An Eye to the Future - A History of Pocologan, New River, Lepreau
and Little Lepreau by Ethel Anne Thompson.
A history of Four Traditional Fishing
Communities: Pocologan, New River, Seeleys Cove, Lepreau and Little
Lepreau, all neighbouring villages, on the South Shore of New Brunswick.
The front cover has a photo of Lepreau Harbour showing clam flats, old
#1 highway, Mink Brook and Barnaby Head in the distance. Boyne’s Cove on the
back cover. throughout the book. 96 pages.
In “
An Eye to the Future”, Ethel
Anne Thompson not only tells the history of Pocologan, New River, Lepreau
and Little Lepreau, but she gives us a glimpse of the early settlers and
their descendants, through text and the more than 50 photos that are included
in the publication.
To name a few of the more than 50 photos: Mr and Mrs William Boyne,
Three generations of the Rogers family, Students of Lepreau School in 1937,
Eula May Goodeill and Alva Ellis, Robert Shaw in 1901, Gideon Knight Hanson,
Ruth and Margaret Hanson, Eugene McLean and many other interesting pictures.
1992 publication.
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In Pocologan, in the 1800s, Enos Justason
opened a blacksmith shop which was much in demand. His expertise brought
customers as far away as Woodstock to have their horses shod.
Enos first married Lois Saye and they had eight children. After her death,
he married Laura Boyd and they had two sons.
Ethel Thompson’s 1992 publication, “
An Eye to the Future” gives accounts
of the families of the past and present as she details the history of Pocologan,
New River, Lepreau and Little Lepreau.
Margaret, wife of James Dawson was the first grantee of land in Pocologan
in 1809 and Moses Vernon was the first settler to build a sawmill on the
stream.
Ned Chittick, a coachman to a prominent family in England, fell in love
with the boss’s daughter and she with him. The father of the girl refused
to give his consent to the marriage so the young couple ran away and were
married. They immigrated to Canada and settled in New River where they built
a house on land above a beach which bears the name Chittick’s Beach.
Robert Varden Hanson, who was born in 1805, and members of his family
were the first settlers in Little Lepreau arriving in 1836. His father,
John Hanson, had come from England and settled in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Robert married Priscilla Knight, a sister of Gideon and Joshua Knight who
came with the Quakers to Beaver Harbour.
William Rothwell Lomax, his wife and their family arrived in Little Lepreau
on one of the returning Hanson boats from England.
William Faquharson, who with his wife and two sons immigrated to New Brunswick
from Scotland in 1923 and settled on a grant of land in Pocologan, brought
his gold-tipped bagpipes with him.
In 1864, William Boyne was granted a tract of land in the Parish of Lepreau.
In “
An Eye to the Future”,
Ethel Anne Thompson not only tells the history of Pocologan, New River, Lepreau
and Little Lepreau, but she gives us a glimpse of the early settlers and
their descendants, through text and the many photos that are included in
the publication
Interesting details at
http://www.rubycusack.com/issue417.html
SEE
http://www.rubycusack.com/Book-Tides-of-Discipline.html
for other books by
Ethel Anne Thompson.
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