History of
Sackville - New Brunswick [Canada] by Dr W C Milner - Historian
and Former Dominion Archivist. 185 pages. Good condition.
FRENCH OCCUPATION
ENGLISH SETTLEMENT
TANTRAMAR SETTLEMENT - "The
list of the Subscribers for the Township Lying on Tantramar River, Represented
by Benjamin Thurber, Cyprian Sterry and Edmund Jincks, from Providence in
Rhode Island." Taken from records in the Province Library at Halifax.
The date is probably 1761, but possibly 1760.
An assessment of the land owners of
Sackville made in 1777 showed ninety thousand acres owned or occupied.
The largest land owner was one Samuel Rogers who had won the disfavor of
Loyalist Britains by his part in the Eddy War two years before. He
was then a very old man and had become a town charge while at the same time
he owned 4746 acres. Estabrooks and Mason owned 3344 acres; John Barnes
owned 2750 acres; Charles Dixon 2510 acres; Elijah Ayer 2,090 acres; Edward
Barron 2000 acres; Benjamin Emmerson 2000 acres; Robert Scott 2000 acres.
List of Vessels built at Sackville
with Registered Owner
Cemetery Listings for MIDDLE SACKVILLE
CEMETERY, TANTRAMAR GRAVEYARD
Pioneer Families page 113 to 185
with biographical and genealogical data surnames: Avard,
Allison, Atkinson, Anderson, Ayer, Barnes, Black, Botsford, Bowes, Bowser,
Bulmer, Burk, Burnam, Cahill, Campbell, Carter, Carnforth, Cole, Chandler,
Crane, Dixon, Dobson, Estabrooks, Evans, Fawcett, Fisher, Harper, Herritt,
Hicks, Humphrey, Lawrence, Ogden, Patton, Reed, Rogers, Sears, Seaman, Smith,
Thompson, Upham, Ward, Wilson, and Wood. - Many names in the publication.
History
of Sackville - New Brunswick [Canada] by Dr W C Milner - Historian
and Former Dominion Archivist. First edition. Published in 1934 by the Tribune
Printing Co Ltd, Sackville, New Brunswick 185 pages. Good condition. Fading
on spine. Former owner’s name on first page -
Book # 1033 -First Edition - $69.95 Canadian
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