand Lake in Queens County, NB, and had 4 children

1.      John Drost baptized 15 Apr 1811 Gagetown Droso John and Sapphira By Rev. Samuel Clarke may have married Mrs Catherine Drost b 1820, and lived in Liverpool, Lancs, England where he was a ship carpenter and at the 1841 census Catherine had a daughter Sophia Drost b 1842. In the 9 Jun 1849 edition of the NB Courier published in St John, NB, there is this obit: Died Liverpool, England, 21st ult., from the effects of a fall in jumping from his ship to the ( ), John Drost, Carpenter of ship "Sea", native of NB, left wife and family in Liverpool.

2.      Pheby Gilbert Drost baptized 15 Apr 1811 Gagetown Droso John and Sapphira By Rev. Samuel Clarke married by Rev John Carrol the Saturday before the 21 May 1831 edition of St John’s NB Courier, Daniel Sullivan

3.      Sophia Drost baptized 29 Aug 1815 Queens County Drost John and Sophia By Rev. Samuel Clarke

4.      Charles Gradison Drost b 1810 baptized 29 Aug 1815 Queens County Drost John and Sophia By Rev. Samuel Clarke, d 12 Mar 1883 at Portland, St John, NB, married Mrs Margaret Drost  b 1819 born at Ireland, both living at Chubb St, Portland, Saint John, NB in 1883, and had children

a]        Charles W Drost b 1854 d 12 Feb 1859 according to the 12 Feb 1859 Saint John paper NB Courier “Died Loch Lomond Saturday Charles W  Dross  eldest son of Charles Dross aged 5 years and 2 months.

b]        Fanny Louisa Drost youngest d/o Charles Durost, age 18. d Westfield (Kings Co.) Saturday 16th inst -- August 22, 1851 Saint John Newspaper Weekly Chronicle

c]         Margaret J Drost, second daughter of Charles Drost according to 9 Jun 1865 St John Religious Intelligencer, married by Rev Samuel Robertson, 18 May 1865 at St John, NB, Hugh Burns

d]        John Drost b 21 Jan 1839 at St. John, NB,  d 16 Jul 1891 at Baldwin, Cumberland County, Me married 22 May 1870 at Baldwin, ME, Mary Anna Sawyer b 5 Mar 1853 at Baldwin, ME, d 20 Sep 1914 at Baldwin, ME, and they had children:

[a.]    John W. Drost b 1 May 1878 at Saint John, NB

[b.]    Rosetti Drost b 1871 d 4 Aug 1876 at Carleton, West St John, NB, “eldest daughter of John Drost and Mary Drost age 5 years and 3 months from 7 Aug 1876 Saint John Daily News.

[c.]    Margaret Catherine Drost b 29 Jan 1876 at St John, NB, d 27 Oct 1955 at Baldwin, ME, married 25 Jun 1896 at Portland, ME Oliver Forrest Graffam b 1 Nov 1874 at East Baldwin, ME, d 31 Oct 1943 at East Baldwin, ME, and they had children

i]        Stanley Delmore Graffam b 11 Mar 1912 at Baldwin, ME, d 25 Aug 1975 married 26 Sep 1931 at Baldwin, ME, Avis E Judkins b 19 Jul 1913 at Cumberland County, ME, d 10 Jul 2000 at Bridgton, Cumberland County, ME

ii]       Verna Maude Graffam b 21 Mar 1905 at Baldwin, ME d 17 Jun 1975 at Portland, ME married 15 Oct 1922 at ME George L Mullen d 26 Jun 1969 at Sebago, ME and they had children

[a]   Virginia M Mullen b 1924

[b]   Milliard Mullen b 1928

iii]     George Elmore Graffam b 24 Mar 1899 at Baldwin, ME d 21 Nov 1977 married 1 Sep 1925 at ME Sarah S Richardson aka Sarah S Sargent and they had children

[a]   Mary E Richardson, step daughter, b 1914

iv]     Lula Francis Graffam b 1 Sep 1896 at Baldwin, ME d 2 Jan 1919 married 30 Jan 1918 at ME Harry E Rowell of Lancaster, NH, d 7 Dec 1975 at Biddeford, ME, and had children

a.      Shirley D Rowel b 1918 married 4 Feb 1939 Nelson C Carver d 23 Mar 1988

v]      Pearl Mary Graffam b 4 Sep 1901 at Baldwin, ME d 11 Jan 1971 married 15 Dec 1921 at Portland, ME Benjamin H Blake b 1898,  d 16 Jan 1981 at Portland, ME, lived 1930 in Barlett, Carroll County, NH, and had children

[a]   Marion L Blake b 1924

[b]   Francis A Blake b 1926

[c]    Mildred R Blake b 1928

vi]     Robert Drost Graffam b 8 Dec 1918 at Baldwin, ME d 3 Mar 1967 at Augusta, Kennebec, Me, interred Steep Falls, Cumberland, Maine married 20 Apr 1946 Dorothy Mitton aka Dorothy Andrews

vii]   Percy F Graffam b 28 Feb 1908 at Cumberland County, ME, d 2 Oct 1996 at Binghampton, Broome County, NY

viii]  Doris M Graffam b 1917, d 29 Jun 1994 married 14 Nov 1936 Vance R Watson b 1909, d 10 Mar 1876

[d.]    Charles Willie Drost b 12 Mar 1879 at Baldwin, ME, d 12 Aug 1881 at Baldwin, ME

[e.]    Janie M Drost b 30 Mar 1885 at Baldwin, ME, d 11 Mar 1976 at Calais, ME, married 22 Jul 1905 Galen O Harriman b 1882 at ME, d 23 Mar 1963 at Mechanic Falls, ME and had children

i]        Kenneth F Harriman b 1907 married 18 Aug 1939 at Topsham, ME, Verna M Roehrig

ii]       Oscar W Harriman b 1910

iii]     Leonard F Harriman b 1916 married 14 Jul 1935 at Mechanics Falls, ME, Evelyn Purington

iv]     Lilliam M Hewett sister In law

[f.]       Charles C. Drost b 14 May 1891 at Baldwin, ME, d 10 Oct 1898

[g.]    Daughter Drost b 3 Jun 1880, d 4 Jun 1880 at Baldwin, ME

[h.]    Mary Susan Drost b 18 Jun 1882 at Boston, MA, d 8 Jan 1900

[i.]       John Drost b 23 Aug 1887 at Portland, Cumberland County, ME, d 19 Aug 1966

f)        Mary Ann Briggs born 22 Jan 1792, d 1863, married 5 Mar 1811 at Gagetown, Queens County, John Williams, b: 1788 Gagetown, Queens, NB d: 6 Apr 1880 Gagetown (son of Reuben Williams and Mary (Maria) Vantassel) settled near Gagetown and had children

1.      Reuben Williams b May 23 1816 Gagetown, NB, d: Moose Mountain, Carleton, NB Married 19 Dec 1839 Gagetown, NB, Elizabeth Gaunce b 8 Sep 1823 Gagetown, Queens, NB (d/o John Casper Gaunce and Margaret Brown) and had Children

a]                        Son Twin Williams b Abt 1857 Gagetown, Queens, NB d as infant

b]                        Son twin Williams b Abt. 1863 Gagetown, Queens, NB :d as infant

c]                        Leonard Theodore Williams b 1846 Gagetown, Queens, NB married Martha b 1850

d]                        Hubbard Henry Williams b Aug 14 1864 or 1854 Gagetown, Queens, NB d: 17 Nov 1938 married 1st Bridget  b Aug 2 1860, married 2nd after last child born, Annie b Mar 1861 operated his father’s farm in the Parish of Kent, Carleton County and had children

a.      Williams Willmet Williams b Dec 1 1879 (1920 US census 19 Nov 1879) married in Houlton, Maine, Mrs Edith Annie Williams and had children

                                                                                                                     i.      Everett J. Williams b: ca. 1912 in Aroostook Co., Maine

                                                                                                                   ii.      Philip E. Williams b: ca. 1913 in Aroostook Co., Maine

b.      Harry R Williams b Apr 17 1882 married 25 Jun 1919 at Carleton County, Mary Green

c.      Thomas Williams b Mar 19 1884

d.      John Williams b Jan 28 1886

e.      Lillie Williams b Jan 2 1888 married 19 Jun 1913 at Carleton County, Glasier Giberson

f.         Jonas Williams b Sep 14 1890

g.      Earnest Williams b Nov 24 1892, d 1956, married 25 Dec 1916 at Carleton County, Wilda McDougall b 1899, d 1977

h.      Theodore Williams b Oct 4 1894 married 4 Aug 1919 at Carleton County, Lillian B Braddock

i.         Archibald ‘Archie’ Simon Williams b Apr 17 1896 married 18 Jun 1927 at the Parish of Blackville, Northumberland County, Julia Cecilia Brennan

j.         Myrtle Williams b Feb 17 1900 married 2 May 1919 at Carleton County, Stanley Grant

e]                        Augusta Amelia Williams b 1859 Gagetown, Queens, NB

f]                           Aurilla Williams b 1860 Gagetown, Queens, NB, d: 11 Oct 1937

g]                        John W. Williams b 1864 Gagetown, Queens, NB, d b 24 Jan 1861 Gagetown, Queens, NB

h]                        Thomas Bingley Williams b 15 Mar 1849/50 Gagetown, Queens, NB, d 15 Aug 1922 married Josephine Croford b Sep 27 1858 Gagetown, NB, operated a farm in Hampstead Parish, Queens County and had children

a.      Thomas Williams b Jul 1 1881

b.      Nina G Williams b Aug 16 1884

c.      Mary Alice G. Williams b Jan 27 1889 married 17 Jun 1908 at Carleton County, John F Toms and had children

                                                                                                                     i.      Pauline Toms b Dec 1899

                                                                                                                   ii.      Annie Toms b Oct 1906

d.      Flo E Williams b Jul 3 1891

e.      Cecil R Williams b Sep 10 1894

f.         Guy S Williams b Nov 18 1896 married 16 Jun 1915 at Carleton County, Sara V Wallace

i]                           Joseph Williams b 26 May 1844 Gagetown, Queens, NB, d 27 May 1924

j]                           Mary Elizabeth Williams b 5 Jun 1848 Gagetown, Queens Co., NB, d 11 May 1924, married Corbrin Vandine b 1840, Farmer, living in the Parish of Kent, Carleton County, and had children

a.      Dyraina Vandine b 1868

b.      Sarah E. Vandine b Sep 1871 married 4 Aug 1896 at Carleton County, Freeman Oakes b Mar 1870 and they had children

                                                                                                                     i.      Loretta Oakes b Apr 1897

                                                                                                                   ii.      Izetta Oakes b Apr 1899

                                                                                                                  iii.      Verna Oakes b May 1901

                                                                                                                 iv.      Inez Oakes b May 1902

                                                                                                                   v.      Lester Oakes b Aug 1906

                                                                                                                 vi.      Ada Oakes b Feb 1909 2 1901

c.      Reuben Vandine b 1875 married Margaret Gillespie, lived in the Parish of Kent, Carleton County and had children

                                                                                                                     i.      Mary A Vandine

d.      Gladus Vandine b 1880

k]                        Charles Williams, Farmer, b 12 Jun 1855 Gagetown, NB, d 21 Nov 1944, married 9 Jul 1874 Margaret Donavon b Apr 4 1845 Gagetown, NB, lived in the Parish of Kent, Carleton County, later in Grand Falls, NB and had children

a.      Wallace Williams b 1873 N. B.

b.      Gusta Williams b 1875 N. B.

c.      Charles MacFarlane Williams b Dec 19 1879, d 1956, buried with his wife at Unidentified Cemetery Between Grand Falls And Ortonville, Victoria County, married Elizabeth Evelyn Stone b Feb 18 1885, d 1954, and they had children

                                                                                                                     i.      Reuben Andrew Williams b Sep 1902 married 30 Oct 1929 at Grand Falls, NB Marion Wallace Phillips

                                                                                                                   ii.      Ralph Nathaniel Williams b May 1905 married 27 Jun 1928 at Andover, Victoria County, NB, Mabel Olive Stone

                                                                                                                  iii.      Bertha Williams b Jul 1906 at California Settlement, Victoria County, NB,  married 5 May 1925 at Grand Falls, NB, Robert Ronald Stone

                                                                                                                 iv.      Bridget Margaret Williams b Mar 1908 married 12 Dec 1926 at Andover, Victoria County, NB, Howard Hitchcock

                                                                                                                   v.      R? Williams b Jun 1910

                                                                                                                 vi.      Beatrice May Williams, Mar, 1911 married 21 May 1925 at Andover, Victoria County, NB Earl Thompson

d.      Maud Williams b Sep 16 1877

e.      Lora Williams b Dec 14 1883

f.         Leonard Theodore Williams b May 26 1885 married 24 Aug 1916 in Maine, Fern L Dee and they had children

                                                                                                                     i.      Alma Williams

                                                                                                                   ii.      Hubert Williams marries Amanda Cote and has 7 children

1.      Robena Williams

2.      Leola Williams

3.      Leona Williams

4.      Gilbert Williams

5.      Velma Williams

6.      Living Williams

7.      Living Williams

8.      Living Williams

g.      Maggie Williams b Nov 12 1889

h.      Andrew F Williams b Feb 2 1892

l]                           Perscilla Henrettia Williams b 19 Jul 1852 Gagetown, Queens, NB, d 18 Feb 1932

2.      Caroline Fowler Williams b 1813 Gagetown, NB d 11 Mar 1893 married 26 Mar 1825 John Holder b 1809 Gagetown, NB, d before 1871, and had children

a]                        Sophia Holder b 1852 NB, Seamstress (In 1910 she and the boys picked up stakes and moved to MA where she, Bev Emery and Emery’s wife Viv lived in a home at Braintree, MA in 1920 – Campbell and his family had a home in Newburyport, Essex County, MA at 1920 – in 1930 Bev was living with her and Emery and Campbell had their own homes) married 13 Aug 1892 at Cambridge, Queens County, NB, Donald H Farris b 1858, d 1896, buried at Farris Cemetery, Queens County, NB, and they had children

a.      Campbell Artemus Ferris b 10 Feb 1885, d 11 Jun 1970 at Newburyport, MA, married an Irish lass named Sullivan and they had 5 children and she passed away, Campbell was a widower 1920 and 1930 census living at 67 Lime St, Newburyport, Essex County, MA in 1930 with his children

1.       Marion S Ferris b 16 Mar 1907, d 24 May 1987 at Newburyport, MA named as next of kin in her father’s draft registration,

2.      Katherine J Ferris b 1911

3.      Emery D Ferris b  13 Apr 1913, d Dec 1987 at Haverhill, Essex County, MA

4.      Hazel L Ferris b 1916

5.      H Donald Ferris b 1924 grandson enlisted 27 May 1943, 1 year high school, Practical Nurse, single, no dependants,

6.      Lillian C Ferris b 1926 granddaughter married Donald E Bryant b 21 Jul 1924, d 13 Jul 1999 at Newburyport, MA

b.      Emery D Farris b 12 Mar 1890 at Whites Cove, Queens County, NB, in 1941 he was 5’2” and 157 pounds in 1941, light complexion, gray eyes and hair, wore glasses, was unemployed and lived with his wife at 192 Liberty St, Randolph, MA, married before 1920 Vivian b 1899 and in 1930 they lived in Randolph, Norfolk County, MA  and they had children

1.      Bernice Ferris b 7 Aug 1920, d 1 May 1999, at Brockton, MA, married Richard D Young

2.      Donald L Ferris b 26 Jul 1923, d 9 Mar 1995 at Haines City, Polk County, FL

3.      Thelma Ferris b 1926, d Apr 1985 at Newburyport, MA

4.      Stanley Ferris b 1929

c.      Wyndom Beverly Farris b 13 Aug 1892 lived in 1941 at 70 Central Ave, Braintree, MA and worked at Armstrong Cork Co. He gave  his next of kin as Irene Haskell of 714 Washington St, Braintree MA. He had a light complexion, gray hair and eyes and stood 5’5” and 150 lbs in 1941. It appears he never married or had children.

b]                        John E Holder b 4 May 1854 NB Farmer married 27 Sep 1893 at St John, NB, Alice Maud Mason b 19 Nov 1874 and they had children

                                                                                                         i.      Edna Dalyrymple Holder b 25 Jul 1895 at Cambridge, Queens County, NB married 24 Jun 1914 at Queens County, NB, Cecil S MacAlpine and they had children

1.      Alfred MacAlpine married Mary and they live in Penticton, BC

2.      Edith nee MacAlpine Webb lives in Victoria, BC

3.      Helen Beatrice MacAlpine d 4 Feb 2005 at Oromocto, NB,  [OBIT: Fredericton Daily Gleaner Monday 7 Feb 2005: Lacey, Helen Beatrice The death of Helen Beatrice Lacey of Oromocto occurred at the Oromocto Public Hospital on Friday, February 4th, 2005. Born in Lower Cambridge, NB, she was the daughter of the late Cecil and Edna (Holder) MacAlpine and the beloved wife of 68 years to Wendell Lacey. Survived by her husband Wendell; and children, Karl Lacey (Irene) of Toronto, ON, Marie Keirstead (Jack) of Fredericton, NB, Audrey Hand (Frank) of Rothesay, NB, Joan Cooper (Harry) of Garnett Settlement, NB, Lloyd Lacey (Janet) of Edmonton, AB and Blair Lacey (Marcia) of St Stephen, NB; ten grandchildren and four great- grandchildren; one brother, Alfred MacAlpine (Mary) of Penticton, BC; one sister, Edith Webb of Victoria, BC and several nieces and nephews. Visitation… www.oromoctofh.com END OBIT]  married Wendell Lacey and they had children

a.      Karl Lacey married Irene and they live in Toronto

b.      Marie Lacey married Jack Keirstead and they live in Fredericton

c.      Audrey Lacey married Frank Hand and they live in Rothesay, NB,

d.      Joan Lacey married Harry  Cooper and they lived in Garnett Settlement, NB,

e.      Lloyd Lacey married Janet and they lived in Edmonton, AB

f.         Blair Lacey married Marcia and they live in St Stephen, NB

                                                                                                       ii.      Gordon Lee Holder b 30 Jan 1897 at Lower Cambridge, Queens County, NB married 2 Jun 1921 at St John, NB, Jennie B Currie

                                                                                                      iii.      Greta Madeline Holder b 22 Jan 1899 at Lower Cambridge, Queens County, NB married 26 Sep 1921 at St John, NB, Kenneth B McAlpine

                                                                                                     iv.      Florence Mildred Holder b 24 Feb 1906 at Cambridge, Queens County, NB married 4 Nov 1925 at St John, NB, Ralph Hendry Chapman

                                                                                                       v.      John Douglas Hazen Holder b 1 May 1908 at Cambridge, Queens County, NB married 25 Jun 1930 at Hampstead, Queens County, NB, Myrtle Pauline Lacey, B 3 Aug 1911, d 6 Mar 2006, [OBIT: St John Telegraph Journal Tuesday, March 7, 2006: Holder, Myrtle Pauline (Lacey) - The death of Myrtle Pauline (Lacey) Holder, wife of the late J. D. Hazen Holder, occurred March 6th, 2006, at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton, NB. Born in Fredericton on August 3rd, 1911; she was the daughter of the late George S. and Maude (MacLean) Lacey. She moved to Fredericton from Riverview in 2003 to be with family. She resided with her son, Douglas, in Harvey for a few months, and then lived with her grandson, Jeffrey and his family, until she had taken ill. She was a member of Gunningsville United Baptist Church and a Dominion Life Member of the United Baptist Missionary Society. She was also a life member of the NB Women's Institute. She is survived by one son, R. Douglas (Lorraine) Holder of Harvey; three grandsons, Paul (Laurene) of Quispamsis, Stephen (June) and Jeffrey (Sherry) of Fredericton; five great-grandsons: Jared, Alex, Kyle, Noah and Samuel, and one great-granddaughter, Kaleigh. She is also survived by a sister, Muriel V. Holder of Gagetown, and a