John Fawcett (first), Lower Sackville, had four children--two sons, Robert and John, and two daughters, Mary and Nancy.Of these, Robert married ----- Seaman; John married Jane Black; Mary married Henry Ripley, and Nancy married John Ogden.Robert, a son of the second Robert, married Jane Trueman, daughter of William Trueman.
In 1817 (March 22nd) Thomas Fawcett, of Stockton Forest, Yorkshire, sailed from Hull on the ship VALIANT, bound for Charlottetown, P.E.
Island.The voyage lasted seventy-three days.About the middle of the voyage the VALIANT came across a Scotch brig in a sinking condition and took on board her sixty passengers and crew.There were one hundred and ninety-three immigrants on the ship when she arrived at her destination.
Thomas Fawcett settled first at Cove Head, P.E.I.He afterward moved to Sackville, and finally located at Salisbury.He had three sons, one now living in Carleton County, N.B., one in Salisbury, and John is one of the solid men to Tidnish.
Other passengers on the VALIANT were: John Milner, settled in Sackville; John Towse, settled in Dorchester; Robert Morrison, settled in Sussex; Robert Mitten and family, settled in Coverdale.
EVANS.
Isaac Evans came to this country, probably from the United States, shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war.The family was originally from Wales.He was married to Miss Lydia Jenks, and settled within a few rods of the old Botsford place at Westcock.They had seven children, all born in this country--James, Isaac, William, Lydia, Mary, Ann and Beriah.James married Miss Barnes, and Mr.Isaac N.Evans, the only man of the name now living in the parish, is a son of theirs.His name and his brother William's are to be found in the list of students attending Mount Allison Academy in 1843.Isaac drowned off Grindstone Island when twenty-four years old, in 1819.William married a Miss Estabrooks, and they had ten children--James Isaac, who died recently at Shediac, where his family still live; Evander Valentine, who lived in Sackville and was well known as Captain Evans; Jane, who married Marcus Trueman, and now lives in California; William Murray Stuart, who at one time had charge of the Westmoreland Bank in Moncton;George Edwin, a mechanic, who moved early in life to the United States;Henry, who served on the side of the North in the War of Secession;Charles, who married a daughter of the late John Fawcett, but died young.Lydia married Lewis Jenks; Mary never married, but lived to be old, and was known by her friends as "Aunt Polly"; Ann married John Boultonhouse, and Beriah married John Stuart.Isaac Evans, the original settler, was drowned off Partridge Island, St.John, June, 1798, aged thirty-four.Lydia, his wife, died November 11th, 1842, in her seventy-fourth year.
WOOD.
William Wood was from Buriston, near Bedale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.His wife was Elizabeth Clarkson.They emigrated to America with the first Yorkshire contingent (1772-3).Shortly after coming to this country Mrs.Wood died, leaving three children--a son and two daughters.The son was born on St.Valentine's Day, and was named Valentine.Mr.Wood's second wife was the widow of an officer who had served at Fort Cumberland.Mr.Wood was at the "Fort" when the Eddy rebels attacked that place, and distinguished himself by his bravery.
He was drowned in the Bay of Fundy.
Valentine Wood married and settled in Point de Bute.His family consisted of eleven children: William, who died in boyhood; Edward, Rufus, Joshua, Cyrus, Thomas, Albert, Mary Ann, Cynthia, Amelia, and the youngest, Rebecca (Mrs.Thompson Trueman, of Sackville, N.B.)Edward was named for an uncle in England.He made his home in Bay Verte, N.B., and became a most useful and acceptable Methodist local preacher.Two of the Wood family were teachers.Thomas W.was a prominent and successful educationalist.The Wood family were more than ordinarily gifted intellectually.Albert, the youngest son, became celebrated as a skilful and successful sea captain.He published a book, entitled "Great Circle Sailing," that quite changed the methods, in some particulars, from which ships had been navigated previously.
Captain Wood finally settled in California, where he now lives, and is an enthusiastic temperance worker and writer.Joshua was musically inclined, and taught the old fashioned singing school.He possessed characteristics that made him quite a hero with many of his friends.
Most of the descendants of William Wood bearing the name have removed from the country.
HARRIS.
The Harris name is one of the oldest in Canada.Arthur Harris came from Plymouth, England, to Bridgewater, New England, in 1650.He removed from there to Danby, and from Danby to Boston in 1696.His son, Samuel, was with Captain Ben Church's expedition to Acadia in 1704, and shortly after Acadia came into possession of the English he settled in Annapolis.Michael Spurr Harris, a grandson of Samuel Harris, was born at Annapolis Royal in 1804.His wife, Sarah Ann Troop, was born in Aylesford in 1806.Michael Harris started in business in St.John in 1826; in 1837 he removed his family to Moncton and opened a general store and carriage building establishment, and soon after added shipbuilding to the business.After his death the business was very successfully conducted for many years by his two sons, the late John Harris and Christopher Harris.
This firm was always abreast of the times, and the city of Moncton owes much to its enterprise and farsightedness.The late Mrs.John A.
Humphrey was a daughter of Michel Spurr Harris.
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