DICKSON

^V^ SCOTCH-IRISH
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C O N N E C T I C U T 1719 NOVA SCOTIA 1761
CALIFORNIA 1865

DESCENDANTS OF

CHARLES AND AMELIA BISHOP DICKSON

OF ONSLOW, NOVA SCOTIA

DICKSON
Archibald Campbell Davison Foss
Henderson McKay Mackenzie
Purves Patterson Roach

1953
257852
Arms used by Robert Dickson, created Baronet in 1694.
DICKSON de SORNBEGG et d' INVERESK ECOSSE
ARMS: Silver shield, three stars of red. Chief of red, three gold bezants. (From New York
Library)
CREST: Scotch. A hart couchant, gardant, proper attired or., within two branches of laurel
in orie, vert. (FAIRBBAIRNS BOOK of CRESTS).
MOTTO: CUBO SED CURO (I lie down but keep on guard).

For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the procedure of obtaining permission to
use the family Coat-of-Arms, it is necessary to make application to the Royal College of A r m s ,
London, England, submitting proof of lineage presented by a genealogist to whom the applicant is
known. If consent is given, only male descendants in the direct line from the ancestor to whom the
Arms were granted can use the crest and motto. (In the olden days only the fighting men used
these emblems for identification.) A woman to whom the right is granted uses only the shield in
a lozenge.

A small oil painting of the Coat-of-Arms provides an attractive

addition to your living room, and shows the family to which you belong.
Olivia Dickson, 1783-1872 See C h a r t 9
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pages
Letter to relatives from Emily McKay Dewey 3-5
Dedication 7
"How to live forever" by Gen. Lucius D. Clay 6
Origin of "Dickson" name, Scotland 8-9
Early Dickson dates 10
Dicksons in Connecticut, 1719 12
Index of family charts 25-27
Items of interest opposite family charts
Ballad "Puritan Planters" by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton 22-24
Dicksons in Nova Scotia, 1761, and how our ancestors lived nearly 200 years ago . . . . 27-50
T r u r o and Onslow Townships 51-53
Historic map of Nova Scotia End Leaf
Sketches
Major Thomas Dixson 169-172
The Dickson Twins - Mary and Olivia 67-70
David Henderson McKay 94-96
The way one family lived in the 1890's 98-104
The Purves family at the "Hermitage", No. Sydney, C. B 152-153
List of illustrations ,
Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson 130
Amelia Henderson Purves McKinlay 130
David Burnyeat Henderson 65
David Henderson McKay 92
Martha Dickson Archibald McKay 93
McKay family group 97
Emily McKay Beal Dewey 134
John and Sarah Amelia Roach 75
Melvil Dewey bronze plate in Lake Placid Club Chapel 136
Dickson Coat-of-Arms Front
In appreciation 173
Two blank pages for future vital statistics 175-176
Where to obtain additional copies of this book 177
 Lake Placid Club
Essex County, New York
1953

My dear Relatives:

A letter may explain how and why this Dickson Family Tree with bits of history came into being.
After Mother's death in 1930 I felt many of the younger generation should know something of the
family. They are widely scattered from Hawaii, California, many states in the United States,
Canada, Nova Scotia, and England.

I wrote to "my uncles, my cousins, and my aunts" in California and Hawaii and received encouraging
answers, all of which were filed away for 20 years until 1950, when I found myself with time to tackle
the work. But how to start was the question.

Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson's family Bible, sent to me by Mary Davison Kennedy of Wallace
N.S., yielded the names and birth dates of their ten children; also of William and Rebecca (Dickie)
Dickson's six children, all of whom were born in the original Onslow homestead, built by Charles
Dickson in 1772. My mother, Martha Archibald Dickson, was the youngest daughter of William, a
granddaughter of Robert. She m a r r i e d my father, David Henderson McKay, of Boston, Mass. He was
a grandson of Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson, a sister of Robert, so that on both sides of my
family we stem from the Dicksons. A double reason for me to pay loving tribute to my father and
mother, a most devoted couple and wonderful parents.

The family story, passed down thru the years, was that the Dicksons were Scotch-Irish Protestants
from North Ireland who settled in Connecticut. In the Ingersoll Genealogy a record was found of a
marriage of Major Charles Dickson of Colchester, Conn., to Miriam Ingersoll. Uncle Robert Dickson,
whose mother was a Miller, loaned me a copy of Uncle Tommy Miller's remarkable book, "The
Historical and Genealogical Record of the F i r s t Settlers of Colchester County, Nova Scotia". In it is a
chapter on Charles Dickson who settled in Onslow in 1772 when he married Amelia Bishop. But I
gleaned no news of the Connecticut settlers. On a chance I wrote a friend in Hartford, Conn., asking
about the Connecticut Historical Society, and mentioned the names Dickson, DeWolf, Dickie and Bishop.
My friend was a member of the Connecticut Historical Society, took my letter to Mr. Thompson P .
Harlow, Librarian, who wrote me at length about the various families, quoting Arthur Wentworth
Hamilton Eaton's "History of King's County". This was all Nova Scotia data, but I determined then to
get a copy if possible. It was out of print. I contacted different firms in all the big cities in the United
States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Fortunately Mr. M.P. Boone, Librarian of Acadia University had an
extra copy which he loaned me. Two y e a r s later the "Seven Book Hunters" of New York wrote me a
copy had turned up. Did' I want i t ? Yes!

Dr. Eaton wrote an excellent sketch of the Dickson family. Three brothers, Major Charles,
Lieutenant Thomas, and William were grantees in King's County in 1761. There was also a Charles
"Jr.", supposed to be Major C h a r l e s ' son, but Major Charles was not m a r r i e d till 1747. Young Charles
was born in 1746. Both the historians, Dr. Eaton and Nicholas Longworth, Q.C. who wrote a history of
Onslow, still thought he was Major C h a r l e s ' son. If Charles, "Jr." was my great-great-grandfather I
wanted to know about his parentage.

So back again to the Connecticut State Library where, after much correspondence, they turned up a
copy of old William Dixson's will, in which he named all his h e i r s . Charles, "Jr." was the son of
Robert Dixson, and Abigail H a r r i s , born in Middletown, Conn, in 1746, a nephew of Major Charles, who
was made his guardian, and called "Jr." as the younger of the two Charles.

At this point a professional genealogist was needed. Mr. H. Herbert Wood, a Fellow of the American
Genealogical Society was highly recommended. He gathered all the Connecticut vital records. The
various c h a r t s will give details.

So you may know of my many contacts with relatives over the y e a r s , starting in childhood when
Mother took us to Nova Scotia to visit, the names of relatives and friends became familiar. When I
was seven y e a r s old, we called one day at the old Dickson homestead in Onslow. Grandfather had sold
the place some y e a r s before. I was taken on a tour of inspection of this simple old farm house. For
seventy y e a r s I have c a r r i e d a scar on my hand where I squeezed it in the old iron pump!

When young girls, Plum and I spent several long, never-to-be-forgotten summer holidays with our
Purves cousins at North Sydney, Cape Breton, and visited in T r u r o and Halifax. In 1893 visited all the
California relatives, and again in 1936, including a trip to Hawaii. Saw Cousin Abby P u r v e s and Fif in
Camberley, England, in 1924. Made a motor trip to Nova Scotia in 1940 with three carloads of cousins
from Hawaii and California. Harry Foss wanted his children to know Nova Scotia. On that trip we
spent quite a time in the old Island Cemetery where some of our ancestors a r e buried.
 Our cousin, Lovat Dickson of London, England, sent me the early Scottish and Irish information.
The Connecticut vital statistics, on file at the Connecticut State Library, were taken from court,
church, land and cemetery r e c o r d s . I have studied maps, read histories, used old Family Bible
records, quoted from Thomas Miller and Eaton's histories, written over seven hundred letters
obtaining first hand vital statistics from various living descendants, and obtained early records from
Onslow and Truru Town books started in 1761.

Some of you will wonder why this or that ancestor or family connection has not been included. Some
I tried in vain to find, without success. Some few were not interested enough to cooperate. You will
find a few 1952 items, births and deaths, but I hoped to be able to have this printed in 1951. No doubt
you will find some e r r o r s .

Most heartily do I thank all of you who have cooperated to make this book possible.

Cordially yours

Emily McKay Dewey

 HOW TO LIVE FOREVER

by General Lucius D. Clay

Former U. S. Military Governor in Germany

"If a man leaves children behind

him, it is as if he did not die."
-Moroccan Proverb

No one ever achieves all his hopes and aspirations. No one is ever sure, in looking back, that he
has played his full part in making a better world. But as we live again in our children and our children's
children, we do not need to be afraid. For we can touch the future with our children's hands. We can
look to them to correct our failures, to achieve many of our hopes and aspirations which never came
true for us.
Today we live in a temporarily troubled world and our generation must continue to do its utmost to
r e s t o r e order and stability. But even if we do not succeed in full, we may still face the future with op-
timism and with certain knowledge that our children can bring into being many of the things which we
have just begun. Perhaps they may make it possible for their children to live in a world of peace and
understanding.
Much is being said of the present c r i s i s in world affairs and the need to do something about it. But
to play a part and do our duty, we do not need to be the principal actors. We have only to be good citi-
zens, good neighbors and—most of all—good parents.

Used by permission of General Lucius D. Clay,

and This Week Magazine
 Dedicated

to the memory of my parents

David Henderson and Martha Archibald Dickson McKay

with love and deep appreciation for all they

gave to their children of their practical wisdom.

They were Second Cousins

Both great-grandchildren of Charles Dickson

of Onslow, Nova Scotia.

Compiled by
Emily McKay Dewey
Lake Placid Club
Essex County
New York
1953
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Origin of the Scottish Dickson name

Analecta Scotica ii 56.

ChXIX

Account of the Dicksons of INVERESK

The Family of Dickson of Inveresk, is said to be originally descended from the Dicksons of
Buchrig, in the south. Repute to be an ancient family, and descended from Richard Keith, a son of the
family of Marishall, who left the north upon some occasion or other that is not known, and transplanted
himself to the south where he settled a family, and by his descendants were designed patronymically
Dick-sons from the foresaid Richard Keith, predecessor in the south, called Dick, the corruption of
Richard. The first known predecessor of this family, was John Dickson, merchant, Burgess of Glasgow,
in the time of King James the Sixth, who, by his diligence and industry, his trade and business of m e r -
chandise, acquired a competent estate, and purchased from Sir Mathew Steuart of Mints, the lands of
Busby, (Charta in publicis Archivis), from whence his successors took their title. By Janet Rankin,
his wife, he had Mr. David his son and heir, who being bred at the University of Glasgow, took the de-
gree in Arts; after that was a Professor of Philosophy in the same University. At length, applying
himself to the study of Theology, was licensed to be a preacher, and shortly after that, was ordained
to the ministry at Irvine, after the Presbyterian way. By his diligence in preaching, and in a faithful
discharge of the duties of his sacred function, he came quickly to have a great reputation for his
learning and piety; but being exceedingly averse to Episcopacy and the ceremonies, he was in the
year 1620, deprived by Bishop Law of Glasgow, and confined for some time at Turret in the north.
At length, by the interposition of his friends, particularly Alexander Earle of Eglintonn, and his r e -
ligious Countesse Dame Anna Eglintonn, (At the good Countesse of Eglintonn's death, a little before
it, there were a great sound of trumpets heard by Mr. David Dickson, then in the house; he thought at
first it had been some nobleman coming to the house, but none appearing, he concluded it a piece of
the ministry of angels.) he was restored to the exercise of his function among his beloved people at
Irvine, where he continued to exercise his pastoral office for about 20 years. When the troubles began
in the church, by introducing of the liturgy and canons, which were sent down by Archbishop Land, and
imposed, without any other ceremony or formality than the King's proclamation, Mr. Dickson did
strongly oppose these innovations, a s they were then called, and being (as he was indeed) a man of
good learning, was pitched upon, with two of his bretheren, Mr. Henderson and Mr. Cant, to dispute
the legality of the Covenant, a s they explained it in the 1638, with the learned Doctors of the University
of Aberdeen. How the three bretheren acquitted themselves in the dispute with the Doctors of Aber-
deen, may be seen in a printed account of it the same year. It was upon the occasion of this dispute
that Mr. David and his two colleagues were called in ridicule the Apostles of the Covenant. After the
ejection of Episcopacy, Mr. Dickson came to be a very leading man of the Presbyterian party--was
chosen moderator to the General Assembly anno 1640. The same year, to his own private reluctancy,
he was transported or translated from being pastor at Irvine, to be a Professor of Divinity in the
University of Glasgow, and was the first Divinity Professor who was distinct from the principal or
primarius Professor in that University. After he had sat in the chair here for some years, he was,
by an Act of the General Assembly, transplanted a second time to be the Divinity Professor in the
College of Edinburgh, that he might be near the prime managers of the times, to give them counsel
and advice, upon which, i t ' s well known, they very much relyed.

When the King came to Scotland in the 1651, Mr. Dickson was appointed one of his Majesty's chap-
lains, and always used the young King with civility and breeding, and not with that roughness that some
others in that capacity used him, which he deeply resented. He continued in his charge in the college
through the whole usurpation, I think, till after the King was restored, and thereby Episcopacy in the
Church, he was removed, and a Mr. Colvil made Professor in his room. He dyed in 1663. By
Christian, his wife, daughter of Archibald Robertson in Stonehall, sone to John Robertson of Earnoch,
and sister to Mr. James Robertson who was one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice, after the
restoration in the year 1661, he had issue, Mr. John Dickson of Bushbie, his eldest son, who married
Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Montgomery of Skermedy, and niece of the Marquise of Argyle, one
allyance Mr. David much affected, for he was very great with the Marquise, and a confident of his,
whose heiress was married to John Brisban of Freeland. His second son was Mr. Archibald Dickson
of Tourlands, whose descendants became at length to be Mr. David's heirs. He had also a third son,
Mr. Alexander Dickson, Hebrew Professor in the University of Edinburgh.

Mr. Archibald Dickson m a r r i e d one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Mr. Robert Barclay of
Montgommeryston, Provest of Irvine, a great and leading man in the times of the Covenant, by whom
he has Sir Robert, his son and heir, and Doctor David Dickson, Physician at Edinburgh, a person of
excellent learning, and very great eminency in his profession.

Sir Robert quit the title of Tourlands, and took the title of Sornbegg, a Barrony he acquired in the
shire of Ayr. But after settling in the east country, he sold his estate in the west, and purchased,
near Edinburgh, not only the lands of C a r b e r r y and Inveresk from which last he took his title, but
also the Lordship of Carstorphine, which was afterwards sold.
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Dickson Tree - Early Dates

JOHN DICKSON m. JANET RANKIN

I
David Dickson m. Christian Robertson

John A rchibald Alexander Robert

b . 1624 b. 1626 b . 1628 b. 1630 Irvine, Ayr
d. Ulster

Robert Dr. DJ
David David Robert Archibald John
Cr. Baronet Physician b. 1673 b.1675 b. 1677 b. 1679
1694 Edinburgh d. May 6, 1759
Robert and John emigrated America 1719
William
Sir Robert Sir David Margaret
Emigrated America 1719 with 4 children
Died without
Issue
Robert Charles Anne Isbell
m. May 7, 1740 m. 1747
Abigail H a r r i s Miriam Ingersoll
7 children 5 children
See Chart #2 See Chart #3
William m. (2) Rebeckah (?) 1720
New London, Conn.
7 children
See Chart #1
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We are very much indebted to our cousin Lovat Dickson of London, England, for the following informa-
tion of the early Scottish Dicksons. Rev. David Dickson had the (church) "Living" at Irvine, Ayrshire,
Scotland. He was a professor of philosophy at Glasgow and later at Edinburgh (see Diet. Historical
Biography). He was very active in the Covenantors struggle in the 17th century. He had several sons,
two of whom, Alexander and Robert, emigrated to Northern Ireland between 1680 and 1700. One son
who remained behind was Archibald, whose son Robert was made a baron in 1694. This Sir Robert
had two sons, Robert and David. The second Sir Robert succeeded his father in 1719 and was suc-
ceeded by his brother David in 1760, Sir Robert the second's only son having been drowned in India.
This Sir Robert and his brother, Sir David, were, therefore, first cousins of the William Dixson who
emigrated to Massachusetts and then to Connecticut, and who is our direct ancestor.

Lovat Dickson feels quite sure William Dixson was of the branch of the Scottish family from
Midlothian. Some of this family emigrated to Derrymore, Kings County (near Dublin), Ireland. Sir
Robert Dickson died in 1760 in Scotland. Sir David Dickson of Derrymore succeeded to the baronetcy.
The coat of a r m s and the shield a r e the same. Lovat and the Suthers (relatives) of Scotland both have
used these emblems for many y e a r s .

We a r e trying to establish the relationship between the Derrymore family and our Connecticut
William. There is one straw in the wind that may eventually help us. You will find a sketch of the
life of Major Thomas Dixson taken from writings of his great-grandson, Judge J. Bacon Dickson of
Fredericton, N.B. who started out by saying Thomas was "a Dublin boy"! A natural mistake for the
youngest son of William when he knew some of his brothers and s i s t e r s were born near Dublin. The
Connecticut vital records give Thomas' birth as 1733 in Colchester, Conn.

Two Dickson brothers emigrated to Ireland, before 1700, from Scotland.

Two Dickson brothers, one with a son and grandchildren, emigrated to Connecticut, U.S.A., 1719,
from Ireland.

Three Dickson brothers emigrated to Nova Scotia, 1761, from Connecticut.

Five Dickson brothers and one sister emigrated to California, 1865, from Nova Scotia.
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DICKSON FAMILY IN CONNECTICUT 1719

F r o m the Harvey Book, "Harvey, Nesbitt, Dixon and Jameson'' by Oscar Jewell Harvey, Wilkesbarre,
Pa. 1899, Privately printed, 210 copies. (Out of print, almost impossible to obtain).
There a r e 132 pages devoted to the Dixons and only such records have been copied, which purport to
be our line - apparently the compiler offers little or no proof for many of his statements concerning the
e a r l i e r generations. There are so many Roberts, Johns and Williams that there is plenty of opportunity
for confusion.
On Page 391. Robert Dickson or Dixson 3 (David2, John1) was born in Irvine, Ayreshire, (Scotland)
about 1630, the son of the Rev. David and Margaret (Robertson) Dickson and died in the province of
Ulster, Ireland before 1700. They had 4. David, b. about 1673
5. Robert, b. about 1675
5. Archibald, b. about 1677
7. John, b. about 1679
d. 6 May 1759
(It would look as though there were three children born before David but no record is given.)
Early in 1719, in company with a number of friends and neighbors, the brothers, Robert, Archibald
and John, named above emigrated with their families from the north of Ireland, and a few weeks later
landed at Boston, Mass.
Page 393. Robert Dickson 4 (Robert 3 ,"David 2 , John1) born in the north of Ireland about 1675. He
emigrated to America in 1719 as previously noted. The same or next year he settled with his family in
the northwestern section of New London County (Conn.). Here he remained until 1739 or early in 1740
when he removed to Voluntown, Windham (now New London) County. 29 April 1740 having purchased of
John Davis for £225 seventy a c r e s of land at Punghumgwenuck (now Pendleton Hill) in the northeastern
corner of North Stonington, New London County, adjoining Voluntown on the south, he removed thither.
Page 406. William Dixson 5 (Robert 4 , Robert 3 , David 2 , and John 1 ) born in the north of Ireland about
1698, he came to America with his father and brothers in 1719 as noted on Page 391.

As William brought 4 children to America in 1719 we feel that the date of his birth should be nearer
1688 than 1698. There is no definite proof that his father was Robert but as he named his oldest son
Robert there is a strong probability of it. No mention of any Charles in the Harvey Book but in William
Dixson's will he names his son Charles and his grandson Charles. We do not know what became of his
first wife but it would seem unlikely that William would emigrate to America with four young children
and no mother to care for them. She may have died on the trip, for William married in 1729 Rebeckah
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CHART 1

WILLIAM DIXSON m. (2) 1720 Rebeckah

b. in North Ireland about 1688?
Came to America in 1719 with Four Children:
1. Robert, 2. Charles, 3. Anne, 4. Isbell
Children by second marriage
1. Grace b. Mar. 12, 1721 New London, Conn. Baptism of these three children recorded in
2. John b. Nov. 12, 1722 First Congregational Church
3. William b. May 12, 1724
4. Rebecca b. Jan. 12, 1726 Colchester, Conn. The entire list of all children born in America are
5. Margaret b. Aug. 18, 1727 entered as a group in the Colchester Vital Records,
d. Nov. 18,1728 after the birth of Thomas in 1733.
6. Timothy b. May 5, 1730
7. Thomas b. May 3, 1733
William Dixson d. 1755. His will made Feb. 26, 1755, Probated Dec. 2, 1755, names his wife, Rebeckah, heirs
of his deceased son Roberd (William, Elizabeth, Abigail, Rebeckah, Charles, Robert and Edward), sons, Charles,
John, William, Thomas and daughters, Anne C a r r , Isbell Coop, Grace Lockert and Rebecca Anderson.
Court of Probate, 7 Oct. 1755 At said Court y e last will and testament of William Dixson, late of Colchester,
Dec'd, was exhibited in Court w c was duly proved, fully approved and ordered to be recorded. Thomas Dixson
mentioned in sd will as E x r with Charles Dixson, personally appearing refused y e trust reposed in him and ye s d
Charles being in His Majesty's Service at a great distance Letters of Adm n Com Testamento Annexo were granted
to John Dixson on s" Deck's estate, bond given on file.

This year, 1755, was when the New England troops, 2000 strong, went on an expedition to Nova Scotia under Gen.
Moncton to capture Fort Beausejour, the last French stronghold. These soldiers were only signed up for one year.
The Nova Scotia Government felt when the troops returned to New England they did not have adequate protection
from the Acadian French and Micmac Indians. The Acadians refused to take the full Oath of Allegiance so they were
exiled. Sent in ships to the other colonies. A tragic expulsion.
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MIDDLETOWN, CONN., LAND RECORDS

V. 9, p. 385 On 13 July 1740 Elizabeth Warner of Middletown, widow of Jonathan Warner, late of
Middletown, dec'd, for the good will and affection that I do bear unto Abigail Dickson, wife of
Robert Dickson, now resident in s& Middletown - a piece of land, being the home lot that did belong to
my sd husband on east side of Connecticut river at or near a place called Wongunk - 8 a. together with
a dwelling house and barn.
Wit. Ebenezer Gibs
Wm. Rockwell (Registrar)

V. 28, p. 29 Jonathan Warner of Middletown, in his will, dated 22 May 1733 leaves to "Abigail Harris
now dwelling in my house, after my wife's decease, one-half of my household goods." (Manwaring's
Hartford District Probate, v. 3, p. 123) (This is very interesting for the wife of Jonathan Warner was
Elizabeth Ranney. Elizabeth's sister Abigail was the first wife of Walter H a r r i s , J r . However, Abigail
died soon after her marriage to Walter H a r r i s , but Walter named his first daughter by his third wife
after his first wife. This was frequently done in those days. Hence Abigail, wife of Robert Dixson, was
not really the niece of Jonathan and Elizabeth Warner.)

LEBANON, CONN., LAND RECORDS

V. 7, p. 52 On 27 Nov. 1746 Eben r Buck of Hebron for £600 to my honoured father-in-law Mr Walter
H a r r i s e of Lebanon all my right, title, and interest in about 55 a c r e s , which I have this day bought of
the s " Harrise with a house and barn - The above named Ebenezer Buck shall from the date hereof take
into his special care the above named Walter Harrise and Deborah Harrise his wife and take the special
care of them to maintain and comfortably provide for them both in sickness and in health from the date
hereof so long as they and each and either of them shall be continued in this life both with house-room,
fire-wood, meat, drink, apparel, washing, and lodging fitting and suitable for their old age and all other
things as they or either of them shall from time to time stand in need of.
Wit. W m Clark
John Hall
(Walter Harrise and Deborah Harrise were the father and mother of Abigail Harris Dickson)
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CHART 2
ROBERT DIXSON m. May 7, 1740 Abigail Harris
b. in North Ireland b. Dec. 11, 1721
Son of William Dixson of Colchester, Conn. Daughter of Walter H a r r i s , J r . and his third wife,
d. 1754 at Middletown, Conn. Deborah Booth of Middletown, Conn.
Children - All born at Middletown
1. Elizabeth Dixson b. Feb. 25,1741 m. Stephen Ranney
2. Abigail Dixson b. Aug. 30, 1742 m. Sept. 9, 1761 Timothy Cone of East Haddam, Conn.
3. William Dixson b. Oct. 11, 1744
4. Charles Dixson b. Oct. 21, 1746 m. 1772 Amelia Bishop of Horton, N. S.
5. Robert Dixson b. Dec. 12, 1748
6. Edward Dixson b. Apr. 12, 1751
7. Rebecca Dixson b. Sept. 7, 1753 m. Dec. 22, 1773 Samuel Wright
Middletown Probate
v. 1, p. 29. Court of 4 Nov. 1754 Mr. Charles Dixon of East Haddam appointed Administrator of the estate of
Robert Dixon of Middletown, dec'd.
v. 1, p. 146. Inventory of estate of Robert Dixon taken 29 Apr. 1755 by Jeremiah Goodrich and David Sage.
Total £2963 sh. 14.
v. 2, p. 15b. 3 Mar. 1760 Cha s Dixon of East Haddam appointed guardian to Cha s , Edw^, & Rob* Dixon minor
children of Rob* Dixon of Middletown.
3 Mar. 1760 Abigail Dixon of Middletown appointed guardian to Rebecka Dixon, a minor daughter
of Robert Dixon, dec'd.
3 Mar. 1760 William Stewart of East Haddam appointed guardian to William and Abigail, minor
children of Robert Dixon, dec'd.
v. 2, p. 132b. On 5 Oct. 1767 William Dixon of Middletown was elected and accepted as guardian of Edward Dixon
of Middletown, a minor.
Abigail Harris Dixson, widow, m. (2) Dec. 24, 1772 Timothy Burnham, widower, of East Hartford, Conn.
The date of Abigail's death has not been found altho every source of information has been examined. It is
possible that she lived to the year 1807. Although Timothy Burnham died in 1786 his Estate was not settled until
1807. Abigail had the use of one-third of the real estate during her life, so that may well account for the delay in
settling the estate. No grave stone for Abigail has survived in Connecticut.
No connection was found with the seven Harris families who were grantees in Horton, 1761.
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Hartford District Probate file. Abstract of the will of Timothy Burnahm of East Hartford, dated 25
Mar. 1785, recorded 9 Jan. 1807.
Imprimis. I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Abigail one third P a r t of my moveable Estate & the
improvement of one third part of my real estate during her Life if she should outlive me & in Case she
should die before me my will is that her wearing apparel & household goods that she bro't with her
should go to her own Daughters, viz: to her youngest daughter Rebeca Wright to make her portion
equal to what her s i s t e r s had when they married - her gold beads her Taffeta & chinz Gowns & all the
household goods my wife bro't with her except what hereafter is given to her other 2.
1st to her daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Stephen Ranna (Ranney) one Puter Platter & one half of the
remainder of the wearing apparel my wife should have at her death besides what is given to Rebecca
aforesd and also
2 l v to her daughter Abigail Cone one puter Platter & the other half of her wearing apparel as willed
to her s i s t e r Elizabeth.
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Page 570, Eaton - THE BISHOP FAMILY.

Eleasar Bishop or Bischoppe is said to have come to New London, Conn, from either the Island of
Guernsey, or of Jersey, in 1692. He m a r r i e d in New London June 22, 1704, Sarah, daughter of Richard
Dart, and had several children. Among them was a son John, b. in New London in 1709. d. at Green-
wich, Horton, and was buried at Wolfville Oct. 28, 1785. He m a r r i e d at New London May 20, 1731,
Rebecca Whipple who died Oct. 17, 1751. Later he married M r s . Hannah (Allen) Cumstock b. 1712,
dau. of Samuel and Lydia (Hastings) Allen, and widow of Gideon Cumstock. In June 1760, John Bishop
came with his four sons, John, Jr., William, P e t e r , and Timothy, to Horton, "bringing with him p r o -
visions for a year, and enough stock to satisfy the demands of a good sized farm".

Col. John Bishop, Jr. (John*) b. 1729 New London. He was a land surveyor and it is said that a plan
of the Township was prepared by him. He was also a Justice of the Peace. He m. (1) July 16, 1751
Mary, widow of Ichabod Avery of Groton, Conn., daughter of James Forsythe of that place, and prob-
ably s i s t e r of Gilbert Forsyth, the Horton grantee. She died Mar. 22, 1808 in her 85th year.
Children:
1. Amelia b. Jan. 31, 1754 in New London, m. (1) 1772 to Charles Dickson of Horton
m. (2) Joseph McLean Apr. 24, 1799
2. Hannah b. July 20, 1756, New London m. June 4, 1774 to Henry, son of
Abel and Jean Burbridge
3. C h a r l e s b. Dec. 3, 1758, New London m.. (1) m. (2) Philander, dau. of Ebenezer and
Lydia (Fish) Fitch
4. John b. Mar. 31, 1764 in Horton m. probably a daughter of Daniel H a r r i s

John Bishop, Jr. father of Amelia, built a mahogany grandfather's clock which he gave to Amelia
when she m a r r i e d Charles Dickson in 1772. The works a r e solid b r a s s and came from England. On
the upper face of the clock appears the inscription "John Bishop, Horton, Nova Scotia". It automatically
r e c o r d s the day of the month. Mother bought the old clock from a relative in Nova Scotia about 1902
and gave it to me. Said she remembered the clock had always stood in the hall at her old home.
Another old piece of furniture l have is a bandy legged, duck foot, low boy, usually used a s a dressing
table, which Mother said was always used in the kitchen at Onslow. It is stained mahogany but the
wood is really maple. Probably came from England and made in a period before mahogany was used.

My sister has an old mahogany chest m i r r o r that belonged to Lady Archibald of T r u r o .

Emily McKay Dewey

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CHART 3
MAJOR CHARLES DICKSON m. April 29, 1747 Miriam Ingersoll
b. in Ireland - Came to America in 1719, as a boy b. Nov. 4, 1723
Son of William Dixson of Colchester, Conn. Daughter of
A Grantee 1761 Horton Township, King's Co., N.S. Thomas and Sarah (Dewey) Ingersoll
d. About 1779 - No grave found of Westfield, Mass.
Children
1. Eunice Dickson b. Aug. 30, 1747 at Westfield, Mass. m.(l) Roderick Morrison
(2) John Chipman
Dickson family moved to East Haddam 1749 See Chart #4
2. Olive Dickson baptized Feb. 12, 1748/49 at F i r s t Congregational Church,
East Haddam, Conn.
3. Lavinia Dickson baptized Oct. 1751 " " " " " "
4. Daniel Dickson baptized Apr. 26, 1752 " " " " "
5. Charles Ingersoll Dickson d. Feb. 28, 1759, Aged 3 years
Grave in Cove Cemetery, East Haddam, Conn.
Olive m a r r i e d John Avery of Horton
Lavinia m a r r i e d Thomas Brown and had a son, Thomas Ingersoll Brown, b. May 11, 1779, so
stated in the Aylesford Town Book
Daniel married Elizabeth Mason and had a son, Daniel Dickson, Jr., b. Mar. 28, 1783 at Horton
From the "Nova Scotia Royal Gazette" of Sept. 27, 1803, Died: At Jamaica—Mrs. Elizabeth
Mason Dickson, consort of Capt. Daniel Dickson, and eldest daughter of the late Mr. Jacob
Hurd, of His Majesty's Naval Yard.
Major Charles was commissioned Lieut. Colonel of Nova Scotia Militia June 1, 1762, thereafter
called Colonel. He represented the Town of Horton in the Nova Scotia Legislature from 1770-1776.
Miriam (Ingersoll) Dickson (age 62) m. (2) May 28, 1785 Major Samuel Starr (3rd wife),
Founder of older branch of the Cornwallis Starr family.
Of William Dickson, the third brother, who was a grantee in Horton Township, we have learned
practically nothing. He was in Horton as late as 1784 when he signed papers. We are told he
eventually settled in or near Halifax. Whether he was one of the Dicksons of Dickson Mills
(now B a r r i e ' s Mill) in the County of Pictou, we do not know.
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F r o m Eaton's "History of King's County, Nova Scotia"

Page 547 - AVERY FAMILIES

The chief Avery family of Horton was founded by Captain Samuel Avery, who had lived in Connecticut
on Gardiner's Island; in early life he came to Halifax, N. S. and was a merchant t h e r e . He married in
Halifax Sept. 17, 1784 Mrs. Mary Roach (Fillis) widow of John Ankincloss whose father, John Fillis,
formerly of Boston, was an early settler in Halifax, and later owned property in Horton.
Of an entirely different Avery family were the Avery's of Groton, Conn., Robert and John, the former
being a grantee. It is assumed that John was Robert's son and the John Avery who married Olive
Dickson, daughter of Major Charles Dickson.

Page 586 - BROWN FAMILIES

Among the Horton grantees were Darius and Elisha Brown, and a little later Jacob Brown. They
probably all came from Connecticut of a family that started in New England with Nicholas Brown of
Lynn, and was continued thru his son, Thomas b. at Lynn in 1628, m. Mary Newhall, and had a son,
Thomas, J r . who removed to Stonington, Conn, and died there. The descendants of Thomas, J r . were
long settled in New London, Conn. Darius Brown, probably the Horton grantee had a grant in Aylesford
1774. In the Aylesford Town Book it says that a Thomas Ingersoll Brown, son of Thomas and Levinia
Brown was b. in King's County May 11, 1779. Lavinia Brown was Major Charles Dickson's daughter,
b. in East Haddam, Conn.
Later and from another source, the old Onslow Record Book, I find that Thomas Ingersoll Brown
m a r r i e d July 9, 1801 Rachel Pearson and had fifteen children - Thomas Pearson, Charles, Lavinia,
Martha, Eunice Eliza, Rebecca, Daniel Dickson, James Pearson, Sarah, Harriot, John Albro, Jane,
Abigail, Phar'beau (?), Jared Ingersoll.
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From East Haddam Land Records

V. 3, p. 162. On 26 Apr. 1749 Joseph Bate of East Haddam for £1600 old tenor to CHARLES DIXSON
of Colchester lately, now of this town - a tract of land together with a mansion house - it lyeth upon
Connecticut River near the warehousen commonly called Brainard's warehousen - mention of Abigail
Arnold's and Timothy Northoms's land.
Wit.: Stephen Hosmer J u n r (JP)
Ann Hosmer
East Haddam is a town just south of Colchester.
While Major Charles was a soldier it would seem from the large number of land records both in
Colchester and East Haddam that he was in the real estate business. We have diligently searched but
find no record of any Dickson's being shipbuilders in Connecticut. All a r e named as yeomen, gentlemen
or Esquire.

257852
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PURITAN PLANTERS
A Ballad
By Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton

The rocky slopes for emerald had changed their garb of gray,
When the vessels from Connecticut came sailing up the Bay,
Light flashed from every crested wave that drew the strangers on,
And sparkling sapphire swathed the brows of welcoming Blomidon.
Five years in desolation the Acadian land had lain,
Five golden harvest moons had wooed the fallow fields in vain,
Five times the winter snows had slept and summer sunsets smiled
On lonely clumps of willows and fruit t r e e s growing wild.
There was silence in the forest and along the Minas shore
And not a habitation from Canard to Beausejour,
But many a blackened rafter and many a broken wall
Told the story of Acadia's prosperity and fall;
And even in Nature's gladness, in the matchless month of June,
When every day she swept her harp and found the strings in tune,
The land seemed calling wildly for its owners far away,
The exiles scattered on the coast from Maine to Charleston Bay,
Where with heart-ache and with hunger for their lost homes and their dead
They sat in widowed silence and would not be comforted,
And like their Jewish brothers, long ago beyond the sea,
Refused to sing the songs of home in their captivity.
But the simple Norman peasant-folk shall till the land no more,
For the vessels from Connecticut have anchored by the shore,
And many patient Puritan, his mind with Scripture stored,
Rejoices he has found at last his "garden of the Lord."
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There a r e families from Norwich, from Killingworth and Lyme,

Gentle mothers, tender maidens, and strong men in their prime,
There a r e lovers who have plighted sweet vows in Coventry,
And tender, trusting children, born in Newport by the sea.
They come as came the Hebrews into their "promised land,"
Not as to rugged Plymouth shores came first the Pilgrim band;
The Minas fields were fruitful, and the Gaspereau had borne
To seaward many a vessel freighted deep with golden corn.
They come with conquering vision, but with words direct and cold,
To found a race of noblemen, fine-fibred sturdy, bold, -
A race of earnest people, who in mellower times shall reach
The heights of wider knowledge, and the plains of gentler speech.
i

They come as Puritans, but who shall say their hearts a r e blind
To the subtle charms of Nature, and the love of Humankind?
The rigorous New England creeds have shaped their thought, 'tis true
But human creeds can ne'er completely heaven's mould undo.
And t e a r s fall fast from many an eye, long time unused to weep,
For in the fields they see the bones, all bleached, of cows and sheep, -
The faithful cows that used to feed upon the fair Grand P r e ' ,
And with their tinkling bells come slowly home at close of day;
And where the Acadian village stood, its roofs o'ergrown with moss,
And the simple wooden chapel, with its altar and its c r o s s ,
And where the forge of Basil sent its sparks toward the sky,
They see the purple thistle and the pink fireweed grown high.
* * * * * * *
The broken dykes have been rebuilt a century and more,
The cornfields stretch their furrows from Canard to Beausejour,
Five generations have been reared beside the broad Grand P r e ,
Since the vessels from Connecticut came sailing up the Bay;
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And now across the meadows, while the farmers reap and sow,
The engine shrieks its discords to the hills of Gaspereau,
And ever onward to the sea the r e s t l e s s Fundy tide
Bears playful pleasure yachts and busy trade ships, side by side;
And the Puritan has yielded to the softening touch of time,
Like him who still content remained in Killingworth and Lyme,
And graceful homes of prosperous men adorn the landscape r a r e ,
And mellow creeds and ways of life a r e rooted everywhere;
And churches nestle lovingly on many a glad hillside,
And holy bells ring out their music in the eventide;--
But here and there on unfilled ground apart from glebe or town,
A lone surviving apple tree stands blossomless and brown.
And many a traveller has seen in summer as he strayed
Some long-forgotten cellar, digged on dyke or pasture glade;
And in such decrepit symbols, as in groups of willows green,
Has found the Acadian tragedy, and fair Evangeline.
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Index of Family Charts

Each of these Charts give children and grandchildren with
authentic dates and information so far as could be ascertained.
Married Page
Chart 1 Dixson, William and Rebeccah 1720 Conn L. Vital Records 13
M
2 |« Robert and Abigail Harris 1740 ii II
15
II n ii
3 Dickson, Major Charles and Miriam Ingersoll 1747 19
M
4 Eunice and John Chipman 1769 Nova Scotia 55
ii II n
5 Charles and Amelia Bishop 1772 ii
58
6 n John and Lydia Hamilton (1) 1796 n 59
II II ii
6 Robert and Lydia Hamilton (2) 1844 59
II II II
7 Charles II and Rachel Archibald 1799 60
n II
7 William and Rebecca Pearson 1801 II
60
II II II
8 Robert and Lavinia DeWolf 1798 61
II
Olivia and Col. David Archibald n n
9 II
1801 64
9 Olivia and John Henderson 1819 n n 64
M n n
10 Mary and Dr. John Murray Upham 1803 66
II II n
11 Elizabeth and Hon. S. G. W. Archibald 1802 73
M II ii
12 ii
Sarah Amelia and John Roach 1824 II ti
74
13 H
Joseph McLean and Lavinia Blair 1835 77
II n
14 William and Rebecca Dickey 1841 it
79
it n
15 William and Elizabeth Miller 1865 83
M II it
15 William and Elizabeth Baxter 1878 83
it II n
16 Robert Benjamin and Catherine Muirhead 1832 84
II II II
17 Lavinia and James Bain Davison 1841 ti
85
II n
18 II
Charles Clarence and Jessie Dickson 1865 87
19 ti
Norman Leslie and Ida Cutten 1886 California
it
88
19 Robert O.B. and Margaret Gibson 1899 88
n ii
20 William Ernest and Nellie Holloway 1904 ii
89
II
20 William Ernest and Edith Montgomery 1922 89
ti II
21 ti
Lavinia and James Calvin Foss 1875 90
22 ii
Martha Archibald and David Henderson McKay :ay 1869 Mass .achusetts 91
23 Walter Franks and Mary Mott 1895 California 105
II II
24 it
Caroline Irene and John Edward Dowd 1900 106
25 George Leslie and Ethel Grace Porter 1906 Nova Scotia 107
II II
26 Davison,
ii
Arthur and Mary A. Huestis 1873 II II
108
27 Clarence Osborn and Florence Ripley 1897 109
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Married Page
Chart 28 Davison, Emma Gertrude and William Holmes 1905 Nova Scotia 110
29 F o s s , John Harrison and Irene Crook 1909 Calif, and Hawaii 112
30 " Martha Archibald and David Fleming 1908 Hawaii 114
31 Clara Clifford and James Coons 1904 California 118
32 James Calvin, Jr. and Emma Heaney 1908 Hawaii and Calif. 120
11 Archibald, Hon. S.G.W. and Elizabeth Dickson 1802 Nova Scotia 73
it
33 Samuel George and Maria Henderson, Scotland
nd 1839 II
121
ii it
34 Hon. Thomas Dickson and Susan Corbett 1839 122
it it
35 William Henry and Eleanor G. Hughes 1876 123
36 " George Hughes and Jane Kester 1907 Canada 124
37 " Dr. David W. and Marguerite White 1913 Nova Scotia 126
H it
9 Henderson,John and Olivia Dickson Archibald 1819 64
38 " Maria and John P . McKay 1845 New Brunswick 129
39 " Amelia and James Purves 1844 Nova Scotia 131
39 Loggie, Brigadier Gerald Purves and May Niles 1921 Manitoba 131
38 McKay, John P . and Maria Henderson 1845 New Brunswick 129
22 " David Henderson and Martha Dickson 1869 Boston, Mass. 91
ti
40 " Olivia and George Little 1879 II
132
40 Ernest Archibald and Annie Tarbell 1877 II n
132
it
41 Clarence Leslie and Harriet Bedell 1893 II
133
n ii
42 " Emily Foss and Frederick Wilder Beal 1900 135
42 " Emily Foss and Melvil Dewey 1924 Lake Placid Club 135
43 " Alice Dickson and Henry Hooker Bubier 1902 Boston, Mass. 137
it n •
43 Alice Dickson and Frank A. Daly 1917 137
44 Gladys Bedell and George McD. Kenney 1922 Providence, R.I. 138
45 Ruth Leslie and Howard Field, Jr. 1923 California 139
46 Mackenzie, Hon. Alexander and Elizabeth Archibald 1826 Nova Scotia 140
ti n
46A " Helena and Lacey L. Harris 1913 141
n it
47 " Archibald and Sara Helen Eaton 1873 142
n
48 Florence Archibald and Wm. M. Sedgwick 1902 II
143
n ti
48 " Charles Everett and Kathleen McGroarty 1914 143
49 " Harold F . Percival and Edna Colter 1919 Vancouver, B. C. 144
50 Sophia Stewart and Rev. Wm. Sedgewick 1907 Canada 145
51 " Wm. Royal and Mary Ethel Stuart 1906 Nova Scotia 146
51 " Thomas George and Ethel Maud Pearson 1908 New York 146
52 P u r v e s , James George Harrison and Elizabeth Mackayy 1895 Cape Breton 148
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Married Page
Chart 53 Purves,
ti
Thomas Dickson Archibald and Caroline Blair 1916 Nova Scotia 149
54 Josephine (Fiff) andN.M.C. Stevens 1903 England 150
55 n Stanislaus Remak and Alice Sleep
ti
1911 Cape Breton 151
55 Reginald and Elizabeth McClellen 1911 Vancouver, B.C. 151
56 Patters o , Wm. Albert and Elizabeth Campbell 1869 Nova Scotia 154
56 II
Frank H a r r i s and Ina Macnee 1925 tt it
154
58 tt Wm. Albert and Mildred Warnock 1913 Minnesota 155
59 ti
Henry Stuart and Margaret Chase 1911 Alberta 155
57 Roach, Thomas and Ruth Dixon 1793 Nova Scotia 158
12 it
John and Sarah Amelia Dickson 1824 it ii
74
60 ti
Dr. Elisha DeWolf and Mary MacKeen it it
159
60 n Dr. Elisha DeWolf and Maude Charman 1897 ii it
159
60 ti
Dr. Robert Dickson Roach and Katherine McMillan 1928 New Brunswick 159
61 it
John E. and Mary Dunlap Nova Scotia 160
62 ti
Thomas and Susan Lynds Bishop 1868
M it
161
63 ti
Dr. Edwin Bishop and Marguerite Russell 1903 British Columbia 162
64 II Dr. John Tremaine and Alice Strong 1911 Nova Scotia 163
65 Campbel Hon. Alexander and Mary Archibald 1825 it n
164
66 n Elizabeth and Archibald Patterson it it
165
67 ti Olivia and Howard P r i m r o s e 1855 it it
166
68 Dickson, Henry and Lillias F r a s e r Black 1862 Australia 167
69 it Gordon F r a s e r and Johanna Mary Cunningham 1898 Canada 168
69 ti Gordon F r a s e r and Maude Ford 1922 Canada 168
69 it Horatio Henry Lovat and Marguerite Brodie 1934 London, England 168
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Dickson's in Nova Scotia From 1761

The name was spelled all three ways - Dickson, Dixson and Dixon
A brief story of how our ancestors probably lived in Nova Scotia nearly 200 years ago.

So many questions have come to my mind in this r e s e a r c h , why did our ancestors move to Nova Scotia
(New Scotland). How did they live nearly 200 years ago. What were their home lives. Where did they
go to school. What were their social and church lives. I do wish more intimate stories of the families
were available. Because I feel the lack of such information I have decided on reminiscences. Opposite
each family chart I have given such information as I have available. It may be of interest 50 or 100
years from now, should anyone tackle the genealogy of the Dickson Family.
Very few of our younger generation, now scattered over the globe, will ever see the remarkable book,
"History of King's County, Nova Scotia (The heart of Acadian Land)" by Dr. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton
Eaton, published 1910 by Salem P r e s s Co., Boston, (now out of print) that I am going to quote from it
free'y. King's County was where our first Dickson's settled. Three generations selected their brides
from the Bishop, DeWolf and Dickey families whose descendants still continue to live there.

Eaton, PREFACE:
"As the most prosperous part of the whole Acadian country in French t i m e s , and as the scene of
conspicuous events at that tragical period of the Acadian expulsion, King's County, Nova Scotia, will
always have a wider interest for the world than is possible with most r u r a l localities. That part of the
county which borders the Basin of Minas is the scene of the early part of Longfellow's Evangeline, and
all through the two original townships of Horton and Cornwallis, which compose the eastern part of the
county, were scattered the clustered hamlets and individual homes of those thrifty French people who in
1755 were forcibly taken from their fertile farms and rich dyke-lands into suffering exile in unfriendly
colonies, and placed as wretched paupers among people who had no sympathy with their traditions or
habits of mind, who were unfamiliar with their faces, and who profoundly hated their speech. When the
Acadians had been deported the red tide-floods of the Bay of Fundy bore to Minas Basin's shores a new
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population, representing families that had long been conspicuous for energy and worth in various parts
of New England, and with these began a fresh civilization in King's County, that continued and conserved
much that had been best from the beginning in New England's own life. From such favoured towns as
New London, Norwich, Saybrook, Colchester, Lebanon, and Lyme, and from similarly interesting places
in Rhode Island, these King's County successors of the Acadians were largely drawn, and it is with them
and their institutions and their deeds that the volume here introduced will be found chiefly to deal.
That the descendants of these New England planters in the favourable conditions in which they found
themselves in the fruitful Acadian country in not a few cases have carved out for themselves brilliant
c a r e e r s will not seem strange when one remembers the fine qualities of the stock from which most of
them sprang. In King's County the first New England owners of the land with untiring industry replanted
the long tilled but now vacant upland soil, rebuilt and enlarged the great marsh spaces reclaimed from
the sea by their p r e d e c e s s o r s , set out new orchards sowed flourishing fields of flax and corn, built
churches, established schools, and by their intelligence and piety laid the foundations for a college,
where, in one of the loveliest regions in eastern America, for seventy years now, sound learning has
been constantly fostered and solid principles have been taught. At the close of the Revolutionary War
between thirty and thirty-five thousand Loyalists, from New England, New York, New Jersey, and colo-
nies farther south, poured into Nova Scotia, and in King's County a certain number of these refugees
also established their homes. To these later important settlers a certain amount of attention has
naturally been given in this book."

Page 16, Eaton: The Micmac Indians were the first inhabitants
The Micmacs were larger framed and had flatter features than the Malaseets (both Algonquins), but
the habits and characteristics of the two tribes did not greatly differ. Both subsisted chiefly by hunting
and fishing, but both had some rude agriculture, and both, as far back as the early part of the seven-
teenth century had cultivated corn, squash, and tobacco. From Marc Lescarbot in the beginning, and
Nicholas Denys in the latter part, of the seventeenth century, and from Diereville, in 1700, we learn
much regarding the Micmacs at that early time. To be a good hunter was the supreme ambition of
every young man in the tribe, for on his skill in hunting his standing with his people largely depended.
In ancient times the country was full of moose, caribou, and wild fowl, and these furnished the Indians
liberally with food. Beavers, martins, otters, lynxes, and other small animals were also most abundant,
and from them were got the valuable furs that formed the chief article of commerce between the
Micmacs and the French.
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Before the conversion of the Micmac tribe by French Roman Catholic missionaries, the Nova Scotia
Indians are said to have worshipped the sun as their creator, believing also in a demon called Mendon,
whom they frequently tried to propitiate with sacrifices and prayers. They made offerings, likewise,
to departed spirits, and looked forward for themselves to death to happy hunting grounds, where fatigue
and. hunger would be unknown, and where game would be abundant and easily got. The marriage cere-
mony among them, wherever any existed, was simple, and was connected, as among all peoples, barba-
rous and civilized, with feasts and merry-making. Funeral ceremonies, however, were conducted with
great demonstrations of grief, with loud wailings, and smearing of the face with soot. Dead bodies were
dried or embalmed and then buried, pipes, knives, axes, bows and arrows, snow-shoes, moccasins, and
skins being put with them in the grave. The people were keenly alive to the supernatural, and their
mythology and legends, which Charles G. Leland finds strikingly like those of the Scandinavians, show
that almost all natural objects were invested by them with mind and soul. They were superstitious to
the last degree, putting implicit faith in the incantation of jugglers, and the charms of medicine men.
They had much less warlike propensities than their neighbors the Maliseets, but they regarded valor in
war as the noblest characteristic they could be possessed of and on occasion would fight bravely and
well. They were generous, hospitable, chaste, and in common intercourse had a code of etiquette, which
they strictly observed.
In all parts of the Nova Scotian peninsula the tribe had favorite camping places; in winter, when the
snows were deep they tramped from place to place through the woods on snow-shoes, in single file, men
and women alike having heavy loads strapped on their shoulders and dragging behind them long, narrow
sledges or sleds. On these sleds were piled skins, rude axes and kettles, dried moosemeat, and rolls of
birch-bark for covering their wigwams when they should again encamp.

Page 46, Historic Nova Scotia PEACE WITH THE INDIANS

On January 9, 1760, five Indian chiefs appeared before the council, asking for peace. They repre-
sented the Micmacs of the mainland. In February others came, from the Saint John area. One tribe
after another followed. The final scene was a grand powwow in the governor's garden in 1761, when
the principal chiefs solemnly buried the hatchet and washed the war paint from their bodies. They
then partook of a feast set out for them on the grounds and the ceremony ended by all drinking the king's
health with hearty cheers. Thus was the long story of savage warfare, murders, scalpings and burnings
in Nova Scotia brought to a close.
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Page 20, Eaton

When the French explorers came to Acadia the Micmacs seem to have welcomed them;at once, and
during the whole period of French occupancy of Acadia these children of the forest kept loyal to the first
European usurpers of the soil. The Micmacs also took kindly to the religion of the French, the baptism
of the aged Chief Membertou and his family at Port Royal, in 1610, being followed in a few years by the
conversion, chiefly under Recollect f r i a r s , of the whole tribe to Roman Catholicism. But towards the
English, during this period, the Micmacs showed little love. As the end of French rule in Acadia drew
near, under the influence of the wily priest LeLoutre and others of his spirit, they committed occasional
depredations on English residents in King's and other counties, and by the English garrison at Windsor,
as indeed by the planters and their families after the New England imigration, with good reason were
distrusted and feared.

Page 39, Eaton The Acadians to the Expulsion

The history of the settlement of the Acadian French in King's County covers a period of exactly
eighty-four y e a r s .

Page 50. Eaton

In the summer of 1755, an unqualified oath of allegiance, involving willingness to bear a r m s for
England, was again demanded of the Acadian people, but the Deputies from Grand P r e and the other
Minas settlements, and from Annapolis, the two bodies representing nine-tenths of the population within
the peninsula, appeared before the Council, and on behalf of themselves and the rest of the inhabitants
respectfully but firmly refused to take any other oath than that they had subscribed years before. During
the progress of the Government's final attempt to enact from them an unconditional oath, Governor
Lawrence wrote the Secretary of State: "I am determined to bring the inhabitants to compliance, or rid
the Province of such perfidious subjects." When the Deputies had finally left Halifax the Council at
once began to make plans for the people's removal. There were perhaps eight thousand, in all, in the
peninsula, and to c a r r y so many away was a somewhat formidable task. F r o m Governor Shirley at
Boston transports were obtained and the removal of the Minas people was given in charge to Lieut.-
Colonel John Winslow, who was already at Fort Beausejour; then Fort Cumberland. Armed with
Lawrence's proclamation for the removal, the 14th of August Winslow sailed down Chignecto Channel
to the Bay of Fundy, and when the tide set into Minas Basin held his course to the mouth of the Avon.
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Where Windsor now stands was a stockade, known as Fort Edward, and there with a small garrison
Captain Alexander Murray held command. The two officers quickly conferred, and by the end of the
mouth, at Windsor and Grand Pre", had fully matured their plans. On the fifth of September four hundred
and eighteen men, representing the chief settlements of Minas, in obedience to Winslow's summons a s -
sembled in the Grand Pre'Church. "The preemptory orders of His Majesty," said the New England
officer, addressing them, "are, that all the French inhabitants of these districts be removed; and through
his Majesty's goodness I am directed to allow you the liberty of carrying with you your money and as
many of your household goods as you can take without overloading the vessels you go in. I shall do
everything in my power that all these goods be secured to you and that you be not molested in carrying
them away, and also that whole families shall go in the same vessel; so that this removal, which I am
sensible must give you a great deal of trouble, may be made as easy as his Majesty's service will admit;
and I hope that in whatever part of the world your lot may fall, you may be faithful subjects, and a peace -
able and happy people. I must also inform you that it is his Majesty's pleasure that you remain in s e -
curity under the inspection and direction of the troops that I have the honour to command." The men
were then declared prisoners of the King.

Page 55. Eaton

The great interest in Nova Scotia that the proclamation of 1758 offering the French lands to New
England s e t t l e r s , aroused in eastern Connecticut, was no doubt largely owing to the knowledge the
Connecticut people had of Nova Scotia through the tragedy of the expulsion of the "neutrals," as the
exiles were commonly called.

Page 58, Eaton The Coming of New England Planters to Cornwallis and Horton
The removal of the Acadians from the province, as we have seen, was accomplished in 1755, and be-
fore the end of December of that year, what is now King's County was almost entirely without inhabit-
ants. In 1753 the old fort, Vieux Logis, at Minas, erected in the first year of Cornwallis' government,
had been abandoned, and its garrison sent to Fort Edward at Piziquid, (now Windsor) which had suffi-
cient accomodations for both g a r r i s o n s . After the French generally were removed, a small force for
protection was still retained at Fort Edward, and the Acadians of the vicinity who had escaped depor-
tation and could be found, were kept there as prisoners. How many of these there were it is impossible
to say, but from the official returns it appears that the average number from June 13, 1763, to March 18,
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1764 was 343. In the former year, however, there were nearly 400 there. After the expulsion, there-
fore, save for the garrison at Piziquid, the few French these soldiers guarded, and the little companies
of Micmacs in the solitary woods, in what a r e now the counties of Hants and King's there could not have
been a single human inhabitant.
Page 60. Eaton
The next step was to have the proclamation made known, and accordingly, on the 12th of October,
1758, the Council caused it to be published in the Boston Gazette. As soon as the proclamation appeared,
the agent in Boston was plied with questions as to what t e r m s of encouragement would be offered set-
t l e r s , how much land each person would receive, what quit-rent and taxes were to be exacted, what con-
stitution of government prevailed in the province, and what freedom in religion new settlers would have.
The result of these questions was that at a meeting of the Council, held Thursday, January eleventh,
1759, a second proclamation was approved in which the Governor states that he is empowered to make
grants of the best land in the province. That a hundred a c r e s of wild woodland would be given each head
of a family, and fifty acres additional for each person in his family, young or old, male or female, black
or white, subject to a quit-rent of one shilling per fifty a c r e s , the rent to begin, however, not until ten
years after the issuing of the grant. The grantees must cultivate or inclose one third of the land in ten
years, one third more in twenty y e a r s , and the remainder in thirty y e a r s . No quantity above a thousand
a c r e s , however, would be granted to any one person. On fulfilment of the t e r m s of a first grant the
party receiving it should be entitled to another on similar conditions.
The lands on the Bay of Fundy were to be distributed "with proportions of interval plow land, mowing
land, and pasture," which lands for more than a hundred years had produced abundant crops of wheat,
rye, barley, oats, hemp, and flax, without ever needing to be manured. The government of Nova Scotia
was constituted like that of the neighboring colonies, the legislature consisting of a Governor, a Council
and an Assembly. As soon as the people were settled, townships of a hundred thousand acres each, or
about twelve miles square, would be formed, and each township would be entitled to send two representa-
tives to the Assembly. The courts of justice were constituted like those of Massachusetts, Connecticut,
and other northern colonies; and as to religion, both of his Majesty's instructions and by a late act of
the Assembly, full liberty of conscience was secured to persons of all persuasions, Papists excepted.
Settlers were to be amply protected in their new homes, for forts garrisoned with royal troops had a l -
ready been established in close proximity to the lands proposed to be settled.
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It is a little singular that the interest which these proclamations aroused in New England, and the
important migration which accordingly soon followed, should have left so little trace in printed record
of the colonies from which the settlers went. Miss Caulkins' history of New London, however, says:
"The clearing of Nova Scotia of the French opened the way for the introduction of English colonists.
Between this period (1760) and the Revolution the tide of imigration set thitherward from New England,
and particularly from Connecticut. Minas, Amherst, Dublin, and other towns in the province, received
a large proportion of their first planters from New London county." The same author's history of
Norwich says of 1760: "Nova Scotia was then opened to imigrants, and speculation was busy with its
lands. F a r m s and townships were thrown into the market, and adventurers were eager to take posses-
sion of the vacated seats of the exiled Acadians. The provincial government caused these lands to be
distributed into towns and sections, and lots were offered to actual settlers on easy t e r m s . The in-
habitants of the eastern part of Connecticut and several citizens of Norwich, in particular, entered
largely into these purchases, as they did also into the purchase made at the same period, of land on the
Delaware River. The proprietors held their meetings at the town-house, in Norwich, and many persons
of even small means were induced to become subscribers, in the expectation of bettering their fortunes.
The townships of Dublin, Horton, Falmouth, Cornwallis, and Amherst were settled inpart by Connecticut
emigrants. Sloops were sent from Norwich and New London with provisions and passengers. One of
these in a single trip conveyed 137 settlers from New London county."

Page 69. Eaton

"Of the planters themselves who came to Cornwallis and Horton, by far the larger number were
members of representative families in the eastern counties of Connecticut. A few were from Massachu-
setts and Rhode Island, but the original homes of most were those beautiful old towns comprised within
the boundaries of the four Connecticut counties, New London and Windham, Middlesex and Tolland, -
the towns of New London, Lebanon, Colchester, Lyme, Norwich, Killingworth, Hebron, Saybrook,
Stonington, Tolland, Windham, and Windsor, the last, however, lying a little farther west in the county
of Hartford. If any one will take the trouble to examine the admirable histories of New London and
Norwich, from both of which we have already quoted in this chapter, or the now rapidly increasing
later town and family histories of eastern Connecticut, he will see how important the families were
from whom a r e descended the people who have inhabited and still largely inhabit the county whose annals
this volume is written to p r e s e r v e . "
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NEW ENGLAND PLANTERS

No such migration of cultivated, well-to-do people has ever taken place before or since. The Nova
Scotia Government supplied the ships to transport all these emigrants, their families, servants and
slaves, their livestock, farming implements, material for building houses and barns, furniture, house-
hold goods and seed for future crops. Some took food supplies for a year or more.
The towns of Horton and Cornwallis separated only by the Grand Habitant River were systematically
surveyed, lot layers appointed. The lots were all numbered and drawn for individually, according to the
grants issued, of woodland, plow land, dyked marsh land and town lot. There were reserved 600 acres
for glebe (church) land, 400 a c r e s for school land, parade grounds, mill sites (they developed grist
mills, carding mills and saw mills), and burial grounds.
On May 29, 1761 the first effective grant of 65,750 a c r e s was given for Horton. Dr. Eaton lists all
the grantees. Among them were three Dickson brothers.
Major Charles Dickson 1 1/2 shares 750 acres In 1770 Major Charles Dickson was
Lieut. Thomas Dickson 1 share 500 acres granted 3000 a c r e s in the Township
William Dickson 1 share 500 acres of Aylesford probably for his effort
and expense in raising troops for the
In 1763 Charles Dickson J r . 1/2 share 250 acres 1755 Expedition.
(really Major Charles' nephew)
1764 Daniel Dickson 1/2 share 250 acres
(Major Charles' son)
Total shares for Horton 131 1/2
The population of Horton Township in 1763 was 154 families, Cornwallis 128 families. By 1767 the
two townships combined had 1361 population. In this year all of King's County is said to have had only
9 Negroes, 3 Indians, 4 Acadian French.
In Horton a town was laid out fronting on what is now Horton Landing, including a Parade ground.
The plan which may be seen in the Crown Land Office in Halifax shows the town to have been of r e c -
tangular form, divided by s t r e e t s at right angles, making squares of ten a c r e s each with the three
Parade grounds equi-distance from each other. Nearly every lot measured two hundred and fifty feet,
and had the intention of its projectors been carried out, says one writer, a very pretty town would have
arisen there.
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One section of Horton did develop and is now Wolfville, although for about seventy years it was
known as "Mud Creek." Two granddaughters of Judge Elisha DeWolf were instrumental in having
their Uncle, who was postmaster, petition for the change of name. No town by the name of Horton
exists today.
The first work to be accomplished was to build homes for their families. They probably lived in
tents until some shelter could be provided. The men helped each other construct their homes. They
planted crops of corn, flax and roots, and gathered hay from marsh and upland for winter feed for their
stock.

Page 427. Eaton THE COUNTY'S MILITIA

In accordance with an Act of the First Assembly in 1758, a universal militia was in that year estab-
lished in the province. This Act, which was not changed or amended till the Revolutionary War began,
provided that "all male persons, planters, and inhabitants and their servants, between the ages of six-
teen and sixty, residing in and belonging to this province shall bear arms and duly attend all musters
and military exercises."
Major Charles Dickson was commissioned Lieut. Colonel of Militia June 1, 1762 and thereafter
called Colonel.

Page 199, Eaton FOOD

From the earliest settlement of the county, fishing has been carried on in Minas Basin and the rivers
and along the Bay Shore. By the New England planters, seines were early stretched a c r o s s the Habitant
river for catching shad. In the Gaspereau River at certain seasons alewives or gaspereaux, and salmon,
have always been plentiful. At Pereau, herring have been abundant. On the road flats at S t a r r ' s Point
and at the mouth of the Canard, weirs are annually placed for shad and other fish.

Page 218-219, Eaton

The tables of King's County people have always been bountifully supplied. As a rule, says Dr. Hill,
writing of Halifax in the 18th century, food was plentiful and good, and this has always been true of
King's County as well. Dr. Hill's account of the supply for Halifax tables in the 18th century, is interest-
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ing. He says "Corned-beef, pork, and salted codfish, far more frequently formed the dishes of all
classes than fresh meat. For delicacies and variety, anxious housekeepers were driven to ingenious
devices in cooking. The same species of meat was dressed in many ways. Poultry early came into
fashion, and for game a porcupine was considered the right thing. For vegetables each man was de-
pendent either on the produce of his own garden, or if he lived in the middle of the town, where gardens
could not be, he might purchase from the public gardener. When after a few years these public gardens
were abandoned, the want of vegetables was very seriously felt, and it was then viewed not only as an
enterprise on the part of the proprietor, but as highly conducive to the public welfare, when on Satur-
days he sent one wheelbarrow filled with greens and vegetables from a well-kept garden near F r e s h -
water Bridge. All the ungardened gentlemen kept watch for the passage of this valuably laden train,
and followed it down to the market that they might get their share. The butchers' meat was carried
round to the customer in the ordinary tray by boys, or on small carts drawn by dogs; as was also the
bread baked at the two chief bakeries." As to drink, "wines and strong liquors" were always plentiful
and "a craving for stimulants early became the crying evil of the town."
In King's County, fruits and vegetables of the finest kinds have always been plentifully raised, in the
Basin and the rivers the best fish has abounded, beef, mutton, and poultry have been of excellent quality,
and bread and pastry have usually been baked at home. Consequently, the limitations felt by Halifax
housekeepers can hardly be said to have been felt here. In all the early years of the New England oc-
cupation of the county, and indeed until comparatively recent times, a good deal of rum and cidar were
drunk, and from the records of the Court of Sessions we learn that the results were often of a most dis-
astrous kind. Yet it can hardly be said that drunkenness has ever been a conspicuous King's County
vice. Of Windsor township, shortly after Hants County was set off from King's, Dr. Henry Youle Hind,
in his "Old P a r i s h Burying Ground," says: "In the four years included between 1788 and 1792, great
efforts at reform were made in Windsor township," as indeed in Hants County at large. "The Old P a r i s h
Church was built, the Academy opened, the College was founded and inaugurated, a Temperence Society
was organized, a Reading Society was established, men were fined for being intoxicated in the s t r e e t s ,
citizens were arrested and fined for uttering one profane oath, public whipping for misdemeanors were
practised, the pillory was in full operation, sinners were mulcted for not going to church, constables
were appointed to inspect public houses on the Sabbath Day, women of light character were hustled out
of the village by officers of the law, and petitions from the Bench and the Grand Jury were in order to
stop trade with the United States. Yet, in the midst of all these efforts at goodness, rum stove hard,
and often succeeded in holding the reins of power." At this period, as later, King's County undoubtedly
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had its share of moral defects, yet gross immorality can nowhere be said to have been, in any remotest
corner of it, a glaring thing.

Page 214, Eaton CLOTHING

In 1761, and long after, both for men and women, cloaks of some kind were popular in the county. The
cloak is always a comfortable article of d r e s s , for it wraps the form well, and is easy to be thrown on
or off. In New England, scarlet cloaks for women were worn for several successive generations, and it
is impossible that the first planters' wives should not have brought some of these with them to the prov-
ince when they came. The capucin or hooded cloak, the cardinal, the pellerine, all these may have found
their way from Connecticut here. Whether muffs were used in the county as early as 1761 we do not
know, but they must have become common soon after, for Mrs. Earle says that "from 1790 till 1820great
muffs never went out of fashion for women," or to a certain extent for men. It is likely that because of
the cold climate of Nova Scotia, furs were early universally worn in King's County, and that soon after
the planters came they began to slaughter the little fur-bearing animals to secure these articles of
dress.

Page 215, Eaton

"In general men, old and young, who had got their growth, had a decent coat, vest and small clothes,
and some kind of a fur hat. These were for holiday use and would last half a lifetime. Old men had a
great coat and a pair of boots. The boots generally lasted for life. For common use they had a long
jacket, or what was called a fly coat, reaching down about half way to the knee. They had a striped
jacket to wear under a pair of small clothes like the coat. These were made of flannel cloth. They had
flannel shirts and stockings and thick leather shoes. A silk handkerchief for holidays would last ten
years. In summer they had a pair of wide t r o u s e r s reaching half way from the knee to the ankle. As
for boys, as soon as they were taken out of petticoats they were put into small clothes, summer and
winter. This lasted till they put on long t r o u s e r s , which they called "tongs. " They were but little dif-
ferent from the pantaloons of today. These were made of linen or cotton, and soon were used by old
men and young, through the warm season. Later, they were made of flannel cloth, and were in general
use for the winter. Young men never thought of great-coats ; and overcoats were then unknown."
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Page 216, Eaton The Rector of St. Paul's Church, Halifax, Rev. Geo. W. Hill writes as follows:
"The fashion of the times was to wear the hair powdered, with a queue. This was a long and tedious
process. As the h a i r d r e s s e r s were few they were compelled, in order to get through their task previous
to the hour appointed for a festivity, to begin it early in the morning. He was an unfortunate man, whose
turn came first, for he was obliged to set the whole day in idleness, or move with slow and measured
step, lest he should disarrange the handiwork; sleep he dare not, for one unlucky nod would spoil it all,
and so he was forced patiently to wait until the time came, and then with cautious wary step, proceed
slowly to his host's. On such occasions the full d r e s s consisted of knee-breeches, silk stockings, shoes
and silver buckles, white neckerchief of amazing thickness, straight-collared coats, ornamented with
large buttons, a coloured waistcoat, and hanging at the side a sword or rapier. This last addition to the
costume, which was more like a long dagger than a sword, was looked upon as the distinguishing badge
of one who was entitled to be considered as an esquire or gentlemen. And this species of court d r e s s
was frequently called into use. The custom of constantly calling together the leading men for consul-
tation on topics of importance to the colony, resolved itself, as time passed, into the holding of levees.
In the course of some years these official gatherings were held no less than nine times, and on all
these occasions the streets leading to Government House, were filled with the gentlemen of the powdered-
hair, the silk stockings, the silver-hilted sword."

Page 217, Eaton

How many of the King's County gentlemen of the 18th and early 19th centuries on state occasions
wore frilled s h i r t s , knee breeches, wigs, or powdered-hair, cocked hats, and swords, it is impossible to
say, but some of them, like Col. William Charles Moore, and most probably Col. Burbidge, Benjamin
Belcher, Handley Chipman, John Wells, the DeWolfs and others did.

WOMEN'S CLOTHING

Dr. Eaton has told us of the various red capes women wore and of the muffs used by both men and
women. Our well-to-do ancestors when leaving Connecticut probably brought with them a good supply of
clothes. At that period silks, taffetas, and brocades, satin, valvets and chintz, fine linens and lawn, lace
and ribbons were imported from P a r i s and London. For many years dolls were dressed in the latest
fashions and sent over as models for the new styles as they were created.
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Party clothes were made of beautiful material and for evening wear they wore pointed toe, high heel
low shoes with buckles, and silk stockings. A loose-bodied sack was popular and the polonaise was
fashionable during the years previous to the Revolution. The full skirt in the back was sometimes looped
up with ribbons. By 1794 the French mode came into fashion of the high waisted dress of unpretentious
white muslin or calico with puffed sleeves, long or short, low necks and straight cut s k i r t s . With this
d r e s s no hoops were worn. Scarfs and berthas were popular.
Women and even little girls were heavily corseted, wore a chemise and pantalets, with round or
pannier hoop s h i r t s . In nearly all cases the bodice was plain, sometimes buttoned down the back, cut
square or rounded at the neck, with a fancy chemise showing above and around the opening. Elbow
sleeves finished with ruffles or pleated material or lace. Skirts were full, pleated in at the waist under
the bodice, and long to the ankles sometimes open down the front and worn over a quilted underskirt.
All women and girls wore caps even in the house, many like hoods, tied under their chins, or the
mob-cap, made very full with a draw string, which formed a ruffle around the face. For very cold
weather warm quilted hoods were worn. For every day wear their d r e s s e s were the plain homespun
and woven wool, linsey-woolsey (part linen) or linen. Skirts were shorter and they probably wore red
flannel petticoats for warmth in winter, stockings hand-knit, with heavy low shoes or moccasins and
all kinds of aprons.
Riding habits for women were coming into fashion. These were made with long full skirts and a
mannish coat with large lapels and buttons and hats of all shapes and sizes. When riding horseback
they would wear a cloak and pull over their skirts a garment called a 'safe guard' usually made of
heavy linen or linsey-woolsey which protected their garments from being splashed with mud and dust.
The hair was dressed close to the head and off the face, occasionally dressed over a roll in pompa-
dore with long loose curls falling over the shoulders. Probably the very fashionable dames in
Halifax wore the tremendous built up powdered wigs, but when they did their heads had to be shaved.
No wonder they wore caps in the house! For many years all married women wore caps of fine lawn and
lace and ribbon. No matter how young the bride she had to don a cap to show her marital status.

Page 207, Eaton HOUSES AND FURNITURE

The frames of some of the first houses were brought from Connecticut and Maine, the standards of
architecture were those commonly held in rural communities of New England. The Connecticut type
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was of one story, a story and a half, or two stories high and as having an "overhang" or projection over
the lower story. On the ground floor they usually had but two rooms and a narrow entry, with some-
times a small lean-to. P l a s t e r was freely used on ceilings and walls, and the great brick chimney, with
its cavernous fireplace was found. "As late as 1885-90 some few of the old first planters houses were
still standing. One of these was a gamble-roofed house at Grand P r e ' i n 1885 occupied by Mr. H. C.
Gaughn; another home built by Jonathan Hamilton, at the date mentioned occupied by Col. Tuzo and be-
lieved to be the oldest house then standing in the eastern end of the County."
As a rule, the houses of the Cornwallis and Horton planters were placed a very short distance off
the main roads, with small flower gardens in front and vegetable gardens at the side.
Soon after the New England Planters came they opened small general stores in Cornwallis and
Horton Town Plots.
In Connecticut, in the middle of the 18th century, the great mass of furniture, even in rich men's
houses, was entirely of native manufacture, and was made of cedar, white wood, cherry, and black
walnut. Among these woods, cherry, especially, had favour for the construction of chests, tables,
chairs, and cases of drawers. The furniture the King's County planters brought with them from Con-
necticut must have been chiefly of these common woods. They had two, three, four and five slat, black-
painted rush-bottom chairs, oval tables, tables with drop leaves, high-post bedsteads, chests of drawers,
brass dog's head andirons, bellows, iron shovels and tongs, often with b r a s s tops; warming pans, foot-
stoves, b r a s s kettles, wool and flax spinning wheels, (hand looms for weaving linen and woolen cloth)
and possibly a few of not the most expensive grades of tall clocks. In Miss Esther Singleton's "The
Furniture of our Forefathers," the author says: "It is customary to think of old and 'Colonial' furniture
as consisting entirely of mahogany. This idea is erroneous. Mahogany furniture was virtually non-
existent in the South before 1720. People in moderate circumstances occasionally possessed a mahoga-
ny table, but their furniture was almost entirely of oak, pine, bay, cypress, cedar and walnut." In New
England mahogany did not much make its appearance before 1730, "When an occasional dressing box
begins to appear in the inventories." How many pieces of mahogany furniture were brought into King's
County from Connecticut, or were later imported from England, or purchased in Halifax, we cannot, of
course, tell, but it is doubtful if before 1830 or '40 there was very much. In Halifax and Windsor, how-
ever, where there was a good deal more wealth than in the villages of King's, it is likely that as soon as
mahogany became at all common in Boston it pretty freely appeared.
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Page 227, Eaton DOMESTIC LIFE

Concerning the domestic life of King's County people in the scattered homes of Cornwallis and
Horton in early times, Dr. John Burgess Calkin has pleasantly written: "In the time of our grandfathers
and later, almost everything people in the country places used was home-made. The farmer manufac-
tured his own implements, his c a r t s , sleds, harrows, plows, rakes, baskets. If the good-wife wanted
milk dishes her husband made trays from blocks of wood by scooping out the centre with an adze and a
crooked knife. If she needed brooms he made them from ash or birch saplings taken from the neighbor-
ing forest. The ash broom was the more durable, but it required more work in its manufacture. In
making the brush the wood had to be pounded to separate the different y e a r s ' growth. Within the house
the industries were equally varied. The home was a cheese-factory, a soap-factory, a candle-factory,
a cloth-factory. The wool was taken from the sheep's back, picked, carded, spun, dyed, woven, and
made into garments, all by the mother and daughters. In like manner was carried on the manufacture
of linen, from the raising of the flax, through the various processes of pulling, rotting, breaking,
swingling, hackling, spinning, weaving, bleaching, until there came out from the long and varied opera-
tions the snow white table clothes and towels. All this has passed away with the changing times. A
little treadle wheel, propelled by the busy foot, while the dextrous hand drew out the thread from the d i s -
taff, this same little wheel, that with its incessant hum kept time with the anxious thought of Miles
Standish, now stands forever silent, cleaned, stained, and polished - a parlour ornament. These home-
made things lacked that fineness of finish characteristic of the factory-made ones of the present day,
but besides serving their purpose for the generation that then was, the making of them gave an all
round development to boys and girls and helped fashion then into the strenuous men and women they be-
came. They abounded in expedients, they were never nonplussed by emergencies.

Page 220. Eaton

That the keeping of Sunday free from labour, however, was an absolute rule, will be understood from
the fact that in 1761 the provincial legislature enacted that no person or persons should "do or exercise
any labour, work, or business, on his or their ordinary callings, or other worldly labour, or suffer the
same to be done by his or their servant or servants, child or children, either by land or by water (works
of necessity and charity alone excepted), or use or suffer to be used, any sport, game, play or pastime,
on the Lord's Day, or any part thereof" under penalty of ten shillings for each offense.
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Page 240, Eaton ORGANIZED RELIGION

Organized religion in Nova Scotia began with the Roman Catholic missions established among the
French and Indians soon after the first European settlement in the Province was made.
The long continued work in Nova Scotia of the famous English Missionary society, called "The
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign P a r t s " (commonly known as the S.P.G.) began
with the founding of Halifax. When the New England planters came to King's County Dr. Breyton and
Mr. Wood were sharing the labors of the parish of St. P a u l ' s . Some time in 1762 as the S.P.G. reports
inform us, Mr. Wood visited "the interior parts of Nova Scotia, going twice to East and West Falmouth,
Cornwallis and Horton, at each of which places he was kindly received."

THE CONGREGATIONALIST CHURCH

The New England Planters of Cornwallis and Horton were, of course, with hardly an exception mem-
bers or adherents of the independent Congregationalist Churches of the various towns from which they
had come to Nova Scotia. The exact date of the founding of the "Congregationalist Church of Horton and
Cornwallis" it seems improbable now that we will ever know.
Before a church could be built services were probably held in private homes.
The first meeting house built by the Presbyterians was at Grand Pre^ founded by Mr. Murdock, a l -
most on the site of the present Methodist Church in the r e a r of which the graves of a good many of the
earliest settlers of Horton lie. To the Presbyterian Church of Horton belonged members of the families
Avery, Calkin, Curry, Davison, Denison, DeWolf, Dickson, F r a m e , Fuller, Godfrey, Martin, Peck, Reid,
Whitney and Woodworth. Most of these like the Cornwallis people became Presbyterians at a later date,
originally New England Congregationalists. This old Presbyterian church was taken down and a new one
built in 1804, which still stands but has long been disused. Of the few architectural relics of the County,
this meeting house is perhaps historically the most interesting. In it remains the original high backed
pews, and the old sounding board that for so many years echoed the voices of the first Scottish ministers
of the County.
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SCHOOLS

Page 334, Eaton THE PROGRESS OF EDUCATION

So far as we know no record remains of the schools which may have existed in the County in French
times, nor have we much more knowledge of the earliest schools established by the New England planters.
Of schools established by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel we have some record, but these
S.P.G. schools could have given instruction to comparatively few of the planters' children, and although
the demands of education were not great, with intelligent people like our ancestors they must have been
so insistent as to lead very soon to the establishment in many neighborhoods of small schools where the
rudiments of education were taught, by women or men. That no trace except in tradition is now to be
found of these first neighborhood schools is not strange.
In 1772-73 the first S.P.G. schoolmaster in King's County was Mr. Cornelius Fox at Cornwallis. Not
until June 8, 1782 was he granted a license to occupy and possess that lot of land called the School lot
containing 400 a c r e s so long as he shall continue to be employed by the S.P.G. The salary of these teach-
e r s from the Society was ten pounds a year!
Since the river separated Cornwallis from Horton, Mr. Fox, living as he did in Cornwallis (probably
at Fox Hill), could not possibly have taught any of the Horton children; the Horton people, therefore, must
early have established small schools of their own. But of these schools, or of any schools that may have
been established in Cornwallis, farther west or north than the Town Plot, we know absolutely nothing.
Much before the close of the 18th century we hear of the school-house near Hamilton's Corner, but when
it was built or who first taught in it we cannot now tell. There is unfortunately no department of the
County's history concerning which we know less than the earliest schools.

Page 343-344, Eaton (Quoting Dr. Calkin)

"It was seldom that the Trustees stood in any capacity between the people and the teacher. The con-
tract was made directly between the ' P r o p r i e t o r s ' of the school, as the parents were called, and the
teacher. The agreement, which was generally carried round from house to house by the teacher for the
signature of the parents, bound the teacher to conduct a 'Regular School.' Just what was meant by the
t e r m 'Regular,' however, one does not know. In addition, or perhaps in explanation, the teacher pledged
himself to give instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic—the three ' R ' s . ' Sometimes he added the
extra branches of g r a m m a r and geography. The patrons bound themselves to provide school-room, fuel,
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and board for the teacher. The further item of salary was variously designated. Sometimes it was a
certain number of pence per week for each scholar, sometimes so much per pupil for the whole term,
or again it was agreed to pay a fixed salary for the t e r m , each patron paying his share according to the
number of pupils he sent.
"For many years the teacher 'boarded round,' that is, lived from house to house, his sojourn varying
from three or four days to as many weeks, according to the number of pupils that the various homes
sent him. Whatever objections this system had, it had the advantage of bringing the teacher into close
contact with his pupils and their parents. School books in early times were not numerous or bulky. In-
deed it was not uncommon for a single book, and that a slender one, to include the whole course of a
child's study. Such a comprehensive volume was 'The New Guide to the English Tongue, by Thomas
Dilworth, Schoolmaster.' It began with the alphabet, then came the spelling of simple words, easy read-
ing lessons containing such moral precepts as 'Do not tell a lie,' and 'Let thy hand do no hurt,' and
after the spelling of longer words, of two, three, four or more syllables. Next came a treatise on English
grammar, Latin words and phrases in common use, abbreviations used in writing, arithmetical tables,
outlines of geography, advanced reading lessons in prose and v e r s e , a compendium of natural history,
illustrated select fables, (as that of the wagoner and Hercules), and finally a church catechism, beginning
with 'What is your n a m e ? ' , prayers for morning and evening in the home, private p r a y e r s , grace before
meat and grace after meat. All this for one shilling!"

Page 345, Eaton

"Perhaps the most unique feature of the old-time school was the spelling lesson. The last twenty
minutes of the day was devoted to the preparation of this lesson. The class, including all who could
read, sat on the high seats, facing inwards with full room between their feet and the floor for the free
play of their legs. All studied aloud and they did so with emphasis. As they pronounced each letter and
syllable and word, they swayed to an fro, keeping time in their bodily movements with the rhythm of the
voice: " 'Big a, little a, r o n, ron, Aaron,' 'H a b, hab, e r e r , haber, d a s h , dash, haberdash, e r er,
habardasher.' When time was up all took their places, standing in a low row, in order, from head to
foot. The first part of the exercise was the numbering, to see that each had his proper place, for there
was 'going up and down,' and every pupil was jealous of his place in the line. Then the spelling began."
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Page 250. "People"

"The early salary for Schoolmasters was on the shilling basis," Mr. Paysant tells us. "Teachers
were known to receive seven shillings and six pence sterling, per scholar per quarter, for imparting
knowledge with the additional attraction of board provided in the respective homes of their pupils in
well determined proportions of time limit. One contract with a teacher ran as follows. - 'We whose
names a r e annexed to this paper, agree to engage Thomas Jones to teach school for us, for the t e r m of
three months, and we agree to pay him eight shillings for each scholar sent to him by us, and we also
agree to board, each one in proportion to the scholars sent.
Signed:-
John Brown 1 scholar
Wm. Smith 1 1/2 scholar
David Crowe 3/4 scholar
James Walsh 1 3/4 scholar
Henry Walsh 2 scholars
John Archibald 2 1/4 scholars
and thus on through the community. It will be noted how ingenious people were in those days, in splitting
their scholars into halves and even into q u a r t e r s . " This was probably in accord to the proportion of the
three months each scholar was supposed to attend.

Page 220, Eaton AMUSEMENTS

With few books and almost no newspapers, how the long Sundays were spent in the various scattered
communities of King's County in these times one often wonders. In later days churches were multiplied
and it became almost as much the rule to attend service, even when the p r e a c h e r s ' doctrines were not
fully agreed with, as it was in communities where Anglicanism strongly prevailed. On week days and
evenings, however, the natural instinct for diversion was permitted to a s s e r t itself, and social gather-
ings on winter nights, and picnics in summer, besides what may be called "industrial frolics," were
very common. In Anglican and Presbyterian circles, dancing and cards were more or less freely
allowed, but before the middle of the 19th century, and indeed a good deal later, among Baptists and
Methodists induglence in simple amusements of this nature was regarded as sinful in the extreme. As
people's ideas grew broader, what was known a s the best society of the county indulged freely in danc-
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ing and cards, and at least after the middle of the 19th century, many gay and rather elegant enter-
tainments were given every winter, especially in and near the more important villages and towns.

Page 221, Eaton

At the time our ancestors left Connecticut, "Neighborly dancing" was one of the commonest amuse- *
ments in that colony. On the 12th of June, 1769, a great wedding took place at New London, at the house
of Squire Nathaniel Shaw. His son, Daniel Shaw, had just married Grace Coit, and ninety-two gentlemen
and ladies came to the dance. It is recorded that this merry assemblage danced "ninety-two jigs, fifty-
two contra dances, forty-five minuets and seventeen horn-pipes," and that they retired at forty-five
minutes past midnight. The music for these Connecticut dances was often furnished by a skilled fiddler;
though quite as often, we learn, part of the company sang for the others to dance. The suppers that fol-
lowed the dancing were of cake, nuts, apples, and cider. In winter, sleighing parties were common, and
on Election, Training and Thanksgiving days, shooting at targets, horse-racing, wrestling, running, and
jumping, were popular amusements. In King's County, also, these athletic sports must sometimes have
been indulged in, and from the love of good horses that has always prevailed, one can hardly believe that
horse racing did not at an extremely early date have a recognized, if somewhat qualified, place among
the county's diversions. Tradition has it, says Dr. Hind, that during^his administration as governor of
the province (1766-1773) Lord William Campbell had a race-course round Fort Edward hill at Windsor,
and this may easily have been the formal beginning of horse racing in the County of King's. In 1773, the
Nova Scotia Gazette advertises that a fair to be held at Windsor races are to be held, the competition in
which is to be limited to native bred h o r s e s . The prizes to be run for are to be one "plate" of twenty
pounds, and one of ten pounds.

Page 230, Eaton

Of people's amusements and holiday observances, Dr. Calkin says: "Our fathers were sons of toil,
but they were often able to get amusement out of their work. In many places, 'frolics' or 'bees' were
common, in which all the neighbors for miles around would assemble to help one another. There were
'piling frolics,' 'husking frolics,' 'raising frolics,' for all which it was essential to have some stimulat-
ing drink, mostly rum. When Christmas Eve came, the Christmas back-log, of larger size than the
back-log of other days, was rolled into position hard to the back of the fire place, the smaller sticks
being built up in front. Early on Christmas morning the children of the household were a s t i r . Break-
fast was soon over and preparations for cooking the dinner were begun. A long string was twisted from
the coarser fibres of home-grown flax. One end of this string was fastened to a large nail in the beam
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directly over the hearth. To the other end, which came down directly to the fire, was attached a turkey,
a goose, or perchance a young pig. The cooking process was thus carried on by the heat that was radi-
ated from the open fire. But that the cooking might go forward evenly, the roast must be kept ever on
the whirl to bring all sides in turn before the fire. The impetus for this circular movement was given
by hand, so that constant attention was needed. But to keep the string from being untwisted and falling
to pieces, with constant disaster to the roast, the whirling had to be now in one direction, then in
another."

Page 231, Eaton

"On winter evenings," proceeds Dr. Calkin, "the family were accustomed to gather round the par-
lour hearth. There the father told the oft-repeated tale of his early efforts at home-making in the
forest, which even than was so near that the voice of the hooting owl could often at evening be heard.
When he first came there was no road for many miles - only blazed t r e e s to mark the way. He would
tell how he had traversed on horseback the primitive bridle that led to the thicker settlements, his wife
behind him on a pillion. At first one child had been encircled by the mother's left a r m as she sat on the
horse behind him, holding herself in position by throwing her right a r m around his waist. When a s e c -
ond child was added to the family the eldest sat on the h o r s e ' s neck in front of the father, while the
mother held the baby fast. Then the narrative would be varied by a thrilling story of a bear hunt. How
Bruin had killed a sheep or a calf, had been tracked to his lair in some forest glen, and had been made
to pay the penalty of his wickedness. Or it may be the evening was passed in telling tales of appa-
ritions and ghosts, until every shadow on the wall seemed a visitor from the spirit world." To this
graphic description the writer might have added an account of the apple-paring and stringing, the pump-
kin-cutting, which occupied people in late autumn evenings, in almost all farm-houses, the county
through.

Page 33, Eaton TRAVEL

The first roads, says Dr. Brecin, were only paths made through the woods by the Indians, and were
zigzag in their course, from one point of high ground to the next. From time to time, as the need of
more passable roads became urgent, these paths were improved and widened, until they became fairly
good highways. When it was necessary to cross ridges they always crossed, not straight, but diagonally.
The main roads of Cornwallis ran parallel with the r i v e r s , in the most natural way, and as close as
possible to these s t r e a m s . Of course, as the various dykes were constructed across the Canard river,
the direction of the roads, for obvious reasons, was somewhat changed.
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Page 180, Eaton

Until after the 19th century opened, travelling in the County was almost exclusively on horseback.
When the first carriage was introduced into the County we do not know. "About 1803 it is said Mr.
Benjamin Belcher imported a wagon from Boston. The vehicle cost fifty pounds and was an object of
the greatest interest to the King's County people at large. In 1823 a tin peddler from New England came
to the village with a white horse and a red wagon, bringing a load of tin-ware to sell. When he d i s -
posed of his mechandise he sold his horse and wagon to Mr. James Delap H a r r i s , and from miles around
people came to see the remarkable "turn-out." After that two wheeled gigs and four-wheeled wagons
gradually became common and horseback travelling steadily declined." A long number of years from
1761 to 1823 !
"Stage coach lines must have been established shortly before 1816 between Halifax and Windsor,
twice a week each way, fare $6.00."
Larger stage coaches were later described as "Ponderous machines with three seats inside and a
carriage board suspended from the roof behind the stage, on which a ton or two baggage sat with several
sailors chests. Eighteen passengers were stowed away, driven by six h o r s e s , weight of baggage allowed
was but twenty pounds."
The old stage coach days in the county stopped in 1869. By that time the railroad took over. "In
1829 the mail for Halifax was due weekly, carried on horseback. Postage was regulated by distance,
single letters must be on one piece of paper, but with no limit as to weight, folded, addressed and sealed.
Envelopes were unknown, and stamps were not dreamed of."
Sailing and Trade ships were used for traveling from port to port around the peninsula and to Boston,
Mass., New London, Norwich, Connecticut, New York, the West Indies, and England, where the principal
cargoes of lumber and salt and dried fish were traded for supplies and merchandise needed in Nova
Scotia.

Page 54, "Historic Nova Scotia" PRIVATEERS

"The relief to hard times came by the sea. There had been privateer raids all along the coast.
Single ships had been taken at Marigomish, Pictou and Canso. Four were taken at Cape Forchu and
the people of the place intimidated. At Cornwallis men came up the river in whale boats and plundered
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homes. Lunenburg was surprised July 1, 1782, by the crews of six privateers. They carried off
plunder and did damage to the extent of £8000. On August 28, 1781, eighty men from two American
schooners got possession of the fort at Annapolis in the dark of night, surrounded every house and con-
fined the inhabitants in the fort ditch. They plundered every home, store and shop, taking even the
bedding, and buckles off the ladies shoes. These raiders were not careful to discriminate between
friends and foes. Numerous letters in the Massachusetts archives bear witness that American sympa-
thizers in Nova Scotia who had aided escapting prisoners had their homes plundered as ruthlessly as
any loyal tory.
In the first year of the war American privateers made 350 captures. Their raiding practically der-
stroyed the Canso fishery, and Nova Scotia decided on r e p r i s a l s . The government organized a fleet of
four small armed vessels, and Nova Scotia merchants began to fit out p r i v a t e e r s . In 1778 no fewer
than forty-eight prizes and four re-captures were brought into Halifax alone, and privateering became
more and more active as the war went on. P r i z e s were brought to Halifax for acution and cargoes
brought thousands of pounds."
Very respectable merchants and t r a d e r s fitted out privateers to protect their own vessels and ship-
ping, taking many rich prizes.
Shipbuilding was a very profitable industry for many years until the sailing ships had to give way
to steam.
As you look through these family charts you will find our ancestors were shipbuilders at Onslow,
Tatamagouche, River John, Pictou and Wallace.
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TRURO AND ONSLOW TOWNSHIPS

Thomas Miller of T r u r o , Nova Scotia published in 1873 "The Historical and Genealogical Record of
the F i r s t Settlers of Colchester County, Nova Scotia," now out of print. A very valuable and unique book
naming hundreds of families, with at least two generations, and bits of history about them. The r e s i -
dents even today depend on "Tommy Miller's book" for information of their forebears. My Uncles
Robert and Ernest Dickson always spoke of "Uncle Tommy Miller's Book' as their mother was of that
Miller family.
The early settlers of T r u r o and Onslow evidently endured greater hardships than those in King's
County. 1776 was called the "year of the mice" when hoards of mice went through the country eating all
grains and crops. Only the cold winter weather froze them out.
"All traveling was done by men, women and children on foot or on horseback for more than fifty years
after the settlement of Colchester. It was quite customary in those days for people to ride horseback 10
or 12 miles to attend public worship or to walk 5 or 6 miles for the same purpose, and carry the bodies
of their dead on b i e r s , by four men at a time, a distance of three miles to the place of burial. Spiritous
liquors were always used at funerals in those days,"
"The first 4 wheeled carriage that ever passed through T r u r o was when Lieut. Gov. Sir George
Provost visited there in 1809."
Truro and Onslow Townships are situated at the head of Cobequid Basin of the Bay of Fundy. To the
north rise the Cobequid Mountain Range, the highest land in Nova Scotia. Onslow was probably named
for the English statesman Arthur Onslow, Speaker of Commons from January 1727 to 1754. Its creation
was ordered by Governor Lawrence July 24, 1759. It was twelve miles square and there were 53 rights
or shares of 200 acres each.
This is the township where our ancestor Charles Dickson settled in 1772 when he married Amelia
Bishop of Horton. He was called Charles "Jr." in Horton and both the historians, Dr. A. W. H. Eaton
thought he was Major Charles Dickson's son and Israel Longworth, Q. C. of T r u r o who wrote the
"History of the Township of Onslow" said he was Major Charles' son, and even Sir Adams G. Archibald
whose wife was a granddaughter of Charles thought he was Major C h a r l e s ' son. And all because the date
of his birth was 1746 and Major Charles was not married until 1747. His parentage remained a mystery
until now when Mr. W. Herbert Wood, a Fellow of the Genealogical Society, and a professional Genealo-
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gist dug into the Connecticut records for me, with the proof that Charles Dickson was a son of Robert
and Abigail (Harris) Dixson - see Chart #2, and a nephew of Major Charles, who was legally appointed
his guardian.
Thomas Miller wrote of him as follows: "Charles Dickson removed from New England to Nova Scotia
among the first settlers when he was young. He resided in King's County until about the year 1771; he
then removed up the Bay to Onslow, and purchased a large tract of land from William McNutt, at Onslow
P a r a d e , where he commenced and carried on a large business at farming, merchandize, building and
sailing ships. He was an active man for business; he was Registrar of Deeds for Colchester and Repre-
sentative of Onslow in the House of Assembly, as before mentioned. On September 16th 1780 he was ap-
pointed Justice of the Peace for what a r e now the counties of Colchester and Pictou. In 1796 he went to
the West Indies in one of his vessels; on his return he called at Halifax and took ill of Yellow Fever, and
died there on September 3rd 1796. His widow was m a r r i e d again to Joseph McLain. After his death
his four sons carried on the business for a few y e a r s , under the firm name of John Dickson & Co. He
was married to Amelia Bishop in 1772. She died November 1846."
Then he lists all the eleven Dickson children - see Chart # 5.
Mr. Longworth also says of the Dickson family, "The girls were handsome and married well."
"Lavinia was noted for her beauty among the first daughters of Nova Scotia in the days of Lord
Dalhousie." The sons were also good looking, tall, and of fine commanding presence. Three of them
at least were colonels in the militia. It is also worthy of r e m a r k that these brothers, Robert, William
and Thomas were members of the House of Assembly at the same time, along with their brother-in-law,
the Hon. S. G. W. Archibald, which made them men of great influence.
We learn something of Amelia's second marriage which took place Apr. 24, 1799 from "Janet
Fisher Archibald" as follows. "After Mr. Dickson's death, his shipbuilding plant was purchased by
Joseph McLane, and a few years afterwards he married the widow. She had eleven children, eight of
whom were at home. Joseph McLane had two children, making a family of twelve persons.
When M r s . Dickson was married to Joseph McLane, her eldest daughter was already married to
Andrew Wallace. Soon after Olivia married Colonel David Archibald, then Samuel George William
Archibald, afterwards Master of the Rolls, came and carried off Elizabeth, who was very beautiful,
and Dr. Murray Upham married Olivia's twin sister, Mary. The older sons also married, so that in
a few years only the four younger children were left, William and Esther McLane, and Thomas and
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Lavinia Dickson. The family lived at first in Onslow, near the Board Landing Bridge, where one of
Joseph Mc Lane's shipbuilding yards was situated, and then moved to T r u r o . The other shipyard was
at Fort Belcher, further down the Bay on the same side. He had also many other interests and was an
excellent business man, providing well for his large household and leaving a good estate when he died
in 1829. Mrs. Joseph McLane died in 1846, aged ninety." Really 92 as she was born in 1754.

In memory of
JOSEPH McLANE
Native of Londonderry, Ireland,
Who died 15th March, 1829,
Aged 76 y e a r s .
Look and see
You must prepare
And follow me.
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Inscription on stone in (old) St. Paul's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Here lyeth
The Body of Charles Dick-
son E s q r who died Sept. 3rd
1796 in the 50th year of his
age: He Lived Respected
And Died Lamented
Also
of His Grandchild John sixth
Son of Robert Dickson
who Departed This Life on the
24th Day of October A. D. 1827
Age Sixteen Years & Eight Months
In 1950 this stone was reported to be in good condition by Martha Foss Fleming, who copied the in-
scription for u s . It must have been placed by Robert Dickson after young John's death and 31 years
after Charles Dickson died, possibly replaced an older, smaller stone. Charles Dickson contracted
Yellow Fever in the West Indies where he had gone on a trip in one of his own vessels. Thomas Miller
says that Ebenezer Cock of T r u r o was in Halifax at the same time. He waited upon him during his ill-
ness, and he also took the fever and died there Sept. 30th 1796, leaving a widow and infant child.
Charles' wife, Amelia, traveled 3 days on horseback from Onslow to Halifax, arriving shortly before
he died, in a house just opposite the famous old hotel "Waverley House."

The Archibald family were among the first settlers in Truro, arriving in their own sloop, and Thomas
Miller tells us that David was the eldest of four brothers, born in Londonderry, Ireland in 1717. In 1741
he married Elizabeth Elliott and moved to Londonderry, New England (New Hampshire on the Merrimac
River), in 1757. Four years afterwards they moved to T r u r o , Nova Scotia. Samuel, their eldest son
was born in Londonderry, Ireland, Nov. 11, 1742. He married Rachel Todd. They had six children. He
went on a t r i p to the West Indies in 1779. While there he received foul treatment from a British officer
and died there suddenly.
Three children of Samuel and Rachel (Todd) Archibald, one daughter Rachel Todd, a son David, the
7th, and Samuel George William Archibald, married three of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson's
children. Rachel married Charles Dickson, II, David married Olivia (one of the twins) and S. G. W.
m a r r i e d Elizabeth. See Charts #7, 9, and 11.
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CHART 4
EUNICE DICKSON m, (1) Roderick Morrison
b. Aug. 30, 1747 at Westfield, Mass. 1 Daughter Sally Morrison
Daughter of Major Charles and Miriam (Ingersoll) Dickson
of East Haddam, Conn, and later of m. (2) Nov. 15, 1769 John Chipman
Horton Township, King's County, N.S. b. Dec. 18, 1744 at Newport, R.I.
d. Feb. 24, 1827 Son of Handley and Jean (Allen) Chipman
d. Apr. 29, 1836
Judge of the Inferior Court, King's Co., N.S.
Justice of the Peace
Children
1. Handley C hipman b. Aug. 26, T77T
d. Aug. 27, 1771
2. Charles Chipman b. July 9, 1772 Deputy-She riff of King's Co. Resided in Kentville
d. Apr. 7, 1838
3. George Chipman Apr. 23, 1774 He was Sheriff of King's Co. Resided in Kentville
4. Elizabeth Chipman June 18, 1775
June 18, 1775
5. Elizabeth Chipman May 30, 1776 m. Nov. 14, 1796 Sherman Burbidge
Son of Elias and Elizabeth (Sherman) Burbidge
of Cornwallis
He d. Oct. 1807
6. Eunice Chipman b. Aug. 9, 1777
d. Aug. 12, 1777
7. Eunice Chipman b. June 30, 1778 m. David Whidden
8. Allen Chipman b. Mar. 26, 1780
9. Daniel Chipman Apr. 21, 1782
10. Lavinia Chipman Nov. 23, 1783
11. Jane Chipman Mar. 19, 1785
12. William Chipman Dec. 9, 1786
13. Jared. Ingersoll Chipman May 22, 1788 m. 1814 Mary Sawyer of Halifax
in Cornwallis, King's Co.
Children: James Blowers, Anna Eliza, Terson, Jared, Francis,
Harriet, John R.U. and Ferguson
Judge Chipman was a well known lawyer living at Shelburne and Halifax.
He was at one time Sheriff of Halifax County, President of the Sessions
for the Eastern District of Nova Scotia and for many years a judge of
the Nova Scotia Court of Common Pleas.
14. Olivia Chipman b. Mar. 8, 1790 m. John Wade
They had a son John Chipman Wade
15. Katherine Chipman m. Feb. 18, 1840 Francis C. Pyke of Windsor,
Hants County
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A record on file in the Registrar's office in Kentville, Nova Scotia gives us proof that Eunice Dickson
married Roderick Morrison and had a daughter, Sarah.
"To all people unto whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Know ye, that I, Eunice Dickson of
Horton in the County of King's County, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Simstress, for and in considera-
tion of the Love, Good will and affection which I have and do bear to my well beloved Daughter Sarah
Morrison, Minor, of Horton aforesaid, do freely, clearly and absolutely give, grant, convey and confirm
unto her the said Sarah Morrison her Heirs and Assigns forever all my Right, Title, Interest, Claim and
demand, either in Law or Equity of in and to all and singular those Lands, Tenements and Messuages
situate, lying and being in the Township of Colchester in the County of Hartford in the Colony of Connecti-
cut, formally set of and appraised to me according to the Laws of the Colony aforesaid in satisfaction of
an Execution I formally had against Roderick Morrison Late of Hebron in the Colony aforesaid. To have
and to hold the said given and granted premises with all the profits, privileges, and appurtenances
thereunto belonging in any wise appertaining unto the said Sarah Morrison, her Heirs and Assigns for-
ever to her and to their only use and behoof forever free and clear of and from all and all manner of
other and former Gifts, Grants, Sales or Conveyences whatsoever by me heretofore made, done, exe-
cuted. And I do hereby bind myself, my Heirs, Executors and Administrators to Warrent and Defend
the aforesaid given and granted premises unto the said Sarah Morrison Her Heirs and Assigns forever
from and against all and all manner of Claims and Demands from me, my Heirs, Executors or Admin-
istrators or any person or persons whatsoever by, from or under me or them. In Witness whereof the
said Eunice Dickson hath hereunto set her Hand and Seal the fifteenth day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in P r e s e n c e of
Nathan DeWolf "1 c . . „ . _. . /T _ v„
Slgned EunlCe Dlckson (L S }
Olive Dickson j ' '
The above was executed the day Eunice married John Chipman.

Page 600, Eaton - THE CHIPMAN FAMILY

From the a r r i v a l in King's County of the New England planters, the Chipman family has occupied
here a foremost place. The founder of the family in King's County was Handley Chipman, a man of
strong character and great intelligence, who left more literary remains than any one of the N. E.
planters.
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Handley Chipman, the Cornwallis grantee, was b. in Sandwich, Mass., Aug. 31, 1717, and m. (1) April
24, 1740, Jean, daughter of Col. Jonathan and Margaret (Holmes) Allen, of Martha's Vineyard, (2) in
Cornwallis, Dec. 14, 1775, Nancy, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Clark) Post, formerly of Saybrook,
Conn., a sister of Mrs. Benjamin Belcher, of Cornwallis. From Mass., Handley Chipman removed to
Newport, R. I., and in 1761, came to Cornwallis. In 1753 he was a Deputy to the R.I. General Assembly;
in Cornwallis he was a Justice of the Peace, and the first Judge of Probate for the county. He d. May
27, 1799. His first wife, b. Aug. 28, 1722, d. April 5, 1775. Handley Chipman was a second cousin of
Ward Chipman, of Mass., the Loyalist, father of Hon. Ward Chipman Chief Justice of New Brunswick.
11 children by first marriage (all born in Newport, R. I.): Elizabeth, John, Margaret, John, Catherine,
Handley, J r . , Rebecca, Rev. Thomas Handley, William Allen, Anthony, Nancy; 4 children by second
marriage: Holmes, Zachariah, Major, Stephen.
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CHART 5
CHARLES DICKSON of Onslow, N. S. m . 1772 in Horton, N. S., AMELIA BISHOP
b. Oct. 2 1 , 1746 at Middletown, Conn. b. Jan. 3 1 , 1754 at New London, Conn.
Son of R o b e r t and Abigail ( H a r r i s ) Dixson Daughter of John and M a r y (Forsyth) Bishop
G r a n t e e Horton 1763 of New London and Horton, N. S.
Moved to Onslow in 1772, w h e r e d. Nov. 1846
all t h e i r children w e r e born,
d. Sept. 3, 1796
Children Sons Daughters
1. John Dickson b. June 7, 1773 m . Oct. 20, 1796 Lydia Hamilton 4 5
d. Dec. 1858 d. Apr. 29, 1866
Sea Captain - one s h i p named 'Josephine'
2. C h a r l e s Dickson b. A p r . 6, 1775 m. Dec. 3 1 , 1799 Rachel Todd Archibald
Carpenter d. M a r . 18, 1721 b. Jan. 16, 1775
d. A p r . 18, 1817
3. Robert Dickson b. July 8, 1777 m . F e b . 7, 1798 Lavania DeWolf
F a r m e r , etc. d. May 5, 1835 b. Sept. 5, 1774
Col. Militia d. July 1854
4. W i l l i a m Dickson b . Sept. 9, 1779 m . Jan. 29, 1801 Rebecca P e a r s o n
Col. Militia d. F e b . 5, 1834 b. 1784 d. June 1833
5. Abigail Dickson B. Nov. 25, 1781 m . (1) F e b . 27, 1798 Andrew Wallace of Halifax
m . (2) Robert Lowden of M e r i g o m i s h
6. M a r y Dickson b. F e b . 5, 1783 m. 1803 Dr. John M u r r a y Upham
Twins d. Dec. 6, 1872
7. Olivia Dickson b. F e b . 5, 1783 m. (1) F e b . 5, 1801 Col. David Archibald
d. F e b . 7, 1872 d. Nov. 23, 1814
at R i v e r John m . (2) F e b . 11, 1819 John H e n d e r s o n
d. July 8, 1832
8. Elizabeth Dickson b . Aug. 8, 1785 m. M a r . 16, 1802 Hon. S. G. W. A r c h i b a l d
d. May 13, 1830 "Nova S c o t i a ' s g r e a t e s t c o m m o n e r "
9. S a r a h Dickson b. May 18, 1787
d. Feb. 14, 1791
10. T h o m a s Dickson b. July 8, 1791 m . S a r a h Ann P a t t e r s o n of Pictou
d. May 7, 1857 d. 1850
1 1 . Lavinia Dickson b. Feb. 13, 1795 m . A p r . 27, 1823 Rev. John Burnyeat of T r u r o
d. Oct. 1860 Children: John b . 1824, C h a r l e s b . 1826
E l i z a b e t h b . 1828
Rev. Burnyeat d. A p r i l 7, 1843
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C h a r l e s Dickson died Sept. 3, 1796 in Halifax of Yellow F e v e r 92 g r a n d c h i l d r e n
A m e l i a , Widow, m a r r i e d (2) Joseph McLean, A p r . 24, 1799
a shipbuilder of Onslow
L i s t originally taken from T h o m a s M i l l e r ' s H i s t o r i c a l and Geneological R e c o r d of the F i r s t S e t t l e r s of
C o l c h e s t e r C o . , N. S.
Dates c o r r e c t e d from old Onslow R e c o r d Book and "Janet F i s h e r Archibald"
Also Middletown, Conn, r e c o r d s .
"If a man l e a v e s c h i l d r e n behind him it i s a s if he did not die."
Morroccan Proverb
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CHART 6
JOHN DICKSON m. Oct. 20, 1796 Lydia Hamilton (1)
b. June 7, 1773 b. 1778
Son of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson Daughter of Robert and Agnes (Ferguson) Hamilton
of Onslow, N. S. of Brookfields, N. S.
Sea Captain - Had one ship "Josephine" d. Apr. 29, 1866
d. Dec. 10, 1858
Children
1. Charles Dickson b. May 22, 1798
2. Eliza Dickson b. Sept. 15, 1799
d. Sept. 25, 1819
3. John Mason Tufton Dickson b. Feb. 4, 1802
4. Mary Olivia Dickson b. Feb. 8, 1804 m. Thomas Roach, Sr. His third wife.
5. William Andrew Dickson b. Sept. 15, 1806
d. June 13, 1825
6. Robert Dickson* b. Dec. 25, 1808 m. Lydia Hamilton (2)
d. May 28, 1870 b. June 8, 1815
d. Dec. 12, 1901
7. Lavinia Dickson b. Apr. 27, 1811
8. Sarah Ann Dickson b. Sept. 23, 1818
9. George William Dickson b. Nov. 29, 1820
d. March 20, 1821
ROBERT DICKSON* m. Lydia Hamilton (2)
b. Dec. 25, 180.8 b. June 8, 1815
Son of John and Lydia (Hamilton (1) ) Dickson d. Dec. 12, 1901
d. May 28, 1870 Children
1. John Mason Tufton Dickson II b. Dec. 25, 1845 m. Nancy Wilson
1 daughter Beatrice who m. Louis Redden
of Charlottstown, P. E. I.
2. Sarah Ann Dickson May 5, 1847 m. George Angervine
Children
1. Maude Angervine b. July 15, 1879 d. Sept. 17, 1879
2. Frederick M. Angervine b. Dec. 28, 1880 Living in Seattle, Wash,
3. William Rennie Angervine b. Dec. 12, 1885 about 1920
3. David Hamilton Dickson b. Feb. 25, 1849 m. Emma Whippey
4. Georgina E. Dickson Aug. 17, 1850 Unmarried d. Sept. 7, 1877
5. William Andrew Dickson Dec. 19, 1851 m. Margaret Jane Baxter
Dec. 21, 1918
6. Cole R. Dickson Jan. 25, 1854 m. Mary MacNutt
1 child Aubrey
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CHART 7
CHARLES DICKSON H m. Dec. 31, 1799 Rachel Todd Archibald
b. April 6, 1775 b. Jan. 16, 1775
Son of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson Daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Todd) Archibald
of Onslow, N. S. of T r u r o , N. S.
d. March 18, 1821 d. April 18, 1817

Children - all born at Onslow

1. Samuel Dickson b. Aug. 6, 1800 6. David Archibald Dickson b. Mar. 29, 1809
2. Maria Dickson b. Oct. 14, 1801 7. Elizabeth Dickson b. Nov. 23, 1810
d. Mar. 10, 1818
3. Rachel Dickson b. June 30, 1803 8. Abigail Dickson b. Nov. 8, 1812
4. Daniel Dickson b. Jan. 30, 1805 9. William Dickson b. Apr. 22, 1814
5. Amelia Dickson b. Nov. 17, 1807 10. Margaret Dickson b. Feb. 26, 1816
d. July 5, 1839
Charles Dickson was a carpenter by t r a d e . Built the house in Onslow in which John B. Dickie,
Esq., recently lived (Miller 1873) and died there.

WILLIAM DICKSON m. Jan. 29, 1801 Rebecca Pearson

b . Sept. 9, 1779 b. 1784
Son of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson Daughter of Col. Thomas and Martha Pearson
of Onslow, N. S. of T r u r o , N. S.
Colonel of Militia d. June 1833
Merchant and F a r m e r - Very active man for business of all kinds
Registrar of Deeds, Prothonotary of Supreme Court, Clerk of the Peace, all at one time for a
number of y e a r s .
He represented T r u r o in the House of Assembly for eight y e a r s
d. Feb. 15, 1834
See Chart 68 for William and Rebecca P e a r s o n Dickson's 15 children
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CHART 8
ROBERT DICKSON m. Feb. 7, 1798 Lavinia DeWolf at Horton, N. S.
b. July 8, 1777 at Onslow, N. S. Daughter of Edward and Sarah (Brown) DeWolf
Son of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson b. Sept. 5, 1774 at Horton
d. Sept. 15, 1835 d. July 29, 1854 at Nappan, N. S.
F a r m e r , Lt. Col. Militia, Politian

Children - All born at Onslow

1. Charles Edward Dickson b. Jan. 17, 1799 m. Nov. 24, 1830 Sarah Lusby of Cumberland
d. Mar. 1, 1831 at Onslow
2. Sarah Amelia Dickson b. Mar. 29, 1801 m. Jan. 1824 John Roach of Cumberland
d. Apr.23, 1867 See Chart 12
3. Elisha DeWolf Dickson b. Apr.27, 1803 m. Dec. 2 , 1832 at Onslow Barbara Weir
d. June 27, 1853 in Australia of Deal, Kent, Eng.
4. Robert Benjamin Dickson b. Apr.30, 1805 m. Aug. 1, 1832 at Halifax Catherine Muirhead
d. at P a r r s b o r o by Rev. Archdeacon Willis of St. Paul's, Halifax
See Chart 16
5. Joseph McLean Dickson b. Feb. 16 1807 m. Mar. 3, 1835 Lavinia Blair
d. Feb.21 1865 See Chart 13
6. Jacob Thomas Dickson b. Jan. 20 1809 Unmarried Teacher, Lawyer, Gov't. Official
b. Jan. 12 1811 Buried in his Grandfather, Charles Dickson's grave at
7. John Dickson d. Oct. 24 1827 at Onslow St. Paul's, Halifax, N. S.
b. Feb. 4 1813 m. Jan. 28, 1841 James Bain Davison of Wallace
8. Lavinia Dickson d. Jan. 21 1901 Shipbuilder See Chart 17
b. Dec. 3 1815 m. Feb. 22, 1841 Rebecca Dickey at Cornwallis
9. William Dickson d. Nov.10 1881 See Chart 14
b. Nov. 2 1818 m. 1855 Daniel McCurdy
10. Abigail Dickson d. June 4 1891 b. Apr. 1, 1806 at Onslow
Son of Daniel and Eunice (Wright) McCurdy
1 Daughter Matilda b. Feb. 20, 1856
d. 1936
Daniel McCurdy d. Dec. 18, 1887
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We have Robert and Lavinia Dickson's family Bible in which Robert had written in beautiful penman-
ship, the names and birth dates of all his ten children. Also William and Rebecca's six children. It
does not contain a record of William's two later marriages or the children's names. Matilda McCurdy
fell heir to the Bible and Mary Davison Kennedy sent it to me. Eventually it will go to Ernest Montgom-
ery Dickson in California.
We a r e told by Mary Davison Kennedy, whose grandmother was Lavinia Dickson, that great-grand-
father Robert Dickson left his Onslow farm to his two farmer sons, Joseph McLean and William. This
farm was divided by a narrow road at right angles to the main highway, and in each section was in-
cluded half of the very valuable marsh land. William was about twenty years old and continued to live
in the old homestead with his mother and brothers and s i s t e r s , and even after he married Rebecca
Dickey in 1841. On this place was the "Gunnery" for the Nova Scotia Militia of which Robert was Colonel.
Joseph McLean Dickson built a new house on the other side of the narrow road where he lived for
some y e a r s . These two families of cousins were devoted to each other - Emily, Mary, George, Abigail
and Josephine and William's children. Joseph sold his farm and moved into T r u r o . Either then or later
it was owned by Hugh Dickson, an entirely different Dickson family.
Charles Edward Dickson died when a very young man, and only five months after he married.
Elisha DeWolf Dickson died in Australia, aged 50. This is recorded in the family Bible. My own
opinion is that he was a sea captain as no record of his family has been found in Australia.
Robert Benjamin, called "Ben" was a lawyer. He married Catherine Muirhead and had three sons.
Lived in T r u r o .
Jacob Thomas appears to have been unmarried. He taught school in Onslow, one of his pupils being
his younger brother William. He became a lawyer and Government official, probably a customs col-
lector as he assisted James Bain Davison at Wallace in that capacity.
Abigail, the youngest daughter, was seventeen when her father died in 1835. She lived with her mother
until her death in 1854, and then married her faithful lover Daniel McCurdy who courted her for 28 y e a r s .
They had one daughter Matilda. Susan Blair writes me of Matilda, "A very much respected and beloved
lady of the old school." She lived for many years with Mary Davison Kennedy and died in Wallace, but
is buried in Onslow cemetery.
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F r o m Eaton's "History of King's County, Nova Scotia"

Page 629 - FIRST DeWOLF FAMILY

The DeWolf families of King's County, in all respects among the most notable families in the county,
were transplanted from Connecticut by three important representatives of the Connecticut DeWolfs,
Simeon, Nathan, and Jehiel DeWolf. The relationship between these men was as follows: Simeon and
Jehiel were second cousins; Nathan was a first cousin once removed of Simeon, and a second cousin
once removed of Jehiel, and Nathan and Simeon were brothers-in-law. The relationship of these men to
Mark Anthony DeWolf, who founded the widely known DeWolf family of Bristol, R. I., is as follows:
Nathan was a second cousin of Mark Anthony, Simeon was a first cousin of Charles of Gaudaloupe, Mark
Anthony's father and Jehiel was a second cousin of Charles of Gaudaloupe. Of the three Horton grantees,
Simeon had previously lived in Lyme, Nathan had lived in Saybrook, Jehiel had lived in Killingworth.

Page 632 - SECOND DeWOLF FAMILY

Nathan 1 DeWolf of Saybrook, Conn., son probably of John DeWolf, was b. in 1720, graduated M. A.
at Yale College in 1743, and engaged in the practice of law. He m. (1) probably about 1749, Lydia,
daughter of John and Lydia (Belden) Kirtland, of Saybrook, b. Oct. 28, 1721. He m. (2), Oct. 12, 1770,
M r s . Anna (Prentice) Witter. Children by first marriage: 1. Lucilla m. Nov. 26, 1773, to Lebbeus
H a r r i s ; 2. Edward, b. in 1752, m. Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Brown; 3. Loran, b. Apr. 7, 1754, m.
Mary Fox of Cornwallis and had 5 children; 4. Elisha, b. May 5, 1756, m. Margaret Rate hf ord; 5.
Nathan, m. Aug. 27, 1778, Anna Hamilton, and had 6 children.
Edward 2 DeWolf (Nathan 1 ), b. in 1752, m. Nov. 26, 1773, Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Brown and his
1st wife, Abigail (Colesworthy). He d. Mar. 4, 1796, his wife d. Nov., 1819. Children: 1. Lavinia,b. Sept.
5, 1774, m. Mar. 8, 1798 to Robert Dickson; 2. Thomas, b. Nov. 26, 1776, d. 1862; 3. Stephen Brown,
b. Jan 18, 1779, m.' Harriet Ruggles; 4. Sarah, b. Mar. 31, 1781, d. in Apr. 1810; 5. Elizabeth, b.
Aug. 20, 1783, m. to Isaac Smith; 6. Jacob, b. Nov. 10, 1785, d. in the West Indies; 7. Edward, M. D.
Edinburgh, b. Jan. 24, 1788, m. (1) June 20, 1822 Maria Pagan of St. Andrew's, N. B., (2) Hazan,
of St. John, N. B., (3) Maria Woodward Moore. He d. in St. Stephen, N. B. in Jan. 1874; 8. Joseph, b.
Feb. 28, 1790, m. Kezia Reid, and d. Dec. 29, 1826; 9. Abigail, b. Aug. 20, 1792, d. Dec. 5, prob. 1875;
10. Charles Brown, b. Aug. 20, 1794, m. McKinley, and d. at Pictou, N. S. Jan. 23, 1879; 11.
Elisha, b. July 28, 1796, m. (1) Rachel Dixon, (2) Whidden. By both marriages he had 11 children.
He d. in New York, July 16, 1879.
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CHART 9
OLIVIA DICKSON m. (1) Feb. 5, 1801 Col. David Archibald (The 7th)
b. Feb. 5, 1783 at Onslow, N.S. at Onslow by Rev. John Waddell
Twin of Mary b. Nov. 4, 1772 at T r u r o , N.S.
Daughter of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson Son of Samuel and Rachel (Todd) Archibald
d. Feb. 7, 1872 at River John, N.S. d. Nov. 23, 1814 Buried in Onslow Cemetery
Children - All born at Onslow
1. Samuel George Archibald b. May 31, 1804 m. Jan. 1839 Maria Henderson of Scotland
d. Oct. 10, 1871 Lived at St. Johns, Newfoundland „ c h a r t 33
2. Elizabeth Archibald b. June 27, 1806 m. Nov. 23, 1826 Alexander MacKenzie
d. Jan. 27, 1870 of River John, N.S.
Shipbuilder See Chart 46
3. Mary Archibald b. Jan. 27, 1808 m. 1825 Hon. Alexander Campbell of Tatamagouche
d. Jan. 7, 1895 Shipbuilder See Chart 65
4. Charles Dickson Archibald b. Dec. 16, 1809
Lost at sea when a young man.
5. William Henry Archibald b. Dec. 10, 1811
d. Apr. 10, 1812
6. Thomas Dickson Archibald b. Apr. 8, 1813 m. 1839 Susan Corbett See Chart 34
d. 1890 Lived at Sydney Mines, C B .
OLIVIA DICKSON ARCHIBALD m. (2) Feb. 11, 1819 John Henderson, widower
b. Nov. 27, 1772 Ecclefechan, Scotland
Son of Robert and Mary (Davidson) Henderson
d. July 8, 1932
Children
1. Maria Henderson Nov. 11, 1819 m. Oct. 1845 John P. McKay of St. John, N.B.
Feb. 13, 1906 See Chart 38
2. Amelia Henderson Aug. 26, 1821 m. (1) James Purves
Dec. 19, 1902 m. (2) John McKinlay of Pictou, N.S. See Chart 39
3. David Burnyeat Henderson b. Nov. 7, 1823 Unmarried
d. Feb. 18, 1857 at T r u r o
4. Jessie Henderson b. Oct. 11, 1827 Unmarried
d. Feb. 10, 1861 at River John
Oil P o r t r a i t of DAVID BURNYEAT HENDERSON, Youngest
Son of Olivia Dickson H e n d e r s o n , 1823-1854
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CHART 10
MARY DICKSON m 1803 Dr. John M u r r a y Upham
b . F e b . 5, 1783 b. 1773
Daughter of C h a r l e s and A m e l i a (Bishop) Dickson Son of Judge Joshua Upham
of Onslow, Nova Scotia of New Brunswick
Twin of Olivia
d. 1872 at T a t a m a g o u c h e
Children
1. Olivia Upham b. 1804 m . 1835 W i l l i a m C a m p b e l l
d. 1845 Son of W i l l i a m C a m p b e l l of Pictou, N.
Ship Builder of T a t a m a g o u c h e
Children
1. M a r y C a m p b e l l b. 1836 U n m a r r i e d . Taught P r i m a r y School in
d. 1895 Pictou for o v e r 30 y e a r s
2. J e s s i e C a m p b e l l b. U n m a r r i e d . Lived on old h o m e s t e a d ,
d. 1904 Tatamagouche
3. M a r g a r e t C a m p b e l l b. 1845 U n m a r r i e d . Lived on old h o m e s t e a d ,
d. 1917 Tatamagouche
4. E l i z a b e t h C a m p b e l l b„ A p r . 14, 1847 m . Dec. 23, 1869
d. A p r . 23, 1893 W i l l i a m Albert P a t t e r s o n
See C h a r t 56
2. C h a r l o t t e Upham b . 1806 m . D e c . 26, 1824 G e o r g e Scott F l e m m i n g . He w a s
d. 1844 drowned 1846
Children
1 son, Hazen F l e m m i n g . Went to s e a . M a r r i e d in England
4 d a u g h t e r s . T h e family moved to the United States o v e r 50 y e a r s ago. T h e i r
d e s c e n d a n t s a r e not known.
One daughter m a r r i e d a Chive r s , an A r m y m a n and lived for a t i m e in
C o r n w a l l , E n g . , and lived in Halifax, N.S. in 1883.
3. C h a r l e s Dickson Upham b . 1808 m . E l i z a b e t h Linton,
b. Oct. 17, 1812. P r o b a b l y a daughter of
J a m e s and Elizabeth Linton of Onslow.
Children
1. T h o m a s Dickson Upham
2. Henry Upham b. 1840 d. 1846
3. Olive C a m p b e l l Upham b. May 19, 1846
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The Dickson Twins - Mary and Olivia

We are very much indebted to our cousin Frank H. Patterson, Q.C. of Truro who has generously
granted permission to use any information in his "Mary Dickson" the story of his great-grandmother,
privately printed and not for sale.

"In the home of Charles Dickson of Onslow on the 5th day of February A.D. 1783, there was, if not
some manner of celebration, at least a great deal of relief for on that day to his wife were safely born
twin daughters, Mary and Olivia, Mary being the older.*

'When the twins, Mary and Olivia, were young the only place near what is now Truro that had even
a pretense of being called a village was Bible Hill. Here were the homes of the influential Archibalds;
David, James, Thomas and Samuel, and of their sons and relatives. They were generally well-to-do
for their time and were the very core of social, political, and mercantile life of the community, and
like Charles Diclson they, too, were interested in ships and shipping." David Archibald's eldest son
Samuel, sailed to Bermuda in 1779. He died at Nevis, some say of yellow fever, others from wounds
suffered in a duel with a British officer who had "insulted him beyond bearing". Whatever the cause
of his death, the fact was that he left a distracted widow with five small children on her hands. Her
circumstances were none too good so to help out, the old grandfather, David, adopted the third child,
Sammy, then aged three. Little did he know when he took this boy to his home that he was entertaining
genius unawares.

"From the first, success had marked Sammy as her own. As a boy he was mischievious, alert,
studious, though withal light of heart, fond of fun, smart at books, physically strong and with the
r a r e s t of qualities, that of drawing all to him. And, too, ambition early sowed her seeds in him and
he was not content on the farm. By r a r e luck, and r a r e r honesty, a creditor at Nevis turned up who
had owed his father 200 pounds. And it was this money which was to provide for Sammy's education
among the relatives in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and elsewhere."

"So it happened that in 1796, the year of Charles Dickson's death, Sammy returned to Bible Hill
educated and with a knowledge of the world and books beyond all others there. The Archibalds and
Dicksons were then on more than friendly t e r m s . Mrs. Dickson widowed and with little means had

•In Miller and in Janet Fisher Archibald the year of birth is 1785. The Onslow Book of Records, which
is more likely to be correct, gives 1783.
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now four unmarried daughters on her hands. In that long ago, before the days of the "emancipation" of
women, a child born a female had only two destinies before h e r - - t o wed or to spin. It is not for naught
that that word "spinster" is firmly embedded in our language even unto modern franchise statutes, and
it was far from Amelia Dickson's ideas that her daughters were born to spin.

"Grandfather David Archibald died in 1795. And as if marriage were simply a matter of family con-
venience, with which the couple had nothing to do, he before his death had "arranged" with the Dicksons
that Sammy and Mary were to wed. It was a fair enough prospect for both and seems by them to have
been accepted and honored. At least in the eyes of the families they were betrothed."

"And now that Sammy is admitted to the Bar we shall in fitting dignity, call him S. G. W. Archibald.
By 1800 he already had laid the foundation for his later fame as the greatest trial lawyer of his time
in this province." Marriage to Mary seemed just around the corner. But a bright summer day, while
S.G.W. was attending court in Wolfville, was to wreck this love affair and to change their destinies
forever.

'While the story of that day is wholly traditionary, S.G.W. Archibald's granddaughter, the late Edith
Archibald thought it sufficiently factual to include it in her "A Memoir of Fifty Years of Service" (a
biography of her father, the late Sir Mortimer Archibald). Cousin Edith believed the story was true.
Here is the substance. Mary's younger s i s t e r , Elizabeth, the beauty of the family had, it seems,
been sent for her education to a "select Academy for Young Ladies", near Wolfville. Already S.G.W.'s
fame as a lawyer had spread and cases had called him to sittings of a nearby court. So when her
mother heard of his going she took the opportunity to send by him a gift to Elizabeth. With hi-s Court
duties over, S.G.W. riding on horse-back to the Academy found Elizabeth, for some minor misde-
meanor, condemned to the seclusion of her room with prison fare of bread and water. Unused to the
hardships and the severities of boarding school she pleaded to be taken home, and like a young
Lochinvar, Archibald virtually snatched her from beneath the very eyes of the stunned m i s t r e s s e s
of the school. And so, on horse-back and alone, they made the long journey to Onslow. Here in the
Dickson-Archibald families was a scandal of the first order and so perhaps in love and certainly a s
well to satisfy the enacting moral demands of the day, Archibald and Elizabeth insisted that they
m a r r y . Poor M r s . Dickson, torn in her duties to her two daughters, finally gave her consent though
only if they "made it right" with Mary, whose consent it seems was not hard to obtain for the possible
and understandable reason that she had already fallen in love, or thought she had, with another. So
on March 16th, 1802, Elizabeth Dickson and S.G.W. Archibald were married; he being 25 years of
age and she not yet 16. (See Chart #11)
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About 1801, Dr. John Murray Upham, the son of Joshua Upham, one of the first judges of New Bruns-
wick, and a grandson of John Murray one of the best known Massachusetts Loyalists, settled in Truro,
calling himself a surgeon. In a luckless hour for both, he and Mary Dickson met. They were married
in 1803. (See Chart #10) They probably lived on Prince St. near the Postoffice, the Roman Catholic
Church and its Glebe. They had three Upham children and then Mary and the children were deserted
by Dr. Upham. He rejoined the Army, fought, and was wounded at the battle of L u n d y s Lane. He
afterwards contracted a bigamous marriage and practiced medicine near Kingston, Ontario. He has
descendants in Ontario. Mary Dickson received a report of his death and thought he was buried in
Frederic ton. She eked out a living teaching school in Truro. She was supposed to have m a r r i e d
innocently at a date unknown, an Irish school teacher Richard Carrington. When she found Upham's
second marriage illegal nothing more was heard of Carrington. When in Truro she owned property
on Prince St. Her son Charles Dickson Upham eventually got this property from his mother after she
went to live with her son-in-law William Campbell in Tatamagouche when her daughter Olivia
Campbell died in 1845. Here she continued to teach school. It was said she was a bright, vivacious
woman, with nevertheless a bad temper.

Olivia Dickson

Olivia Dickson married on her eighteenth birthday, Feb. 5, 1801, Col. David Archibald. He was also
called David the 7th. He was twenty-nine, five y e a r s older than his brother S.G.W. Archibald who
m a r r i e d Olivia's sister Elizabeth Dickson in 1803. Olivia and David lived in Onslow. They had six
Archibald children, four boys and two girls. David died in 1814. Olivia continued to live in Onslow.
After five y e a r s of widowhood she m a r r i e d a widower John Henderson. He had only lately come out
from Scotland, where it is reported he left a large family of children with various relatives. He
heard Olivia singing in the Onslow Church, fell in love with her and they married in 1819. My
grandmother McKay, Maria Henderson, was their first child. Three other children were b o r n - -
Amelia, David Burnyeat Henderson and Jessie. John Henderson died in 1832. How long Olivia continued
to live in Onslow is unknown. Her two daughters were m a r r i e d in Onslow. But from my Grandmother's
stories, the family spent a great deal of time with Sam and Tom Archibald (Olivia's sons) who were
very kind to their mother and the younger children. At Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Sam built "Gowrie",
a stately, beautiful house. Still standing and continuously occupied all these y e a r s by direct descend-
ants of Archibalds. Olivia's dearly beloved son, David Burnyeat Henderson, nine years old when his
father died, felt that "Gowrie" was his second home, and only recently Dr. David Archibald, now living
at "Gowrie", sent me a hand made linen collar with David Henderson's name on it in indelible ink.
At fourteen David was sent to Scotland to be educated. We have not been able to trace his schools and
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college. He probably lived with some of the Henderson relatives. When he came back to America, he
decided to make his way in New York City. After a short time there he became ill and went back to
Truro where he died in 1857, a great loss to his mother and devoted s i s t e r s . Grandmother gave me a
treasured small oil portrait of David Henderson before she died.

We do not know the date, but Tom Archibald built his mother a home in River John, right next door
to her dauther Elizabeth (Eliza) Mackenzie. The Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, Eliza's husband, donated
the land. Here her daughter Jessie, unmarried, lived with Olivia. Her other daughter, Amelia, two
y e a r s younger than Grandmother McKay, married James Purves of Pictou, shipbuilder, for his second
wife. When she became a widow she m a r r i e d another Pictou man, John McKinlay, lawyer, (See Chart
#39). Aunt Mill McKinlay was a dominant figure in the life of Pictou.

It is interesting to learn that for at least the last twenty-five y e a r s of their lives, Mary and Olivia
lived in nearby towns--only the French River separating Tatamagouche and River John. They visited
each other. Olivia, always an avid reader, was blind for the last eight y e a r s of her life. The twins
lived to be 88 years old and both died the same year, 1872.

We a r e indebted to George H. Archibald for the photograph of Olivia used in this book.
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On a wall in St. John's Episcopal Church, Prince Street, Truro, is a white slab inscribed as follows:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

THE HONOURABLE
SAMUEL GEORGE WILLIAM ARCHIBALD - L. L. D.
A MAN GIFTED BY NATURE WITH THE RAREST INTELLECTUAL ENDOWMENTS AND ENDEARED
TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM BY THE AM_BILTTY OF HIS MANNERS AND THE BENIGNITY OF HIS
DISPOSITION. EQUALLY DISTINGUISHED IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE FOR THE ZEALOUS
AND FAITHFUL DISCHARGE OF EVERY DUTY HE ENJOYED IN AN EMINENT DEGREE THE CON-
FIDENCE AND THE GRATITUDE OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS AND THE LOVE AND ESTEEM OF HIS
FAMILY AND FRIENDS. DURING A LONG AND BRILLANT CAREER OF PUBLIC SERVICE HE
DISCHARGED WITH GREAT ABILITY AND SUCCESS THE DUTIES OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICES,
VIZ., SOLICITOR ATTORNEY AND ADVOCATE GENERAL, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY,
MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, MASTER OF THE ROLLS IN CHANCERY AND JUDGE OF
THE COURT OF VICE ADMIRALTY IN NOVA SCOTIA AND CHIEF JUSTICE AND PRESIDENT OF
THE COUNCIL OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. HE WAS BORN IN TRURO IN FEBRUARY 1777
AND DIED IN HALIFAX WHERE HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED, THE 28th JANUARY 1840.

ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS GREATLY BELOVED AND AFFECTIONATE WIFE

ELIZABETH
WHO DIED IN HALIFAX THE 13th MAY 1830 IN THE 43rd YEAR OF HER AGE. AMIABLE,
GENTLE, PIOUS, CHARITABLE AND SINCERE SHE PASSED HER DAYS ON EARTH IN THE EXER-
CISES OF HER CHRISTIAN GRACES AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE HOPE OF A BLESSED
IMMORTALITY THROUGH THE MERITS OF HER REDEEMER, ALSO IN MEMORY OF THEIR CHILDREN,
(The fifteen children here enumerated are found on Chart #11)

SACRED ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF

JOANNA, SECOND WIFE OF THE SAID
SAMUEL GEORGE WILLIAM ARCHIBALD
BORN 18th NOVR 1793 DIED 15th J A N R Y 1862
AND THEIR CHILDREN

ELIZABETH BORN 1833 DIED 1834

SARAH MARIA 14th OCT R 1836 JUNE 1863
GEORGINA 16th OCT 1838 5th APRIL 1864
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CHART 11
SAMUEL GEORGE WILLIAM ARCHIBALD m. Mar. 16, 1802 Elizabeth Dickson
b. Feb. 5, 1777 at T r u r o b. Aug. 8, 1785
Son of Samuel and Rachel (Todd) Archibald Daughter of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson
d. Jan. 28, 1840 at Halifax of Onslow, N.S.
d. May 13, 1830
Children
1. Charles Dickson Archibald b. Oct. 31, 1802 m. 1832 Bridget Walker of Lancashire, Eng.
d. Sept. 12, 1868
2. John Duncan Archibald b. Mar. 27, 1804 m. 1830 Annie Mitchell of Halifax
d. July 27, 1830
3. Foster Hutchinson Archibald b. Dec. 24, 1806 d. 1817
4. George William Archibald b. Oct. 9, 1808 d. Apr. 1822
5. Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald b. May 10, 1810 m. Sept. 1834 Catherine Richardson of Halifax
British Consul N.Y. for 26 years d. Feb. 1, 1884
6. Elizabeth Archibald b. Jan. 19, 1812 d. Oct. 24, 1831
7. Mary Archibald b. Jan. 1, 1814 m. Aug. 29, 1833 George Hill of Halifax
d. Apr. 23, 1836
8. Rachel Dickson Archibald b. Aug. 22, 1815 d. 1818
9. Sir Thomas Dickson Archibald, b. Aug. 23, 1817 m. Sarah Smith b. in England
Judge of the Queen's bench, London, Baron of the Exchequer
Knighted because he exposed Tichburne of Atistralia for trying to get a vast estate in England--Famous
trial.
d. Oct. 18, 1876
10. Sampson Salter Blowers Archibald b. April 1, 1819 m. Anovie Corbett
d. July 1, 1893
11. Peter Suther Archibald b. Sept. 9, 1820 d. Apr. 9, 1877
12. William George Archibald b. Apr. 14, 1822 d. Feb. 24, 1857
13. Richard Archibald b. Sept. 9,1823 d. June 1824
14. Jane Amelia Archibald b. Aug. 12,1825 d. Oct. 4, 1838
15. Robert Dickson Archibald b. Feb. 17,1828 d. Feb. 28, 1828
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CHART 12
JOHN ROACH m. 1824 Sarah Amelia Dickson
b. 1794 b. Mar. 29, 1801
Son of Thomas and Ruth (Dixon) Roach Daughter of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson
of Fort Lawrence, N.S. of Onslow, N.S.
d. June 13, 1862 d. Apr. 23, 1867
Lived at Nappan, N.S.
Children
1. Lavinia Dickson Roach 1826 m. March 3, 1848 Arthur Welsley Blair (called
Wellington)
b. Apr. 13, 1817
Son of John and Agnes (Downing) Blair of Onslow, N.S.
Children
1. Eliza McKenzie m. William Embree
1 daughter Editha Maude m. Crates
2. Laura Amelia m. Dr. Henry Chipman of Grand Pre', King's Co., N.S.
1 son Robert Somerville d. Vancouver
3. Florence Gordon m. 2nd wife Dr. Henry Chipman
1 daughter Laura Annie Chipman m. Lawrence Smith
1 daughter Norma Frances Smith
4. Frances Matilda d. T r u r o
5. Hibbard, unmarried d. T r u r o
6. Louis m. 2 children, Son died, Daughter Helen M r s . Ryan,
Vancouver
7. Roland, unmarried d. Vancouver
8. Josephine, unmarried d. Vancouver
9. Susan Crawford Blair b. 1870 Lives at Amherst, N.S.
2. Ruth R. Roach b. June 9, 1828 d. Aug. 23, 1894 Unmarried
3. Thomas Roach b. 1830 d. May 30, 1901 m. June 25, 1868 Susan Lynds Bishop
b. April 27 or 29, 1847
See Chart 62
4. Robert Dickson Roach b. June 23, 1832 d. 1900 Unmarried
5. Elisha DeWolf Roach b. 1837 m.(l) Mary S. McKeen(Sophie) d. Feb. 18, 1880
2 children Fannie and John d. in childhood 1877
m.(2) 1897 Maude Charman
b. Apr. 20, 1877 See Chart 60
6. John E. Roach b. Sept. 29, 1838 m.(l) Mary Dunlap See Chart 61
d. Oct. 19, 1928 m.(2) Sarah Harrison
b. 1851, d. 1935
7. James Finlayson Grey Roach d. Feb. 23, 1849 in infancy
John Roach 1794-1862 S a r a h Amelia Dickson Roach 1801-1867

P h o t o g r a p h s of Oil P a i n t i n g s Owned By
The L a t e D r . R o b e r t Dickson Roach of Moncton, N . B .
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Stanislaus Remak b. July 20, 1846 d. Feb. 12, 1910

Son of Gustavus and Susan (Kinsley) Remak. Susan was a Philadelphia girl and a Quaker. She
died at the age of twenty-seven in 1849 when Cousin Stanislaus was only 3 y e a r s old. His father sent
him to his Grandmother Remak in Posen, then part of Germany. He returned to this country when
his father remarried, about 1858, and continued his education here. He entered the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point, graduating in the Class of 1867, was appointed as Second Lieutenant in the
Fifth U.S. Artillery and later promoted to F i r s t Lieutenant. He served four y e a r s and resigned to
study law. He was admitted to the Bar and practiced his profession in Philadelphia.

When I was about fifteen years old I visited Cousins Josie and Stanislaus in Philadelphia. Cousin
Josie was a very handsome woman, well groomed, and very dignified. She wanted to take me down
town to lunch one day and asked if I liked oysters. I said I did so she decided we would go first to a
famous oyster house, have our oysters, and later go on to some other place where they served
much finer sweets for dessert. The waiter gave us menus. I didn't know any of the variety of
oysters except "Blue points", but Cousin Josie asked if I liked fried oysters, and grandly ordered
one dozen of these, pointing on the menu to the one she had selected. The waiter said "Madam, if I
may make a suggestion, let me bring 1/2 dozen", but Cousin Josie drew herself up and severely
replied she ordered a dozen! Well, the waiter arrived shortly with a huge platter containing six
fried oysters! We each could eat but one. It happened to be the Lyn Haven, the largest oyster
served. An incident like this has remained in my mind for sixty y e a r s .

From Eaton's History, Page 192

"Bluenose" A potato imported for the Agricultural Society about 1820 by the Earl of Dalhousie. It
is from this importation that the name "Bluenose" humorously given Nova Scotians is believed to
have come.
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CHART 13
JOSEPH McLEAN DICKSON m. March 3, 1835 Lavinia Blair, by Rev. John Burnyeat
b. Feb. 16, 1807 at Onslow, N. S. b. Nov. 6, 1811 at Onslow, N. S.
Son of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson Daughter of John and Agnes (Downing) Blair
d. Feb. 21, 1865 at T r u r o , N. S. d. 1904 at N. Sydney, C. B.
93 years old

Children
1. Emily Roach Dickson b. March 3, 1837 m. John Harrison. Had no children. Lived and died in
San Francisco, Calif. All vital records destroyed
in 1906 earthquake and fire.
2. Mary Campbell Dickson b. Aug. 29, 1839 m. Harry Bourinot of Sydney, C. B.
d. 1911 Son of the French Consul. Couple separated
No children. Mary lived with her sister, Abigail
at the "Hermitage."
3. George Edward Dickson b. July 25, 1841 Unmarried. Moved to California. In business with
John Harrison. Died in California
4. Abigail Maude Dickson b. March 16, 1845 m. 1871 William Purves of No. Sydney, C. B.
d. June 1929 Son of James and Susan (Corbett) Purves of
84 years old Pictou, N. S.

Children - All born at North Sydney, C. B.

1. James George Harrison Purves b. July 5, 1872 (52
2. Thomas Dickson Archibald Purves b. Oct. 1, 1873 (53
3. Josephine Mabel Purves b. Sept. 30, 1876 See Charts (54
4. Reginald William Purves b. Apr. 21, 1878 (55
5. Stanislaus Remak Purves b. Oct. 5, 1880 (55
5. Josephine W. Dickson b. June 2, 1847 m. 1880 Stanislaus Remak of Philadelphia, Pa.
d. May 3, 1923 No children
at Halifax, N. S.
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From Eaton's "History of King's County, Nova Scotia"

Page 638 - THE DICKIE FAMILY

The founder of the Dickie family in Nova Scotia was Matthew Dickie, a linen merchant of Londonderry,
Ireland, who with his family, about 1765, though intending to come to some one of the colonies now the
United States, came instead to Cumberland county in this province. His wife was Janet (Nisbet), who be-
longed to the brave old race of Covenanters. In the same ship with the Dickies came the Creelmans and
others who also settled in Nova Scotia. The sons of Matthew and Janet Dickie were all born in Ireland
except John who was born in Cumberland, soon after the family came. Precisely how long the Dickie
family remained in Cumberland county we do not know, but in a short time they crossed Minas Basin
and settled permanently in Cornwallis. There Matthew Dickie bought land paying for it the sum of £600.
Many of the early members of the family are buried at Chipman's Corner. From the first the family
was prosperous, and in each generation since the earliest, some members of it have been prominent in
the legislature, and in other important official positions.
Page 640 James 2 Dickie (Matthew1) m. Martha Martin of Cobequid. Children:
i Hugh Logan, b. May 25, 1799, m. (1) Janet Cummings, (2) Matilda Avery, (3) Nancy Blair,
ii Isaac Patton, b. June 19, 1801, m. (1) Rebecca Barnhill of Onslow, (2) Mary Borden, of Horton.
iii William Andrew, b. Oct. 18, 1802, m. Ann Cummings of Cornwallis, and had a daughter, Bessie,
m. to Robert Crowe, of Truro, now of Los Angeles, California,
iv George, b. Mar. 22, 1804, m. Sarah Bennett, of Horton (in 1909 living at the age of 101). He had
children: James B.; Adelaide; Rebecca; Ellen; George Albert; Herbert; Amanda; Leander;
Pieman,
v James Martin, b. Nov. 26, 1806, d. Jan. 7, 1896, m. Rosanna Newcomb of Stewiacke, and had
children: Martha A., m. to Leonard Newcomb; Lewis A., of Bridgetown, N. S.; Jane, wife of
Rufus R. Ells, of Sheffield's Mills, Cornwallis.
vi John Cumming, b. Aug. 27, 1810, m. Hannah Newcomb, and had several daughters and one son,
Robert Owen, who d. about 1900, s.p.
vii Rebecca b. Jan. 26, 1813, m. to William Dickson
viii David Henry, b. May 7, 1815, d. Sept. 8, 1900, m. his cousin, Susanna Dickie, of Hantsport, and
lived in Parrsborough. He had a son, Robert,
ix Martha, b. April 27, 1817, m. to John Archibald, of Bible Hill, Truro, and had a son, Rev. F. W.
Archibald, Ph. D., pastor of the Presbyterian churches at Amherst, N. S., and St. Thomas,
Ontario.
x Robert, M. D., b. July 6, 1820, became professor in a medical college in Philadelphia.
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CHART 14

WILLIAM DICKSON m. (1) Feb. 22, 1841 at Cornwallis, N.S. Rebecca Dickie
b. Dec. 3, 1815 at Onslow, N.S. b. Jan. 26, 1813
Son of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson Dau. of James and Martha (Martin) Dickie
Farmer d. Dec. 15, 1863 at Onslow, N.S.
d. Nov. 10, 1881 at Brookfield, N.S.
F i r s t seven children born at Onslow
1. Charles Clarence Dickson b. Mar. 28, 1842 m. Jessie Dickson See Chart #18
d. Nov. 20, 1921 at San Francisco, Cal.

2. Robert DeWolf Dickson b. Feb. 2, 1844

d. Oct. 5, 1863 - 19 y e a r s old.

3. James Arthur Dickson b. Dec. 11, 1845 C rippled, blind from Rheumatic Fever when a baby.
d. May 9, 1911 Remarkable man.
at Palo Alto, Cal.

4. Lavinia Dickson b. Sept. 2, 1847 m. James Calvin Foss See Chart #21
d. Dec. 17, 1927 at Woodland, Cal.

5. Martha Archibald Dickson b. Aug. 7,1849 m. David Henderson McKay See Chart #22
d. Feb. 9,1930 at Lake Placid, Florida

6. Norman Leslie Dickson b. Feb. 10, 1851 m. Ida L. Cutten See Chart #19
d. Apr. 1, 1933 at Rialto, Cal.

Grandfather William Dickson made a trip to California in the late 1850's. No one r e m e m b e r s the
exact date. He was away about a year and on his return to Onslow told his children so much about the
country and the wonderful opportunities there, that a s they grew old enough each and every one of the
family, except my mother, Martha, who m a r r i e d and lived in Boston, trekked to California to live.

Uncle Charlie went first in 1865 and settled in Humboldt Co. in the northern part of the state. He
developed a large dairy ranch at Loleta, not far from Eureka. Uncle Norman in 1870 settled at
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Elsinore, Southern California, not far from Riverside, where he developed a fruit ranch, raising raisin
grapes, apricots and English walnuts. Aunt Vene went out to teach school, where she met and m a r r i e d
James Calvin Foss who lived near Uncle Charlie. After Grandfather's death in 1881, Robert, fifteen
y e a r s old, and Ernest, ten, went out to Uncle Charlie in 1882 and made their home with him. Uncle
Arthur, blind and crippled, joined them the same year, after making us a visit in Roxbury, Mass.

Grandmother Rebecca was very ill for two y e a r s before she died in 1863, heart, kidneys and
dropsy. Aunt Vene and Mother nursed her. They were only sixteen and fourteen when their mother
died. A pretty tough experience for two young girls. In 1865 Grandfather m a r r i e d Elizabeth, the
widow of Isaac Miller. Their son Robert was born in Onslow but when he was three y e a r s old,
Grandfather sold the Onslow farm, bought property in Truro and lived there about nine y e a r s before
moving to Brookfield where he died in 1881.

Lavinia was named for her Grandmother Lavinia (DeWolf) and Martha was named for her Aunt
Martha Dickie who m a r r i e d an Archibald. The two girls were not alike. Aunt Vene had red hair
and was said to "favour" the DeWolfs. Her son Harry had red hair. He married Irene, also a red-
head, and all four of their children had red hair. James Foss has recently written me that three of
his granddaughters have hair like their great-uncle Harry and their great-grandmother Lavinia.

My mother, Martha, was very blond with hazel eyes and very clear fair skin. Her complexion,
she said, was due to soap and water. She never allowed us girls to use powder or cosmetics of any
kind (and we never have to this day, not even lipstick). Hind's Honey and Almond Cream for rough
hands, and Cashmere Bouquet soap was a standby in our household.

A few words should be said of "Peggy" a serving maid who went to live with Robert and Lavinia
the day William was born, and faithfully served the family for sixty y e a r s . She is buried in the
Dickson lot in the old Onslow Cemetery.

Uncle Arthur was stricken with rheumatic fever when a baby and left crippled and blind, totally
blind from his seventh year. Before that he remembered green t r e e s and the outline of buildings.
While he had the best medical care available, which was very meager in those days over a hundred
y e a r s ago, there was little that could be done. He grew to manhood but could never stand erect.
With his crippled hands he could just grasp the seat of a low chair, especially built for him, iron
braced, cowhide leather seat with a low back, a strip of leather six inches wide. In this he could
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hitch himself about. Knowing the layout of the house he would approach a door to enter a room. If he
found the door closed he would always work his way back to reclose it. If he found it open, he would
leave it open. He could hold a fork or a spoon in his hand and feed himself when the food had been
prepared for him.

He had an inquiring mind, asked many questions and was interested in gleaning a s much informa-
tion a s possible. He had no formal schooling. His brothers and s i s t e r s taught him and read to him
a great deal. I imagine his mother gave him a s much attention as possible until her death when he
was about seventeen y e a r s old. "Peggy" was his loyal and devoted attendant.

When Uncle Arthur visited us in Roxbury, I was about six y e a r s old and learned to love him and
to marvel at this blind man, cheerful, bright, good company, entering into all conversations. Never
a word of complaint. No sign of being sorry for himself.

When he went to California my father wanted to make the trip with him but he wouldn't listen to
it. "Just put me in the care of the conductor on the train. He will see that I am transferred across
Chicago and started on my way again. Charlie will meet me in San Francisco". And that is the way
it worked out0

Sitting on the veranda of the ranch house Uncle Arthur would announce that such or such a
neighbor was coming. He heard and recognized the gait of the horse long before any of the family
could see or hear them.

In the neighborhood there were some friendly itinerant Indians, called "Digger" Indians (not the
name of a tribe). They had great respect for and confidence in this blind man, and would talk to
him and tell him their troubles and often ask him to send away for articles they wanted. It
wasn't long before he built up quite a trade with the help of his brothers. They built a country
store near the railroad station at Loleta. Uncle Arthur would be there every day, talk to the
customers, and if he were alone say, "Just help yourself". They would do so and pay him for
their purchase. No one ever wanted to cheat Uncle Arthur.

The remarkable thing to me is that with his double handicap, and at the age of forty, he became
self-supporting. He had a cottage built on the next lot to the store where he lived, with a couple
keeping house for him. He had a level platform built a c r o s s to the store on which he could work
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his way back and forth in his chair. Always independent, he never wanted others to do for him any-
thing he could do for himself.
When we children were all married and settled Mother went West to make her home with Uncle
Arthur whom she felt needed her. It wasn't long before they decided to build a home in Palo Alto
to be near Aunt Vene who was sending her children thru Leland Stanford University. His joy was
unbounded when he could be taken to the University to lectures.

In 1907 I was left a young widow with two children to support and educate. It was Uncle Arthur
who urged me to join them in California. He offered to give me a small ranch he owned and help
me get started. But that is another story.

Uncle Arthur lived to be 66 years old, with a wonderful philosophy of life, beautiful character,
sweet gentle disposition, faith in human nature, helpful to others, full of initiative. In his will,
he remembered each of his seven nieces with a small legacy. The nephews he thought should
fend for themselves.
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CHART 15
WILLIAM DICKSON m. (2) June 20, 1865 Elizabeth Miller
b. Dec. 3, 1815 at Onslow, N.S. Widow of Isaac Miller
Son of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson b. June 10, 1830
Farmer Daughter of Alexander and Sarah Miller of T r u r o
d. Nov. 10, 1881 at Brookfield, N.S. d.
Children
7. Robert Otto Bergner Dickson b. Aug. 15, 1867 m. Nov. 27, 1899 Margaret Gibson
Banker at Onslow, N.S. See Chart #19
8. William Ernest Dickson b. Feb. 4, 1872 m.(l) Jan. 24, 1904 Nellie May Holloway
at T r u r o , N.S. See Chart #20
d. Nov. 26, 1934 m.(2) Aug. 15, 1922 Edith M. Montgomery
WILLIAM DICKSON
m.(3) Elizabeth Baxter
b. Dec. 10, 1845
Dau. of Alexander and Sarah Jane (Pushie) Baxter
of Antigonish, N.S.
Children
9. Stanhope Dickson b. Sept. 4, 1879 m. Dec. 8, 1909 Charlotte Young b. Sept. 9, 1884
at Brookfield, N.S. at
d. Jan. 3, 1932 St. Ann's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York
Lived in Montreal from 1910-1932
Children
1. Gladys Mildred Dickson b. Nov. 1, 1912
2. Stanhope Young Dickson b. Sept.30, 1917
10. Josephine Dickson b. Nov. 21, 1881 m.(l) Owen Porch of Nevada
at Brookfield, N.S. No children
d. 1927 Later divorced
in California
m.(2) Frank Stafford
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CHART 16
ROBERT BENJAMIN DICKSON m. Aug. 1, 1832 Catherine Muirhead
b. Apr. 27, 1803 at Onslow, N. S. at Halifax, N. S. By the
Son of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson Rev. Archdeacon Willis of St. P a u l ' s
B a r r i s t e r in Truro d. Nov. 2, 1882 at Sackville, N. B.
d. at P a r r s b o r o , N. S.

Children
1. David George Dickson b. Jan. 12, 1835 m. Dec. 16, 1875 Laura Gifford Black
at Truro of Sackville, N. B.
By the Rector of the Parishes of Sackville and
Dorchester, Rev. I. D. H. Browne
No children
2. Robert Dickson b. Sept. 23, 1837 m. Sept. 17, 1862 Joanna Blair
at Halifax, N. S. at Truro By the Rev. William M-Culloch
Daughter of Samuel J. and Allison Blair
Children
4 Sons, 1 Daughter
3. Lucius Dickson m. Aug. 17, 1870 Sarah Snowball
Merchant in Truro at T r u r o at Sackville, N. B.
Children ?

Unable to find complete records of this family.

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CHART 17
LAVINIA DICKSON m. Jan. 28, 1841 James Bain Davison of Wallace, N. S.
b. Feb. 4, 1813, b. 1813
Daughter of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson Son of Thomas and Janet (Urquhart) Davison of Pictou
of Onslow, N. S. Ship Builder.
d. Jan. 21, 1901

Children
1. Mary Campbell Davison b. Mar. 12, 1842 m. Thomas Brodie of Quebec, Ont.
d. Jan. 12, 1890 This couple had 3 sons and one daughter - all dead
Charles, Arthur, Mary and Thomas.
2. Arthur Davison b. April 5, 1844 m. 1873 Mary A. Huestis of Amherst
d. May 29, 1897 Daughter of Richard B. and Augusta Huestis
at Amherst See C hart 26
3. Robert Dickson Davison b. Oct. 3, 1846 m. 1876 Mary Araminta Purdy
d. Jan. 1, 1910 b. Dec. 1851
at Wallace Daughter of Gilbert and Elizabeth (Treen) Purdy
of Wallace, N. S.
Children
1 daughter Mary Brodie Davison b. July 11, 1879
m. Jan. 12, 1903 Michael A. Kennedy
b. May 22, 1874
Son of Nicholas and Katherine (Brown) Kennedy
of Pembrooke, Ont.
1 son b. Oct. 18, 1907 John Alexander Kennedy - Unmarried
Electrical and Refrigerator Engineer and
Contractor of St. John, N. B.
4. David Davison b. May 24, 1849 Unmarried
d. Aug.20, 1892
at Wallace
5. Charles Creed Davison b. Nov. 5, 1852 Unmarried
d. Jan. 19, 1917
at Norwood, Mass.
Mary Davison Kennedy lives in the old home at Wallace in the summer and lives with her son in the winter at
Kinghurst, N. B. 1951 address Box 603, St. John, N. B.
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Excerpts from Mary Davison Kennedy's letters from Wallace, N. S., 1950

The story of Charles Dickson having to flee to his ship in New York Harbor in a hurry from a dinner
party is true. Grandma Lavinia told it often and showed us the small brooch he wore in his stock at
that time. She gave it to my father and I have it, but in St. John I also have a flat ring of no special
value which Grandma called the "Dickson ring." I think these two things were all she ever had of
family stuff.
This old house was built and furnished for her and contained everything when she came, even to
trained servants, as Annabel Davison had come from Pictou to do just that, and it was a good thing as
"Viney" was a "DeWolfe" and practically useless about housework. She had gone to school at Horton
Academy and was a "perfect lady" and never changed.
Grandpa and Grandma were married Jan. 28, 1841 in Onslow and drove in a sleigh to Wallace that
day and the next, stopping at Halfway House in Wentworth. Grandma was a tall, very thin girl and
nearly froze. I have her wedding d r e s s of wool and silk, cream, with tiny waist and voluminous skirt.
Also her slippers of white kid, no heels, and white silk stockings. Also have a green silk which she
never liked, didn't wear out - it is like new. All their materials were imported, probably French.
Most of her finery was used up. Mary got a lot and all the best silver when she married.
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CHART 18
CHARLES CLARENCE DICKSON m. (1) 1865 Jessie Baxter Dickson
b. Mar. 28, 1842 b. Oct. 29, 1843 at Onslow, Nova Scotia
Son of William and Rebecca (Dickie) Dickson Daughter of Hugh and Rachel (McCurdy) Dickson
of Onslow, Nova Scotia Entirely different Dickson family
Moved to Humboldt County, California, 1865 d. Feb. 4, 1902 at Loleta, Calif.
d. Nov. 20, 1921 at San Francisco, Calif.

Children
1. Walter Franks Dickson b. Dec. 18, 1865 m. Oct. 1, 1895 Mary Mott
at Onslow, N. S. b . Sept. 22, 1867 See Chart 23
2. Caroline Irene Dickson Sept. 24, 1870 m. 4 times
at Table Bluffs
Later renamed Loleta See Chart 24
3. Mary Blanche Dickson b. June 19, 1872 m. June 18, 1903 Albert Ernest Walling, J r .
at Table Bluffs b. Aug. 14, 1876 at St. Louis, Mo.
d. Aug. 19, 1935 d. Feb. 2, 1938 at Fresno, Calif.
at Fresno, Calif. Lawyer, lived in Fresno
No children

CHARLES CLARENCE DICKSON m. (2) 1906 ? Catherine (Connelly) Garretson

Widow of Livingston Garetson of San Francisco
b. Aug. 4, 1859
d. Jan. 13, 1948
Vital records destroyed in San Francisco
Fire 1906
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CHART 19
NORMAN LESLIE DICKSON m. Dec. 16, 1886 Ida L. Cutten at Eureka, Cal.
b. Feb. 10, 1851 at Onslow, N.S. b. Feb. 10, 1860 at Tatamagouche, N.S.
Son of William and Rebecca (Dickie) Dickson Daughter of William and Elizabeth (Woodin) Cutten
d. Apr. 1, 1933 d. Dec. 6, 1948 at Rialto, Calif.
1.Daughter, Louise Foss Dickson b. Dec. 6, 1896 m. Dec. 1, 1915 George Arthur Woodruff
at Elsinore, Calif. at Riverside, Calif.
b. Nov. 6, 1893 at Santa Ana, Calif.
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . George A. Woodruff Son of James and Roselle (Locke) Woodruff
345 No. Riverside Ave. Electrical Engineer
Rialto, Calif. No children
ROBERT OTTO BURGNER DICKSON m Nov. 27, 1899 Margaret Gibson
b. Aug. 15, 1867 at Onslow, N.S. b. Oct. 1, 1874
Son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Dickson Daughter of Daniel and Mary (Hessig) Gibson
Moved to Humboldt County, California 1882 of Hydesville, Calif.
President of Bank of Loleta, California
from 1910 to date
1 Daughter, Catherine DeWolf Dickson b. Dec. 6, 1900m. (1) June 6, 1929 Sophus Christensen at Loleta,Calif.
at Loleta, Calif. b. Oct. 5, 1898
Graduate Univ. of Calif. 1924 A.B. Son of Hans and Johanna Christensen of Ferndale, Calif.
Teacher, Eureka, Calif. Schools d. May 1943
Children
1. Robert Lee Christensen, b. Jan. 29, 1930 at Ferndale, Calif.
Won Scholarship at Univ. of Calif., Junior this year (Pre-Law)
2. Twins - Donald Joe and David Christensen, b. Nov. 1, 1934 at Ferndale, Calif.
David died in infancy.
Catherine (Dickson) Christensen m. (2) Oct. 31, 1948 Leo Squires
b. May 25, 1900
1951 address: Son of
Mr. and M r s . Leo Squires Herman A. and Senora (McDermott) Squires
2303 G. Street of Jolly, Iowa
Eureka, Calif. With Forest Division
Dept. of Natural Resources, Calif.
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CHART 20
WILLIAM ERNEST DICKSON m (1) Jan. 24, 1904 Nellie May Holloway
b. Feb. 4, 1872, T r u r o , N.S. b. May 22, 1872, Kansas City, Mo.
Son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Dickson Daughter of Benjamin and Emma (Lee) Holloway
of Onslow, N.S. d. Sept. 22, 1918, San Jose, Calif.
Moved to California, 1882
Stanford University, 1900, A.B.
Stanford Law, 1901
Attorney at Law
d. Nov. 26, 1934
Child by first marriage
1. Virginia Lee Dickson b. Feb. 3, 1914 m. Feb. 15, 1942 Burlingame, Calif., Eldon Aaron Cochran
at Eureka, Calif. b. Nov. 12, 1910
University of California, 1936 Son of Aaron and Anna (Burnett) Cochran
Teacher-Secretary of Salem, Ore. (Later Eureka, Calif.)
Merchant
Children
1951 address: 1. Virginia Kay Cochran b. June 18, 1943, Chico, Calif.
Mr. and M r s . Eldon A. Cochran 2. Carol Lee Cochran b. July 15, 1945, Scotia, Calif.
215 B Street 3. Mary Lynn Cochran b. June 24, 1948, Eureka, Calif.
Davis, Calif.
WILLIAM ERNEST DICKSON m (2) Aug. 15, 1922 Edith Mae Montgomery
b. Nov. 17, 1886 at Sedalia, Mo.
Daughter of Thomas and Nellie (Lewis) Montgomery
Children by second marriage
2. Nellie Mae Dickson b. Nov. 22,-1924 m. Sept. 12, 1948 Darrel Keith Brown
at Eureka, Calif. b. March 14, 1923 at Eureka, Calif.
University of California, 1946 Son of Gordon and Ivy (Lay) Brown
Recreation Director Teacher-Cragmont School, Berkeley
Daughter: Donna Kathleen Brown b. Nov. 18, 1949 at Berkeley, Calif.
Ernest Montgomery Dickson b. Jan. 24, 1926 m. Dec. 15, 1951 Florence Pressey
at Eureka, Calif. b. March 23, 1927
University of California Daughter of Eugene and Ruth (Pearson) Pressey
Lt. j . g . Navy 1943-1946 Pacific Area of Sacramento, Calif.
Attorney at Law
1951 address: M r s . William Ernest Dickson 1952 address: Mr. and M r s . Ernest Montgomery Dickson
27 Menlo Place 328 Foothill Blvd.
Berkeley 7, Calif. Oakland, Calif.
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CHART 21
LAVINIA DICKSON m. Dec. 23, 1875 James Calvin Foss at Table Bluff, Calif.
b. Sept. 2, 1847 at Onslow, N. S. b. June 3, 1836 at Saco, Maine
Daughter of William and Rebecca (Dickie) Dickson Son of T r i s t r a m and Lydia (Cousins) Foss
Teacher b . 1800 d. 1876 d. 1840
d. Dec. 17, 1927 at Woodland, Calif. Went to California in 1856
Engaged in Agriculture
d. June 29, 1927 at Woodland, Calif.

Children
1. Charles Dickson Foes b. Feb. 27, 1877 at Boston, Mass.
d. Mar. 13, 1877 " " " Buried in McKay Family Lot Mount Hope Cemetery
2. Charles Dickson Foss b. Feb. 8, 1878 at Table Bluff, Calif,
d. Mar. 6, 1894 " " (Later renamed Loleta)
3. John Harrison Foss b. Jan. 7, 1879 at Loleta m. Aug. 4, 1909 Irene Crook
Stanford University 1903 at San Francisco, Calif. See Chart 29
Civil Engineer
4. Martha Archibald Foss b. Sept. 20, 1880 at Loleta m. Mar. 6, 1908 David Thomas Fleming
Stanford University 1905 at Honolulu See Chart 30
Majored in Mathematics
5. Clara Clifford Foss b. July 1, 1882 at Loleta m. Oct. 29, 1904 James Watt Coons
at Mayfield, Calif. See Chart 31
6. James Calvin F o s s , J r . b . Jan. 5, 1885 at Loleta m. 1908 Emma Heaney
Stanford University 1908 at Maui, T. H. See Chart 32
Civil Engineer
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CHART 22
MARTHA ARCHIBALD DICKSON m. Nov. 9, 1869 David Henderson McKay
b. Aug. 7, 1849 at Onslow, N. S. b. Nov. 3, 1846 at St. John, N. B.
Daughter of William and Rebecca (Dickie) Dickson Son of John P . and Maria (Henderson) McKay
d. Feb. 9, 1930 at Lake Placid, Florida Real Estate, Speculative Builder
d. Oct. 13, 1898 at Brookline, Mass.

Children - All born at Dorchester, Mass.

1. Rebecca McKay b. Feb. 1871
d. June 10, 1871 A "Blue Baby"
2. Clarence Leslie McKay h. May 9, 1872 m. Oct. 3, 1893 Harriet Philena Bedell
Lived in California d. May 24, 1951 at Providence, R. I See Chart 41
3. Emily Foss McKay b. Feb. 14, 1876 m. (1) July 11, 1900 Frederick Wilder Beal
m.(2) May 28, 1924 Melvil Dewey
See Chart 42
4. Alice Dickson McKay b. July 23, 1878 m. (1) Jan. 22, 1902 Henry Hooker Bubier
m. (2) Dec. 15, 1917 Frank Allen Daly
See Chart 43
5. David Henderson McKay, J r . b. June 11, 1880 m. (1) 1902 Alice Hollaway at San Francisco, Calif,
Has lived in California m. (2) Florence Norton at Los Angeles, Calif,
most of the time for over fifty years m. (3) Rowena Yoxall at Santa Ana, Calif,
m. (4) Sept. 22, 1931 Delia Bell Wittenmyer Orr
at Prescott, Arizona
b. 1893 Knox County, Indiana
Daughter of William E. and Mary (Gilmore) Wittenmyer
No children
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David H e n d e r s o n McKay 1846-1898

At Age 50
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M a r t h a Archibald Dickson McKay 1849-1930

At Age 75
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David Henderson McKay

My father, David Henderson McKay learned his trade of carpenter and builder by working with his
father in St. John, N. B. Before he was 20 years old he went to Boston to make his way. He had just
enough money, not more than $5., to pay his first week's board in advance. He got a job and went to
work. Within two years he was building for himself.
After two years in Boston, Father went home to St. John to visit his family. While there he decided
to go across the bay to Nova Scotia. Grandmother told him where to go and which relatives to see and
said to be sure to call on "Cousin William's" family at Onslow. In due course he arrived there. Martha
was delegated to drive him about to meet other relatives. He promptly fell in love with her. She was
very blond, with hazel eyes, and clear beautiful skin. She gave him no encouragement but he kept up
his courtship by mail. When he wrote asking for her photograph she sent that of a girl friend. She
wasn't going to have her picture in any man's room! At last he wrote her he would be there on a cer-
tain day to marry her. They were married November 9, 1869 when she was twenty and Father twenty-
three years old.
For 30 years Father was in the speculative building business and real estate. He never had a part-
ner, worked alone, created, and took full responsibility. In the early days he wrote some fire insurance.
He built over 400 buildings during this time, apartment houses, and single dwelling houses in Dorchester,
Roxbury, Boston, Allston (where one summer he built 90 individual homes), quite a development in
those days.
In Brookline he was always buying larger tracts of land and building higher grade houses. He would
have the streets laid out and surfaced, sidewalks built, sewer, water and gas pipes laid, and have them
accepted as city or town streets. He grassed a parkway between sidewalk and streets and planted shade
trees. He built a few houses to start the development and sold lots to others.
He built two of the first 6 story brick apartment hotels in Boston—the "Palmerston" and "Argyle"
on Massachusetts Ave. These were quite swanky when built and a good investment for many years.
As years went on the neighborhood changed and "stylish" people began moving into "Back Bay."
In the early 1880's there was a great craze for roller skating. Father became fascinated with the
sport but wanted to have a rink with a clear floor without posts. He designed and built the Highland
Roller Skating Rink with a barrel shaped roof (something like a Quonset Hut) which was very successful
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for a few y e a r s , until the craze died out. He then operated the rink for a riding school with horse shows
and other entertainments. This in addition to his regular business. In a heavy snowstorm about 1887
the roof could not stand the weight of snow and part of it caved in—no iron beams used in buildings in
those days. Fortunately no loss of life. The rink was never rebuilt. It represented a loss of $100,000.
Think how much more it would mean today!
F a t h e r ' s greatest pleasure was yachting. He loved the sea and was a skillful, accomplished skipper.
Always had a boat of some kind, one the "Emily Foss" named for me. The one I remember best was
"The Triton," a 40 ft. sloop, built for solid comfort but not for great speed. He kept one man on
board—Oscar, a Swedish sailor who was with him for many summer seasons. Come good weather in
April Oscar would appear at F a t h e r ' s office, "Ban it about time to put the boat in the water, Mr. Mc-
Kay?" And then "The Triton" which had been in Lawlers Boat Yard, South Boston all winter, would be
put in commission, scraped, painted, scrubbed and all the furnishings taken out of moth balls. The
mooring for "The Triton" was off the Boston Yacht Club of which Father was a member. After a busy
day in the city Father would drive to South B o s t o a a t 3:30 or 4:00, put the horse and "Goddard Buggy"
in a livery stable, find Oscar waiting for him at the Yacht Club and any friends he had invited, and off
they would sail about the Harbor and outside if there were time, then back to the mooring where Oscar,
an excellent cook, would cook their dinner in the little galley where he sat on a seat and could reach
everything without moving. I used to think that was the way housekeeping should be done! Mother was
a poor sailor and went seldom but as we children grew older we had wonderful trips, sometimes sailing
to Marblehead for several days to see the Yacht Races. Often on fishing trips outside the Harbor.
Oscar was always on hand to bait our hooks, take the fish off the lines, and then clean and cook the
fish—no fish ever tasted so good. On special holidays Father would allow us to invite a lot of our young
friends for the day. These were regular picnics and we would take cooked hams, legs of lamb, potato
chips, fresh green peas which we would shell and cook, and freezers of ice cream with cake and
cookies for dessert.

For the last eight consecutive winters Father went to Bermuda for a vacation where he hired a sloop
and sailed every day, for a month or six weeks. Mother went several times when she could make up
her mind to endure the two day ocean trip. My sister and I made several trips, and in 1895 Father took
us two girls to Bermuda for two weeks and then joined the "Orinoco" on a West Indies Cruise, visiting
13 of the Islands and Nassau. I remember it all so well and celebrated my 19th birthday on February
14th on board.
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Now that I have learned our ancestor Charles Dickson of Onslow had shipyards, built ships, sailed
ships, trained several of his sons as sea captains, I am sure Father must have inherited his love of
the sea from him. No other m e m b e r s of the family were so inclined. F a t h e r ' s unerring judgment,
coping with storms, squalls and ticklish situations, won the deepest respect and confidence from all
his friends and associates.

He always wanted to share with others. We invited friends to fill any vacant seat in carriage or
sleigh, took them on yachting trips and had house guests constantly. When driving by he would pick
up five or six of our small friends, take us to or from school.

Emily McKay Dewey

DAVID HENDERSON McKAY F a m i l y G r o u p . Made in 1887

—
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The Way One Family Lived in the 1890's

Father, David Henderson McKay, excellent business man, generous, open-hearted, full of fun, bright
and jolly. Dark brown wavy hair, clear blue eyes, always wore side burns or whiskers. Never drank
or smoked. A good disciplinarian. Very charitable.
Mother, Martha Archibald (Dickson) McKay, gentle, religious, excellent housekeeper, very com-
petent and resourceful. Blond hair, hazel eyes, beautiful clear skin. A sweet even disposition.
Children:
Clarence Leslie (called Kay) large frame, brown hair, hazel eyes. Married October 1893.
Emily Foss (called Em) large frame, brown wavy hair, hazel eyes.
Alice Dickson (called Plum) small frame, blond hair, blue eyes. Noted for small, dainty feet and
ankles.
David Henderson, J r . (called Dave) blond, tall, thin, blue eyes.
We lived on the corner of Winchester and Coolidge Streets, Brookline, Mass. in a new home built for
us, not pretentious but comfortable. The whole development was on the first electric car line which
came out the newly built two way Beacon Street, turning north at Coolidge Corner on to Harvard Street
and continuing on to Allston. On Beacon Street the car tracks were in a center parkway, an innovation
then. I saw all the elm t r e e s planted on the parkway—a beautiful sight now. Our house was only a block
from the car line which made it very convenient.
We attended the Harvard Congregational Church and went to the Brookline Public Schools walking a
mile each way except in stormy weather when we were driven to school. Brookline has always been an
independent town and is not a part of Boston. Its schools have an excellent reputation.
Kay had a year or two at Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass., a co-educational institution, and there he
met his future wife. Em had to leave school at sixteen on account of severe headaches, which continued
intermittently for about five y e a r s . This meant giving up the cherished hope of college. Plum went to
the fashionable Gilman Finishing School on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Dave refused to go to
school when father died. You see we were not a scholarly family but had to depend on native intelligence
and initiative to carry us through.
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We McKay children were blessed with the finest parents one could have. Their deep love for each
other and devotion to their family came first. I never heard them say one c r o s s word to each other.
While they might not always think alike they never quarreled.
Father left his business c a r e s in the office and when he came home was ready to devote his time to
his family. There was never any "hush, hush! you must keep quiet, your father is home." He would
answer our questions, help us with school "home work" and taught us in every way possible—to drive, to
bowl, and to sail. He was an excellent poker and whist player, taught us and played with us. He took us
to all the best theatrical shows, at the old Hollis Street Theatre, the Boston Theatre, the Boston Museum,
and Keith's Vaudeville on Tremont Street. We girls went often to New York when he had to go on busi-
n e s s . I remember a trip to Old Point Comfort with both Mother and Father; several trips to Bermuda
with a cruise to the West Indies in 1895. Mother wouldn't go and was very anxious as we girls were
starting off without a chaperone—Father said he was chaperone enough! In 1893 Father took Mother,
Plum and me to the Chicago World's Fair. After two weeks there Mother and we girls continued on to
California. It was always such-a good time when we traveled with Father. He wanted the best of every-
thing and was most generous.
We visited all the California relatives, Uncle Norm and Aunt Ida at Elsinore on their fruit ranch.
Then several days in Los Angeles where we saw the sights and Robert and Bessie Crow's family. In
San Francisco we visited John and Emily (Dickson) Harrison (for whom I was named). They had a well
trained Chinaman servant who did the housework, marketing, cooking and serving, took care of the
garden and grounds and found time to sit and smoke outside the door of his one room house in the back
garden! He never asked for a vacation, simply provided a substitute, coached in the family's ways, to
take his place until he returned. A little disconcerting to go down to breakfast and find a stranger, but
the system seemed to work. Cousin John engaged a plain clothes man as a safe guide to show us the
old China Town, three stories underground. It was a strange and tragic sight. I presume such condi-
tions no longer exist.
From San Francisco we went by boat north to Eureka, a very rough trip which our dear mother hated,
but there were no roads or trains up the coast in those days. Plum and I a r e excellent sailors, never
seasick. Out about fifteen miles from Eureka we visited at Uncle Charlie's large dairy ranch. The
family were all home that summer, which included Walter, Carrie and Blanche; Uncle Arthur, Bob and
Ern and a lot of young people visiting, Mary Mott and Gippy who later m a r r i e d Walter and Bob. A big
family, usually twenty at the table for Aunt J e s s i e to cater to, beside the ranch workers.
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Aunt Vene's family lived a few miles away. It was wonderful to know all the families about which we
had heard regularly each week, for Aunt Vene and Mother were devoted s i s t e r s and wrote volumes regu-
larly to each other.
From there we had to go back to San Francisco to take a train for Seattle, Washington, where we saw
Uncle Ern McKay's family, and then home.
The winters as I remember were colder with much more snow. Every Sunday afternoon we joined
the procession of handsome sleighs on Beacon Street, all done up in furs. A big bearskin hung over the
back of the double sleigh, with large fur robes. Red plumes decorated the whip socket and correspond-
ing post on the opposite side of the dashboard. Mother in sealskin coat and hood with muff, Father in
mink lined black broadcloth great coat with fur collar, and we children in heavy coats, fur trinned, with
muffs and hoods. It was at a slow pace as sleighs were three and four in a row. If one wanted to see
fast horses the old "Brighton Mill Dam" was the place. We seldom went there Sundays as the crowd
was rough.
On Sundays it was Sunday School 9:30 A.M., then Church Service at 11:, home for a big dinner, drive
in the afternoon—Young People's meeting early in the evening and Evening Service at 7:30. Father went
regularly all winter until the boating season started sometime in May, after which he spent his time
Sundays sailing. We were quite grown up before Mother would allow us to skip Church and Sunday School
for sailing with Father.
Mother, brought up on the old Dickson homestead in Onslow, seemed to know how to do everything and
one of her jobs was to teach us two girls how to keep house from A to Z. We had servants but I can r e -
member her telling me that no matter whether I ever had to do it or not, any servant would have more
respect for me for "knowing how."
When we moved to Brookline in 1888 Mother started buying foods regularly at Faneuil Hall Market
in Boston. She would be driven in by the coachman twice a week, make her purchases in the various
stalls, each merchant carrying his own specialty—beef, mutton and lamb, pork, poultry, fish, cheese,
dairy products, etc. Outside the building were any number of vegetable and fruit stands with farm
wagons, from which you selected potatoes, root vegetables, apples, etc. brought in from the country.
One had to wait until fruits and vegetables were in season (no frozen foods or early shipments from
distant p a r t s of the country).
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On Saturday mornings Plum and I would go with Mother and be coached on cuts of meat, how to select
tender fowl, the amount needed for our family table, etc. We learned the various stalls from which to
buy, met and knew the proprietors. Mother had such a nice manner with them that many y e a r s later they
would continue to ask for her.
At the age of sixteen I took on the menus and buying for the family and continued until Father died in
1898 when Plum started to do it. In the meantime I had taken several courses in cooking at the Boston
Cooking School. Fannie F a r m e r was my teacher. At home Mother taught us to preserve fruits, make
jellies, jams, spiced fruits and various kinds of pickles. Our cold closet in the basement was full to
over-flowing and included stone crocks of mincemeat. Also delicious rich fruit cake, baked in wooden
boxes—if the oven was too hot for the wood it was too hot for the cake. Baked in this way there were
no hard crusty sides or bottom to be cut off as when the cake was baked in tin. Each year one of
Mother's Dickie cousins, either Bob or Clem, sent Father a small b a r r e l of pickled salt shad from
Nova Scotia—a delicacy for breakfast, broiled, after having been soaked over night in cold water
to freshen.
All our dry groceries and fancy items we bought from S. S. Pierce Co., first from their city stores
and later from Coolidge Corner where they established a store on the site of the old Coolidge Grocery.
Father liked a good cup of tea and never drank coffee except when traveling and he couldn't get tea
properly made. A friend was in the wholesale tea business and imported a specially fine blend for a
few of his friends. Fifty pounds packed in a lead lined chest covered with woven straw, sewed on,
would come each year. No tea has ever tasted right to me since.
To have good milk and cream for the family we kept a Jersey cow, pastured on the side of Corey
Hill! Our man milked the cow and took c a r e of the h o r s e s . Father used a horse each day when he drove
about his business. Every other day that horse had a r e s t .
Mother was adept at sewing, made all our clothes when we were small and taught us how to sew by
hand, on the sewing machine (Willcox & Gibbs), and to knit, crochet, embroider and darn. In the 1890's
we had a real dressmaking spree twice a year, Spring and Fall, when an excellent dressmaker, engaged
six months in advance, came each day for two weeks. We had bought all materials, trimmings and
findings for the gowns we wanted. The spare room was turned into a sewing room and no dates were
made that interfered with fittings! Miss Robinson I remember well. She would bring all her latest
Fashion magazines, we would decide what we wanted, then she would cut, baste and fit, and kept the
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r e s t of us busy "pinking" a silk dust ruffle, binding seams and taking out bastings. Dresses then
touched the ground, each one had a taffeta silk lining. Hair-cloth was used to interline the bottom of
s k i r t s to make them hold their shape. Chamois paper lined our puffed sleeves. Rows and rows of vel-
vet ribbon were used for trimming as well as ruffles and lace. Bustles came into style. For summer
sports wear we wore long gored white pique skirts with white linen or fine lawn shirtwaists, a crushed
velvet colored ribbon belt and looked very much like the "Gibson Girl" pictures.
Mother's best gowns were made by I. D. Spitz who had a large fashionable dressmaking establish-
ment in Boston. Mr. Spitz worked six y e a r s with the famous "Worth" of P a r i s . He designed each gown
for his individual customers, carried a large selection of beautiful materials and trimmings. I felt
"made" when Mr. Spitz designed my first gown and coat, at seventeen. When Martin and Lucy Dickie
of Truro and Bob and Mary Dickie of Kentville came to visit us the men insisted that their wives have
Spitz gowns also, and went back to Nova Scotia with beautiful creations.
When we girls were twelve and fourteen we were given an allowance of $300. a year each for spend-
ing money and clothes. It looked like a lot to us but when it came to buying fur trimmed coats, with
muffs to match, and a fetching new hat to complete the costume, we would ask Father to take us to town,
and then we would take him shopping, only one of us at a time. He always selected something nicer and
m o r e expensive and paid for it. When Mother would say, "Dave, you'll ruin those girls," he would an-
swer, "Perhaps so, but they a r e my girls, and really their allowance isn't enough!
Our house was open house to all relatives and friends. We were told to invite our young friends, that
they were welcome to what we had. That was the true essence of hospitality. How we ever squeezed so
many activities into the weeks as they flew by remains a mystery—school and home work, piano lessons
with hours of practice, Church and Sunday School activities, dancing school, trips to the dentist and oc-
culist, and the many doctors I consulted for headaches. Over the weekends always some parties—in
winter an evening of tobogganing or a sleigh ride, with all the crowd returning to our house where Mother
would have sandwiches and hot chocolate. Card parties and dancing. Trips on the Triton. I did quite a
lot of china painting, and took French lessons. Mother and Father belonged to a Whist Club of four ta-
bles. When they entertained I planned the refreshments—sometimes chicken croquettes with petite pois,
hot P a r k e r House rolls, ice cream and cake and coffee, or a delicious salad or scalloped oysters to
vary the menu. Ice cream we packed in melon or brick molds, sometimes getting small individual
molds from a c a t e r e r . These were served in a nest of spun sugar. Our soft drinks were ginger ale,
root beer, lemonade and fruit punch.
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But to go back to Mother's training. Each year we bought new table linen, sheets, pillow cases and
towels to replenish our supply. We girls had to know quality, sizes, etc. When the laundry was being
put away it was put at the bottom of the pile. This was to distribute the wear and not have the same
pieces taken from the top of the pile each week. Plum and I have often regretted that we learned
practically nothing about laundering. A good natured Irish woman, Ellen Horan, held sway in our laun-
dry for almost thirty y e a r s . She would be there three days a week and was too busy to have children
under foot. We had set tubs and a wringer with an eight-sided pot belly ironing stove against which the
sad irons rested. It was lots of elbow grease and hard work. Father had Ellen as charwoman the other
three days, cleaning halls in apartment houses. Her husband, Jack, was a sailor, came home about
once a year for a visit, when he bought a b a r r e l of flour as his contribution to the family's maintenance
for a year. The next year when he returned there was another mouth to feed.
Mother was very fond of flowers, had a beautiful rose bed and would work for hours in the garden
with sweet peas, hollyhocks, pansies and a variety of other plants. Planned all the landscaping about
the place. She could make anything grow.
Kay and Hattie were m a r r i e d in October 1893. The Bedell's gave Hattie a big church wedding in
Providence with a reception following at their home. I was maid of honor and Fred Beal whom I m a r -
ried in 1900 was best man. I had known the Beal family from the age of five, but Fred discovered little
sister had grown up. He proposed that winter and I said "No," writing to Father and Mother who were
in Bermuda that I thought I was too young and had met too few men to settle down. I was seventeen and
they were much amused at my common sense.
The approaching war with Spain in 1898 brought a slump in the real estate business. Money was very
"tight" and Father made a friendly assignment of everything he owned in December 1897. He was such
an honorable man and always met his obligations that I think it broke his spirit. He needed a vacation
and the doctor said Bermuda for a month. We learned after he came back that he had been very ill with
pneumonia. He cabled he was staying two weeks longer but did not say why.
When he returned his bookkeeper for eleven y e a r s decided to be m a r r i e d and left. I begged to go
into the office to help Father and Mother at last consented. All the property in Mother's name had to
be cared for. He patiently taught me all the details of the business, location of all the property, whether
for sale or rent, assessed values, taxes, mortgages, interest payments, banking, billing and collecting
r e n t s , bookkeeping, notes and obligations, making r e p a i r s and renting to tenants. Letters were written
by hand and copied in a letter p r e s s .
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Then the most awful blow fell. Father contracted pneumonia a second time in early October and
passed away the thirteenth, nearly 52 years old, leaving a really bereaved family. Father had settled
all of his indebtedness except about $5,000. We had never known how many families he had helped
financially, men who worked for him, tenants, and friends in sickness or hard luck. Many came to
Mother to thank her for all he had done, after his death.
Mother's lawyer and F a t h e r ' s business associates advised her to allow me to keep on managing the
business. I could call on them for advice. They impressed on me the need for economy to salvage what
we could. So much of the property was heavily mortgaged. Mother felt that Father had had the benefit
of all such funds in his business. Kay thought he could manage the business but as he was m a r r i e d with
a family that would have necessitated a salary which I did not have. We struggled over a reduced bud-
get for our living expenses and Mother decided she could get along with $5,000 a year. She owned the
home. At the end of the year we had used $10,000., and was I discouraged. Something drastic had to
be done. We decided to rent the house furnished, have Mother and Plum go abroad, where they could
live much more reasonably. I moved into a two-room apartment at No. 4 Chestnut Street, Boston, and
Dave, who had a job in Boston, was to live with me.
Mother and Plum were hardly out of harbour until Dave threw up his job and announced that the e s -
tate would support him as it did m e ! Why should he work? After struggling, and getting nowhere, I
sent for Kay to come to take Dave off my hands, which he did. Later Dave went to Canada and then to
California where he is still living.
I continued managing the estate until I m a r r i e d in the summer of 1900 when the business was placed
in the hands of trustees.

Emily McKay Dewey

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CHART 23
WALTER FRANKS DICKSON m. Oct. 1, 1895 Mary Mott
b. Dec. 18, 1865 at Onslow, N.S. b. Sept. 22, 1867
Son of Charles Clarence and Jessie (Dickson) Dickson Daughter of Egbert Benson and Eleanor (Baldwin) Mott
Business College 1886 of San Francisco, Calif.
San Francisco, Calif. University of Calif. 1895
School Teacher
1951 address: Loleta, Calif. d. Jan. 22, 1949
Children
1. Eleanor Dickson b. July 5, 1897 m. Dec. 28, 1921 Dr. Lewis Hampton Sanborn
at Loleta, Calif. of Benicia, Calif.
University of Calif. Berkeley, 1920 b. Sept. 28, 1895
Life Insurance Agent - Connecticut Mutual Son of Allen and Margaret (Williams) Sanborn
1951 address: Mrs. Eleanor Dickson Sanborn C o u ^ d i v o r o ' ^ ^ ? 1 Degree 1925
C o u p l e dlvor
91A Santa Rosa Ave. c e d 1946
Sausalito, Calif. Children
1. Virginia Sanborn b. Dec. 12, 1927 at Folsom, Calif.
University of California 1949
Medical Librarian, Merritt Hospital
2. Morgan Williams Sanborn b. Jan. 18, 1932, Sacramento, Calif.
Now a student at Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, Class 1953
2. Jessie Hedges Dickson b. Dec. 16, 1899 m. June 20, 1923 Charles Elliott Shaffer
at Loleta, Calif. b. Aug. 27, 1900
University of Calif. 1922 Son of Charles and Hortense (Elliott) Shaffer
Social Service Worker of Merced, Calif.
Welfare Dept. Eureka Master Machinist-Pacific Lumber Co.
Scotia Mllls
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Charles E. Shaffer ' Calif-
Loleta, Calif. Children
1. Walter Dickson Shaffer b. Feb. 2, 1926 at Merced
San Jose State College 1952, Electrical Engineering
Blue Key Honor Fraternity
Phi Delta Tau Fraternity
2. Katherine McDougal Shaffer b. Nov. 11, 1927 at Merced
m. Sept. 7, 1947 at San Jose, Robert Joe Crawley
b. Feb. 2, 1924
Son of David and Milly (Bibbler) Crawley
of Campbell, Calif.
1. Daughter Sharon Lee Crawley b. Sept. 9, 1948 at San Jose
2. Twins, Robert Joe, Jr. and Richard Todd Crawley
b. July 8, 1950 at San Jose
3. Ellita Mott Shaffer b. Apr. 20, 1935 at Eureka
Fortuna High School 1952

r Majoring in Music
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CHART 24
CAROLINE IRENE DICKSON m. (1) June 18, 1900 John Edward Dowd at Loleta
b. Sept. 24, 1870 b. Aug. 1, 1870 at Norwich, N. Y.
Daughter of Charles and Jessie (Dickson) Dickson d. Feb. 26, 1914 at Covelo, Calif,
of Table Bluff (later Loleta) Humboldt County, Calif.
d. Sept. 29, 1943

Children
1. Charles Dickson Dowd b. Aug. 14, 1901 at Eureka, Calif.
d. July 9, 1944 at Santa Cruz
2. Jessie Dickson Dowd b. Sept. 5, 1905 at Ferndale, Calif,
d. June 7, 1913 at Covelo, Calif.
3. Richard Arthur Dowd b. July 5, 1907 at Ferndale, Calif.
d. July 7, 1907 at Ferndale
4. Julia Margaret Dowd b. June 9, 1911 at Ferndale
m. (1) Dec. 26, 1931 Harry Gilmer Spence
b. July 23, 1906 at Toll House, Calif
Son of Harry Edward and Lutie (Grlmer) Spence
1 son Harry Gilmer Spence, J r . b. Feb. 19, 1933 at Fresno, Calif.
Couple divorced May 20, 1947
m. (2) May 25, 1947 Stephen Albert Stewart
1951 Address
b. May 19, 1912 at Los Banos, Calif.
Mr. and M r s . Stephen A. Stewart
Son of Ira and Julia (Bass) Stewart
5439 Illinois Ave., Fresno, Calif.

CAROLINE DICKSON DOWD m. (2) March 2, 1918 Charles A. Marshall

b. Apr. 24, 1868, Bullard County, Ky.
d. Dec. 9, 1924 at Fresno, Calif.
A great-grandson of Chief Justice Marshall
m. (3) Aug. 14, 1925 Philip Andrew Christian Williams
b. Mar. 1, 1859 in Indiana
d. Mar. 28, 1939 at Fresno, Calif.
m. (4) July 1941 Clarence King at San Jose, Calif,
d. Apr. 1945 at Santa Cruz, Calif.
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CHART 25
GEORGE LESLIE DICKSON m. July 4, 1906 Ethel Grace P o r t e r
b. Dec. 24, 1878 Daughter of
Son of William Andrew and Margaret (Baxter) Dickson Rev. Robert Dickey and Sarah (Mills) Porter
of Truro, N. S. of Middleton, N.S.
Acadia University, B. A. 1900 d. Aug. 9, 1931
Electrical Engineer M.A. 1901

Children
1. William Leslie Dickson b. June 7, 1908 m. Sept. 9, 1941 Doris Evelyn Bent
at Stellerton, N. S. Daughter of Harry and Mary (Delap) Bent
of Paradise, N. S.

Children
1. Robert Leslie Dickson b. Dec. 30, 1944
2. Barbara Louise Dickson b. Apr. 16, 1946

2. Edith Maude Dickson b. Jan. 10, 1910 m. June 15-, 1935 Hubert Edward Richardson Button
at Stellerton, N. S. of Surbiton, Surrey, England
Son of William and Ellen (Merrifield) Button

3. Robert P o r t e r Dickson b. Sept. 17, 1912

at Wabana Mines, Bell Island, Newfoundland
d. Jan. 5, 1917 at T r u r o , N. S.

George Leslie Dickson now retired and lives with his daughter, Mrs. Button.
1951 address: 53 Kensington Drive
Moncton, N. B.
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CHART 26
ARTHUR DAVISON m. 1873 Mary A. Huestis of Amherst
b. Apr. 5, 1844 at Wallace, N. S. Daughter of Richard B. and Augusta Huestis
Son of James Bain and Lavinia (Dickson) Davison
d. May 29, 1897 at Amherst

Children
1. Clarence Osborne Davison b. Nov. 21, 1875 m. Feb. 17, 1897 Florence Isabelle Ripley of Maccan
d. Sept. 1944 b. Aug. 23, 1879
Daughter of Robert and Hannah (Ripley) Ripley
™
m. Dec. c 1905
6, m n c Annie
A • Elsie
m • Jodrey
-r „ See C h a r t 27
2. Richard Black Huestis Davison b. Dec. 8, 1877
b. June 17, 1879
Daughter of Jacob and Isabell (Lamy) Jodrey
of Amherst, N. S.
1 son Robson Lamy Davison b. Dec. 11, 1906 at Amherst
3. Emma Gertrude Davison b. Feb. 3, 1881 m. Sept. 20, 1905 William Holmes
b. July 17, 1875
Son of Francis and Lydia Holmes of West Brook,
Cumberland Co., N. S. See Chart 28
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CHART 27
CLARENCE OSBORNE DAVISON m. Feb. 17, 1897 Florence Isabelle Ripley
b. Nov. 21, 1875 b. Aug. 23, 1879
Son of Arthur and Mary (Huestis) Davison Daughter of Robert and Hannah (Ripley) Ripley of
of Wallace, N.S. Maccan, N.S.
d. Sept. 1944 at Amherst, N.S. 1 9 5 2 a d d r e s s : M r s > C l a r e n c e O. Davison
Route 6, Green Ave.
Children Green Bay, Wisconsin
1. Grace Beatrice Davison b. Jan. 28, 1898 m. Foster Mallory Cooper
b. Mar. 5, 1901
Son of Warren and Laura (Brown) Cooper of
Bradford, Pa.
No children
Now living Green Bay, Wisconsin
2. Arthur Dickson Davison b. July 9, 1899 m. June 6, 1942 Lillian Albright at Rochester, N.Y.
b. Aug. 31, 1898
Daughter of Edmund and Nellie (Lawrence) Albright
of Way land, New York
Now living at Owosso, Michigan No children
3. Dorothy Jean Davison b. Oct. 11, 1902 m. (11 May 13, 1919 Gordon MacKenzie
b.
Son of Angus MacKenzie
1 Daughter June Elizabeth MacKenzie b. Sept. 6, 1921
Couple divorced
Dorothy Jean MacKenzie m. (2) 1931 Walter Petch, a native of England
C o u l e le all
Dorothy now living in F r a s e r Canyon, B.C. P S y separated
June Elizabeth MacKenzie m. (1") June 22, 1940 James Albert Leach
Son of James and Eliza (Barton) Leach
1 Son James Robert Leach b. Dec. 6, 1942
Couple divorced 1944
June m. (2) May 8, 1946 Hiram Douglas Cann
Son of Chelsea and Hazel (Goudy) Cann
2. Daughter Sandra Leslie Cann b. Aug. 15, 1947
3. Daughter Judith Lynn Cann b. Sept. 16, 1948
Now living at Yarmouth, N.S.
4. Patricia Florence Davison b. Sept. 15, 1914 Converted to R.C. Religion, entered the Convent of the
Good Shepherd, Halifax, N.S. where she is now living,
a Good Shepherd Nun.
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CHART 28
EMMA GERTRUDE DAVISON m. Sept. 20, 1905 William Holmes
b. Feb. 3, 1881 b. July 17, 1875
Daughter of Arthur and Mary (Huestis) Davison Son of Francis and Lydia Holmes
of West Brook, Cumberland Co. N. S.
Children
1. Mary Davison Holmes b. Feb. 10, 1907 m. Sept. 5, 1936 Maurice Wilson Russell
b. Dec. 11, 1905
Son of John William and Susan Russell
of Fort William, Ont.
Children
1. James William Russell b. Aug. 6, 1937
2. Marilyn Russell b. July 9, 1940
3. Richard Russell b. Mar. 21, 1945
4. Margaret Russell b. June 18, 1948
2. Sherman Francis Holmes b. Oct. 20, 1912 m. Aug. 17, 1949 Margaret Wyatt
b. Nov. 8, 1920
1951 address: Daughter of Robert and Ruby (Robinson) Wyatt
Mr. and M r s . Sherman Francis Holmes of Halifax, N. S.
62 Allan St. Robert came from Scotland
Halifax, N. S.
3. Arthur Davison Holmes b. June 20, 1916 m. Sept. 6, 1941 Inez Gould
b. May 26, 1921
Daughter of William and Annie (Hopkins) Gould
of Halifax, N. S.
d. July 8, 1950
Children
1. Glenn William Holmes b. Sept. 12, 1945
2. Marsha Carole Holmes b. May 29, 1947
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . William Holmes
3 Dale Ave.
Amherst, N. S.
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CHART 29
JOHN HARRISON FOSS m.(l) Aug. 4, 1909 Irene Crook
b. Jan. 7, 1879 at Loleta (Table Bluffs),Cal. at San Francisco
Son of James Calvin and Lavinia (Dickson) Foss b. Feb. 6, 1885 at Paia, Maui
University of Stanford 1903, Engineer Daughter of
Sigma P s i . Scottish Rite Mason, Shriner William Cross and Mary (Whitfield) Crook
Life member American Society Engineers of Maui, T. H.
P r e s . , Maui Electric Co., Mgr., East Maui Irrigation Co. d. Oct. 8, 1931 at Paia, Maui
d. Jan. 6, 1946 at Paia, Maui m.(2) June 23, 1940 Helen E. vanKeuren, noted
teacher with many degrees at San Francisco
Children of Harry and Irene
1. Barbara Lavinia Foss b. April 22, 1913
d. April 1918
2. Robert Calvin Foss b. 1917
d. October 1918
3. John Harrison F o s s , Jr. b. Aug. 30, 1910 m. Sept. 9, 1945 Sarah Pauline Eveleth
Stanford 1932 at Maui at Hamakupoko, Maui
Harvard Business Management 1934 b. May 28, 1916 at Rutland, Vt.
Lt. U.S.N.R. 1943-46 Daughter of
Director Public Relations Julius Malcolm and Sarah (Wheeler) Eveleth
Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Co. of Concord, Mass. and Winter Haven, Fla.
1951 address: Box 911 Lt. Waves 1942-45. Teacher
Wailuku, Maui, T.H. 1 son James Malcolm Foss b. Feb. 22, 1950 (adopted)
4. William Crook Foss b. Feb. 27, 1915 m. May 4, 1941 Aimee Ailene Kesterson
Stanford 1939 b. July 10, 1918
Reserve officer from Stanford Daughter of Irving and Goldie (Jennings) Kesterson
Captain in Army 1937-45 of Ivan, Oregon
Killed in action on Okinawa May 16, 1945
Awards B.S., P.H., A.P., World War II
Children
1. Irene Lavinia Foss b. Jan. 28, 1943 at Honolulu, T.H.
2. Joanne Patricia Foss b. Mar. 5, 1944 at SanMateo, Cal.
Widow, Aimee Foss m. Dec. 28, 1947 Walter Lyle Doughtery at Woodland, Cal.
1 son Retlaw Lyle Dougherty b. Dec. 7, 1948
1951 address: M r s . Walter L. Dougherty
386 California Blvd.
San Luis Obispo, Cal.
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CHART 29 (Cont'd)
JOHN HARRISON AND IRENE FOSS
Francis Dickson Foss b. Nov. 17, 1918 Unmarried
Stanford 1940
Stanford Business Management 1947
Tech. Sgt. Army 1941-46
1951 with Bank of America, Investment Dept.
San Francisco, Cal.
6. Nancy Virginia Foss b. May 12, 1930 m. Oct. 14, 1950 John Terence Purcell
Stanford, 2 years at Palo Alto, Cal.
b. Oct. 3, 1924
Son of Charles and Mary (Clark) Purcell
1951 address: of San Francisco, Cal.
Mr. and M r s . Terence Purcell Petaluma High School
141 Vista Grande, Greenbrae Oregon State College B.S. 1947 Electrical
R.F.D., San Rafael, Cal. Engineering
Stanford University, M.B.S. 1949
Actuarial Assistant, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.
1 son Steven Clark Purcell b. Sept. 17, 1951 at San Francisco, Cal.
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CHART 30
MARTHA ARCHIBALD FOSS m. March 6, 1908 David Thomas Fleming at Honolulu, T.H.
b..Sept. 20, 1880 at Loleta, Cal. b. Oct. 21, 1881 at Blackwater, Scotland
Daughter of Son of
James Calvin and Lavinia (Dickson) Foss James Wilson and Effie (Lundie) Fleming
Graduated Stanford 1905 Went to Hawaii with his parents in 1890
Mathematics Manager, Grove Ranch, Paia, Maui, 1906-10
d. Aug. 3, 1953 Manager, Baldwin Packers, Ltd., Pineapple
1953 address: Plantation 1911 to date, Lahaina, Maui, T. H.
Mr. David Thomas Fleming
Lahaina, Maui, T.H.
Children
James Foss Fleming b. Dec. 24, 1908 m. Feb. 20, 1932 Elizabeth Wray Hunt of Palo
Montazuma P r e p . School Alto and San Francisco
Stanford, 1932, Palo Alto b. April 8, 1908
Stanford Medical School, San Francisco Daughter of John and Lilian (Wray) Hunt
Interned Queens Hospital, Honolulu
Capt. in Army, M.D. Served in South Seas 1941-45
Private practice, Wailuku
Children
1. 1 set of twins, James and John Fleming b. Feb. 7, 1933
1951 address: 2. Another set of twins, Wray and Ward Fleming b. Mar. 2, 1934
Dr. and M r s . James Foss Fleming
Wailuku, Maui, T.H.
Bruce Lundie Fleming b. Nov. 28, 1910 m. (1) May 16, 1947 M r s . Ella Tetzlaff Chalmers
Montazuma P r e p . School at Makawao at Honolulu Widow with 2 children
Stanford, 1932, Econ. Course Charlotte Ann b. May 28, 1940
Lt. Col. Navy, World War II, Pacific Area William Charles b. Feb. 4, 1942
Ass't Manager, Baldwin Packers, Ltd. adopted by Bruce Fleming
Lahaina, Maui, T.H. Public Health Nurse
Ella died March 23, 1949
Bruce Fleming m. (2) Aug. 8, 1952 Margaret Helen Danl
b. Feb. 11, 1925 at Havre, Mont.
1952 address: Daughter of Severt J. and Sarah (Crowe) Dahl
Mr. and M r s . Bruce Lundie Fleming Registered Nurse
Lahaina, Maui, T.H. Graduate, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago

—.
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CHART 30 (Cont'd)
Euphence Lavinia Fleming b. Mar. 31, 1912 m. Jan. 23, 1932 Jack E. Vockrodt
University Hawaii 1936 at Makawao at Wailuku, Maui b. Apr. 6, 1918
Economics Son of Edward and Hazel (Bartley) Vockrodt
Lt. in Army, World War II
1951 address: Manager, Bank of Hawaii, Ltd.
Mr. and M r s . Jack E. Vockrodt Lahaina Branch
Lahaina, Maui, T.H.
Children
1. Virginia Ann Vockrodt, Adopted, b. May 21, 1949
2. Jacqueline Bartley Vockrodt, b. Jan. 31, 1951
3. Twins: Martha Haulani and Jennifer Kuulei Vockrodt
b. June 9, 1952
4. David Archibald Fleming May 9, 1913 m. (1) Sept. 16, 1935 Alice K. Chase, Berkeley, Cal.
Graduate San Luis Obispo at Lahaina b. Dec. 19, 1914
Calif. Technology 1930-32 1 Daughter Ruth Knoles Fleming b. Aug. 19,1938
Armstrong Business School, Berkeley, Cal. 19: 34 d. Same day
Head Mechanic, Baldwin Packers, Ltd. Divorced about 1943
m. (2) Dec. 21, 1945 Alice Rosalind Shoup
1951 address: at San Jose, Cal. b. July 29, 1912
Mr. and M r s . David Archibald Fleming Daughter of Edwin and Gertrude (Geach) Shoup
Lahaina, Maui, T.H. of DuBuque, Iowa and San Jose, Cal.
Kindergarten training at San Jose State
Teachers College, 1931-34
1 Daughter Denise Claire Fleming b. May 10,1947
Marion Dickson Fleming b. July 19, 1914 m. Sept. 7, 1941 Raymond Earl Holley
High School Palo Alto at Lahaina, Maui b. Feb. 9, 1915
Stanford 1937, Bacteriology Son of Edward and Myrtle (Fox) Holley
Worked in Laboratory for Army of St. Louis, Mo.
World War II Coast Guard 1937-1953
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Raymond Earl Holley
5974 Kalaniaole Highway
Honolulu 49, T.H.
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CHART 30 (Cont'd)
Jessica Katherine Fleming b. Aug. 12, 1917 m. April 23, 1947 Robert Naylor Rea at Honolulu
Graduate Punahou P r e p . School b. Aug. 1, 1924 at Philadelphia, Pa.
Graduate Art, Stanford 1939 Son of William and Amelia (Sheip) Rea, Jr.
M.A. in Dance, Univ. of New York 1945 of New York City
Lieutenant, Coast Guard
1951 address:
Mr. and M r s . Robert Naylor Rea
R.F.D. 1
Oakdale, Connecticut
Children
1. Roberta Rea b. Feb. 29, 1948
2. Robert Fleming Rea b. Feb. 25, 1951
7. Robert Edward Fleming b. Nov. 16, 1920
d. Dec. 3, 1920
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CHART 31
CLARA CLIFFORD FOSS m. Oct. 29, 1904 James Watt Coons, at Mayfield, Calif.
b. July 1, 1882 b. Sept. 11, 1879 at Winchester, 111.
Daughter of James Calvin and Lavinia (Dickson) Foss Son of James and Isibell (Watt) Coons
of Table Bluffs, later (Loleta) Calif. Stanford University 1905
Electrical Engineer
1951 address: 165 Pleasant Hill Rd. 40 years with Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Concord, Calif. Now retired.

Children
1. Foss Watt Coons b. Oct. 14, 1905 Unmarried. Injured in fall as a baby.
at San Francisco
d. June 2, 1950
at Concord, Calif.
2. Alfred Devore Coons b. Oct. 7, 1906 m. Oct. 28, 1933 Lulu Margaret Conner at San Francisco
at Palo Alto, Calif. b. Sept. 26, 1908
Univ. of California, 1929, Daughter of Hugh and Elsie (Gasser) Conner
Civil Engineer of Boise, Idaho
City Manager, City of Pacific Grove, Calif.
1951 address: 1027 EaganAve. Children
Pacific Grove, Calif.
1. James Conner b. May 17, 1937 at Woodland, Calif,
2. Susan Anne b. Oct. 2, 1942 at Sacramento, Calif.
3. John Calvin Coons b. Mar. 3, 1908 m. May 11, 1935 Genevieve Hogan at Schenectady, N. Y.
at Larkspur, Calif. b. Oct. 14, 1910
Stanford University 1931 Daughter of Edward T. and Sadie Hogan
Electrical Engineer of Schenectady, N. Y.
With General Electric Co. since 1931
Children
1951 address: 1458 Sumner Ave.
1. John C. Coons, J r . b. Dec. 8, 1943 at Albany, N. Y.
Schenectady, N. Y.
2. Christine b. May 23, 1945 at Albany, N. Y.
3. Donald b. June 7, 1946 at Albany, N. Y.

mmm
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CHART 31 (Cont'd)

4. Norman Dickson Coons b. Oct. 31, 1910 m. May 4, 1932 Urith Elizabeth Hubbard
at Berkeley, Calif. b. Apr. 26, 1912 at Capay Yalo Co.
Univ. of California, Davis, Daughter of Chauncy and Clara (Orengo) Hubbard
Agriculture 1932 of Woodland, Calif.
With Old Home Bakeries
Children
1951 address: 3940 31st St.
1. Norman Dale b. Jan. 19, 1934 at Woodland
Sacramento, Calif. b. Jan. 15, 1940 at Sacramento
2. Phyllis Claire
5. James William Coons b. Dec. 7, 1912 Unmarried
Univ. of California d. Oct. 23,1950 Invalid
Architecture
6. Robert Otto Coons b. Mar. 12, 1915 m. Mar. 25, 1945 Marion Dorothy Goss at
at Woodland, Calif. Oakland, Calif,
Humboldt State Teachers College 1934 b. Jan. 7, 1920
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Daughter of Clifford and Ann (Petty) Goss
Public Relations Representative b. July 4, 1947 at Oakland
1 son Douglas
1951 address: 1362 Mt. Diable St
Concord, Calif.
7. Phillip Henry Coons b. July 4, 1916
at Woodland, Calif,
d. April 15, 1940
8. Frederick Fleming Coons b. Oct. 7, 1923 m. July 3, 1949 Mary Eleanor Holland at
at Woodland, Calif. Santa Rosa
Univ. of California 1944, b.
Chemical Research Daughter of Walter and Bernadetta (Zeiser) Holland
A.B. Degree and Kindergarten
1951 address: 1064 Pajaro Parkway
Chico State College 1947
Salinas, Calif. Kindergarten Teacher
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CHART 32
JAMES CALVIN FOSS, JR. m. (1) 1938 at Maui, T.H. Emma Heaney of Quincy, 111.
b. Jan. 5, 1885 at Loleta, Calif. d. 1914 at Quincy
Son of James Calvin and Lavinia (Dickson) Foss
Stanford Univsrsity 1908
Civil Engineer
Has his own Consulting Business
1951 address: 380 Granite Creek Road
Santa Cruz, California
Children
1. Mary Alice Foss b. at Hawaii m. Dr. George Browning
Medical Practice at Sacramento, Calif.
Children
1. Mary Alice Browning
2. Hazel Browning
3. Christine Browning
James Calvin Foss III
World War II
m. (2) Dec. 1915 at Hawaii, T.H. Adeline Hurst
JAMES CALVIN FOSS, JR. This couple divorced 1929
b. at Palo Alto,Cal. m. William Dunn of San Francisco, Calif.
Charlotte Dickson Foss
Children
1. Katherine Dunn
2. Patricia Dunn
JAMES CALVIN FOSS, JR. m. (3) Violet Varmel, Widow with one son,
Lawrence Varmel
Lawrence Varmel now known as m. Emma Liken of Montana
Lawrence Varmel Foss
4 years U.S. Navy Children
1. Michael James Foss
2. Mary Melinda Foss
We regret we are unable to obtain vital statistics for this family
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CHART 33
SAMUEL GEORGE ARCHIBALD m. Jan. 1839 Maria Henderson
b. May 31, 1804 at Onslow of Gowrie, Scotland
Eldest son of David and Olivia (Dickson) Archibald
d. Oct. 10, 1871
Children
1. George Archibald b. 1840
2. Charles Archibald b. 1842 Moved to Trinidad where he married, had some family & died
3. Margaret Archibald b. 1844
4. Edward Archibald b. 1846 He moved to Newfoundland and died there
5. Rose Olivia Archibald b. 1848
6. David Archibald b. 1850 He died in Scotland in 1871
7. Maria Archibald b. 1852
8. Susan Amelia Archibald b. 1854
9. Rupert Archibald b. 1856 Moved to Vancouver

This record was taken from Thomas Miller's book - the only change being that "Samuel George"
was the record in the old Onslow Book, not Samuel George V i l l i a m , which would cause confusion
with his distinguished uncle who was the famous S.G.W. Archibald.
Dr. David W. Archibald, now living in "Gowrie" writes as follows:
"Samuel George Archibald who had been in the old country, came back as an employee of The General
Mining Association and brought with him a wife, Maria Henderson of Gowrie, Scotland. It is said he
built ,f Gowrie" in 1834, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton."
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CHART 34
HON. THOMAS DICKSON ARCHIBALD m. (1) 1839 Susan Corbett
b. Apr. 8, 1813 at Onslow, N.S. Daughter of William and Isabell (Davison) Corbett
Son of Col. David and Olivia (Dickson) Archibald of North Sydney and of Pictou, N.S.
d. 1890 d. 1866
Children All born at Sydney Mines, C B .
1. Emma Archibald b. 1840
d. 1861
2. William Henry Archibald b. Sept. 2, 1842 m. 1876 Eleanor G. Hughes, b. May 28, 1851
See Chart 35 d. Jan. 1, 1911 d. Nov. 1, 1911
3. Charles Archibald b. 1845 m June 22, 1874 Edith Jessie Archibald
b. Apr. 5, 1854 in St. Johns, Newfoundland
Daughter of Sir Edward Mortimer and Catherine
(Richardson) Archibald
Children
1. Susan Georgiana Archibald b. 1875 m. 1902 Porter Elliston
d. 1909 2 children, Joan and Peter
2. Dr. Thomas Dickson Archibald b. 1876 m. Muriel Dumble
d. 1951 Children:
1. Brian b. 1906
2. Charles Roger b. 1910
3. Thomas D. Jr. b. 1914
3. Charles Archibald b. 1880 m. 1905 Emma McFarland
Brent on Unmarried
4. d. 1910
b. 1849 m 1887 Carry. Carmichael
4. Edward M. Archibald 6 Daughters, 3 Sons
b. 1856 m 1887 Zaddie F . Boggs
5. Blowers Archibald d. 1929 d. 1931
No children
HON. THOMAS DICKSON ARCHIBALD m. (2) 1867 Elizabeth Hughes
m. (3) June 2, 1874 Maria Louise Burnyeat
b. June 1830
Widow of John Burnyeat of Halifax, N.S.
d. Feb. 1875
No children
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CHART 35
WILLIAM HENRY ARCHIBALD m. Sept. 23, 1876 Eleanor G. Hughes
b. Sept. 23, 1842 b. May 28, 1851 at St. P i e r r e , Miq.
Son of Hon. Thomas and Susan (Corbett) Archibald Daughter of George and Elizabeth (Parrott) Hughes
of Sydney Mines, Cape Breton of Boston, Mass.
d. Jan. 1, 1911 d. Nov. 1, 1911
Children - All born at Sydney Mines
1. George Hughes Archibald b. July 22, 1877 m. Sept. 12, 1907 Jane Taylor Kester
See Chart 36
2. William Henry Archibald, Jr. b. Mar. 14, 1879 m. 1906 Lillian Turnbull of Montreal
d. Feb. 26, 1921 b. 1882 d. 1947
Daughter of Robert Turnbull
Children
1. Robert Turnbull Archibald b. 1909
2. Harry B. Archibald b. 1917
3. Susan E. Archibald b. Feb. 26, 1881 m. 1908 Geo. E. Keith of Brockton, Mass.
d. Oct. 6, 1928
1 Daughter Eleanor G. Keith b. Nov. 10, 1911
m. 1947 Home Archibald Kidston
Live in Dorset, England
4. Dr. David Wilson Archibald b. May 1, 1883 m. June 15, 1913 Marguerite White
See Chart 37 d.
5. Arthur Archibald b. Mar. 25, 1887 m. (1) March 5, 1923 Beatrice Maude Billings
d. Sept. 7, 1950 at Santa Barbara, Calif.
Draftsman. Over 25 years with Daughter of M r s . Kate Spencer
Bureau of Water, Power and
Light of Los Angeles 1 Daughter Eleanor Beatrice Archibald
b. Nov. 1, 1928 at Santa Monica
m. July 5, 1947 John Frederick Schaffer
b. June 25, 1926 at Salt Lake City
Son of Edward and Sarah (Akert) Schaffer of
Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, Calif.
Children
1. John Arthur Schaffer b. Sept. 3, 1948 at Los Angeles, Calif,
2. Don Edward Schaffer b. Oct. 5, 1950 at Glendale, Calif.
Arthur Archibald m. (2) Apr. 28, 1934 Sarah Lavon Ammerman
at Yuma, Ariz.; of Salt Lake City
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . John F . Schaffer
El Monte, Calif.
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CHART 36
GEORGE HUGHES ARCHIBALD m . Sept. 12, 1907 Jane Taylor Kester
b. July 22, 1877 at Sydney M i n e s , Cape Breton b. Sept. 7, 1885
Son of Daughter of
W i l l i a m Henry and E l e a n o r (Hughes) A r c h i b a l d R o b e r t Livingston and Ida (Walkup) K e s t e r
King's College School 1890-94 of P i t t s b u r g h , P a .
King's University 1894-98, B.Eng., W i n d s o r N.S.
P.G. M a s s . Institute of Technology 1900 George and Jane lived in Winnipeg, Man. 1904-1915
M e m b e r E n g i n e e r i n g Institute of Canada Toronto 1916-1924
Montreal 1924-1951

1951 a d d r e s s : M r . and M r s . George H. A r c h i b a l d

235 E . Lakewood Rd.
W e s t P a l m Beach, F l a .

Children
George Hughes A r c h i b a l d , J r . b. Aug. 2 1 , 1908 m . May 8, 1938 E l i z a b e t h M. Allan
at Winnipeg, Man. b. Sept. 17, 1915
St. A n d r e w s College School, T o r o n t o , 1917-1921 Daughter of F r e d e r i c k and Ida (Weber) Allan
T r i n i t y College School, P o r t Hope, Ont. 1921-26 of St. Augustine, F l a .
Royal M i l i t a r y C o l l e g e , Kingston, Ont. 1926-30
G e n e r a l C o n t r a c t o r , P o m p a n o Beach, F l o r i d a

1951 a d d r e s s : M r . and M r s . George H. A r c h i b a l d , J r .

P o m p a n o Beach, F l o r i d a

Children
1. Allan Hughes A r c h i b a l d b. M a r . 10, 1939, F t . L a u d e r d a l e , F l a .
2. David Livingston A r c h i b a l d b . Jan. 2 3 , 1 9 4 2 , "
3. George F r e d e r i c k A r c h i b a l d b . June 1, 1945, D e c a t u r , 111.
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CHART 36 (Cont'd)
Robert Livingston Archibald b. April 23, 1911 m. Sept. 9, 1939 Elizabeth Marion Peck
at Winnipeg, Man. b. April 27, 1914
Upper Canada College School, Toronto Daughter of T. Esmond and Ellen (Sudden) Peck
Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont. of Montreal, Que.
McGill University, Montreal, 1929-1931 Studied Painting - Took Special Course at McGill
The Black Watch, Royal Highland Reg. of Can. 1940 University
Military Intelligence-Served in Pacific Theatre Trained Attendants Course at Parker School
and in Washington, D . C , U.S.A. Technician at Montreal General Hospital
Retired Rank of Major, G.S.O. 2, 1946
Operates his own business

1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Robert L. Archibald

699 Victoria Ave.
Westmount, P.Q.
Children
1. Patricia Marianne Archibald b. Oct. 17,1940
2. Susan Elizabeth Archibald b. Dec. 6, 1944
3. Robert Hughes Archibald b. Mar. 20, 1948
4. Daphne Jane Archibald b. July 29, 1949
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CHART 37
DR. DAVID WILSON ARCHIBALD m. June 15, 1913 Marguerite Fothergill White
b. May 12, 1883 b.
Son of William Henry and Eleanor (Hughes) Archibald Daughter of Fred H. and Emma (Fothergill) White
of Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, N.S. of St. P i e r r e , Miquelon Island, the only
Brookline High School, 1903 remaining French possession in North
McGill College, 1909 America, located near Newfoundland
P.G. Vienna, Munich and London, 1912
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Medical Practise at Sydney Mines
Children - all born at "Gowrie" (built 1834), Sydney Mines
1. William White Archibald b. Aug. 14, 1914 m. Mar. 6, 1942 Mary Weingart
Rothsay Collegiate, N.B. b. Sept. 12, 1915 at Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Dalhousie University, B.S. 1938 Daughter of John and Edith (Rafuse) Weingart
Ship Builder, Shelburne, N.S. of Shelburne, N.S.
Couple live at Shelburne, N.S. Graduate of Columbia University, M.A. 1937
Nursery School, Kindergarten and
First Grade Education
Children
1. William Peter Archibald b. Sept. 5, 1943
2. Susan Fothergill Archibald b. Mar. 23, 1946
3. John Frederick Archibald b. Nov. 24, 1949
Dr. Louis Johnston Archibald b. Apr. 1, 1916 m. Aug. 23, 1947 Isobel Kerr
Rothsay Collegiate, N.B. b. May 22, 1922
Dalhousie University, D.D.S. 1939 Daughter of Genser and Eva (Loring) Kerr
Dentist, Halifax of Fox River, N.S.
Couple live in Halifax Registered Nurse
Dr. David Brenton Archibald b. July 19, 1919 m. June 19, 1950 Phyllis Adelaide Leach Pratt
Rothsay Collegiate, N.B. Daughter of Walter and Aline (Preston) Pratt
Dalhousie University, M.D., C M . 1943 of Montreal, Que. - Phyllis b. July 29, 1920
Surgeon and Neurologist, Sydney, C.B., N.S. Daughter Kathleen Marguerite Archibald b. Aug. 4,1951
4. George Peter Archibald b. Aug. 28, 1925
d. Aug. 21, 1926
5. James Purves Archibald b. Jan. 23, 1929
Rothsay Collegiate, N.B.
Dalhousie University, B.S. 1950
P.G. in Mechanical Engineering 1951
1952 address: Dr. and M r s . David Wilson Archibald
Dr. and Mrs. David Brenton Archibald
"Gowrie"
Sydney Mines, Cape Breton
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Grandfather and Grandmother McKay lived in St. John, New Brunswick where all their children
were born. In 1877, the great fire which gutted the city, cleaned Grandfather out. He lost everything.
Father was quite well established in Boston and had all the family go there, where he established a
home for them and supported his father and mother for life.

Aunt Ollie was our best beloved aunt and we all felt her death very keenly. She died of cancer at
38. Little Ollie, only six y e a r s old, came to live with us for two y e a r s until her father married again
in 1890. She died of scarlet fever a year later.

We occasionally saw Aunt Mill Doggett when in T r u r o or when she came to visit us. Aunt Ella was
the problem child. Restless, discontented, jealous, left her husband and two children, obtained a
divorce. Would take a position, tire of that, or get mad, when Grandmother would appeal to Father
to let her set up housekeeping again with Ella. It never lasted very long. I can't tell you how many
times Father patiently set them up housekeeping. We lost track of the Safford children but think
Herbert may have died before Uncle Charles, whose will named all of his nieces and nephews, except
Herbert. A very nice gesture but he had nothing to leave. Grace was living in 1937 but I have been
unable to find her.

Uncle Ernest and Charles were both builders but in a much smaller way than Father. Uncle Ern
moved to Seattle, Washington, about 1891. We saw the family there in 1893. Later Uncle Ern came
back to Boston but his wife and daughters remained in Seattle. Only one daughter left now and I
was so pleased to have Florence come to visit me for a few days in 1950.

There is no male McKay to c a r r y on the name. Clarence (Kay) had four fine daughters. David,
Jr., has never had any children. Plum has two (Bubier) sons and an adopted (Daly) daughter. Emily
has only one (Beal) son.

••••'•
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CHART 38
JOHN P. (McPHAIL) McKAY m. (1) Jan. 28, 1834 Ann Robertson at St. John, N. B.
of St. John, New Brunswick, Can. d. Oct. 20, 1841 at St. John, N. B.
b: May 1808 in Scotland
d. Aug. 25, 1884 in Boston, Mass. m. (2) Oct. 1845 Maria Dickson Henderson
Dau. of John and Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson
b. Nov. 11, 1819 at Onslow, N. S.
d. Feb. 13, 1906 at Boston, Mass.
Children, all born at St. John, N. B.
1. David Henderson McKay b. Nov. 3, 1846 m. Nov. 9, 1869 Martha Archibald Dickson
d. Oct. 13, 1898 at Onslow, N. S. See Chart 22
2. Amelia Purves McKay b. May 1848 m. Abner Doggett of Truro, N. S.
d. Nov. 29, 1889 b. 1829 d. 1909
No children
3. Olivia Henderson McKay b. Aug. 1850 m. Oct. 17, 1879 George Little
d. Nov. 6, 1888 at Boston See Chart 40
4. Ernest Archibald McKay b. Sept. 3, 1852 m. Feb. 1, 1877 Annie Brigham Tarbell
d. Aug. 4, 1921 at Boston, Mass. See Chart 40
5. J e s s i e Henderson McKay ) Jessie d. young
twins b. 1854
6. John Henderson McKay ) John d. June 1869 at Boston
7. Ella Gertrude McKay b. 1857 m. Edward Safford
Two children: 1. Grace m.. Foss
2. Herbert
(Couple divorced - can find no record of this family)
8. Charles Robertson McKay b. Aug. 1860 m. (1) May Davis of Laconia, N.H.
d. Mar. 28, 1924 (2) No record
at Boston (3) No record
No children

1-3-4-8 with John P. and Maria McKay interred in David H. McKay's Lot, Mt. Hope Cemetery
Mattapan, Boston, Mass.
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Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson Amelia Henderson Purves McKinlay

Daughter of Olivia D.A. Henderson
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CHART 39
AMELIA HENDERSON m. (1) Sept. 19, 1844 at Onslow, James Purves,
b. Aug. 26, 1821 at Onslow, N.S. widower of Pictou, N.S.
Daughter of John and Olivia (Dickson) Henderson b. Sept. 1, 1808
d. Dec. 19, 1902 at Pictou, N.S. d. Apr. 10, 1863
Age 81 Shipbuilder
m. (2) May 2, 1872 at Pictou John McKinlay of Pictou
d. Oct. 23, 1888
Lawyer
Children - All born at Pictou
1. David Henderson Purves b. July 7, 1846 m. Ellen Hickman, widow, of Dorchester, N.B.
d. May 22,1920 She had one son William Albert Hickman
at Boston, Buried Pictou
2. Archibald Robertson Purves b. July 6,1850
d. 1878 at Davos, Switzerland
3. Ada Jeans Purves b. Oct. 10,1853 m. Jan. 21, 1880 Thomas George Johnston Loggie
d. Nov. 13,1924 b. Nov. 11, 1854 at Burnt Church, N.B.
at Fredericton, N.B. d. Dec. 23, 1931 at Fredericton, N.B.
Children
1. Amelia b. Nov. 26, 1880 d. at birth
2.* Gerald Purves Loggie b. March 31, 1884
3. Purves Primrose Loggie b. Dec. 2, 1892
d. Oct. 2, 1916 at Dartford, Kent, Eng.
•BRIGADIER GERALD PURVES LOGGIE m. Sept. 21, 1921 at Winnipeg, Man., May Niles
b. Oct. 23, 1892
Daughter of Donald and May Bell (Taylor) Niles
Children - All born at Winnipeg
1. Amelia Loggie b. 1922 d. infancy
2. Thomas Campbell Loggie b. Apr. 4,1924 m. Dec. 21,1946 at Montreal, Carolin Roberta Holland
Children
1. Barbara Ann Loggie b. July 2, 1947
2. Thomas Gerald Franklin Loggie b. May 19, 1950
at Milwaukee, Wis.
3. Mary Elizabeth Harrison Loggie b. Feb. 1,1926
4. Richard Donald Purves Loggie b. July 31, 1927
1951 address:
69 Rosemount Crescent
Montreal 6, P.Q.
Brigadier Gerald Loggie has a manuscript copy of John Henderson's family, compiled by Robert Clark, a
descendant.
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CHART 40
OLIVIA HENDERSON McKAY m. Oct. 17, 1879 George Little at Dorchester, Mass.
b. Aug. 1850 at St. John, N. B. b. June 19, 1852 at St. John, N. B.
Daughter of John P . and Maria (Henderson) McKay Son of George and Rebecca (McAskie) Little
d. Nov. 6, 1888 at Dorchester, Mass. d. Dec. 2, 1932 at Acton, Mass.
Children all born at Dorchester, Mass.
1. Frank McKay Little b. July 23, 1880 m. Evelyn Aude, who disappeared after Frank's death
d. Dec. 13, 1918 at Portland, Maine
No children
2. Ollie M. Little b. Mar. 25, 1882
d. Oct. 16, 1891 at Melrose, Mass.
3. Edward Miles Little b. Oct. 6, 1884 m. Oct. 2, 1936 Amy Harriet Van Doom
d. Aug. 18, 1952 b. Feb. 7, 1884 at Holyoke, Mass.
1952 address: No children
M r s . Edward Miles Little
Hampton Falls, N.H.
George Little m. (2) about 1890 Grace Baker of Pittsfield, Mass.
b. Jan. 6, 1854 d. 1934 at Acton, Mass.
ERNEST ARCHIBALD McKAY m Feb. 1, 1877 Annie Brigham Tarbell at Boston
b. Sept. 3, 1852 b. May 3, 1859
Son of John P. and Maria (Henderson) McKay Daughter of Hosea and Eliza Ann Tarbell of Boston
d. Aug. 4, 1921 at Boston d. Oct. 31, 1944 at Seattle, Wash.
Children born at Dorchester, M a s s .
1. Florence Evangeline McKay b. Oct. 3, 1877 Unmarried - Lives in Seattle, Wash.
2. Ethelyn Brigham McKay b. Dec. 7, 1880 m. 1907 Percy Sutherland Laing of London, Ont.
d. Apr. 13, 1947 at Seattle, Wash.
No children
1952 address:
Miss Florence E. McKay
733 Summit Ave. North
Seattle 2, Wash.
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CHART 41
CLARENCE LESLIE McKAY m. Oct. 3, 1893 Harriet Philena Bedell
b. May 9, 1872 at Dorchester, Mass. at Providence, R. I.
Son of David Henderson and Martha (Dickson) McKay b. Oct. 11, 1870
d. May 24, 1951 at Los Angeles, Cal. Daughter of Nathan and Lydia (Hathaway) Bedell
of Bristol, R. I.
d. June 6, 1945 at Cranston, R. I.

Children
1. Gladys Bedell McKay b. Feb. 24, 1895 m. Sept. 30, 1922 George McDonald Kenney
at Allston, Mass. at Providence, R. I.
See Chart 44
2. Ruth Leslie McKay b. Apr. 6, 1896 m. Feb. 1, 1923 Howard Field, J r .
Reg. Nurse at Seattle, Wash. at Oakland, Cal.
See Chart 45
3. Martha Jean McKay b. Sept. 5, 1901 m. (1) Jan. 25, 1928 William Limburn Forrest
Teacher at Warwick, R. I. at Honolulu
b. Sept. 13, 1882 Ayr, Scotland
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Clinton Burgess Willey d. May 5, 1945 at Honolulu
957 Kealaolu Ave. No children
Honolulu, T. H.
m. (2) Feb. 23, 1949 Clinton Burgess Willey
at Honolulu
b. May 25, 1886 Boston, Mass.
Son of Joseph and Juliana (Burgess) Willey
4. Mildred Lydia McKay b. July 22, 1903 m. Apr. 19, 1933 Walter Everdale Lovenberg
at Edgewood, R. I b. June 30, 1896 Maplewood, N. J.
Son of Oscar and Clara (Everdale) Lovenberg
of
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Walter Everdale Lovenberg Summit, N. J.
Ever-Dell F a r m
Route 1, Stockton, N. J. 1 son Walter McKay Lovenberg b. Aug. 9, 1934
at Trenton, N. J.

••
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E m i l y McKay B e a l Dewey
(Made 1932)
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CHART 42
EMILY FOSS McKAY m. (1) July 11, 1903 Frederick Wilder Beal
b. Feb. 14, 1876 at Dorchester, Mass. at Joplin, Mo.
Daughter of b. April 30, 1871
David Henderson and Martha (Dickson) McKay Son of Edwin Wilder and Annie (Wills) Beal
of Brookline, Mass. of Roxbury, Mass.
d. Mar. 23, 1907 at West Newton, Mass.
Business Executive Business Executive
Manager Lead and Zinc Mines, Joplin, Mo.
Children
1. Wilder Beal b. Nov. 13, 1903 m. Oct. 18, 1929 Mary Helen Guy in N.Y. City
atWellesley Hills, Mass. b. Sept. 27, 1902 at Auburn, New York
Loomis School, Windsor, Conn. Daughter of Michael T. and Anna (Hayes) Guy
Cornell University 1925 Civil Engineer
Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity No children
Executive with Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., N.Y.
1953 address: Mr. and M r s . Wilder Beal
200 E. 66th St.
New York 21, N.Y.
David Henderson Beal b. Mar. 9, 1907 atWellesley Hills, Mass.
d. May 20, 1907 at Roxbury, Mass.
EMILY McKAY BEAL m. (2) May 28, 1924 Melvil Dewey
at Lake Placid Club, N.Y.
b. Dec. 10, 1851 at Adams Center, N.Y.
Son of Joel and Eliza (Green) Dewey
Amherst College 1874
D.K.E. Fraternity
Educator
d. Dec. 26, 1931 at Lake Placid, Florida
1953 address: M r s . Melvil Dewey
Lake Placid Club (P.O.)
Essex County, N.Y.
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TO H O N O R THE MEMORY OF
MELVIL
SEER
DEWEY
INSPIRER • • DOER
1851 Born D e c . l O t h at Adams Center. N.Y. 1 8 8 8 - 9 9 Executive Secretary of the Board of
A poor boy who worked his way thru Regents of the University of the State
Amherst College. Graduated 1 8 7 4 . of NewYork. Albany. N Y
1873 While an undergraduate he created the 1 8 8 8 - 1 9 0 5 N e w York State Librarian
"Decimal Gasification','a system for 1895 Founded Lake Placid Club In t h e
classifying books for libraries. Now used Adirondacks
In every civilized country in the world.
1922 Founded Lake Placid Club Education
1876 Founded the American Library Association Foundation with seed sowing objeci
and the Library J o u r n a l . affecting many lines of National and
Secretary, American Metric Bureau International advancement. Gave his all
Secretary. Spelling Reform Association to help make a b e t t e r world
1882 Fc nded Library Bureau, a business 1925 Established Northwood School for Boys
organization. at Lake Placid Club.
1 8 8 3 - 8 8 Librarian and Professor of Library 1931 Died D e c . 2 6 t h at Lake Placid. Florida
Economy at Columbia Col lege. NewYork City His ashes rest beneath the chant < 1 of
1887 Created the first Library School in the world. this Chapel he loved so well.
1947

B r o n z e T a b l e t in L a k e P l a c i d C l u b C h a p e l
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CHART 43
ALICE DICKSON McKAY m. (1) Jan. 22, 1902 Henry Hooker Bubier
b. July 23, 1878 at Dorchester, Mass. at Brookline, Mass.
Daughter of b. Sept. 16, 1872
David Henderson and Martha (Dickson) McKay Son of Dr. Joseph A. and Emma (Chapman) Bubier
of Brookline, Mass. of Boston and Winchester, Mass.
Children
1. Henry Hooker Bubier, Jr. b. Sept. 29, 1904 "m. Aug. 30, 1928 Helen Marie Knapp at Ithaca, N.Y.
atWellesley Hills, Mass. b. May 6, 1904
Cornell University 1927 Daughter of John Paul and Veronica (Soroka) Knapp
Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Both originally from Vienna, Austria
With Associated Hospital Service of N.Y.
1 son, Alan Dickson Bubier b. Feb. 26, 1930 at
1951 address: Flushing, L.L
Mr. and M r s . Henry Hooker Bubier, Jr. Cornell 1951-Zeta Psi Fraternity
64 Sagamore Rd.
Bronxville, N.Y.
2. Donald McKay Bubier b. Aug. 2, 1906 m. Oct. 1, 1936 Carolyn Louise Griffin
at Brookline, Mass. at Providence, R.I.
Executive with Kenney Manufacturing Co. b. May 17, 1916 at Warren, R.I.
Cranston, R.I. Daughter of Michael P. and Mary (Dempsey) Griffin
No children
ALICE divorced Henry Hooker Bubier 1910 m. (2) Dec. 15, 1917 Frank Allen Daly
He died about 1926 at San Francisco, Cal.
b. Sept. 21, 1872
Son of Frank Winfield Scott and Emma (Allen) Daly
of Lowell, M a s s .
d. Nov. 3, 1935 at Providence, R.I.
3. Helen Lucile Daly b. Jan. 17, 1919 m. June 24, 1939 Gordon Cottrell Allen
Adopted 1927 at Tewksbury, Mass. b. Feb. 26, 1915
Son of Dr. Richard Day and Mary (Cottrell) Allen
of Providence, R.I.
Gordon-Brown University 1936, B.A.M.A. Dr. Allen, Distinguished Educator in Providence
Instructor, R.I. School of Design Schools, Originally from Milwaukee, Wis.
Children
1. Richard Day Allen n b. May 21, 1940 at Providence, R.I.
2. Martha Elizabeth Allen b. Sept. 15, 1943 at Providence, R.I.
1951 addresses: M r s . Frank A. Daly Mr. and M r s . Gordon C. Allen
Mr. and M r s . Donald McKay Bubier 220 Rochambeau Avenue
83 Frontier Rd. Providence, R.I.
Warwick, R.I.
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CHART 44
GLADYS BEDELL McKAY m. Sept. 30, 1922 George MacDonald Kenney
b. Feb. 24, 1895 at Allston, M a s s . at Providence, R.I.
Daughter of b. Sept. 19, 1895 at Avondale, Nova Scotia
Clarence Leslie and Harriet (Bedell) McKay Son of
Charles Daboll and Marietta (MacDonald) Kenney
Children all born at Providence, R.I.
1. Robert MacDonald Kenney b. Dec. 2, 1924 m. Sept. 1, 1951 Eleanor Ruth Foster
U.S. Navy (Ph.M.2/c) 1943-46 b. July 30, 1929 at Leominster, Mass.
Pacific Theatre June 1945-46 Daughter of Ralph Wheeler and Rena (Buck) Foster
Brown University 1946-49 of Leominster, Mass.
R.I. State College 1949-50
George Dickson Kenney b. June 22, 1926 m. June 17, 1950 Virginia Catherine Stiles
U.S. Navy (Y 3/c) 1944-46 b. Mar. 13, 1928 at Providence,RI
Brown University 1946-48 Daughter of Cecil Eldon and Hazel (MacKay) Stiles
Bentley School of Accounting 1948-50 of Cranston, R.I.
Boston, Mass. Daughter, Kristene Lee Kenney b. July 25, 1952 at
Providence, R.I.
3. Philip Leslie Kenney b. Aug. 4, 1927
U.S. Navy (S 1/c) 1945-46, Navy Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C,
Brown University 1946-50, Mechanical Engineering
George MacDonald Kenney
President of Kenney Manufacturing Co., Window Hardware of Cranston, R.I.
with offices in New York and Chicago
1951 address: 1952 address:
Mr. and M r s . George MacD. Kenney Mr. and M r s . George Dickson Kenney
36 Oakland Ave. Perryville Road
Cranston, R. I. Rehobeth, Mass.
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CHART 45
RUTH LESLIE McKAY m. Feb. 1, 1923 Howard Field, Jr., at Oakland, Cal.
b. Apr. 6, 1896 at Seattle, Wash. b. Mar. 19, 1895 at Evanston, 111.
Daughter of Clarence and Hariet (Bedell) McKay Son of Howard and Elizabeth (Edwards) Field
Registered Nurse University of Illinois 1917
Stanford School of Nursing Mass. Institute of Technology 1920
San Francisco, Cal. 1919- 1922 1st. Lt. Air Service, Signal Corps, World War I
8 years Chief Hydraulic Engineer at
North American Aviation, Inc.
Author of many articles on Hydraulic Applications

Children
1. Howard Field IH b. Oct. 2, 1924 m. May 31, 1947 Lola Juanita Sellers
at San Francisco
Pasadena Junior College 1943-46 Daughter of Edward Leo and Lola Sellers
University of Cal., Los Angeles 1946-47 of Chickasha, Oklahoma
Engineering Dept., North American Aviation, Inc.
2. David Dudley Field b. Mar. 19, 1926
at Pasadena
Sergeant Paratroops 11th Airborne 1944-46
Attended Los Angeles City College
Now attending University of Southern Cal.,
Business Administration
3. Donald McKay Field b. Aug. 2, 1931
at Oakland

1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Howard Field, J r .

811 Yarmouth Ct.
San Diego, Cal.
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CHART 46
ALEXANDER McKENZIE m. Nov. 23, 1826 Elizabeth Archibald (called Eliza)
b. b. June 27, 1806
Son of Roderick McKenzie Daughter of David and Olivia Archibald of Onslow, N.S.
d. Oct. 16, 1865 d. Jan. 12, 1870
Children
1. David McKenzie b. Nov. 28 1827 d.
d. Dec. 12, 1827
2. Robert McKenzie b. Oct. 24, 1828 d. Jan. 25, 1841
3. Mary McKenzie b. Mar 20, 1830 d. Nov. 25, 1864
4. Amelia McKenzie b. Aug. 31, 1832 m. June 12, 1856 Charles McLennan (Her cousin)
d. Children: Alexander, Charles Henry, Laura
5. Charles Henry McKenzie b. Nov. 27, 1834 m. Fannie F . Lane
d. Children: Blanche, Maud, Gertrude, Alma,
Charles L o m e ,
Geraldine and Harry (twins?)
Audrey
6. Maria Archibald McKenzie b. Aug. 15, 1836 m. Dec. 5, 1861 John McKenzie
d. Mar. 4, 1868 Children: Elizabeth, Mary Olivia
7. Colin McKenzie b. Aug. 23, 1838 d. Jan. 28, 1860
8. George William McKenzie b. Jan. 6, 1842 d. May 10, 1866
9. Thomas Archibald McKenzie b. May 20, 1843 m. Georgina Lunan
d. Dec. 5, 1886 Children: Minnie, Howard, Edna, Stewart, Louise,
Helena, Rupert Scott
10. Annie Eliza McKenzie b. Oct. 7, 1845 m. Aug. 1867 Dr. John S. Cameron
d. Jan. 31, 1932 Children: Owen, George, Ernest, Alice, Harold,
Annie Eliza
11. Archibald McKenzie b. Aug. 9, 1848 m. Nov. 13, 1873 Sara Helen Eaton See Chart
d. Dec. 7, 1925 Children: Florence Archibald #48
Charles Everet #48
Sophia Stewart #50
William Roy #51
Thomas George Archibald > #51
Archibald Alexander
Helen Augusta
Harold Percy #49
Earle Eaton

mm
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CHART 46A
HELENA MACKENZIE m. May 8, 1913 Lacey L. Harris at Hopkinton, Iowa
b. Feb. 23, 1882 b. May 27, 1887
Daughter of Son of John and Marguerite (Gaskin) Harris
Thomas Archibald and Georgina (Lunan) Mackenzie of Sydenham, Ont.
of Sorel, Quebec
Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.
Taught Oratory in a college in Iowa
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Lacey L. Harris
Sherwood Lodge, Apt. 105
985 Jervis St.
Vancouver 5, B.C., Canada
Son Howard Mackenzie Harris m. April 7, 1945 Lois Hortense Paul in Toronto
b. June 22, 1917 at Evanston, 111. b. March 4, 1914 in Danville, Que,
University of British Columbia Daughter of
Majored in English and took his M.A. degree Frederick and Christina (Mackenzie) Paul
Now with National Research Council
Ottawa, Ontario
Children
1. Paul Harris b. May 1, 1946 in Vancouver, B.C.
2. Lacey Christina H a r r i s b. Dec. 14, 1950 at Ottawa, Ont.
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Howard Mackenzie Harris
620 Keenan Ave.
Westboro, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Helena Mackenzie Lacey was the only living child of Thomas Archibald Mackenzie that I could
find.
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CHART 47
ARCHIBALD MACKENZIE m. Nov. 13, 1873 Sara Helen Eaton
b. Aug. 9, 1848 b. July 22, 1855
Son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Archibald) McKenzie Daughter of Simon and Lelia (Stewart) Eaton
of River John, Nova Scotia of Truro and Natick, Mass.
d. Dec. 7, 1925 d.

Children
1. Florence Archibald Mackenzie b. Oct. 11, 1874 m. Oct. 1, 1902 William Middleton Sedgwick
See Chart 48
2. Charles Everett Mackenzie b. Jan. 25, 1877 m. June 17, 1914 Kathleen McGroarTy
at Falls Church, Virginia
See Chart 48
3. Sophia Stewart Mackenzie b. Apr. 10, 1879 m. Dec. 27, 1906 Rev. William Henry Sedgewick
See Chart 50
4. William Royal Mackenzie b. Feb. 14, 1881 m. Oct. 3, 1906 Mary Ethel Stuart
at Natick, Mass.
5. Thomas George Archibald Mackenzieb. Dec. 15, 1882 m. June 24, 1908 Ethel Maude Pearson of Halifax
See Chart 51
6. Archibald Alexander Mackenzie b. June 22, 1885
d. July 25, 1931 at Nago, Trentino, Italy
7. Helen Augusta Mackenzie b. May 15, 1887 Unmarried
8. Harold F. Percival Mackenzie b. Feb. 28, 1890 m. Sept. 3, 1919 Edna Winnifred Colter
at Calgary, Alberta See Chart 51
9. Earle Eaton Mackenzie b. Oct. 21, 1892
d. Sept. 1, 1916 Battle of the Somme, World War I
The second generation of McKenzie's started to spell the name Mackenzie.
Florence and Sophia m a r r i e d Sedgwick cousins. One family spells the name with two l e t t e r s ' e ' and the
other dropped the second *e\
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CHART 48
FLORENCE ARCHIBALD MACKENZIE m. Oct. 1, 1902 William Middleton Sedgwick
b. Oct. 11, 1874 b. Oct. 29, 1873
Daughter of Archibald and Sara (Eaton) Mackenzie Son of Dr. Thomas and Christina (MacGregor) Sedgwick
of River John, Nova Scotia Dalhousie B.A. 1896
d. 1928 at New Glasgow
Children - born at New Glasgow
1. Florence Middleton Sedgwick b. Apr. 29, 1907 Unmarried
2. Thomas Clark Sedgwick b. Aug. 3, 1909 Unmarried
New Glasgow Schools
Dalhousie B.A. 1928
Law School 1932
Lawyer, K.C., Pictou, N.S.
M r s . W.M. Sedgwick 1951 address: Box 38
Pictou, N.S.

CHARLES EVERETT MACKENZIE m. June 17,1914 KathleenMcGroarty at Falls Church, Va.

b. Jan. 25, 1877 at River John, N.S. b. Nov. 25, 1891
Son of Archibald and Sara (Eaton) Mackenzie Daughter of William and Georgiana (Pease) McGroarty
With Royal Bank of Canada of Alexandria, Va.
Now retired
Children
1. Archibald Buckner Mackenzie b. May 10, 1918 m. June 7, 1947 Joan Isabelle Godfrey
St. Andrews College 1935 b. Mar. 6, 1927 at Halifax, N.S.
Dalhousie University (Law) 1940 Daughter of John and Helen (Cameron) Godfrey
With Royal Canadian Artillery
Overseas 1940-1945 1 son John David Alexander Mackenzie b. Mar. 23, 1940 at Halifax
Major, Canadian Army
1951 address: 287 Holmwood Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
2. Robert McGroarty Mackenzie b. Feb. 8, 1931
Rothsay Collegiate 1945
Dalhousie University 1949
Employee The Royal Bank of Canada
1951 address: Annapolis Royal, N.S.
Charles E. Mackenzie 1951 address: 83 Inglis St.
Halifax, N.S.
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CHART 49
HAROLD F. PERCIVAL MACKENZIE m. Sept. 3, 1919 Edna Winnifred Colter
b. Feb. 28, 1890 b . Sept. 2, 1897 at River John, N. S.
Son of Archibald and Sara (Eaton) Mackenzie Daughter of Albro and Elizabeth (Salter) Colter
of River John, Nova Scotia
Western Canada College 1907
at Calgary, Alberta
Accountant Children
1. Marjorie Winnifred Mackenzie b. July 9, 1920 m. Sept. 18, 1943 William John Windebank
at Calgary, Alberta b. Nov. 2, 1913
Son of William and Ella Mae (Cook) Windebank
of Mission City, B. C.
Children
1. William John Windebank b. July 10, 1944
2. Amy Mackenzie Windebank b. May 7, 1948
2. Elizabeth Sara Mackenzie b. Jan. 24, 1922 m. May 3, 1949 Thomas Duff Syme
at Delia, Alberta at Vancouver, B. C.
b. Apr. 2, 1922
Son of James and Helen (Duff) Syme
of Airdrie, Scotland and Vancouver, B. C.
1 son Thomas Duff Syme, J r . b. Feb. 21, 1950 at
Ocean Falls, B. C.
1951 address: Mrs. and Mrs. Harold P . Mackenzie
1115 Cornox St.
Vancouver, B. C.
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CHART 50
SOPHIA STEWART MACKENZIE m. Dec. 27, 1907 Rev. William Henry Sedgewick
b. April 10, 1879 b. August 9, 1876
Daughter of Archibald and Sara Helen (Eaton) Mackenzie Son of William M. and Annie (Leedham) Sedgewick
of River John, Nova Scotia of Middle Musquodoboit, N.S.
1951 address: Rev. and Mrs. William H. Sedgewick Dalhousie College 1898
68 Rathnelly Ave.
Toronto, Ont.
Children
1. Margaret Mackenzie Sedgewick b. Apr. 13, 1908 m. Oct. 5, 1945 at Toronto, Morden Lazarus
at Hamilton, Ont. b. Oct. 4, 1907 at Ottawa, Ont.
1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Morden Lazarus J^Jft T^^fS?^ ^ ^ ^
68 Rathnelly Ave. University of Toronto 1928
Toronto, Ont. No children
2. Eleanor Wallace Sedgewick b. June 19, 1909 m. June 12, 1934 William RichmondStewart at Toronto
at Hamilton, Ont. b. Mar. 26, 1906 at Milton, Ont.
University of Toronto 1931 Son of William and Mary (Richmond) Stewart
University of Toronto 1931
1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. William R. Stewart
6 Nesbitt Drive
Toronto, Ont.
Children
1. Sarah Richmond Stewart b. Nov. 29, 1936
2. Gillian Sedgewick Stewart b. Oct. 11, 1939
3. Robert Mackenzie Stewart b. Apr. 15, 1941
4. Frances Leedham Stewart b.June 14, 1946
3. Carl Mackenzie Sedgewick b. Oct. 13, 1910 Unmarried
McGill, 2 years at Hamilton, Ont.
Civil Service
1951 address: Mr. Carl M. Sedgewick
5 Deer Park Crescent
Toronto, Ont.
Mary Madeleine Sedgewick b. June 22, 1919 m. July 15, 1944 Walter Stevenson Joyce atToronto
University of Toronto 1941 b. Apr. 21, 1918 at Regina, Sask.
Son of Rev. Henry and Sophia (Stevenson) Joyce
University of Toronto 1941
Children
1. Sheila Mary Joyce b. June 16, 1945
2. Margaret Elizabeth Joyce b. Mar. 27, 1948
3. Thomas Sedgewick Joyce b. Jan. 4, 1951
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Walter S. Joyce
212 Third Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
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CHART 51
WILLIAM ROYAL MACKENZIE m Oct. 3, 1906 Mary Ethel Stuart at Natick, Mass,
b. Feb. 14, 1881 b. 1884 in Nova Scotia
Son of Archibald and Sara (Eaton) Mackenzie Daughter of
of River John, Nova Scotia Charles and Margaret (Mackenzie) Stuart
Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1902 Family lived in Nova Scotia, Boston and Mexico
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1910 Ph.D.
Dalhousie University, Halifax, 1950 L.L.D. No children
Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Epsilon Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa
Professor of English and Head of Department since 1918 at Washington University of St. Louis, Mo
Lecturer at Harvard University, Summer Sessions
Author, "The English Moralities" 1914, "The Quest of the Ballad" 1919,
"Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia" 1928
1952 address: Mr. and M r s . William Royal Mackenzie
Washington University
St. Louis, Mo.
THOMAS GEORGE ARCHIBALD MACKENZIE m. June 24, 1908 Ethel Maud Pearson of Halifax, N.S.
b. Dec. 15, 1882 b. March 22, 1888
Son of Archibald and Sara (Eaton) Mackenzie Daughter of
of River John, Nova Scotia Benjamin Franklin and Julia (Reading) Pearson
Dalhousie University 1904 B.A., 1905 M.A.,
1906 B.E. in Mining
Public Utility Executive
1952 address: 2 Rector Street
New York, N.Y.
Children
1. Archibald Franklin Mackenzie Jan. 9, 1910
Asbury College, Ottawa, Can. atWabana, New Foundland
McGill 1932 B.A., Harvard 1935 L.L.B.
1951: Teaching at Law School, Kabul, Afghanistan
2. Dr. Kenneth Reading Mackenzie b . June 29, 1911 m. June 1938 Isobel Gillespie
Asbury College, Ottawa, Can. at Port Morien, C B . of Ottawa, Can.
McGill 1934 B.A.
London 1937 M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
McGill 1939M.D.C.M.
1948 Ph.D.
1951 address: Dr. and M r s . Kenneth Reading Mackenzie
267 Oliver Ave.
Westmount, P.Q., Canada
148
CHART 52
JAMES GEORGE HARRISON PURVES m. Jan. 19, 1895 Elizabeth Alexandra Mackay
b. July 5, 1872 at No. Sydney C. B.
Son of William and Abigail (Dickson) Purves b. Apr. 29, 1870
of North Sydney, C. B. Daughter of Alexander and Isabel Mackay
Upper Canada College 1884
McGill University, Montreal, 1892
Engineer
Children
1. Isabel Maude Purves b. Nov. 24, 1895 m. Aug. 1921 Norman Kyle Hay of Ottawa, Ont.
at Sydney, C. B. b. Apr. 29, 1883
Son of Nathaniel and Sarah Hay
d. Aug. 15, 1943 at Halifax, N. S.
No Children
Widow - Lives in Halifax, N. S.
2. Gordon Mackay Purves b. Jan. 19, 1899 m. Aug. 29, 1935 Adline MacKinnon
at No. Sydney, C. B. Daughter of John L„ and Catherine MacKinnon
d. Aug. 26, 1936 of Sydney Mines, C. B.

3. Helen Dickson Purves b. Apr. 12, 1901

at No. Sydney, C. B.
Gordon was an Insurance and Stock Broker.
Helen is Secretary to the Off icer commanding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia.
M r s . J a m e s Purves and Helen now live in Halifax.

1951 address: M r s . James P u r v e s

Miss Helen P u r v e s
40 So. P a r k St.
Halifax, N. S.
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CHART 53
THOMAS DICKSON ARCHIBALD PURVES m. August 2, 1916 Caroline Blair
b. Oct. 1, 1873 at North Sydney, C B . b. Nov. 26, 1882
Son of William and Abigail (Dickson) Purves Daughter of Henry Crow and Grace (Ewart) Blair
Attended McGill University of Truro, Nova Scotia
Civil and Electrical Engineer
Served in World War I 1915-1918 M r s . Purves 1951 address: 75 King St.
d. July 27, 1945 at Halifax Truro, N.S.
Children
1. Archibald Henry Blair Purves b. Feb. 17, 1918 m. March 1946 Nancy Burrill
Dalhousie, B.S.C and at Ottawa, Ont. b.
Engineering 1938 Daughter of Fred and Pearl (MacDonald) Burrill
In Canadian Industries, Ltd., and of Yarmouth, N.S.
Defense Industries, Ltd.
Royal Canadian Air Force till end of World War II
X d a u h t e r D o n n a B l a i r b Dec
1951 address: Sydney, C B . S ' " 22' 1947
2. Josephine Grace Purves b. May 20, 1920 m. July 7, 1945 in Halifax, Vernon Prentice
Air Force 1943-45, Photography at Vancouver, B.C.
S o n of W i l l i a m
iq«Sl address- Mr and Mrs Vernon Prentice and Vera (Sampson) Prentice
I9bl address. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Prentice f Abbe Saskatchewan, Canada
Renfrew, Ont. Air Force
1 son David William Prentice b. Dec. 30, 1947 in T r u r o
3. James Kent Blair Purves b. March 17,1922 m. (1) March 17, 1945 T e r r y Moran, Ireland
Pre-Med. Dalhousie 1939-40 at T r u r o , N.S. b.
Entered Royal Canadian Air Force 1940 1 Daughter Carolyn Mary b. Feb. 5, 1946
Finished Medical at Dalhousie 1949
Interning Victoria General Hospital T e r r y died 1946
Degree 1951 m ( 2 ) M a y 15> 1 9 4 8 M a r y T o b i n
1951 address: Halifax, N.S. Daughter of Thomas and (Stopford) Tobin
of Halifax
1 Daughter Jane Stopford Purves b. July 22, 1949
4. Grace Ewart Purves b. Sept. 24, 1925 m. Oct. 31, 1947 John Charles Phillips
at N. Sydney, C B . in Toronto
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . John Charles Phillips Son of Archdeacon Charles C. and Catherine (Porter)
70 Rathnelly Ave. Phillips of Pembrook, Ont.
Toronto, Ont. Lawyer
Children
1. John Charles Phillips b. Nov. 22, 1948 at Toronto
2. Katherine Caroline Phillips b. Apr. 5, 1950 at Toronto
Underlined names designate that by which they were known.
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CHART 54
JOSEPHINE MABEL PURVES (FIFF) m Nov. 25, 1903 at Christ's Church, London, England
b. Sept. 30, 1876 at No. Sydney, C. B. Col. Nathaniel Melhuish Comyns Stevens
Daughter of William and Abigail (Dickson) Purves b. Aug. 10, 1868
d. Sept. 27, 1953 Son of Col. Nathaniel and Mary Stevens
1953 address: Col. Nathaniel M.S. Stevens of Exeter, Devon, England
Fiveways, Church Hill Colonel Stevens now retired.
Camberley, Surrey, England
1 Son
Edward William Stevens (Ted) Nov. 8, 1905 m. July 23, 1934 Sylvia Pamona Lynn-Allen
in Kosaikanal, Madrass, b. Oct. 16, 1905 at Suffolk, England
India Daughter of Col. William and Marion (Dickenson) Lynn-
Allen

Children
1. John Edward Comyns Stevens b. June 24,v 1935 at Hindhead, Surrey, England
2. Robin Lynn Stevens b. Apr. 23,1937 at-Malta
3. Hilary Claire Stevens b. Apr. 21, 1945 at Farnborough, Surrey, Eng.
Education and Service
Col. Edward William Stevens
St. Wilfrich Preparatory School 1913-1917
Wellington College, Berks, 1920-24
Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1924-1925
Lt. Col. Duke of Wellington Regiment. Palestine '37-38-39 East Africa '39-40
8th Army Egypt '41-43 Burma '43-45
He has received many decorations - Palestine Medal, African Star, Burma Star,
3 British War Medals and Order British Empire - Several "mentioned in dispatches"
Served in Dar-Es-Salaam, Africa, 1950
Serving in North Germany, 1951

Col. Nathaniel M. C. Stevens received medals for service in Afghan Frontier Wars, Burma, Tirah World War I
medals " C M.G." Distinguished order Champion St. Michael and St. George and St. Anne of Russia. He spent
2 years in Russia before the 1917 Revolution and is a first class interpreter.
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CHART 55
STANISLAUS REMAK PURVES m. June 11, 1911 Alice Louise Sleep
b. Oct. 5, 1880 at North Sydney, C B . b. Feb. 23, 1879 at Amherst, N.S.
Son of William and Abigail (Dickson) Purves Daughter of W.H. and Helen (Douglas) Sleep
Educated at Lenoxville, Can. of Amherst, N.S.
Banker and later organized and was Manager of 1951 address: M r s . Stanley Purves
MutualWholesale Grocery Co. of Sydney Mines, C B . 6101 Somerled Avenue
d. Nov. 2, 1945 at No. Sydney Montreal, P.Q., Canada
Children All born at No. Sydney
1. David Archibald Purves b. May 13, 1914 m. Apr. 12, 1943 Florence Alexandria MacKenzie
Rothsay Collegiate, N.B. 1927-31 b. July 17, 1915 at Malagash, N.S.
Canadian Merchant Marine, 3-1/2 y e a r s , 1942-45 Daughter of Wm. A. and Jessie Belle (Macintosh) MacKenzie
Banker, Royal Bank of Canada 1932 of Truro, N.S.
1951 address: P a r r s b o r o , N.S. School Teacher, Dietitian-Secretary
1 Son James David Purves, b. Oct. 15, 1947 at Truro, N.S.
2. Frances Mary Purves b. Nov. 12, 1915 m. Nov. 11, 1940 C William Dunberry
Graduate Nurse b. Apr. 1913 in Montreal
Royal Victoria Hospital, 1934 Son of Percy and Beatrice (Quain) Dunberry
Montreal, Que.
Children - Born at Montreal
1951 address: 1. Alice Beverley Dunberry b. Mar. 13, 1943
M r s . William Dunberry 2. Beatrice Diana Dunberry b. Mar. 7, 1944
6101 Somerled Avenue
Montreal, P.Q., Canada
3. Clay Corson Purves b. Oct. 9, 1922 m. June 30, 1951 Monique O'Doherty at Arvida, P.Q.
University of New Brunswick, 1950 b. Sept. 10, 1931 at Quebec City, P.Q.
Civil Engineer Daughter of Gerard and Beatrice (Dutil) O'Doherty
Lieut, with Royal Canadian Artillery May 1941-Sept. 1946 of Arvida, P.Q.
Now with Montreal Engineering Co.
1951 address: Apt. 23, 1220 Decarie Blvd.
St. Laurent, P.Q., Canada
REGINALD WILLIAM PURVES m. Sept. 26, 1911 Elizabeth Herrington McClellen
b. Apr. 21, 1878 at Revelstone, British Columbia, Canada
Son of William and Abigail (Dickson) Purves b. June 13, 1889
of North Sydney, C B . Daughter of James Purves and Ellen (Jardin)McClellen
Lenoxville, Que. and McGill University of Pictou, Nova Scotia
Moved to Vancouver as a very young man
d. Oct. 25, 1941 at Vancouver No children
Elizabeth Purves, Widow, m. (2) Apr. 14, 1945 Be rtrand William Sinclair
An author of short stories and mysteries
Live at Pender Harbor, B.C.
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The Purves Family at the Hermitage, North Sydney, Cape Breton

My first visit there was with Mother when I was about seven y e a r s old. Everyone strange and
getting acquainted with all these "new" cousins was disconcerting. When I found I couldn't go to the
table with Mother, but have my meals with the children in their nursery school room upstairs, I set
up a howl. Mother explained to me that we were visiting and must do what our hostess planned, etc.
The P u r v e s children were brought up in the English fashion with a governess and had to attain the ripe
age of twelve y e a r s before they could join their parents at table even for dessert. Then they must be
seen and not heard! So very different from our American family way. We had all our meals with our
parents and guests but were taught to behave and not make a nuisance of ourselves.

However, I soon found that having my meals with the children was much more fun. We could rush
out to play that much more quickly. Our visit was short a s Mother had left Plum and Dave with the
McNutts in Onslow.

My next visit was when I was fourteen and then I realized what an amazingly competent woman
Cousin Abbie w a s . I had great admiration for her and loved her dearly. She managed everything
indoors and out for that large household, and such gracious living.

As one entered the front door, the drawing room on the left all done up in bright English chintz.
The dining room was on the other side of the hall. Cousin Will's study back of the drawing room,
lined to the ceiling with shelves of books, his desk and his organ, for he was musical and did some
composing. Back of the dining room, the s t a i r s and then numerous locked closets and pantries before
one reached the kitchen. Supplies were bought in large quantities and only the required amount given
out each day. I can see Cousin Abbie's big bunch of keys which she always carried. Later they were
entrusted to Fiff. I was used to Faneuil Hall Market where all kinds of meat and fish were available,
but Cousin Abbie had to plan beforehand to have chickens and ducks killed and picked for certain
meals, beef, lamb, fish, etc. ordered ahead of time, and wait for the country children to come with
buckets of wild s t r a w b e r r i e s or other fruit they had picked and had for sale.

From the windows of the drawing room and study one looked out on a beautiful flower garden.
Next came the vegetable garden and beyond that a turf tennis court had been graded, with one side and
end arranged in narrow t e r r a c e s which made excellent seats for spectators.
 153

For three consecutive s u m m e r s Plum and I spent about six weeks of our vacation with the Purveses,
and loved them all. The four boys and Fiff. Our Archibald boy cousins, George, Harry, David and
Arthur, who lived at "Gowrie", Sydney Mines, would join us nearly every day for bathing, (I failed to
tell you the Hermitage faced Sydney Harbour) sailing and tennis. Reggie was devoted to the sea and
boats, the sailor of the family.

Forty years later I spent the day with Reggie and Betty in Vancouver. They lived as near the
water as possible. He was Vice-Commodore of the Yacht Club, and Fiff writes me that when he died,
he was cremated and had his ashes scattered on the sea, with all the Yacht Club sailing in their boats
for the funeral. An impressive sight.

Cousin Abbie had a regular weekly "at home" day when any number of guests came to call. We
three girls cut and arranged flowers two days each week and on "at home" days, had to be dressed in
our prettiest and help serve. All the family were musical. Fiff played the piano very well and studied
more seriously than the others. Jim played violin, another a flute, and so forth, but, music was a lot
of fun with everyone singing.

Two summers the older boys took the boat around into the beautiful B r a s d'or Lakes. We girls
joined them there, and stayed at the Whycocomagh Inn. This was owned and managed by a very fine
family who chaperoned us. They served delicious food, and from there we sailed and picniced. Those
were never-to-be-forgotten days.

As the children grew older a modern cottage was built nearby where Aunt Viney Dickson and Mary
Bourinot lived.

After Cousin Will's death Cousin Abbie and Fiff went abroad to live. Jim and Lizzie with their
family moved into the Hermitage and after Jim's death, Stanley and Alice lived there with their
children. Alice told me last summer (1950) that the Hermitage site is now a hospital.

On our way to and from the Purveses we visited relatives in Truro, Halifax and other places, staying
with M r s . J.B. Dickey when Joan, her daughter, was m a r r i e d to Mr. White, an engineer who lived in
Russia. One time we spent a week with dear old Dr. Crawford and Susan Page, and had delightful
visits in Halifax.
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CHART 56

WILLIAM ALBERT PATTERSON m. Dec. 23, 1869 Elizabeth (Bessie) Campbell

of Tatamagouche, N. S. Daughter of. William and Olivia (Upham) Campbell
b. July 10, 1841 of Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Grandson of John Patterson, Founder of Pictou Town b. April 14, 1847 d. April 23, 1893
and also of Rev. J. D. MacGregor, Pioneer
Presbyterian Minister of Pictou County
d. June 16, 1917

Children
1. Olivia Patterson b. Oct. 19, 1870 d. Sept. 10, 1877
2. Archie Patterson b. Apr. 25, 1872 d. Nov. 1, 1881
3. Margaret Louise Patterson b. Nov. 29, 1873 Lives on the Patterson Homestead, Tatamagouche
4. Edith Patterson b. Mar. 10, 1876 Retired School Teacher, Calgary, Alberta
5. Fanny Patterson b. Oct. 27, 1877 d. Jan. 1, 1878
6. Mary Dickson Patterson b. Dec. 7, 1878 Retired Public School Nurse, Tatamagouche
Chart 58
7. Henry Stewart Patterson b. Feb. 22,1881 m. 1911 Margaret Chase See -59
8. William Albert Patterson, J r . b. Aug. 31, 1882 m. Dec. 16, 1913 Mildred Warnock See Chart 58
9. Emma Archibald Patterson b. July 17, 1885 Graduate Nurse, Boston City Hospital
Served Overseas with the Harvard Unit, 1st World War
10. Frank H a r r i s Patterson b. Jan. 31, 1890 m. May 12, 1925 Ina Macnee
B a r r i s t e r , Q. C , Law Office b. June 12, 1887, Glasgow, Scotland
Truro, N. S. Daughter of F o r r e s t F. and Mary Patterson Macnee of
Glasgow, Scotland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
1951 a d d r e s s : Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Patterson
91 Smith Avenue Children
Truro, N. S. 1. Edith Macnee Patterson b. Mar. 1, 1927 at Truro, N.S.
Queens University B.A. 1949 Mount Allison B.Ed. 1951
2. Mary Patterson b. Aug. 1928 d. Oct. 1928
3. Mary Adams Patterson b. Apr. 1, 1932 at Truro, N.S.
Attending McGill University, 1950
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CHART 58
WILLIAM ALBERT PATTERSON, JR. m. Dec. 16, 1913 Mildred Warnock
b. Aug. 31, 1882 at Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia b. Mar. 9, 1887
Son of Daughter of James and Nancy (Forsyth) Warnock
William Albert and Elizabeth (Campbell) Patterson of St. John, N.B.
Contractor, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.
1951 address: 37 Lake Ave.
White Bear Lake, Minn.
Children
1. Elizabeth Campbell Patterson b. Dec. 25, 1914 m. Nov. 1, 1941 Allen Judd, b. Apr. 15, 1918
Carleton College, Minn. Son of Harold and Mabel (Tinnes) Judd of Iowa
University of Minnesota
Children
1. Susan Elizabeth Judd b. Nov. 17, 1943, San Antonio, Texas
2. Bruce Judd b. Dec. 9, 1945, St. Paul, Minn.
3. Thomas Judd) m-,,--
4. Stephen Judd) i ™ i n s b. June 2, 1950, St. Paul, Minn,
2. Mildred Gordon Patterson b. Apr. 27, 1916 m. May 24, 1941 Kenneth Deans, b. July 4, 1912
University of Minnesota Son of Clinton and Lila (Brickley) Deans
of Oxbow, N.Y.
Children
1. Rachel Deans b. June 22, 1945, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
2. Nancy Deans b. Sept. 13, 1949, Munich, Germany
William Albert Patterson, Jr. b. Nov. 25, 1921 m. Aug. 14, 1943 Mary Ann Oslund, b. Sept. 7, 1922
Carleton College, Minn. Daughter of Herbert and Agnes (O'Connor) Oslund
University of Minnesota of Minneapolis, Minn.
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Class of 1944
Naval Air Force, Pacific
Children
1. William Albert Patterson, II b. July 2, 1945, St. Paul, Minn,
2. Anne Patterson b. Mar.22, 1947, Norfolk, Va.
3. James Patterson b. Aug. 2, 1950, St. Paul, Minn.
CHART 59
HENRY STUART PATTERSON m. Dec. 29, 1911 Margaret Cogswell Chase
b. Feb. 22, 1881 at Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia b. Oct. 23, 1888
Son of William Albert andElizabeth (Campbell) Patterson Daughter of Bedford and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Chase
Common School, High School, Pictou Academy of Port William, N.S.
Dalhousie University, Arts 1906, Law 1908 Common School, High School
(Graduated with High Honours Philosophy) Dalhousie University, Arts 1909
1951 B. address: 218 Greyhound Bldg.
Calgary, Alberta
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CHART 59 (Cont'd)
Children all born at Calgary
1. Henry Stuart Patterson, Jr. b. Oct. 9, 1913 m. Dec. 5, 1940 Laura Stuart Lydiard
University of Alberta, Arts 1936, Law 1937 b. Sept. 23, 1914
Canadian Army Signals May 1940-Aug. 1945 Daughter of Thomas and Alice (Chase) Lydiard
Major West Europe of Kentville, N.S.
Lawyer Colby Junior College
1 daughter Luana Patterson b. Dec. 18, 1947
1951 address: Springbank (near Calgary) Alberta
2. Alexander Campbell Patterson b. Oct. 26, 1916 m. Oct. 5, 1940 Elspeth Milligan
University of Alberta, B.Sc. 1939, Master M.Sc. b. Feb. 9, 1918
1946 Daughter of Rev. Frank and Josephine (McDonald) Milligan
Captain Royal Canadian Artillery of Winnipeg
Service in Italy and N.W. Europe University of Manitoba 1939
Horticulturist Dietician
1951 address: 10705 79th Ave.
Edmonton, Alberta
Children
1. Margaret Patterson b. Nov. 17, 1946
2. Leslie Patterson b. Jan. 14, 1948
3. Joan Patterson b. Oct. 26, 1949
3. Donald Bedford Chase Patterson b. Apr. 16, 1919 m. Oct. 3, 1942 Margaret Milligan
High School b. Dec. 1, 1915
R.C.A.F. Bomber Command Daughter of
Squadron Leader Pilot D . F . C Rev. Frank and Josephine (McDonald) Milligan
Oil Development of Glenholm, N.S.
1951 address: 425 18th St., N.W. University of Saskatchewan
Calgary, Alberta University of Manitoba 1937
Children
1. Donald Patterson b. Oct. 15, 1943
2. Elspeth Patterson b. Dec. 24, 1946
3. Margaret J. Patterson b. Sept. 26, 1948
4. Arthur Moxom Patterson b. Feb. 29, 1924 m. Sept. 8, 1947 Margaret Armstrong
University of British Columbia 1949 b. Oct. 5, 1924
R.C.A.F. Pilot Officer, Navigator Daughter of W.S. and Maud (Logan) Armstrong
Geologist of Calgary
University of Alberta, B.Sc. 1947
1951 address: Calgary, Alberta 1 son James Patterson b. Dec. 24, 1949
d. July 27, 1951
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CHART 57
THOMAS ROACH m. (1) 1793 Ruth Dixon
b. in Cork, Ireland, 1768 b. 1772 d. 1810
Moved to Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia, 1790 Fourth daughter of Charles &Susanna (Coates) Dixon
Educated for the Priesthood - Spoke 3 languages He was born in Yorkshire, England Mar. 8, 1730
Successful Businessman m. about 1761
Elected 5 times Provincial Parliament Settled in Sackville, N. S. 1772
from 1799 to 1826 Zealous Methodist
One of the leading men in the Methodist Church
d. 1833
Children
1. John Roach b. 1794 m. Jan. 1824 Sarah Amelia Dickson
See Chart 12 d. June 13, 1862 b. Mar. 29, 1801
Daughter of Robert and Lavinia (DeWolf) Dickson
of Onslow d. Apr. 23, 1867
2. Susanah b. 1795
3. Jean b. 1797
4. Charles D. b. 1800
5. Mary b. 1802
6. Thomas, Jr. b. 1805
7. Edward b. 1807
Thomas Roach m. (2) M r s . Sarah Allen, sister-in-law of Rebel
John Allen, and daughter of Major Thomas Dixson
m. (3) Mary Olivia Dickson, daughter of John and
Lydia (Hamilton) Dickson of Onslow, N.S.
m. (4) Miss Charlotte Wells
From the Nova Scotian of Sept. 28, 1826, "Married: At St. John's Church, T r u r o , on Thursday morning,
the 25th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Burnyeat, visiting Missionary, Thomas Roach, Esq., of Cumberland, to
Mary Olivia, Eldest daughter of John Dickson, Esq."
From the Acadian Recorder of Nov. 10, 1827, "Died: At Fort Lawrence, Cumberland, on the 20th ult.,
after a short illness, Dickson, infant son of Thomas Roach, Esq., aged 4 months."
From the Royal Gazette of Apr. 22, 1829, "Died: At Fort Lawrence, County of Cumberland, on Monday
the 30th ult., after a protracted illness, Mary Olivia, wife of Thomas Roach, Esq., in the 26th year of
her age."
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CHART 60
DR. ELISHA DeWOLF ROACH m.(l) Mary Sophia MacKeen
b. 1837 at Nappan, N.S. d. Feb. 18, 1880
Son of John and Sarah Amelia (Dickson) Roach Children, Fannie and John
Doctor, Tatamagouche Died in childhood, 1877
University of Penn., March 15, 1860
m.(2) 1897 Maude Charman
b. Apr. 20, 1877 at Wallace, N.S.
Daughter of Henry and Ambrosine (Betts) Charman
1 son Dr. Robert Dickson Roach m. Oct. 3, 1928 Katherine L. McMillan
b. Nov. 26, 1898 at Tatamagouche b. Aug. 12, 1901
Graduated Medicine McGill University 1925 Daughter of
Member Royal College Physicians, London, Eng. William and Margaret (McLeod) McMillan
Fellow American College Physicians of Jacquet River, N. B.
Fellow Royal College Physicians of Canada
Practised Internal Medicine in Moncton, N.B. since 1932
d. June 28, 1952
Children
1. Evan Dickson Roach b. Oct. 7, 1933 d. in infancy
2. Margot Ruth Roach b. Dec. 24, 1934
3. Lorna Joan Roach b. Nov. 1, 1936
4. John Robert Roach b. Dec. 20, 1942 d. in infancy
1952 address: M r s . Robert Dickson Roach
71 Church St.
Moncton, N.B.
DR. ELISHA DeWOLF ROACH
Wonderful tales are told of this beloved physician who started his practice in Tatamagouche, riding
many miles on horseback through woods trails in all kinds of weather to visit the sick and bring the
babies into the world.
His son, Dr. Robert Dickson Roach followed in his father's footsteps, although he was only six years
old when his father died. He was very distinguished in his profession and won an enviable reputation
as a heart specialist.
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CHART 61
JOHN E. ROACH m.(l) Mary Dunlap
b. Sept. 29, 1838
Son of John and Sarah Amelia (Dickson) Roach
of Nappan, N.S.
d. Oct. 19, 1928
1 son Clinton Roach b. June 13, 1874 m. Bess Coates
Children
1. Mary Isobel Roach b. July 10, 1903
2. Sherman Lewis Roach b. Sept. 27, 1913
d. Feb. 19, 1944 Royal Canadian Air Force
over Germany
3. Edith Bernice Roach b. May 19, 1922
4. Phyllis Elaine Roach b. Dec. 29, 1924
m Apr. 3, 1947 Roy Angus Nelson
1 son Sherman Douglas Nelson b. May 4, 1950
JOHNE. ROACH m.(2) 1880 Sarah Harrison
b. 1851
d. 1935
Children
1. Sophia Ruth Roach b. 1882
2. Bessie Harrison Roach b. 1886
3. Lena Lavenia Louvima Roach b. 1890 m. Sept. 5, 1925 Murray Hazelton Jenkins
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CHART 62
THOMAS ROACH m. June 25, 1868 Susan Lynds Bishop
b. 1830 b. Apr, 27 or 29, 1847 at Onslow
Son of John and Sarah Amelia (Dickson) Roach Daughter of John and Susan (Blair) Bishop
of Nappan, Nova Scotia d. Apr. 10, 1934 at Halifax, N.S.
d. May 30, 1901
Lived at Nappan
Children
1. Frank Llewellyn Roach b. June 13, 1869 m. April 3, 1913 Margaret Johnson
b. April 3, 1889
1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Roach Daughter of George and Louise (Black) Johnson
Nappan, Nova Scotia of Williamsdale, N.S.
Children
1. Ronald Frank Dickson Roach b. April 10, 1917
m. Sept. 3, 1947 Hazel Patricia Mackenzie
b. Mar. 17, 1919 at Malagash, N.S.
Daughter of William and Jessie (Mcintosh) Mackenzie
One son, Kenneth Gordon Roach b. Jan. 24, 1949
2. Margaret Ruth Roach b. Aug. 27, 1921

2. Walter Gray Roach b. June 10, 1871

d. Sept. 16, 1876
3. Dr. Edwin Bishop Roach b. Apr. 30, 1875 m. April 15, 1903 Marguerite Russell See Chart #63
4. Emily Gardner Roach b. Aug. 20, 1878 Unmarried
5. Dr. John Tremaine Roach b. Oct. 7, 1882 m. Aug. 28, 1911 Alice Winifred Strong
See Chart #64
1951 address:
(4) Miss Emily G. Roach
70 Morris St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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CHART 63
DR. EDWIN BISHOP ROACH m. April 15, 1903 Marguerite Russell
b. April 30, 1875 b.
Son of Thomas and Susan (Bishop) Roach Daughter of Benjamin and Louise Russell
of Nappan, Nova Scotia of Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dalhousie College 1901 M.D. C M .
Practice, New Westminster, British Columbia
1951 address: 112 Regina St.
New Westminster, B.C.
Children
1. Kathryn Roach b. May 6, 1906 m. June 1, 1933 William Dixon Lennett
Studied Toronto Conservatory of Music b. Oct. 13, 1901
Son of Harry and Margaret (Hogg) Lennett
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . William D. Lennett of Liverpool, England
4455 W. 2nd Ave.
Vancouver, B.C.
Children
1. Kathryn Anne Lennett b. June 28, 1934
2. Marilyn Joan Lennett b. Aug. 26, 1935
2. Edwin Roach b. Oct. 31, 1910 m. April 12, 1941 Marion Wilson
Chartered Accountant b. June 29, 1917
Controller, Business E n t e r p r i s e s , Ltd. Daughter of Cecil and Elsie Wilson
Edmonton, Alberta of Edmonton, Alberta
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . Edwin Roach
10303 - 121 St. Children
Edmonton, Alberta 1. David Edwin Roach b. Sept. 2, 1944
2. Leslie Ann Roach b. Oct. 6, 1948
3. Harold Dickson Roach b. Oct. 12, 1913 m. July 30, 1938 Madeline MacMillan
Public and High School b. June 24, 1913 at Granum, Alberta
Mount Royal College Daughter of
Business Course Dr. A . C and Patricia (O'Connor) MacMillan
Advertising Business Children of Cal ar
S y > Alberta
1951 address:
Mr. and M r s . Harold Dickson Roach 1. Patricia Anne Roach b. Oct. 14, 1940
40 Strath Ave. 2. Susan Roach b. Apr. 23, 1946
Toronto, Canada 3. Harold Dickson Roach, Jr. b. Mar. 7, 1949
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CHART 64
DR. JOHN TREMAINE ROACH m Aug. 28, 1911 Alice Winifred Strong
b. Oct. 7, 1882 b. Mar. 10, 1886 at Canaan, King's Co., N.S.
Son of Thomas and Susan Lynds (Bishop) Roach Daughter of Charles and Augusta (Foote) Strong
of Nappan Acadia Ladies Seminary 1902
Mount Allison Academy M r s . Roach's 1951 address: Linden Ave.
Baltimore Dental College 1907 Wolfville, N.S.
d. June 13, 1949
Children all born at Wolfville, N. S.
1. John Tremaine Roach II b. July 12, 1913 m. July 4, 1940 Bessie Benjamin
Acadia University 1936 Daughter of Percy and Bessie (Waterbury) Benjamin
of Wolfville

Children
1. John Tremaine Roach III b. July 19, 1941 at Windsor, Ont.
2. Judith Elizabeth Roach b. April 15, 1944 at Toronto, Ont.
Frances Winifred Roach b. April 15, 1915 -sm. May 31, 1941 at Wolfville, Donald S. F r a s e r
Secretarial Science b. Feb. 16, 1911
Acadia University 1937 Son of J. Frederick and C a r r i e (Sulis) F r a s e r
of Halifax, N.S.
Children
1. Frederick Donald F r a s e r b. Dec. 6, 1942 at Halifax, N.S.
2. James Douglas F r a s e r b. Nov. 23, 1947 at Halifax, N.S.
Stewart Wilfred Roach b. Aug. 8, 1919 m. June 25, 1947 at Windsor, N.S., Shirley Church
Horton Academy 1939 b. Mar. 6, 1923
Canadian Dental Corps 1941-44 Daughter of Dexter and Arabella (Wallace) Church
(Discharged on account of ill health) of Belmont, Hants Co., N.S.
Charles Douglas Roach b. May 14, 1923
Canadian Army, overseas two years
Acadia University, B.A. 1950
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CHART 65
MARY ARCHIBALD m. March 10, 1825 Hon. Alexander Campbell
b. Jan. 27, 1808 b. 1795 d. 1854
Daughter of Eldest son of William Campbell of Pictou
Col. David and Olivia (Dickson) Archibald Shipbuilder, Tatamagouche, N.S.
of Onslow, N.S.
d. Jan. 7, 1895
Children all born at Tatamagouche
1. Elizabeth Campbell 1826 m. Archibald Patterson See Chart #66
2. Margaret Campbell m. Oct. 10, 1870 S.S. Blowers Archibald, his second wife
Son of Hon. S.G.W. Archibald
3. Hannah Campbell m. John S. McLean for many years President of the
Bank of Nova Scotia
4. Olivia Campbell m. 1855 Howard P r i m r o s e of Pictou See Chart #67
5. David A. Campbell b. Dec. 29, 1830 m. Nov. 10, 1854 Francis Felicity Catherine Kavanah
d. Sept. 4, 1887 b. May 14, 1830 d. Apr. 10, 1902
(Family Bible records)
Children
1. Mary H. Campbell b. Jan. 10, 1856 m. William Re illy
2. Amelia Purves Campbell b. Jan. 14, 1860 m. Oct. 29, 1890 W. Crowe
d. Apr. 9, 1947
3. Sarah Olivia Campbell b. Mar. 24, 1867 m. Jan. 29, 1901 Canon H.L.A. Almon
6. George M. Campbell Probably m a r r i e d Sarah Ross
7. Archibald Campbell m. Jessie Sedgewick
Children
William, Robert Sedgewick, Anne, Mary, Lizzie Archibald, and Margaret P r i m r o s e Dickson
William M. Campbell May have m a r r i e d a Read
Children
1. William Campbell m. Annie Ingraham of Sydney
2. Robert Campbell
3. Lizzie Campbell m. Gavin Clark
Children
Archibald Campbell, Agnes Bill (Nan), John Gordon, Jessie P r i m r o s e and
Elizabeth MacLean
1951 address Agnes Bill Clark m. W.H. Winderler 6 children
M r s . W.H. Winderler
Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia

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CHART 66
ELIZABETH CAMPBELL m. Archibald Patterson
b. 1826 Grandson of John Patterson,
Daughter of Alexander and Mary (Archibald) Campbell a Pictou pioneer
of Tatamagouche, N.S.
d. 1919
Children
1. Anna B. Patterson b. Mar. 5, 1860 m. Sept. 13, 1893 Joseph Warren Revere
d. Jan. 3, 1903
Children
1. Susan Torrey Revere b. Oct. 4, 1894 See below
2. Margaret Archibald Revere b. Mar. 1, 1896
3. Paul Revere b. April 5, 1898 See below
4. Anna Patterson Revere b. July 24, 1900
2. Emma Archibald Patterson d. young
3. Alexander Patterson m. Addie Thompson - No children
Susan Torrey Revere m. May 12, 1923 James Edmund Muggah
b. Oct. 4, 1894
d. Dec. 27, 1947
Children
1. James Edmund Muggah, Jr. b. May 11, 1924
2. Anna Elizabeth Muggah b. July 1927
3. Revere Muggah b. Oct. 15, 1928
Paul Revere m. (1) Feb. 21, 1929 Dorothy Brown
b. April 5, 1898 1 son, Paul Revere, Jr. b. May 13, 1931
m. (2) Elizabeth Rhodes
James E. Muggah, Jr. m. Bernice Duncans on
b. May 11, 1924 1 daughter, Susan Linda Muggah b. Feb. 2, 1951
1952 address:
Miss Margaret Archibald Revere
"The Cedars"
Canton, Mass.
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CHART 67
OLIVIA CAMPBELL m. 1855 Howard P r i m r o s e
Daughter of b. 1832
Hon. Alexander and Mary (Archibald) Campbell Son of James and Annie (Gordon) P r i m r o s e
of Tatamagouche, N.S. of Pictou, N.S.
Children
1. Annie P r i m r o s e b. Aug. 29, 1856 m. (1) H.A. Bayne
m. (2) J.W. Sterling
2. Mary P r i m r o s e b. 1859 m. Charles Fergie
3. Dr. Alexander P r i m r o s e b. May 4, 1861 m. (1) Clara C. Ewart
m. (2) Elizabeth Britton Moss
4. John P r i m r o s e b. May 27, 1873 m. (1) Aug. 30, 1903 Charity Steers
McGill University 1895
Prominent Engineer
Children
1. Charity Steers P r i m r o s e b, July 22, 1910 m. Jan. 9, 1937 Andrew M. Clarke
Children
1 Charity Ann Clarke b. April 26, 1939
2.) - . (Elizabeth Clarke b. Oct. 17, 1941
3.) ^ " ^ [ J o h n Clarke b. Oct. 17, 1941
4. Mary J. Clarke b. Dec. 13, 1948
2. Elizabeth C. P r i m r o s e b. Sept. 19, 1913 m. (1) Jan. 7, 1930 Edmond Loeliger, Jr.
1 daughter Elizabeth C. Loeliger b. Dec. 14, 1931
Elizabeth P r i m r o s e Loeliger m. (2) Oct. 27, 1939 William Fritz Euler
John P r i m r o s e m. (2) Apr. 29, 1937 Eleanor Girouard Baskerville
1951 address: Mr. and M r s . John P r i m r o s e
Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N.Y.
Dr. Alexander P r i m r o s e was undoubtedly the most distinguished member of the family. He was one of the
originators of the Medical Faculty at Toronto University and Dean of the Medical Faculty for many y e a r s .

mmmmmm
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CHART 68
Continued from Chart 7
Children of William and Rebecca Pearson Dickson
1. Charles Thomas Dickson b. Nov. 8, 1801 d. Mar. 31, 1802 (These two children were r e -
2. John Dickson b. Jan. 27, 1803 d. Apr. 29, 1803 (corded in the Old Onslow
(Town Book
(Buried in the Island Cemetery
Onslow
3. William Dickson b. May 17, 1804 at T r u r o (These three children were r e -
4. Sarah (Sally) Dickson b. Nov. 24,, 1806 c o r d e d in the Old T r u r o
5. Abijah Dickson b. Sept,, 25, 1807 (Town Book
6. Martha Dickson b. 1809
7. Rebecca Dickson b. 1811 Thomas Miller, historian, says there were 12
8. Elizabeth Dickson b. 1813 children, 6 boys and 6 girls
9. John Dickson b. 1814
10. Rachel Dickson b. 1816 Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson, a great-grandson
11. Still born b. 1818 of William, supplied the full list 6-15 inclusive
12. Horatio Dickson b. 1820
13. Samuel Dickson b. 1821
14. Henry Dickson b. 1824 m. Lillias F r a s e r Black
15. Walter Dickson b. 1826
From the "Acadian Recorder" of Sept. 11, 1824
Married at T r u r o on Thursday evening, 2nd inst., by the Rev. Mr. Burnyeat, V.M. Suther, Esq. M.D.
Surgeon in the Royal Navy, to Miss Sarah, eldest daughter of William Dickson, Esq.
HENRY DICKSON m. Aug. 13, 1862 Lillias F r a s e r Black
b. 1824 b. 1848 at Glasgow, Scotland
Son of William and Rebecca Pearson Dickson Daughter of David and Lillias F r a s e r Black
of T r u r o , Nova Scotia of Beacham, Scotland
Family lived in Australia and London, England
Large shipping interests, Melbourne, Australia
d. about 1890 in London, England
Children
1. Horatio Suther Dickson b. 1863 d. 1938
2. Gordon F r a s e r Dickson b. 1864 m. Johanna Mary Cunningham
3. Isabel Dickson b. 1866 m. Clive Danby
4. Ethel Dickson b. 1868 m. Edward Parkes
5. Hilda Dickson b. 1872 Unmarried
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CHART 69
GORDON FRASER DICKSON m (1) Dec. 23, 1898 Johanna Mary Cunningham
b. Aug. 26, 1864 in Melbourne, Australia b. June 4, 1875
Son of Henry and Lillias F r a s e r (Black) Dickson at Mitta Mitta, Australia
Burgess Hill School, Liverpool Daughter of David and Mary Cunningham
School of Mines - Mining Engineer d. Oct. 23, 1917 in Ottawa
d. Dec. 10, 1936 in British Columbia
4 Children
1. Mitta Hilda Lillias Dickson b. Sept. 7, 1899 m. Professor F.J. Lewis
2. Irene Cunningham Dickson b. Dec. 26, 1900 m.(l) William Sutton (2)Wm. Artingstall
3. Horatio Henry Lovat Dicksonb. June 30, 1902 m. Marguerite Isabella Brodie
4. Gordon Clive Dickson b. May 4, 1904 m. Mildred ?
GORDON FRASER DICKSON m. (2) May 1, 1922 Maude Ford
b. October 29, 1888
Daughter of
Francis Marion and Mary Minteer Ford
of H a r t l e
2 Children y> I o w a
5. Gordon Rupert Dickson b. Nov. 1, 1923 Unmarried
at Edmonton, Canada Graduated University of Minnesota, B.A., 1948
F r e e lance fiction w r i t e r
6. Craig F r a s e r Dickson b. June 10, 1929 in Minneapolis Unmarried
1953 address: M r s . Gordon F r a s e r Dickson
1402 W. 28th St.
Minneapolis 8, Minn.
HORATIO HENRY LOVAT DICKSON m. Dec. 26, 1934 Marguerite Isabella Brodie
b. June 30, 1902 b. Sept. 21, 1909
Son of Gordon F r a s e r and Johanna (Cunningham) Dickson Dau. of Alexander and Jean Brodie of
Alberta University B.A., 1925, M.A. 1927 Montreal
Editor, publisher and author
With Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London
1 son Jonathan Alexander Brodie Lovat Dickson b. June 1, 1938
1953 address: Mr. and M r s . Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson
1 Montagu Square
London, W.I., England
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MAJOR THOMAS DIXSON

Historically, Major Thomas was the most prominent of the three Dickson brothers who migrated to
Nova Scotia. I am indebted to his great-grandson Judge J. Bacon Dickson of Fredericton, N. B. for
interesting sketches which he wrote in recent years for some celebration at Fort Cumberland, formerly
Fort Beausejour.
We know now that Major Thomas was born in Colchester, Conn., May 3, 1733, son of William and
Rebeckah Dixson, and not in Dublin, Ireland, as was previously supposed.
As a very young man in New England he fought the Indians in guerilla warfare. He was commissioned
second lieutenant in Company 5 of the second battalion under Major Frye, when Col. Moncton with 2000
troops from New England made the expedition in 1755 to capture Fort Beausejour. His older brother
Charles was a Major in the Army in the same campaign and both were instrumental in getting recruits.
Major Charles particularly had used his own funds to defray expenses.
After the expiration of his t e r m of service with the New England troops Thomas Dickson joined
Gorham's Rangers and was commissioned a Lieutenant in that corps but he was not permitted to take ">a
part with his company in the capture of Quebec by Wolfe as the following incident wiU show.
One morning in June, 1759, Dickson started from Fort Cumberland with 25 men and a French guide
to break up a camp of French and Indians some ten miles from the Fort, at a place now known as the
Devil's Tongue. Leaving the Fort in the early dawn the Expedition followed the Point de Bute Ridge,
crossing the Du Lac River to Jollicure, at what is now known as Copp's Abideau. On arriving at the
French camp they found it deserted, and so recently that it had been occupied the previous night and
breakfast cooked. The camp was destroyed and the expedition started on its return to the Fort. Instead
of re-crossing the De Lac at Copp's Abideau, the English marched direct to a point nearly opposite to
the Fort, with a view of shortening the distance and crossing the Du Lac at low water, but when they
came to the place intended it was found to be high water. Not wanting to wait until low water they fol-
lowed the left bank of the river to r e - c r o s s where they had crossed in the morning. Meanwhile the
French and Indians had been observing the movements of the English, surmised their object and p r e -
pared to ambush them. When the English got back to Copp's Abideau they were surprised by a volley
delivered at them from behind the dykes with deadly effect. Every man was killed excepting Dickson
and the French guide; Dickson was wounded in the shoulder, and both were taken prisoners. The French
then started for Quebec with their prisoners but the guide was not allowed to proceed far. Contrary to
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the request of Dickson that his life might be spared, he was placed in charge of the relentless Indians
who after being in the r e a r for a short time, came along whooping and flourishing a fresh scalp. That
night they camped at the head of what is now Morrice's Mill-pond, in Upper Sackville. The journey was
continued until Dickson was landed in a French prison at Three Rivers, where he remained until after
the fall of Quebec and the exchange of prisoners which followed. He with the other officers exchanged
arrived within the British lines at Crown Point on the 21st day of November, 1759.
Rejoining his old comrades he continued under Gen. Amherst taking part in the operations which r e -
sulted in the surrender of Montreal and practically the extinction of French rule in Canada, in 1760.
His next service was with the Rangers under their old commander Moncton in the Expedition against the
French and Spanish possessions in the West Indies, which resulted in the capture of Havanna and the
famous Morro Castle which guarded it, in July 1762. At the Seige of the Castle he distinguished himself
by shooting a Spanish sharpshooter, who was mercilessly picking off the British officers from the am-
bush of a t r e e . Dickson got a gun from one of his soldiers, got within shooting distance of the Spaniard,
and when he next slipped out from his ambush to take aim at a British officer, Dickson shot him before
he had time to carry out his intention.
Returning to New York with the British troops he was at the end of the war in 1763 disbanded and
placed upon half-pay as a Lieutenant, the Company to which he belonged being the only one of that Corps,
Gorham's Rangers, which was placed on the regular establishment of the British Army. The following
extract from the British Army List is interesting in this connection:-
"Disbanded in 1763, Gorham's Rangers in N. America: 1st. Lieut. Thomas Dickson; Capt. St. John
Walbur; 1st Lt. Hoyland; 2nd Lt. William Benson."
After his discharge he was, in consequence of his superior knowledge as a Ranger, employed by
General Amherst for special service in conveying soldiers from New York to Fort Stanwix and other
points, to fill up depleted regiments. An original order signed by General Amherst and dated 1st
November 1763 is in the possession of Judge Dickson.
As was natural he devoted considerable attention to military affairs and became a Major of militia,
and he seems to have given attention to public matters pertaining to the welfare of the Country. The
Country was making very considerable progress in the way of settlement and improvement when all was
thrown into confusion by the Revolution. The settlers were largely from New England and their sympa-
thy was naturally with the Colonists in their struggle against England. Many prominent persons in-

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eluding public officials and members of the Legislature were in communication with the Colonists, and
in 1776 an expedition under Col. Jonathan Eddy, consisting of some 90 men left Machias, Maine, and
came to Chignecto for the purpose of raising the standard of the Revolution among the people, capturing
Fort Cumberland and reducing the province of Nova Scotia. The Fort at that time had a garrison of
about 200 men under Col. Jos. Gorham, while after the arrival of Eddy the people generally joined his
standard raising a force to some 400 or 500 men with which they invested the Fort. Only some eight
persons among whom was Major Dickson, went to the succour of the Fort and placed their services at
the command of Col. Gorham. The whole country was in rebellion and the Fort was in danger of being
taken. The nearest place where reinforcements were obtainable was Halifax, but all communication by
land was cut off. It was at this juncture that Major Dickson performed a most signal service which
doubtless had a far reaching effect upon the destinies of these provinces.

The reinforcements arrived under Major Batt, one part under that officer attacked the rebels at
Camp Hill, now Mt. Whatly, while Major Dickson with a force took another direction with a view of
cutting off a retreat by the way of Sackville, but the rebels fled too quickly to be overtaken by either.
This broke up any hope of success on the part of the rebels so far as Nova Scotia was concerned.
The people returned quietly to their houses taking advantage of the t e r m s offered by Col. Gorham to
those who would do so. However, many a r r e s t s for treason were made, and Major Dickson was active
not only in making a r r e s t s but in attending the t r i a l s at Halifax and giving testimony thereat. See Trials
for Treason in 1776-77 in the Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for 1878, Vol. 1.
Major Dickson was elected at the General Election of 1792 and again at the General Election of 1795,
retiring at the Expiry last House in 1802. In the House Major Dickson took an active interest in matters
pertaining to the Militia, being one of a Committee that drafted the first Militia Act.
From "Records of Chignecto" by W. C. Milner we learn that Thomas married Catherine Weatherhead
a s i s t e r of the first sheriff of Westmoreland. Judge Dickson writes that they had twelve children.
William, a midshipman in the British Navy, was drowned in Shelbourne Harbor; he started to swim from
the shore to his ship a mile distant on a wager but never reached the ship. James remained at home on
the farm at Point de Bute, where he died in 1855 aged 82 y e a r s ; Charles settled near Cherryfield,
Maine; Dalton married a s i s t e r of Peter Etter of Westmoreland Point and settled at River Philip, N. S.;
John was killed by a shot from the enemy while in the foretop of a British man of war during an engage-
ment with the French in the English Channel; one son was taken .by pirates and compelled to walk the
plank.
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In 1763 Thomas was an applicant for a grant of land near Fort Cumberland where he settled and r e -
sided. Later he acquired by exchange with his son-in-law, Titus Knapp, a farm at Point de Bute some
four miles from the Fort toward Baie de Verte known as "Stoney Battle" where he lived until his death.
He died in 1809 and his remains were buried inthe Presbyterian Church yard at Jollicure a few hun-
dred yards distant from Copp's Abideau, where just 50 years before he passed through one of the most
tragic events of his long and adventurous c a r e e r . His grave is marked by a free stone slab inscribed
"Sacred to the Memory of Major Thomas Dixson, who departed this life Nov. 8th, 1809, aged 77 y e a r s . "
The grave of Major Thomas Dixson was changed in 1938 when the remains were buried under the monu-
ment at Fort Beausejour. His wife's grave has never been found.
He left many descendants in New Brunswick some of whom still use the old spelling Dixson but the
majority spell the name Dickson.
Major Thomas Dickson is mentioned in an historical novel "His Majesty's Yankees" by Thos. A.
Raddall.
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In Appreciation

The following list of relatives and pen friends have generously given of their time to provide valu-
able information for this Dickson book. I am deeply grateful for their help.

H. H. Lovat Dickson of London, England, who provided all the early Scotch-Irish data. See Chart 69.

Mr. Burpee R. Bishop of Kentville, who looked up all old r e c o r d s of Horton and Wolfville at Reg-
istry of Deeds.

Mr. M. P . Boone, when Librarian at Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S., loaned me Eaton's
History of King's County, also Nicholas Longworth's History of Onslow.

•Martha Foss Fleming of Hawaii, who, visiting me for a few days, decided to make a two weeks trip
through Nova Scotia, gathering information, searching old cemetery records, meeting and talking with
newly found relatives. See Chart 30.

*Dr. Robert Dickson Roach of Moncton, N. B., who sent me many items and a copy he made by
hand of the Old Onslow Town Record Book. His two young daughters, Margot and Lorna, copied the
indexes. See Chart 60.

Frank H. Patterson, Q. C , of Truro and Tatamagouche, who has furnished the early Patterson
and Campbell family data. See Chart 56.

M r s . Florence Mackenzie Sedgwick of Pictou, who sent me the early family Bible records of the
Mackenzies and put me in touch with all those living for vitai statistics, a s well as giving me a
photograph of our great-grandmother Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson. See Chart 48.

Dr. David W. Archibald of Sydney Mines, C. B., and his brother, George H. Archibald, who sent me
the Archibald family t r e e and a photograph of Olivia Dickson whom they called "Grandmother Hender-
son". See C h a r t s 36 and 37.
•Deceased
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M r s . E. J: Ells of Halifax who, when going through over 50 years of old newspaper files at the Nova
Scotia Archives, spotted Dickson items and sent them to me.
Mr. George E. Herman of the Nova Scotia Bureau of Information at Halifax furnished and gave me
permission to use the Historical Map of Nova Scotia and put me in touch with prominent people of
different sections who might be able to give information.

Brigadier Gerald Purves Loggie, grandson of Amelia Henderson Purves McKinlay of Pictou, N. S.,
who gave me otherwise unattainable McKay and Henderson items. See Chart 39.

George Leslie Dickson, formerly of Truro, now retired and living at Moncton, N. B., a direct
descendant of John Dickson, sent me his family data and wrote me long letters of family interest. See
Chart 25.

Miss Louise Hill, when Acting Librarian at the Legislative Library, Fredericton, N. B., who s e -
cured and personally typed many pages of Judge J. Bacon Dickson's narrative of the exploits of his
great-grandfather Major Thomas Dixson.

Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, N. S.

Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford
Connecticut State Library, Hartford
New York State Library, Albany
Mr. W. Herbert Wood, Fellow of American Genealogical Society, New Haven, Conn.
M r s . Virginia Todd, my devoted part time secretary and friend, who has done all the typing and
proof reading.
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Births, Marriages and Deaths
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