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Payment is accepted by credit card online through PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/ (My account rmcusack@nbnet.nb.ca) or cheque, or Canadian or International money orderJARED TOZER AND HIS DESCENDANTS by W. D. Hamilton. Miramichi Books, Saint John, N.B., 1998. An enlarged edition (3rd) of a book that was out of print for more than 20 years. Pb, 100pp., with b&w illustrations. Jared Tozer (1764-1850) was a Connecticut native who fought as a Patriot in the Revolutionary War and later migrated north to the new province New Brunswick. The book contains biographical data on him and his wife Eunice Ives and the first three generations of their descendants - surnamed Tozer, Tozier, Adams, Allen, Bamford, Beecham, Burton, Cromwell, Decker, Dunphy, Emmerson, Fowler, Gibbons, Godfrey, Judd, Matthews, McAllister, Menzies, Murray, Mutch, Niles, Packard, Parker, Robinson, Ross, Silliker, Sinclair, Somers, Stevens, Strickland, Taylor, Travis, Walker, and Whitney.
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Jared Tozer was not a Loyalist but a Patriot who fought in the Connecticut line of troops under George Washington. He and his family lived in York, Sunbury, and Queens counties before settling on the Miramichi around 1812. By 1832, there were forty or more Tozers living on the Miramichi and the school at South Esk was overflowing with Tozer descendants.Eunice Ives, the wife of Jared Tozer and a number of her children played a key role in the founding of the First Miramichi Baptist Church in1819. Succeeding generations (bearing the Tozer, Somers, Silliker, Matthews, Mutch and other surnames) have continued to nurture and sustain the church and have been sending forth preachers and missionaries ever since 1826, when Jared and Eunice's son James Tozer was ordained to the Baptist ministry.
The family's military history has also been a long term significance to many of its members, as a source of symbolism and pride. In the tradition of their Revolutionary predecessor, a dozen or more grandsons and great-grandsons enlisted in the northern army in the U. S. Civil War in the 1860s, and young men of the next generation fought in the Spanish-American War in 1898. In all the great conflicts of the twentieth century, large numbers of descendants have served with honour under the flags of the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.