Those
Days Are Gone Away - Queens County - New Brunswick
1643-1901 by Marion Gilchrist Reicker
A comprehensive history of Queens County and its people. Filled with names!
219 pages. Soft Cover. This book is a real “must read”
for those researching Queens County in New Brunswick, Canada. A wealth of information for the genealogist
with numerous names of pioneer Loyalists, and pre-Loyalists. Original blue softcover with ship drawing
by Doreen Whelan.
Soon after opening his store in 1811, at Lower Jemseg, Joseph Gidney
recorded that Peres Gilbert had bought cloth and buttons for Caesar, one
of the family's servants. Peres was the second son of Col.Thomas Gilbert,
whose staunch Loyalist sympathies had gotten him and his family and seven
servants kicked out of Massachusetts in 1775.
Published by the Queens County Historical Society in 1981. First Edition.
Out of Print.
Hard to find book.
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Chapter Headings Those Days Are Gone Away
- Queens County - New Brunswick
1643-1901 by Marion Gilchrist Reicker
1) Early History
Indians of Queens County
Coal Mining
First European Settlement
Sieur de Soulanges
2) The Pre-Loyalist Period
Re-settlement of Queens County by New Englanders
St John River Society
Beamsley Glasier
3) The Loyalists
Arrival of Loyalists
Settlements at Washademoak
Co James Peters
Col Thomas Gilbert
Major John Coffin
Settlers in Maquapit Lake Area
Canaan River - Jemseg
4) Queens County 174-1812
5, 6, 7, 8) Immigration and Settlements
9) Transportation 1815-1867
10) Social and Economic Development 1815-1867
11) Colony to Nation 1840 - 1867
12) The MacDonald Diary 1857-1859, 1860-1862, 1862-1868 (Fascinating Reading)
15) Riverboats
16) Militia
17) Medicine in Queens County
18) Education
19) Postal Service
20) Churches
21) Sailing Ships and Woodboats
22) Conclusion
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Marion Gilchrist Reicker's
"Those Days Are Gone Away"
Ruby M. Cusack
When Cliff and I arrived home from school, we were
certainly surprised to find Ora had brought a truckload of four-foot slab
wood from his mill in Bloomfield and dumped it by the woodshed. Dad would
buck-saw it up during the days he couldn’t garden and it would be burnt in
the kitchen stove during the summer.
We took one look at that pile of slabs and set right to work to build a
fort. Mum let us tear up a flour bag to make a flag on which we printed with
a red wax crayon - ‘Fort Rubcliff’. Dad gave
us an old door and hinges to make the gate.
By dark, when Gramp drove into the yard, it sure was looking good to us.
He sauntered down to take a look at our project and asked, “Did you choose
this spot for your palisaded enclosure as it has a good view of up and down
the brook?”
Before we had a chance to answer he went on to tell us, “ Sir Thomas Temple
built the first English Trading Post on the Saint John River in 1659 at
the mouth of the Jemseg River but the Treaty of Breda in 1667 forced him
to surrender his land to Pierre de Joibert, who later became Sieur de Soulanges.”
I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about but if I had known Marion
Gilchrist Reicker, she could have told me the whole story as she did in
her book, “ Those Days Are Gone Away”.
In fact, De Joibert brought his young wife to the trading post at Jemseg
and on August 18, 1673, their daughter, Louise Elizabeth was born at Fort
Jemseg, the first white child to be born in Queens County, New Brunswick.
She was educated at the Convent of the Ursulines in Quebec City. At the
age of seventeen, she married the Marquis de Vaudreuil, governor-general
of Canada, who was thirty years her senior. They had twelve children.
In 1674, Fort Jemseg was captured by Jurreaen Aernouts, a captain of a
Dutch frigate, who was an associate of the pirate, John Rhoads of Boston.
They captured de Joibert and held him ransom in Boston until Count Frontenac,
the Governor of New France, paid a ransom of a thousand beaver skins. De
Joibert returned home and in 1676 was granted the seigniory at Jemseg and
was later made Governor of Acadia but death struck him down around 1678.
It is possible that the Mount House on Grimross Island may have been built
by him. His widow received another large tract of land that included most
of the present parish of Gagetown. However, the titles lapsed because of
non-fulfilment of the required conditions.
The four D’Amours brothers who had come to Acadia from Quebec received
a large seigniory in the St. John River area. Louis D’Amours was the first
farmer in Queens County. A census in 1695 showed he had 65 acres under cultivation,
with a house, barn, stable, 22 horned cattle, 50 hogs and 150 fowls. In
the previous year, he had harvested 80 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of
peas, 30 bushels of Indian corn and 18 bushels of oats. It was Louis
D’Amours who purchased John Gyles from the Indians at Medoctic where he
had been held captive for nearly six years.
In the fall of 1758 Brigadier Moncton was given orders to destroy all the
French settlements along the St. John River. Upper Gagetown was only
one of the places where homes were burned and cattle were killed. Most of
the Acadians, displaced from their homes, made their way to Quebec.
When the Loyalists arrived in 1783, Zebulon Estey, Thomas Hart, Benjamin
Bubar, Edward Coy, John Crabtree, Archelaus Hammond, John Kendrick and others
had already settled in Gagetown but some of them were turned away to make
room for the newcomers.
The next chapter in the book deals with the Loyalist Settlers, such as
Henry Belyea who was married to a first cousin of Paul Revere. Major John
Coffin secured Glazier Manor, an estate of some five thousand acres at the
mouth of the Nerepis. Lieutenant-Colonel James Peters was from Hampstead,
New York. Thomas and Eliphalet Olmstead came to Maquapit Lake.
Interesting chapters were included on Immigration and Settlements from
1812 to 1865, giving the name of the settlements with a list of the householders
in 1865-66.
The MacDonald Diary provides an insight into the daily life of the residents
in Queens County during the years 1857 to1868.
The author also included information on the river boats, militia, doctors,
education, postal service, taverns, churches, sailing ships and woodboats.
As the loomcrofters weave the threads into cloth so does Marion Gilchrist
Reicker weave the stories of the settling of Queens County into her 1981
two hundred page publication, “Those Days Are Gone Away - Queens County,
New Brunswick 1643-1902".
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A Time There
Was - Petersville and Other Abandoned Settlements
in Queens County, New Brunswick, 1815-1953 by Marion Gilchrist Reicker
was published in 1984 by the Queens County Historical Society. It outlines
the history and folklore of a number of Queens County communities that were
once viable but for one reason or another no longer exist.
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