The Mains are Scotch.The family tree goes back to the beginning of the fifteenth century, one branch including the present Lord Rosebery and Sir William Alexander, who are one time owned Nova Scotia and gave the Province its name.David Main with two of his sons, John and James, emigrated from Dumfries.Scotland, to Richibucto, New Brunswick, in the spring of 1821, and settled at Galloway, on the farm now owned by Robert Main, a grandson of David, and son of James.James married Jane Murray, of Shemogue.James Main, of Botsford, is also a son of theirs.
John married Jean Johnstone, and lived in Kingston, now called Rexton.
Mary Jean Main, wife of Howard Trueman, is his daughter.The late David Main, of St.Stephen, was a son of John Main.
SHARP.
Four brothers named Sharp came to the Isthmus from Cornwallis, N.S., about the year 1812.Matthew settled in Nappan, William in Maccan, Allan in Amherst, and John in Sackville.Samuel Sharp, who married Fanny Trueman, was a son of William Sharp.
WELDON.
Two of William Trueman's sons married into the Weldon family.I am not able to give any more information about the Weldons than is found in the "History of the Blacks," which is as follows: "A Mr.Weldon left London for Halifax in 1760.The vessel in which he sailed was wrecked on the coast of Portugal.Returning to London, in 1761, he found that his wife and family had sailed for Halifax, where he joined them in the fall of the same year." Mr.Weldon settled first in Hillsboro and later removed to Dorchester, where the name has remained ever since.
Dr.Weldon, Dean of the Halifax Law School, belongs to this family.
SCOTT.
Adam Scott was from Langholm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.He emigrated to New Brunswick with his wife and family in 1834, landing first at Quebec.He settled in Shemogue, Westmoreland County.His wife's name was Janet Amos.He had eight children.Two of the sons and the eldest daughter, Janet, married into William Trueman's family.The daughter, Mrs.Joseph Trueman, is still living, bright and cheerful, in the 84th year of her age.Mr.Scott was one of the most prosperous farmers in the district in which he settled, and lived to be ninety-nine years of age.
BENT.
This name is believed to have come from bent grass, "a stiff, wiry growth, little known in America." John Bent, the first of the name in America, was born in Penton-Grafton, England, in November, 1596.He came to America in his forty-second year, and settled in Sudbury, Mass.
The Bents came to Nova Scotia around 1760.The names of Jesse and John Bent are found on the list of grantees for the township of Cumberland in 1763, to which reference has previously been made.Sarah A.Bent, daughter of Martin Bent, married Edward Trueman.
JEWETT--COY.
Mary Jewett, who married Alder Trueman, of Sackville, and Asa Coy, who married Catherine Trueman, of Point de Bute, were of the New England emigration that settled on the St.John River in 1762-3.
HARRISON.
John Harrison, of Rillington, Yorkshire, England, and his wife, Sarah Lovell, of the same place with their family arrived in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, in the spring of 1774, and settled on the Maccan River.They had family as follows: Luke, born August 25th, 1754, married Tryphena Bent, November 22nd, 1789; John, married twice, first wife Dinah Lumley, of Yorkshire, England, and second Charlotte Mills, of the State of New York; Thomas born March 28th, 1762, married Mary Henry; William, born March 25th, 1770, married Jane Coates; Mary, married Matthew Lodge; Sarah, married James Brown; Nancy, married John Lumley; Hannah, married John Lambert; Elizabeth, married Henry Furlong.
Luke Harrison (son of John) and his wife Tryphena Bent, had family as follows: Jane, married William Bostock; Margaret; George, married Sarah Hodson; Hannah married George Boss; Amy, married Thos.Dodsworth;Eunice, married Amos Boss; Elizabeth, married William Smith; Joseph;Jesse, married Elizabeth Hoeg.
John Harrison (son of John), whose first wife was Dinah Lumley, and second Charlotte Mills, had family as follows: Sarah, John, Maria, Lovell, Mary, Charlotte, Rebecca; William, married Elizabeth Brown;James.
Thomas Harrison (son of John) and his wife Mary Henry, had family as follows: Luke, married Hannah Lodge; Sarah, married Martin Hoeg;Clementina, married Joseph Moore; Harriet, married William Coates;Thomas, married Clementina Stockton; Tillott, married Eunice Lockwood;Mary, married Gideon Trueman; Ruth, married Hugh Fullerton; Henry, first wife Phoebe Chipman, and second A.M.Randall.
William Harrison (son of John) and his wife, Jane Coates, had family as follows: Sarah, married Robert Oldfield; Thomas, married Elizabeth Shipley; Edward; William, married Mary Tait; John, married Jerusha Lewis; Ann, married David Keiver; Joseph, married Jane Ripley; James, married Mary Lewis; Robert, married Hannah Wood; Jane, married Nathan Hoeg; Luke; Brown, married Mary Ann Coates; Hannah, married David Long.
Luke Harrison (son of Thomas and Mary), was born August 10th, 1787, and died November 12th, 1865.He and his wife, Hannah Lodge, moved from Maccan River, N.S., to Dutch Valley, near Sussex, N.B., and had family as follows: William Henry, married three times, first wife was Sarah Slocomb, second Rebecca Slocomb, and third Lavina M.Knight; Charles Clement; Mary Ann, married J.Nelson Coates, of Smith's Creek, King's County, N.B.; Thomas Albert, married Isabel Stevenson, of St.Andrew's, N.B.; Joseph Lodge, married Charlotte Snider, of Dutch Valley, Sussex, N.B.
