Edward remained on the homestead.One of the daughters married Joseph Lowerison, another Ephraim Rayworth; one remained single.Francis Siddall settled first on the farm now owned by James Colpitts, near Point de Bute Corner, and married Mary Oulton, by whom he had a family of five children, Ralph, Stephen, Charles, Susan and Experience.Susan was twice married--first to Mariner Teed, of Dorchester, N.B., second, to Hugh McLeod.The late John Teed, of Dorchester, was a son of Mariner and Susan Teed.Experience married William Copp, of Bay Verte Road.The Copps were from New England, and settled first in Jolicure.Hiram, Harvey and Silas Copp, of Sackville, Albert and George, of Bay Verte, are sons of William Copp.
Ralph Siddall (third) married Susan Oulton and remained on the homestead at Westmoreland Point, which he named "The Crow's Nest." Mrs.
Siddall is now living, at the age of eighty-six.Charles married Louisa Chappell, of Bay Verte, and is still living, at the ripe age of ninety-two years.Godfrey and Bill, of Bay Verte, N.B., and Charles, of Sackville, are his sons.Stephen married a Miss Brown and had a large family.His youngest son, George, is the only one living in the vicinity of the old home.Stephen had a remarkable memory, and greatly enjoyed a good sermon.He followed the sea for a number of years.After settling down at home, near Fort Cumberland, he was appointed to an office in the Customs, which he held to his death.Few men could tell a story better than Capt.Stephen Siddall.
BROWNELL.
Rev.J.H.Brownell writes: "The present Brownell family are unable to tell definitely when their grandfather came to this country, but I find it recorded in 'A Biographical Sketch of the Loyalists,' by Lorenzo Sabine, in Vol.I, which I have by me, that in the year 1783 two brothers came from Vermont to New Brunswick.Joshua Brownell went to St.John, and Jeremiah came to Westmoreland, and settled in Jolicure.
He married Annie Copp.They were the parents of nine children.Their names, etc., are as follows: Aaron married first, Vinie Dixon; they had one girl.His second wife was Margaret Weldon; they had two sons and five daughters.He settled in Dorchester.John married Eunice Polly;they had two sons and seven daughters.He settled in Jolicure.Jeremiah married Rebecca Dixon; they had seven sons and six daughters.He settled in Northport, N.S.Thomas never married, and lived in Jolicure.
William married Annie Davis; they had five sons and five daughters.He settled in Northport, N.S.Sarah married Thomas Weldon.They lived in Jolicure for a time, and then moved away.When Weldon died Sarah came back and lived with Thomas.She had six children, one son and five daughters.Edward married Margaret Adams; they had thirteen children.
He settled in Jolicure.Annie married George Church; they lived in Fort Lawrence, and had four sons and five daughters.Lovinia married Jesse Church, and lived in Point de Bute for a time, then moved to Amherst.
They had five sons and seven daughters."
My information, up to the receipt of this letter, was very positive that Jeremiah Brownell came to Nova Scotia in 1763, with the Fillimores and others, landing at Fort Lawrence.The family were adherents of the Presbyterian Church, and took an active part in building and sustaining that church in Jolicure.The name has given two ministers to the denomination, Rev.J.H.Brownell, of Little Shemogue, N.B., and Rev.
Hiram Brownell, of Northport, N.S.
KING.
Thomas King came from a small village near Hull, Yorkshire, with his uncle, Christopher Harper, in 1773.Before starting for America Mr.
Harper hired his nephew, who was a blacksmith, to work for him for three years for forty pounds sterling.When Mr.Harper found wages were high in this country, he released his nephew from the bargain, and young King worked several years in the Government Armory at Fort Cumberland.He married his cousin, Miss Harper, and they were the parents of six children, one son and five daughters.The son, Thomas, married a Miss Chandler; Jane married George Oulton; Fanny Thomas Bowser; one remained single; of the remaining two, one married Otho Read, and the other Jesse Read.Thomas King (second) owned a large farm that joined the Garrison land.He had a family of two daughters and four sons, Jane, -----, Watson, Edward, James and Samuel.None of the sons, and but one of the daughters married.Edward and Samuel occupy the old place, and are the only members of the family now living.The "King boys," as they were called, were well read and good conversationalists.James was a school-teacher in his early years, and had a local reputation as a mathematician.
RYAN.
Daniel Ryan came from Ireland to Nova Scotia soon after the Expulsion, and settled near Point de Bute corner.He married a Miss Henry.They had a family of eight--Daniel, Henry, James, William, and four daughters.One daughter married Joseph Black, of Dorchester, N.B.;another married a Mr.McBride; another, William Trenholm, of Point de Bute.William settled in Little Shemogue; Henry moved to Hastings, Cumberland, N.S.; James married Christina Forster, of Fort Lawrence, and lived for a time on the old place.About 1813 he moved to Millstream, King's Co., N.B., where the family for many years occupied a prominent place in public affairs.
OGDEN.
The Ogdens were U.E.Loyalists.John (first) came from Long Island, New York, in 1790, and settled in Sackville, N.B., on the farm owned by the late Bloomer Ogden.An uncle of John Ogden spent the latter part of his life in prison rather than swear allegiance to the United States.
John married Nancy Fawcett, a daughter of Mr.John Fawcett, Sackville, and had eight children--John, William, Henry, Thomas, Bloomer, Robert, Ann and Jane.
John (second) settled in Port Elgin.Edward Ogden, of Sackville, is a son of John.Amos and William of the same place are sons of Henry.The late Henry Ogden, of Jolicure, was connected with this family.
TOWNSEND.
