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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 orle, 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 Arms, 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 Chart 9 2

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 Truro 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 1s...... • ...... 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 3

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 1s 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 1s 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 1s 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 married my father, David Henderson McKay, of Boston, Mass. He was a grandson of Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson, a sister of Robert, so tha:t 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 First 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 DO 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 1s County". This was all Nova Scotia data, but I determined then to 4

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 years later the "Seven Book Hunters" of New York wrote me a copy had turned up. Did I want it? Yes!

Dr. Eaton wrote an excellent sketch of the Dickson family. Three brothers, Major Charles, Lieutenant Thomas, and William were grantees in King 1s County in 1761. There was also a Charles "Jr.", supposed to be Major Charles• son, but Major Charles was not married 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 Charles' 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 1s will, in which he named all his heirs. Charles, "Jr." was the son of Robert Dixson, and Abigail Harris, 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 charts will give details.

So you may know of my many contacts with relatives over the years, starting in childhood when Mother took us to Nova Scotia to visit, the names of relatives and friends became familiar. When I was seven years old, we called one day at the old Dickson homestead in Onslow. Grandfather had sold the place some years before. I was taken on a tour of inspection of this simple old farm house. For seventy years I have carried 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 Truro and Halifax. In 1893 visited all the California relatives, and again in 1936, including a trip to Hawaii. Saw Cousin Abby Purves 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 are buried. 5

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 records. I have studied maps, read histories, used old Family Bible records, quoted from Thomas Miller and Eaton 1s 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 errors.

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

Cordially yours

Emily McKay Dewey 6

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 restore 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 under standing. Much is being said of the present crisis 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 7

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 8

Origin of the Scottish Dickson name

Analecta Scotica ii 56.

Ch XIX

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 mer­ 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 re­ ligious Countesse Dame Anna Eglintonn, (At the good Countesse of Eglintonn 1s 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, as 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, as they explained it in the 1638, with the learned Doctors of the University 9

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 D.ivinity 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, v.pon which, it 1s well known, they very much relyed.

When the King came to Scotland in the 1651, Mr. Dickson was appointed one of his Majesty 1s 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 marri~d 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 married 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 Carberry and Inveresk from which last he took his title, but also the Lordship of Carstorphine, which was afterwards sold. 10

Dickson Tree - Early Dates

JOHN DICKSON m. JANET RANKIN I David Dickson m. Christian Robertson I I I I I John Archibald Alexander Robert b. 1624 b. 1626 b. 1628 b. 1630 Irvine, Ayr d. Ulster I I I I 1. I Robert Dr. Javid Datid 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 I I William Sir Robert Sir DavidI MargaretI Emigrated America 1719 with 4 children Died without Issue Rol:>ert Charles Anne Isbell m. May 7, 1740 m. 1747 Abif ail Harris Miriam Ingersoll I 7 cliildren 5 children See Chart #2 See Chart #3 William m. (2) Rebeckah {?) 1720 . 1d New London, Conn. 7 c h11 ren See· Chart #1 11

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 1s 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 arms and the shield are the same. Lovat and the Suthers (relatives) of Scotland both have used these emblems for many years.

We are 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 sisters were born near Dublin. The Connecticut vital records give Thomas I 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. 12

DICKSON FAMILY IN CONNECTICUT 1719 From 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 are 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 earlier generations. There are so many Roberts, Johns and Williams that there is plenty of opportunity for confusion.

2 1 On Page 391. Robert Dickson or Dixson3 (David , John ) 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 G. 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.

4 1 Page 393. Robert Dickson (Robert3, ·David2, John ) 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 acres 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.

5 4 2 1 Page 406. William Dixson (Robert , Robert3 , David , and John ) 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 Dixson1s 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 13 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 " II " 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. M:ty 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 Carr, Isbell Coop, Grace Lockert and Rebecca Anderson. Court of Probate, 7 Oct. 1755 At said Court ye last will and testament of William Dixson, late of Colchester, Dec'd, was exhibited in Court we was duly proved, fully approved and ordered to be recorded. Thomas Dixson mentioned in sd will as Exr with Charles Dixson, personally appearing refused ye trust reposed in him and ye sd Charles being in His Majesty's Service at~ great distance Letters of Admn Com Testamento Annexo were granted to John Dixson on--;n Deed'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. 14

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 sd 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 Harris, Jr. However, Abigail died soon after her marriage to Walter Harris, 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. 17~6 Ebenr Buck of Hebron for £ 600 to my honoured father-in-law Mr Walter Harrise of Lebanon all my right, title, and interest in about 55 acres, which I have this day bought of the sd 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. wm Clark John Hall (Walter Harrise and Deborah Harrise were the father and mother of Abigail Harris Dickson) 15 CHART 2 ROBERT DIXSON m. May 7, 17 40 Abigail Harris b. in North Ireland b. Dec.11, 1721 Son of William Dixson of Colchester, Conn. Daughter of Walter Harris, Jr. 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 Chas Dixon of East Haddam appointed guardian to Chas, Edwd, & Robt Dixon minor children of Robt 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. 16

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 Part 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 sisters 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 21Y to her daughter Abigail Cone one puter Platter & the other half of her wearing apparel as willed to her sister 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 married 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 married at New London May 20, 1731, Rebecca Whipple who died Oct. 17, 1751. Later he married Mrs. 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, Peter, and Timothy, to Horton, ''bringing with him pro­ visions for a year, and enough stock to satisfy the demands of a good sized farm".

Col. John Bishop, Jr. (Johnl) 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 sister 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 Mc Lean Apr. 24, 1 799 2. Hannah b. July 20, 1756, New London m. June 4, 1774 to Henry, son of Abel and Jean Burbridge 3. Charles 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 Harris

John Bishop, Jr. father of Amelia, built a mahogany grandfather's clock which he gave to Amelia when she married Charles Dickson in 1772. The works are solid brass and came from England. On the upper face of the clock appears the inscription "John Bishop, Horton, Nova Scotia". It automatically records 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 as 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 usedo

My sister has an old mahogany chest mirror that belonged to Lady Archibald of Truro.

Emily McKay Dewey 19

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.(1) Roderick Morrison (2) John Chipman Dickson family moved to East Haddam 1749 See Chart #4 2. Olive Dickson baptized Feb. 12, 1748/49 at First Congregational Church, East Haddam, Conn. 3. Lavinia Dickson baptized Oct. 1751 ,, " II 11 II " 4. Daniel Dickson baptized Apr. 26, 1752 II II 11 11 11 " 5. Charles Ingersoll Dickson d. Feb. 28, 1759, Aged 3 years Grave in Cove Cemetery, East Haddam, Conn. Olive married John Avery of Horton Lavinia married 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 Barrie's Mill) in the County of Pictou, we do not know. 20

From 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 there. 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, Jr. who removed to Stonington, Conn. and died there. The descendants of Thomas, Jr. 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 married 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. 21 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 Junr (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 are named as yeomen, gentlemen or Esquire. 22

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 trees 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." 23

There are families from Norwich, from Killingworth and Lyme, Gentle mothers, tender maidens, and strong men in their prime, There are 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. They come as Puritans, but who shall say their hearts are 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 tears 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 Pre~, 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 cross, 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 Pre~, Since the vessels from Connecticut came sailing up the Bay; 24

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 restless 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 rare, And mellow creeds and ways of life are 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 untilled 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. 25

Index of Family Charts Each of these ChartsJ;ive children and grandchildren with authentic dates and i ormation so far as could be ascertained. Married Page Chart 1 Dixson,,, William and Rebeccah 1720 Conn. Vital Records 13 2 Robert and Abigail Harris 1740 I• " " 15 3 Dickson, Major Charles and Miriam Ingersoll 1747 " " " 19 4 " Eunice and John Chipman 1769 Nova Scotia 55 5 " Charles and Amelia Bishop 1772 " " 58 6 " John and Lydia Hamilton (1) 1796 " II 59 6 " Robert and Lydia Hamilton (2) 1844 11 " 59 7 " Charles II and Rachel Archibald 1799 11 11 60 7 " William and Rebecca Pearson 1801 " " 60 8 11 Robert and Lavinia DeWolf 1798 11 11 61 9 11 Olivia and Col. David Archibald 1801 11 " 64 9 II Olivia and John Henderson 1819 11 II 64 10 " Mary and Dr. John Murray Upham 1803 11 11 66 11 11 Elizabeth and Hon. S. G. W. Archibald 1802 II II 73 12 11 Sarah Amelia and John Roach 1824 11 74 13 11 Joseph McLean and Lavinia Blair 1835 11 77 14 II William and Rebecca Dickey 1841 " 79 15 11 William and Elizabeth Miller 1865 " 83 15 11 William and Elizabeth Baxter 1878 II 83 16 II Robert Benjamin and Catherine Muirhead 1832 II 84 17 II Lavinia and James Bain Davison 1841 ti 85 18 11 Charles Clarence and Jessie Dickson 1865 " 87 19 11 Norman Leslie and Ida Cutten 1886 Californ a 88 19 II Robert O.B. and Margaret Gibson 1899 II 88 20 II William Ernest and Nellie Holloway 1904 II 89 20 11 William Ernest and Edith Montgomery 1922 " 89 21 11 Lavinia and James Calvin Foss 1875 II 90 22 II Martha Archibald and David Henderson McKay 1869 Massachusetts 91 23 II Walter Franks and Mary Mott 1895 California 105 24 11 Caroline Irene and John Edward Dowd 1900 " 106 25 11 George Leslie and Ethel Grace Porter 1906 Nova Scotia 107 26 Davison, Arthur and Mary A. Huestis 1873 " " 108 27 " Clarence Osborn and Florence Ripley 1897 II " 109 26

Married Page Chart 28 Davison, Emma Gertrude and William Holmes 1905 Nova Scotia 110 29 Foss, John Harrison and Irene Crook 1909 Calif. and Hawaii 112 30 " Martha Archibald and David Fleming 1908 Hawaii 114 31 11 Clara Clifford and James Coons 1904 California 118 32 11 James Calvin, Jr. and Emma Heaney 1908 Hawaii and Calif. 120 11 Archibald, Hon. S.G .W. and Elizabeth Dickson 1802 Nova Scotia 73 33 11 Samuel George and Maria Henderson, Scotland 1839 II It 121 34 11 Hon. Thomas Dickson and Susan Corbett 1839 II II 122 35 " William Henry and Eleanor G. Hughes 1876 II 11 123 36 11 George Hughes and Jane Kester 1907 Canada 124 37 11 Dr. David W. and Marguerite White 1913 Nova Scotia 126 9 Henderson,John and Olivia Dickson Archibald 1819 II 11 64 3 8 11 Maria and John P. McKay 1845 New Brunswick 129 39 11 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 11 David Henderson and Martha Dickson 1869 Boston, Mass. 91 40 11 Olivia and George Little 1879 II 11 132 40 11 Ernest Archibald and Annie Tarbell 1877 11 II 132 41 11 Clarence Leslie and Harriet Bedell 1893 II 11 133 42 11 Emily Foss and Frederick Wilder Beal 1900 11 II 135 42 11 Emily Foss and Melvil Dewey 1924 Lake Placid Club 135 43 11 Alice Dickson and Henry Hooker Bubier 1902 Boston, Mass. 137 43 11 Alice Dickson and Frank A. Daly 1917 II II 137 44 11 Gladys Bedell and George McD. Kenney 1922 Providence, R.I. 138 45 11 Ruth Leslie and Howard Field, Jr. 1923 California 139 46 Mackenzie, Hon. Alexander and Elizabeth Archibald 1826 Nova Scotia 140 46A II Helena and Lacey L. Harris 1913 II II 141 47 11 Archibald and Sara Helen Eaton 1873 II fl 142 4_8 11 Florence Archibald and Wm. M. Sedgwick 1902 11 II 143 48 11 Charles Everett and Kathleen McGroarty 1914 II 11 143 49 11 Harold F. Percival and Edna Colter 1919 Vancouver, B. C. 144 50 11 Sophia Stewart and Rev. Wm. Sedgewick 1907 Canada 145 51 11 Wm. Royal and Mary Ethel Stuart 1906 Nova Scotia 146 51 11 Thomas George and Ethel Maud Pearson 1908 New York 146 52 Purves, James George Harrison and Elizabeth Mackay 1895 Cape Breton 148 27

Married Page Chart 53 Purves,,, Thomas Dickson Archibald and Caroline Blair 1916 Nova Scotia 149 54 Josephine (Fiff) and N.M.C. Stevens 1903 England 150 55 " Stanislaus Remak and Alice Sleep 1911 Cape Breton 151 55 " Reginald and Elizabeth McClellen 1911 Vancouver, B.C. 151 56 Patterson, Wm. Albert and Elizabeth Campbell 1869 Nova Scotia 154 56 " Frank Harris and Ina Macnee 1925 11 11 154 58 II Wm. Albert and Mildred Warnock 1913 Minnesota 155 59 " Henry Stuart and Margaret Chase 1911 Alberta 155 57 Roach, Thomas and Ruth Dixon 1793 Nova Scotia 158 12 II John and Sarah Amelia Dickson 1824 11 II 74 60 II Dr. Elisha DeWolf and Marv MacKeen II II 159 60 " Dr. Elisha DeWolf and Maude Charman 1897 II II 159 60 11 Dr. Robert Dickson Roach and Katherine McMillan 1928 New Brunswick 159 61 II John E. and Mary Dunlap Nova Scotia 160 62 II Thomas and Susan Lynds Bishop 1868 11 " 161 63 ti Dr. Edwin Bishop and Marguerite Russell 1903 British Columbia 162 64 " Dr. John Tremaine and Alice Strong 1911 Nova Scotia 163 65 Cam~bell, Hon. Alexander and Mary Archibald 1825 II II 164 66 Elizabeth and Archibald Patterson 11 11 165 67 " Olivia and Howard Primrose 1855 II 11 166 68 Dickson, Henry and Lillias Fraser Black 1862 Australia 167 69 " Gordon Fraser and Johanna Mary Cunningham 1898 Canada 168" 69 11 Gordon Fraser and Maude Ford 1922 Canada 168 69 " Horatio Henry Lovat and Marguerite Brodie 1934 London, England 168 28

Dickson's in Nova Scotia From 17 61 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 research, 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 Press Co., Boston, (now out of print) that I am going to quote from it free1y. 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 times, 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 rural 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 29

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 careers 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 predecessors, 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. 30

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. 31

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 friars, of the whole tribe to Roman Catholicism. But towards the English, during this period, the Mic macs 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 years.

Page 50. Eaton In the summer of 1755, an unqualified oath of allegiance, involving willingness to bear arms for England, was again demanded of the Acadian people, but the Deputies from Grand Pre.. 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 carry so many away was a somewhat formidable task. From 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. 32

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 as­ 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 se­ 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 settlers, 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 garrisons. 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, 33

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 are 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 terms of encouragement would be offered set­ tlers, 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 religio~ 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 acres of wild woodland woul

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. Farms 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 terms. 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 th~ir 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 in part 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 are descended the people who have inhabited and still largely inhabit the county whose annals this volume is written to preserve." 35

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 acres 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 acres 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 acres 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 Jr. 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 rec­ tangular form, divided by streets at right angles, making squares of ten acres 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. 36

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 arm;3 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 settlem,mt 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 across 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 Starr'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- 37 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 Fresh­ 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 Parish Burying Ground," says: "In the four years included between 1788 and 1792, great efforts at reform were m1.de in Windsor township," as indeed in Hants County at large. "The Old Parish 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 streets, 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 38

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 17 61, 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 dress, 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 trousers 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 trousers, 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." 39

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 hairdressers 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 dress 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 dress 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 shirts, 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 Paris 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. 40

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 skirts. With this dress 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 shirts. 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 dresses 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 41

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. Plaster 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 Pre"in 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 brass tops; warming pans, foot­ stoves, brass 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. 42

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 carts, 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 years' 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 dis­ 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. 43

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 Parts" (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. Paul'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, al­ most on the site of the present Methodist Church in the rear 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, Frame, 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. 44

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 acres so long as he shall continue to be employed by the S.P .G. The salary of these teach­ ers 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 'Proprietors' 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 term '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. 1 Sometimes he added the extra branches of grammar and geography. The patrons bound themselves to provide school-room, fuel, 45

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 term, 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 table-s, outlines of geography, advanced reading lessons in prose and verse, a compendium of natural history, illustrated select fables, (as th3,t of the wagoner and Hercules), and finally a church catechism, beginning with 'What is your name?', prayers for morning and evening in the home, private prayers, 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 ab, hab, e r er, 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." 46

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 are annexed to this paper, agree to engage Thomas Jones to teach school for us, for the term 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 quarters." 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 alm:>st as much the rule to attend service, even when the preachers' 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 assert 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 as the best society of the county indulged freely in danc- 47 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 danc;es 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 during1his 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 horses. 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 I or 1bees I were common, m 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 astir. 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 48

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 whir1 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 trees 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 arm as she sat on the horse behind him, holding herself in position by throwing her right arm around his waist. When a sec-­ ond child was added to the family the eldest sat on the horse'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 rivers, in the most natural way, and as close as possible to these streams. Of course, as the various dykes were constructed across the Canard river, the direction of the roads, for obvious reasons, was somewhat changed. 49

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 dis­ posed of his mechandise he sold his horse and wagon to Mr. James Delap Harris, 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 I "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 horses, 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 50

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. 'J'heir raiding practically det:" strayed the Canso fishery, and Nova Scotia decided on reprisals. The government organized a fleet of four small armed vessels, and Nova Scotia merchants began to fit out privateers. 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. Prizes were brought to Halifax for acution and cargoes brought thousands of pounds." Very respectable merchants and traders 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 shipbuilcters at Onslow, Tatamagouche, River John, Pictou and Wallace. 51

TRURO AND ONSLOW TOWNSHIPS

Thomas Miller of Truro, Nova Scotia published in 1873 "The Historical and Genealogical Record of the First 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 resi­ 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 Truro 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 biers, 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 Truro 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 Truro 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 Charles I sono 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- 52

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 Parade, 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 are 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 married again to Joseph McLain. After his death his four sons carried on the business for a few years, 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 remark 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 Mrs. Dickson was married to Joseph Mc Lane, 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 Mc Lane, and Thomas and 53

Lavinia Dickson. The family lived at first in Onslow, near the Board Landing Bridge, where one of Joseph McLane's shipbuilding yards was situated, and then moved to Truro. 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 years. Look and see You must prepare And follow me. 54 Inscription on stone in (old) St. Paul's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia Here lyeth The Body of Charles Dick­ son Esqr 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 us. 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 Truro 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 Truro, 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 trip 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. married Elizabeth. See Charts #7, 9; and 11. 55

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 Chipman b. Aug. 26, 1771 d. Aug. 27, 1771 2. Charles Chipman b. July 9, 1772 Deputy-Sheriff of King's Co. Resided in Kentville d. Apr. 7, 1838 3. George Chipman b. Apr. 23, 1774 He was Sheriff of King's Co. Resided in Kentville 4. Elizabeth Chipman b. June 18, 1775 d. June 18, 1775 5. Elizabeth Chipman b. 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 b. Apr. 21, 1782 10. Lavinia Chipman b. Nov. 23, 1783 11. Jane Chipman b. Mar. 19, 1785 12. William Chipman b. Dec. 9, 1786 13. Jared Ingersoll Chipman b. 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 b. m. Feb. 18, 1840 Francis C. Pyke of Windsor, Hants County 56

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 Presence of Nathan DeWolf } Signed Eunice Dickson (L. S.)" Olive Dickson The above was executed the day Eunice married John Chipman.

Page 600, Eaton - THE CHIPMAN FAMILY From the arrival 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. 57

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, Jr., Rebecca, Rev. Thomas Handley, William Allen, Anthony, Nancy; 4 children by second marriage: Holmes, Zachariah, Major, Stephen. 58

CHART 5 CHARLES DICKSON of Onslow, N. S. m. 1'772 in Horton, N. S., AMELIA BISHOP b. Oct. 21, 1746 at Middletown, Conn. b. Jan. 31, 1754 at New London, Conn. Son of Robert and Abigail (Harris) Dixson Daughter of John and Mary (Forsyth) Bishop Grantee Horton 1763 of New London and Horton, N. S. Moved to Onslow in 1772, where d. Nov. 1846 all their children were 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 ship named 1Josephine' 2. Charles Dickson b. Apr. 6, 1775 m. Dec. 31, 1799 Rachel Todd Archibald 5 6 Carpenter d. Mar. 18, 1721 b. Jan. 16, 1775 d. Apr. 18, 1817 3. Robert Dickson b. July 8, 1 777 m. Feb. 7, 1798 Lavania DeW olf 7 3 Farmer, etc. d. May 5, 1835 b. Sept. 5, 1774 Col. Militia d. July 1854 4. William Dickson b. Sept. 9, 1779 m. Jan. 29, 1801 Rebecca Pearson 6 6 Col. Militia d. Feb. 5, 1834 b. 1784 d. June 1833 5. Abigail Dickson B. Nov. 25, 1781 m. (1) Feb. 27, 1798 Andrew Wallace of Halifax 7 3 m. (2) Robert Lowden of Merigomish 6. Mary Dickson b. Feb. 5, 1783 m. 1803 Dr. John Murray Upham 1 2 Twins d. Dec. 6, 1872 7. Olivia Dickson b. Feb. 5, 1783 m. (1) Feb. 5, 1801 Col. David Archibald 4 2 d. Feb. 7, 1872 d. Nov. 23, 1814 at River John m. (2) Feb. 11, 1819 John Henderson 1 3 d. July 8, 1832 8. Elizabeth Dickson b. Aug. 8, 1785 m. Mar. 16, 1802 Hon. S. G. W. Archibald 11 4 d. May 13, 1830 ''Nova Scotia's greatest commoner" 9. Sarah Dickson b. May 18, 1787 d. Feb. 14, 1791 10. Thomas Dickson b. July 8, 1 791 m. Sarah Ann Patterson of Pictou 1 8 d. May 7, 1857 d. 1850 11. Lavinia Dickson b. Feb. 13, 1795 m. Apr. 27, 1823 Rev. John Burnyeat of Truro 2 1 d. Oct. 1860 Children: John b. 1824, Charles b. 1826 Elizabeth b. 1828 Rev. Burnyeat d. April 7, 1843 49 43 Charles Dickson died Sept. 3, 1796 in Halifax of Yellow Fever 92 grandchildren Amelia, Widow, married(2) Joseph McLean, Apr. 24, 1799 a shipbuilder of Onslow List originally taken from Thomas Miller's Historical and Geneological Record of the First Settlers of Colchester Co., N. S. Dates corrected from old Onslow Record Book and ''Janet Fisher Archibald" Also Middletown, Conn. records. ''If a man leaves children behind him it is as if he did not die." Morroccan Proverb 59

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 11Josephine" 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 whom. Louis Redden of Charlottstown, P. E. I. 2. Sarah Ann Dickson b. May 5, 1847 m. George Angervine Children 1. Maude Angervine b. July 15, 1879 d. Sept. 17, 1879 2. F~e~erick M. _Angervin~ b. Dec. 28, 1880 } Living in Seattle, Wash. 3. Wilham Renme Angervme b. Dec. 12, 1885 about 1920 3. David Hamilton Dickson b. Feb. 25, 1849 m. Emma Whippey 4. Georgina E. Dickson b. Aug. 17, 1850 Unmarried d. Sept. 7, 1877 5. William Andrew Dickson b. Dec. 19, 1851 m. Margaret Jane Baxter d. Dec. 21, 1918 6. Cole R. Dickson b. Jan. 25, 1854 m Mary MacNutt 1 child Aubrey 60

CHART 7 CHARLES DICKSON II 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 Truro, 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, 18~9 Charles Dickson was a carpenter by trade. 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 Truro, N. S. Colonel of Militia d. June 1833 Merchant and Farmer - 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 years. He represented Truro in the House of Assembly for eight years d. Feb. 15, 1834

See Chart 68 for William and Rebecca Pearson Dickson1s 15 children 61

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, 1~35 d. July 29, 1854 at Nappan, N. S. Farmer, 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 Parrsboro 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 7. John Dickson b. Jan. 12, 1811 Buried in his Grandfather, Charles Dickson's grave at d. Oct. 24, 1827 at Onslow St. Paul's, Halifax, N. S. 8. Lavinia Dickson b. Feb. 4, 1813 m. Jan. 28, 1841 James Bain Davison of Wallace d. Jan. 21, 1901 Shipbuilder See Chart 17 9. William D,ickson b. Dec. 3, 1815 m. Feb. 22, 1841 Rebecca Dickey at Cornwallis d. Nov. 10, 1881 See Chart 14 10. Abigail Dickson b. Nov. 2, 1818 m. 1855 Daniel Mccurdy 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 62

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 are 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 iP the old homestead with his mother anrl brothers and sisters, 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 years. 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 Truro. 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 Truro. 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 cnstoms 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 years. 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. 63

From 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 Nathan1 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. Hem. (1) probably about 1749, Lydia, daughter of John and Lydia (Belden) Kirtland, of Saybrook, b. Oct. 28, 1721. Hem. (2), Oct. 12, 1770, Mrs. Anna (Prentice) Witter. Children by first marriage: 1. Lucilla m. Nov. 26, 1773, to Lebbeus Harris; 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, bo May 5, 1756, m. Margaret Ratchford; 5. Nathan, m. Aug. 27, 1778, Anna Hamilton, and had 6 children.

2 1 Edward DeWolf (Nathan ), b. in 1752, m. Nov. 26, 1773, Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel Brown and·his 1st wife, Abigail (Colesworthy). He d. Mar. 4, 1796, his wifed. Nov., 1819. Children: 1. Lavinia, b. Septa 5, 1774, ma Mar. 8, 1798 to Robert Dickson; 2. Thomas, b. Nov. 26, 1776, d. 1862; 3o 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. 64

GHART 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 Truro, 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 See Chart 33 2. Elizabeth Archibald b. June 27, 1806 m. Nov. 23, 1826 Alexander MacKenzie d. Jan. 27, 1870 of River Johri, 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 b. Nov. 11, 1819 m. Oct. 1845 John P. McKay of St. John, N.B. d. Feb, 13, 1906 See Chart 38 2. Amelia Henderson b. Aug. 26, 1821 m. (1) James Purves d. 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 Truro 4. Jessie Henderson b. Oct. 11, 1827 Unmarried d. Feb. 10, 1861 at River John Oil Portrait of DAVID BURNYEAT HENDERSON, Youngest Son of Olivia Dickson Henderson, 1823-1854

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CHART 10 MARY DICKSON m. 1803 Dr. John Murray Upham b. Feb. 5, 1783 b. 1773 Daughter of Charles and Amelia (Bishop) Dickson Son of Judge Joshua Upham of Onslow, Nova Scotia of New Brunswick Twin of Olivia d. 1872 at Tatamagouche Children 1. Olivia Upham b. 1804 m. 1835 William Campbell d. 1845 Son of William Campbell of Pictou, N.S. Ship Builder of Tatamagouche Children 1. Mary Campbell b. 1836 Unmarried. Taught Primary School in d. 1895 Pictou for over 30 years 2. Jessie Campbell b. Unmarried. Lived on old homestead, d. 1904 Tatamagouche 3. Margaret Campbell b. 1845 Unmarried. Lived on old homestead, d. 1917 Tatamagouche 4. Elizabeth Campbell b.. Apr. 14, 1847 m. Dec. 23, 1869 d. Apr. 23, 1893 William Albert Patterson See Chart 56 2. Charlotte Upham b. 1806 m. Dec. 26, 1824 George Scott Flemming. He was d. 1844 drowned 1846 Children 1 son, Hazen Flemming. Went to sea. Married in England 4 daughters. The family moved to the United States over 50 years ago. Their descendants are not known. One daughter married a Chivers, an Army man and lived fnr a time in Cornwall, Eng., and lived in Halifax, N.S. in 1883. 3. Charles Dickson Upham b. 1808 m. Elizabeth Linton, b. Oct. 17, 1812. Probably a daughter of James and Elizabeth Linton of Onslow. Children 1. Thomas Dickson Upham 2. Henry Upham b. 1840 d. 1846 3. Olive Campbell Upham b. May 19, 1846 67

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 AoD. 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 1s 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 rarest 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 rare luck, and rarer honesty, a creditor at Nevis turned up who had owed his father 200 pounds. And it was this money which was to provide for Sammv 1s education among the relatives in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and elsewhere."

"So it happened that in 1796, the year of Charles Dickson 1s 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 terms. 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. 68

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 her--to 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 Dickson1s 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 1s granddaughter, the late Edith Archibald thoug;ht it sufficienUy 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 1s younger sister, 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. rs 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 his 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 mistresses 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 as well to satisfy the enacting moral demands of the day, Archibald and Elizabeth insisted that they marry. Poor Mrs. 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 :/tll) 69

About 1801, Dr. John Murray Upham, the son of Joshua Upham, one of the first juages 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 lundy•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 Fredericton. She eked out a living teaching school in Truro. She was supposed to have married 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 years older than his brother S.G.W. Archibald who married 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 years of widowhood she married 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 born-­ 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 married in Onslow. But from my Grandmother•s stories, the family spent a great deal of time with Sam and Tom Archibald (Olivia 1s 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 years by direct descend­ ants of Archibalds. Olivia 1s 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 70

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 sisters. 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 1s husband, donated the land. Here her daughter Jessie, unmarried, lived with Olivia. Her other daughter, Amelia, two years younger than Grandmother McKay, married James Purves of Pictou, shipbuilder, for his second wife. When she became a widow she married 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 years 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 years of her life. The twins lived to be 88 years old and both died the same year, 1872.

We are 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 AMIBIIJTY 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 ABIIJTY AND SUCCESS THE DUI'IES 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 ADMIBALTY 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 ANRY 1862 AND THEIR CHILDREN

ELIZABETH BORN 1833 DIED 1834 SARAH MARIA 14th OCT: 1836 JUNE 1863 GEORGINA 16th OCT 1838 5th APRIL 1864 73

CHART 11 SAMUEL GEORGE WILLIAM ARCHIBALD m. Mar. 16, 1802 Elizabeth Dickson b. Feb. 5, 1777 at Truro 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 1s bench, London, Baron of the Exchequer Knighted because he exposed Tichburne of Australia 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. 12,1820 d. Oct. 4, 1838 15. Robert Dickson Archibald b. Feb. 17,1828 d. Feb. 28, 1828 74

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 b. 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 ofGrandPrEf,King 1sCo., 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. Truro 5. Hibbard, unmarried d. Truro 6. Louis m. 2 children, Son died, Daughter Helen Mrs. 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.(1) 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.(1) 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 75

John Roach 1794-1862 Sarah Amelia Dickson Roach 1801-1867

Photographs of Oil Paintings Owned By The Late Dr. Robert Dickson Roach of Moncton, N.B. 76

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 years 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 First Lieutenant. He served four years and resigned to study law. He wa·s 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 1t 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 years.

From Eaton 1s 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. 77

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 Truro, 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. IU

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.

2 Page 640 James 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: Jam,~s B.; Adelaide; Rebecca; Ellen; George Albert; Herbert; Amanda; Leander; Pleman. 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. 79

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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. First seven children born at Onslow 1. Charles Clarence Dickson b. Mar. 28, 1842 m. Jessie Dickson See Chart #18 cl. Nov. 20, 1921 at San Francisco, Cal.

2. Robert DeWolf Dickson b. Feb. 2, 1844 d. Oct. 5, 1863 - 19 years old.

3. James Arthur Dickson b. Dec. 11, 1845 Crippled, 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 1s. No one remembers 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 as they grew old enough each and every one of the family, except my mother, Martha, who married 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 80

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 married James Calvin Foss who lived near Uncle Charlie. After Grandfather 1s death in 1881, Robert, fifteen years 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 years 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 married Elizabeth, the widow of Isaac Miller. Their son Robert was born in Onslow but when he was three years old, Grandfather sold the Onslow farm, bought property in Truro and lived there about nine years 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 married 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 1s 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 years. 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 trees and the outline of buildings. While he had the best medical care available, which was very meager in those days over a hundred years 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 81 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 as much informa­ tion as possible. He had no formal schooling. His brothers and sisters taught him and read to him a great deal. I imagine his mother gave him as much attention as possible until her death when he was about seventeen years old. "Peggy" was his loyal and devoted attendant.

When Uncle Arthur visited us in Roxbury, I was about six years 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 complainto 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 outo

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 across to the store on which he could work 82

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. 83

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 Truro 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.(1) Jan. 24, 1904 Nellie May Holloway at Truro, 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 (Pus hie) 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.(1) Owen Porch of Nevada at Brookfield, N.S. No children d. 1927 Later divorced in California m.(2) Frank Stafford 84

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 SL Paul rs Barrister in Truro d. Nov. 2, 1882 at Sackville, N. B. d. at Parrsboro, 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 b. m. Aug. 17, 1870 Sarah Snowball Merchant in Truro at Truro at Sackville, N. B. Children ?

Unable to find complete records of this family. 85

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 Ric\hard B. and Augusta Huestis at Amherst See Chart 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. 86

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 SL 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 dress 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. 87

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 b. 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, Jr. 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 88

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. ! .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 Mrs. 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, 1900 m. (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 Mrs. Leo Squires Herman A. and Senora (McDermott) Squires 2303 G. Street of Jolly, Iowa Eureka, Calif. With Forest Division Dept. of Natural Resources, Calif. 89

CHART 20 WILLIAM ERNEST DICKSON m. (1) Jan. 24, 1904 Nellie May Holloway b. Feb. 4, 1872, Truro, 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. (L~ter Eureka, Calif.) Merchant Children 1951 address: 1. Virginia Kay Cochran b. June 18, 1943, Chico, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. 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. 3. 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: Mrs. William Ernest Dickson 1952 address: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Montgomery Dickson 27 Menlo Place 328 Foothill Blvd. Berkeley 7, Calif. Oakland, Calif. 90

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 Tristram 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 3 0 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 Foss, Jr. b. Jan. 5, 1885 at Loleta m. 1908 Emma Heaney Stanford University 1908 at Maui, T. H. See Chart 32 Civil Engineer 91

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 b. 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 Fred.erick Wilder Beal m.(2) May 28, 1924 Melvil Dewey See Chart .4 2 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, Jr. 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 Della Bell Wittenmyer Orr at Prescott, Arizona b. 1893 Knox County, Indiana Daughter of William E. and Mary (Gilmore) Wittenmyer No children 92

David Henderson McKay 1846-1898 At Age 50 93

Martha Archibald Dickson McKay 1849-1930 At Age 75 94

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 f 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 95 for a few years, 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! Father'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 Father'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 Bostop 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 Boston at 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. 96

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 members of the family were so inclined. Father 1s 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 97

DAVID HENDERSON McKAY Family Group. Made in 1887 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 sw.eet 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, Jr. (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 trees 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 years. 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. 99

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 cross word to each other. While they might not always think alike they never quarreled. Father left his business cares 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 ness. 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 are 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 married Walter and Bob. A big family, usually twenty at the table for Aunt Jessie to cater to, beside the ranch workers. 100

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 sisters 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 re­ 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 parts of the country). 101

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 years 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 Farmer 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 barrel 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 care of the horses. Father used a horse each day when he drove about his business. Every other day that horse had a rest. 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 rest of us busy "pinking" a silk dust ruffle, binding seams and taking out hastings. Dresses then touched the ground, each one had a taffeta silk lining. Hair-cloth was used to interline the bottom of skirts 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 years with the famous "Worth" of Paris. 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 more expensive and paid for it. When Mother would say, "Dave, you'll ruin those girls," he would an­ swer, "Perhaps so, but they are 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 Parker 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 caterer. These were served in a nest of spun sugar. Our soft drinks were ginger ale, root beer, lemonade and fruit punch. 103

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 years. 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 barrel 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 married 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 mar­ 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 years decided to be married 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 rents, bookkeeping, notes and obligations, making repairs and renting to tenants. Letters were written by hand and copied in a letter press. 104

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 Father'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 married 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 es­ tate would support him as it did me I 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 married in the summer of 1900 when the business was placed in the hands of trustees.

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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 Cali~. 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 Stanford 1919, Medical Degree 1925 1951 address: Mrs. Eleanor Dickson Sanborn Couple divorced 1946 91A Santa Rosa Ave. 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. 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Shaffer Scotia Mills, 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, 19-50 at San Jose 3. Ellita Mott Shaffer b. Apr. 20, 1935 at Eureka Fortuna High School 1952 Majoring in Music 106 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 (G:tlmer) Spence 1 son Harry Gilmer Spence, Jr. 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 Mrs. 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) Auge 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. 107 CHART 25 GEORGE LESLIE DICKSON m. July 4, 1906 Ethel Grace Porter 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 Porter Dickson b. Sept. 17, 1912 at Wabana Mines, Bell Island, Newfoundland d. Jan. 5, 1917 at Truro, N. S.

George Leslie Dickson now retired and lives with his daughter, Mrs. Button. 1951 address: 53 Kensington Drive Moncton, N. B. 108

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 See Chart 27 2. Richard Black Huestis Davison b. Dec. 8, 1877 m. Dec. 6, 1905 Annie Elsie Jodrey 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 28 109

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. 1952 address: Mrs. Clarence 0. 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 Wayland, New York Now ·living at Owosso, Michigan No children 3. Dorothy Jean Davison b. Oct. 11, 1902 m. (1) 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) 19;31 Walter Petch, a native of England Dorothy now living in Fraser Canyon, B.C. Couple legally separated June Elizabeth MacKenzie m. (r) 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. 110 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 V'est 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 Mrs. 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 Mrs. William Holmes 3 Dale Ave. Amherst, N. S.

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CHART 29 J"OHN HARRISON FOSS m.(1) 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 Psi. Scottish Rite Mason, Shriner William Cross and Mary (Whitfield) Crook Life member American Society Engineers of Maui, T. H. Pres., 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 Foss, 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. Lt. Waves 1942-45. Teacher 1951 address: Box 911 1 son James Malcolm Foss b. Feb. 22, 1950 (adopted) Wailuku, Maui, T .H. 4. William Crook Foss b. Feb. 27, 1915 m. May 4, 1941 Aimee Ailene Kesterson Stanford 1939 b. July 11, 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 11 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: Mrs. Walter L. Dougherty 386 California Blvd. San Luis Obispo, Cal. 113

CHART 29 (Cont 1d) JOHN HARRISON AND IRENE FOSS 5. 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 Mrs. 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 1s Fund Insurance Co. 1 son Steven Clark Purcell b. Sept. 17, 1951 at San Francisco, Cal. 114

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 Plantation 1911 to date, Lahaina, Maui, T. H. 1953 address: Mr. David Thomas Fleming Lahaina, Maui, T .H. Children 1. James Foss Fleming b. Dec. 24, 1908 m. Feb. 20, 1932 Elizabeth Wray Hunt of Palo Montazuma Prep. School Alto and San Francisco Stanford, 1932, Palo Alto b. April 8, 1908 Stanford Medical School, San Francisco Daughter of John and Lilian ~ray) 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 Flemingb. Mar. 2, 1934 Dr. and Mrs. James Foss Fleming Wailuku, Maui, T .H. 2. Bruce Lundie Fleming b. Nov. 28, 1910 m. (1) May 16, 1947 Mrs. Ella Tetzlaff Chalmers Montazuma Prep. 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 2J, 1949 Bruce Fleming m. (2) Aug. 8, 1952 Margaret Helen Dahl b. Feb. 11, 1925 at Havre, Mont. 1952 address: Daughter of Severt J. and Sarah (Crowe) Dahl Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Lundie Fleming Registered Nurse Lahaina, Maui, T .H. Graduate, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago 115

CHART 30 (Cont 1d) 3. 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 Mrs. 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 b. 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. 1932-34 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 Mrs. 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 5. 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 1937-195'.) 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Earl Holley 5974 Kalaniaole Highway Honolulu 49, T .H. 116

CHART 30 (Cont 1d) 6. Jessica Katherine Fleming b. Aug. 12, 1917 m. April 23, 1947 Robert Naylor Rea at Honolulu Graduate Punahou Prep. 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 Mrs. 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, Ill. 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, Daug-hter of Hugh and Elsie (Gasser) Conner Civil Engineer of Boise, Idaho City Manager, City of Pacific Grove, Calif. 1951 address: 1027 Eagan Ave. 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, Jr. 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. 119

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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. 2. Phyllis Claire b. Jan. 15, 1940 at Sacramento 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 1 son Douglas b. July 4, 1947 at Oakland 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 CHART 32 JAMES CALVIN FOSS, JR. m. (1) 1908 at Maui, T.H. Emma Heaney of Quincy, Ill. 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 2. James Calvin Foss III World War II JAMES CALVIN FOSS, JR. m. (2) Dec. 1915 at Hawaii, T .H. Adeline Hurst This couple divorced 1929 3. Charlotte Dickson Foss b. at Palo Alto,Cal. m. William Dunn of San Francisco, Calif. 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 121

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 1s book - the only change being that ''Samuel George" was the record in the old Onslow Book, not Samuel George v- illiam, 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 Mininr, Association and brought with him a wife, Maria Henderson of Gowrie, Scotland. It is said he built 'Gowrie" in 1834, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton.'' 122

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 Nortn 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 4. Brenton Unmarried d. 1910 4. Edward M. Archibald b. 1849 m. 1887 Carry. Carmichael 6 Daughters, 3 Sons 5. Blowers Archibald b. 1856 m. 1887 Zaddie F. Boggs 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 123

CHART 35 WILLIAM HENRY ARCHIBALD m. Sept. 23, 1876 Eleanor G. Hughes b. Sept. 23, 1842 b. May 28, 1851 at St. Pierre, 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 Mrs. 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 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. John F. Schaffer at Yuma, Ariz.; of Salt Lake City El Monte, Calif. 124

CHART 36 GEORGE HUGHES ARCHIBALD m. Sept. 12, 1907 Jane Taylor Kester b. July 22, 1877 at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton b. Se pt. 7, 1885 Son of Daughter of William Henry and Eleanor (Hughes) Archibald Robert Livingston and Ida (Walkup) Kester King's College School 1890-94 of Pittsburgh, Pa. King's University 1894-98, B.Eng., Windsor, N.S. P.G. Mass. Institute of Technology 1900 George and Jane lived in Winnipeg, Man. 1904-1915 Member Engineering Institute of Canada Toronto 1916-1924 Montreal 1924-1951 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. George H. Archibald 235 E. Lakewood Rd. West Palm Beach, Fla. Children 1. George Hughes Archibald, Jr. b. Aug. 21, 1908 m. May 8, 1938 Elizabeth M. Allan at Winnipeg, Man. b. Sept. 17, 1915 St. Andrews College School, Toronto, 1917-1921 Daughter of Frederick and Ida (Weber) Allan Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ont. 1921-26 of St. Augustine, Fla. Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont. 1926-30 General Contractor, Pompano Beach, Florida 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. George H. Archibald, Jr. Pompano Beach, Florida Children 1. Allan Hughes Archibald b. Mar. 10, 1939, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 2. David Livingston Archibald b. Jan. 23, 1942, " " " 3. George Frederick Archibald b. June 1, 1945, Decatur, Ill. 125

CHART 36 (Cont'd) 2. 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 (Budden) 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 P,uker 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 Mrs. 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 126

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. Pierre, 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 2. 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 3. 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 Mrs. 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 farn,ily 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 years old, came to live with us for two years until her father married again in 1890. She died of scarlet fever a year later.

We occasionally saw Aunt Mill Doggett when in Truro 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 1t 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, Wa.13hington, 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 carry 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. 129

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_l848 m. Abner Doggett of Truro, N. S. d. Nov. 29, 1889 b. 1829 d. 1909 No children 3. Olivia Hender son 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. Jessie 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. 130

Olivia Dickson Archibald Henderson Amelia Henderson Purves McKinlay Daughter of Olivia D.A. Henderson 131 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. 132

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 Doorn d. Aug. 18, 1952 b. Feb. 7, 1884 at Holyoke, Mass. No children 1952 address: Mrs. Edw'ard 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, Mass. 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. 133

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, Jr. 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 Mrs. 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 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Everdale Lovenberg of Summit, N. J. Ever-Dell Farm Route 1, Stockton, N. J. 1 son Walter McKay Lovenberg b. Aug. 9, 1934 at Trenton, N. J. 134

Emily McKay Beal Dewey (Made 1932) 135

CHART 42 EMILY FOSS McKAY m. (1) July 11, 1900 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 at Wellesley 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 Mrs. Wilder Beal 200 E. 66th St. New York 21, N.Y. 2. David Henderson Beal b. Mar. 9, 1907 at Wellesley 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: Mrs. Melvil Dewey Lake Placid Club (P.O.) Essex County, N.Y. 136

Bronze Tablet in Lake Placid Club Chapel 137

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. at Wellesley 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: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hooker Bubier, Jr. Flushing, L.l. 64 Sagamore Rd. Cornell 1951-Zeta Psi Fraternity 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, Mass. 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 II b. May 21, 1940 at Providence, R.I. 2. Martha Elizabeth Allen b. Sept. 15, 1943 at Providence, R.I. 1951 addresses: Mrs. Frank A. Daly Mr. and Mrs. Gordon C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Donald McKay Bubier 220 Rochambeau Avenue 83 Frontier Rd. Providence, R.I. Warwick, R.I. 138

CHART 44 GLADYS BEDELL McKAY m. Sept. 30, 1922 George MacDonald Kenney b. Feb. 24, 1895 at Allston, Mass. 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 2. George Dickson Kenney b. June 22, 1926 m. June 1 7, 1950 Virginia Catherine Stiles U.S. Navy (Y 3/ c) 1944-46 b. Mar. 13, 1928 at Providence,Rl 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 Mrs. George MacD. Kenney Mr. and Mrs. George Dickson Kenney 36 Oakland Ave. Perryville Road Cranston, R. I. Rehobeth, Mass. 139

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, Ill. 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 Avia ti on, Inc. Author of many articles on Hydraulic Applications

Children 1. Howard Field III 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 Mrs. Howard Field, Jr. 811 Yarmouth Ct. San Diego, Cal. 140

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. 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 Lorne, 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 141

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, Ill. Taught Oratory in a college in Iowa 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. 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, Ill. 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 Harris b. Dec. 14, 1950 at Ottawa, Ont. 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mackenzie Harris 620 Keenan Ave. Westboro, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Helena Mackenzie Lacey was the only living child of T}:lomas Archibald Mackenzie that I could find. 142

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 Mackenzie b. 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 married Sedgwick cousins. One family spells the name with two letters •e I and the other dropped the second 'e'. 143 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 andChristina (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. Mrs. W.M. Sedgwick 1951 address: Box 38 Pictou, N.S.

CHARLES EVERETT MACKENZIE m. June 17,.1914 Kathleen McGroarty 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. 144 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, Jr. b. Feb. 21, 1950 at Ocean Falls, B. C. 1951 address: Mrs. and Mrs. Harold P. Mackenzie 1115 Cornox St. Vancouver, B. C. 145

CHART 50 SOPHIA STEW ART 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 Son of Hyman and Ethel (Cohen) Lazarus 68 Rathnelly Ave. University of Toronto 1928 Toronto, Ont. No children 2. Eleanor Wallace Sedgewick b. June 19, 1909 m. June 12, 1934 William Richmond Stewart at Toronlo 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. 4. Mary Madeleine Sedgewick b. June 22, 1919 m. July 15, 1944 WalterStevensonJoyce at Toronto 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 Mrs. Walter S. Joyce 212 Third Ave. Ottawa, Ont. 146 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 Uni ve rs ity, 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 Mrs. 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 b. Jan. 9, 1910 Asbury College, Ottawa, Can. at Wabana, 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 1939 M.D.C.M. '' 1948 Ph.D. 1951 address: Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Reading Mackenzie 267 Oliver Ave. Westmount, P.Q.~ Canada

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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 Officer commanding the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Nova Scotia. Mrs. James Purves and Helen now live in Halifax.

1951 address: Mrs. James Purves Miss Helen Purves 40 So. Park St. Halifax, N. S. 149

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 Mrs. 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 1951 a dd ress.. sy d ney, C ..B 1 daughter Donna Blair b. Dec. 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. . . Son of William and Vera (Sampson) Prentice 1951 address. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Prentice of Abbey, Saskatchewan, Canada Renfrew' Ont. Air Force 1 son David William Prentice b. Dec. 30, 1947 in Truro 3. James Kent Blair Purves b. March 17, 1922 m. (1) March 17, 1945 Terry Moran, Ireland Pre-Med. Dalhousie 1939-40 at Truro, 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 Terry died 1946 Degree 1951 m. (2) May 15, 1948 Mary Tobin 1951 address: Halifax, N.S. Daughter of Thomas and (Stopford) Tobin of Halifax 1 Daughter Jane Stopford Purves b. July 22, 1949 4. Grace Ew.art Purves b. Sept. 24, 1925 m. Oct. 31, 1947 John Charles Phillips at N. Sydney, C .B. in Toronto 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. 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. 150 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 C omyns Stevens Daug~ter 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) b. 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; 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. 151 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: Mrs. Stanley Purves Mutual Wholesale Grocery Co. of Sydney Mines, C.B. 6101 Somerled A.venue 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 years, 1942-45 Daughter of Wm. A. and Jessie Belle (MacIntosh) MacKenzie Banker, Royal Bank of Canada 1932 of Truro, N.S. 1951 address: Parrsboro, 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 Mrs. 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 0 1DohertyatArvida, P.Q. University of New Brunswick, 1950 b. Sept. 10, 1931 at Quebec City, P.Q. Civil Engineer Daughter of Gerard and Beatrice (Dutil) 0 1Doherty 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 Bertrand William Sinclair An author of short stories and mysteries Live at Pender Harbor, B.C. 152

The Purves Family at the Hermitage, North Sydney, Cape Breton

My first visit there was with Mother when I was about seven years 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 Purves children were brought up in the English fashion with a governess and had to attain the ripe age of twelve years 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 as 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 was. 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 Wil1 1s 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 stairs 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 1s 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 strawberries 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 terraces which made excellent seats for spectators. 153 • For three consecutive summers 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 Bras d 1or 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 1s death C ou.sin Abbie and Fiff went abroad to live. Jim and Lizzie with their family moved into the Hermitage and after Jim 1s 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 Mrs. J.B. Dickey when Joan, her daughter, was married 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. 154 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 See Chart 58- 59 7. Henry Stewart Patterson b. Feb. 22, 1881 m. 1911 Margaret Chase 8. William Albert Patterson, Jr. 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 Harris Patterson b. Jan. 31, 1890 m. May 12, 1925 Ina Macnee Barrister, Q. C., Law Office b. June 12, 1887, Glasgow, Scotland Truro, N. S. Daughter of Forrest F. and Mary Patterson Macnee of Glasgow, Scotland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Patterson 91 Smith A venue 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 155

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. 1 7, 1943, San Antonio, Texas 2. Bruce Judd b. Dec. 9, 1945, St. Paul, Minn. 3. Thomas Judd) . 4. Stephen Judd) Twms 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 3. 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 (0 1Connor) 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 and Elizabeth (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 156

CHART 59 (Cont 1d) 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 1951 address: Springbank (near Calgary) Alberta 1 daughter Luana Patterson b. Dec. 18, 1947 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 Arti.llery 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. University of Saskatchewan 1951 address: 425 18th St., N.W. 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) Mrs. 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, Truro, 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." 159

CHART 60 DR. ELISHA DeWOLF ROACH m. (1) 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: Mrs. Robert Dickson Roach 71 Church St. Monet on, 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. 160

CHART 61 JOHN E. ROACH m. (1) Mary Dunlap b. Sept. 29, 1838 Son of John and Sarah Amelia (Dickson) Roach of Nappan, N.3. 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 Ge rm any 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 Nelso11 b. May 4, 1950 JOHN E. 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 161

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. 109 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 arid 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 162 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 Mrs. 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 Enterprises, Ltd. Daughter of Cecil and Elsie Wilson Edmonton, Alberta of Edmonton, Alberta 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. 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 C allege Daughter of Business Course Dr. A.G. and Patricia (O'Connor) MacMillan Advertising Business Children of Calgary, Alberta 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. 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 163

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 Mrs. Roach's 1951 address: Linden Ave. Baltimore Dental College 1907 Wolfville, N .S. d.June 13, 1949 Children all born at W olfville, 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.

2. Frances Winifred Roach b. April 15, 1915 1m. May 31, 1941 at Wolfville, Donald S. Fraser Secretarial Science b. Feb. 16, 1911 Acadia University 1937 Son bf J. Frederick and Carrie (Sulis) Fraser of Halifax, N.S. Children 1. Frederick Donald Fraser b. Dec. 6, 1942 at Halifax, N.S. 2. James Douglas Fraser b. Nov. 23, 1947 at Halifax, N.S. 3. 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.3. 4. Charles Douglas Roach b. May 14, 1923 Canadian Army, overseas two years Acadia University, B.A. 1950 164

CHART 65 MARY ARC lllBALD 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 b. 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 Primrose of Pictou See Chart #67 5. David A. Campbell b. Dec. 29, 1830 m. Nov. 10, 1854 Francis Felicity Catherine Kavanah (Family Bible records) d. Sept. 4, 1887 b. May 14, 1830 d. Apr. 10, 1902 Children 1. Mary H. Campbell b. Jan. 10, 1856 m. William Reilly 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 married Sarah Ross 7. Archibald Campbell m. Jessie Sedgewick Children William, Robert Sedgewick, Anne, Mary, Lizzie Archibald, and Margaret Primrose Dickson 8. William M. Campbell May have married a Read Children 1. William Campbell m. Annie Ingraham of Sydney 2. Robert Campbell 3. Lizzie Campbell m. Gavin Clark Qhildren Archibald Campbell, Agnes Bill (Nan), John Gordon, Jessie Primrose and Elizabeth MacLean 1951 address Agnes Bill Clark m. W .H. Winderler 6 children Mrs. W .H. Winderler Hazel Hill, Nova Scotia 165

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. Patters on 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 Duncanson b. May 11, 1924 1 daughter, Susan Linda Muggah b. Feb. 2, 1951 1952 address: Miss Margaret Archibald Revere 'The Cedars" Canton, Mass. 166

CHART 67 OLIVIA CAMPBELL m. 1855 Howard Primrose Daughter of b. 1832 Hon. Alexander and Mary (Archibald) Campbell Son of James and Annie (Gordon) Primrose of Tatamagouche, N.S. of Pictou, N .S. Children 1. Annie Primrose b. Aug. 29, 1856 m. ~1) H.A. Bayne m. 2) J.W. Sterling 2. Mary Primrose b. 1859 m. Charles Fergie 3. Dr. Alexander Primrose b. May 4, 1861 m. (1) Clara C. Ewart m. (2) Elizabeth Britton Moss 4. John Primrose b. May 27, 1873 m. (1) Aug. 30, 1903 Charity Steers McGill University 1895 Prominent Engineer Children 1. Charity Steers Primrose b. July 22, 1910 m. Jan. 9, 1937 Andrew M. Clarke Children 1. Charity Ann Clarke b. April 26, 1939 2.) Tw. s{Elizabeth Clarke b. Oct. 17, 1941 3.) m John Clarke b. Oct. 17, 1941 4. Mary J. Clarke b. Dec. 13, 1948 2. Elizabeth C. Primrose b. Sept. 19, 1913 m. (1) Jan. 7, 1930 Edmond Loeliger, Jr. 1 daughter Elizabeth C. Loeliger b. Dec. 14, 1931 Elizabeth Primrose Loeliger m. (2) Oct. 27, 1939 William Fritz Euler John Primrose m. (2) Apr. 2-9, 1937 Eleanor Girouard Baskerville 1951 address: Mr. and Mrs. John Primrose Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N .Y. Dr. Alexander Primrose 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 years. 167 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 re- 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 1 7, 1804 at Truro (These three children were re­ 4. Sarah (Sally) Dickson b. Nov. 24, 1806 (corded in the Old Truro 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 Fraser Black 15. Walter Dickson b. 1826 From the "Acadian Recorder" of Sept. 11, 1824 Married at Truro on Thursday evening, 2nd inst., by the Rev. M_r. 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 Fraser Black b. 1824 b. 1848 at Glasgow, Scotland Son of William and. Rebecca Pearson Dickson Daughter of David and Lillias Fraser Black of Truro, 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 Fraser 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 168

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 Fraser (Black) Dickson at Mitta Mitta, Australia Burgess Hill School, Liverpool Daughter of David and Mary Cunningham School of Mines - Mining Engineer d. Oct. 23, 191 7 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.(1) William Sutton (2) Wm. Artingstall 3. Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson b. 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 2 Children of Hartley, Iowa 5. Gordon Rupert Dickson b. Nov. 1, 1923 Unmarried at Edmonton, Canada Graduated University of Minnesota, B.A., 1948 Free lance fiction writer 6. Craig Fraser Dickson b. June 10, 1929 in Minneapolis Unmarried 1953 address: Mrs. Gordon Fraser 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 Fraser 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 Mrs. Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson 1 Montagu Square London, W .I., England 169

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 term 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 ·"''.l part with his company in the capture of Quebec by Wolfe as the following incident will 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 re-cross where they had crossed in the morning. Meanwhile the French and Indians had been observing the movements of the English, surmised their object and pre­ 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 170

the request of Dickson that his life might be spared, he was placed in charge of the relentless Indians who after being in the rear 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 re­ 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 tree. 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- 171 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 terms offered by Col. Gorham to those who would do so. However, many arrests for treason were made, and Major Dickson was active not only in making arrests but in attending the trials 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 sister 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 years; Charles settled near Cherryfield, Maine; Dalton married a sister 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. 172

In 1763 Thomas was an applicant ror a grant of land near Fort Cumberland where he settled and re­ 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 career. 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 years." The gra:ve 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. 173

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 records of Horton and Wolfville at Reg­ istry of Deeds.

Mr. M. P. Boone, when Librarian at Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S., loaned me Eaton ts History of Kingts County, also Nicholas Longworthts 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.

Mrs. 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 vital statistics, as 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 tree and a photograph of Olivia Dickson whom they called "Grandmother Hender­ son". See Charts 36 and 37. *Deceased 174

Mrs. 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, granc!son 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 se­ cured and personally typed many pages of Judge J. Bacon Dickson rs 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. Mrs. Virginia Todd, my devoted part time secretary and friend, who has done all the typing and proof reading. 175

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