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332. Benjamin YEOMANS [image].
" ... [A] Good and Loyal Subject[] to His Majesty ... Served His Majesty in the late American War and came to this Province from New York upon the Evacuation of That Place..." (1796 land petition of three sons and others).
His sons confirmed that Benjamin was a Loyalist when making their 1796 land petition. He was perhaps a farmer from Duchess County, New York. A Benjamin Yeomans arrived on the "Duchess of Gordon" with a civilian company in June, 1783 with one child over the age of ten. (See a Yeoman Rootsweb posting .)
A Benjamin Yeomans received a crown grant of land in 1784 in what was then described as Belleisle, Sunbury County, Nova Scotia. (Sunbury County, Nova Scotia is now the province of New Brunswick). (See land grants, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick website).
Wright's Loyalists of NB, p.345 notes both a Benjamin Yeomans who "served", and received a grant or first lived in Queens County.
For a amily tree that includes Benjamin, please see Laura Quartermain's Gencircles website . Another Yeomans website cites the Quartermain site as a source.
TWO WIVES: We saw above that a Benjamin Yeomans came with one child over ten. A third site on Benjamin is found at an "ancestors" website. It suggests that our ancestor had a previous wife who was the mother of the oldest (apparently Benjamin Jr), and whose second wife (named) was the mother of the youngerr children.
Our relationship to Benjamin Yeomans is unproven at this time.
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YEOMANS, BENJAMIN
-as "YEAMAN" -farmer from N.Y. with civilian Co'y. 13 on the
`Dutchess of Gordon' to Saint John in June, 1783. Family consisted
of himself and one child over 10 yr. -(Ref. 2)
-same family make-up on victuals list, May, 1784.
-settled Queens county, N.B. -(Ref. 1)
-"B. YEOMAN" granted lot 21, 72 A., W. of Jeemseg (on Saint John
River,) Cambridge Parish, Queens county, N.B. (Ref. 3, # 128). Granted
13.1.1787 (Vol. B, # 105)
-granted 200A., lot 27 on the Saint John River at Wickham, Queens Co.,
N.B., 6.7.1784. -(Vol. I, # 5)
-1803 will of Daniel GARRISON names John "YEEOMANS" (signed) of
Waterborough, [Queens Co.], co-bondsman of estate, as son of Benjamin.***
"Yeomans, Benjamin Yeomans born in Saratoga County, New York. Came to NB in 1783 as a Loyalist and settled in Hampton Parish, Kings County; the name of his wife is not given; possible child was Benjamin Yeomans, b. at Hampton.
"Source: (York Sunbury Historical Society Collection, MC300, MS15/11 page 167.")
344. Nicholas RIDEOUT 1, 2 was born on 17 Feb 1738 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine. He died in 1833 in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick. He married Sarah OLIVER on 8 Dec 1761 in Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine. [Parents]
"Joined the Perley Colony and migrated to Maugerville, N.B. Canada in 1762. He was the ancestor of most of the Rideouts of New Brunswick. In 1765, the government of Nova Scotia granted Nicholas some 500 acres of land in Maugerville. In 1757, he was a member of the Georgetown Militia. It is said he was a ship builder and worked with his father. ... [T]he "Perley Colony" ... was composed of a large number of Massachusetts and Connecticut families. One account says these people went to New Brunswick in one of Rideout's ships. They were nearly all farmers and most of them sympathized with the American Colonies.
"Among these Maugerville colonists, Nicholas seems to have had great weight and influence. He had quite a little wealth and owned several vessels.
"In the histories of this time, we read in several places that "Colonel Allen [a Revolutionary] is stopping with the Rideouts in Maugerville." Kidder [Author of 'Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia During the Revolution'], says, "Col. Allen sent a very particular letter to Mr. Rideout of commendation for his attachment to the [American revolutionary] cause desiring him to procure something that was needed, and sen[d] in Rideout boats. After the Revolution many descendants of Nicholas Rideout returned to Maine and didn't go back to New Brunswick. Rideout was always a good friend to the American Colonies. He was very upright."
Reference: page 15ff, 'Rideouts in America' by Golda Rideout Soffee.
See Noyes Rootsweb for information about Nicholas Rideout Jr. or use the search function at noyes rootsweb.
See planters for a discussion of the pre-Loyalist planters in the maritime provinces of what is now Canada.
345. Sarah OLIVER 1, 2 was born about 1740 in Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Me. She died in 1816 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. [Parents]
Alternatively: "b. 1740 in Falmouth, York, Massachusetts " (Noyes Rootsweb)
352. Col. Thomas Westbrook WALDRON [image] 1 was born 2 on 26 Jul 1721 in Dover, Straf., N.H. He died 3 on 3 Apr 1785 in Dover, Straf., N.H. He was buried 4 in Dover, N.H., U.S.. He married Constance DAVIS about 1755. [Parents]
"Thomas Westbrook Waldron.... was a man of large property and extensive influence, although not so much in public office as father, grandfather, or great-grandfather. He inherited the homestead, mill privileges, etc., purchasing the rights of his brother George.
"The town records show him to have been frequently moderator of Dover town meetings... a selectman... townclerk... representative.... He lived on the old property, and in the Waldron house (which is now called, as for many years, the 'old boarding house'..." (Cutts Genealogy, pp 536-7, which quotes "Historical Memoranda", by Rev. A.K. Quint]).
He was a Captain of militia in the 1745 invasion of the French fortress of Louisberg in present-day Nova Scotia, Canada. His letters to his father are quoted in Peter Bower's "Louisbourg: A Focus of Conflict", describing with some bitterness that the spoils of war did not go to New Englanders and that the men would be "Lul'd along" into occupying Louisberg through the winter. Originals of all nine letters to his father, and two replies are owned by the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. A request for photocopies was declined due to the fragility of the old leather binding they are found in.
Perhaps it was in one of these letters that he says "We are all in a Crowd, besides, the Edge of a Board is my Chair, and a Quire of Paper my Table ...." (JSTOR: Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, as found in a Google search item for "Thomas Westbrook Waldron"). It does seem consistent with a militia camp on the way to or at Louisberg but we can't review the actual content without a JSTOR membership.
Young Captain Waldron can perhaps be forgiven for his uncharitable view of Massachusetts Brigidier General Samuel Waldo, who was also part of the Louisberg campaign and was probably the "Duke Trinkelo" he described unflatteringly to his father ("Louisbourg: A Focus of Conflict", Peter Bower). Waldo, his grandfather Westbrook's former business associate, was believed responsible for all his grandfather's financial reverses just a couple of years earlier. Bower, not understanding the Brigadier's connection to Thomas' family, dismissed his comments as a love of "idle talk". (See Bower, above, and Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Dan L. Thrapp, p.1536, and History of Waldo County, Maine, by George J. Varney).
The house he had built in 1763 was for a time "by far the best in Dover; its joiner work was ornate and elaborate, in every apartment; the furnishings were the best that period afforded." ("Mr. Scales gives facts on the T.W. Waldron House", Foster's Daily Democrat, 1923, as found in Dover Public Library). "... [S]tood in Revolutionary times the mansion of Thomas Westbrook Waldrone, the soldier of Louisberg." (See Old Dover, New Hampshire, by Caroline Garland, New England Magazine, vol. 23 issue 1, Sept 1897, p. 113 as found at: Cornell Library ). We are told that this house, described so carefully in the Scales article, was dismantled some decades ago. (E mail 2003 from Dover NH Library staff).
"In June of 1767 Belknap [who later was the writer of the famous history of New Hampshire] borrowed a horse from Thomas Westbrook Waldron, a locally prominent citizen, and galloped off to Boston to marry..." (Jeremy Belknap, A Biography at Google Books). Thomas refused to hold Belknap responsible for the death of the horse soon after. Later, Belknap asked Captain Waldron if he should compile a history "because I have such a value for your judgement, and must depend so much on your favor and assistance in the prosecution of such a work...." Surprisingly, Belknap would have abandoned the whole project at this point without Captain Waldron's approval. (Life of Jeremy Belknap, DD, by Jane Belknap Marcou, Jeremy Belknap, pp.47-48
Belknap gave a sermon to the mustered troops at Waldron's request.(Life of Jeremy Belknap, DD, by Jane Belknap Marcou, Jeremy Belknap, pp.48-51)
"Thomas Westbrook Waldron's mills at Cochecho, below ye lower falls," are mentioned Jan 22, 1770. (Ibid., p. 534.) The Cochecho settlement is now the city proper of Dover." (as cited in Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, Concord, N.H.)
In 1773 he was named as one of five arbitrators in a land dispute arising from overlapping township grants in Warner, New Hampshire. (See historical sketches).
Described as "a representative at Exeter in 1768 and a councilor in 1773...." (Rootsweb).
To the last Royal Governor of New Hampshire he was a "friend who predicted the rebellion" (The Loyalist Governor - Biography of Sir John Wentworth, Brian C. Cuthbertson (Petheric Press, Halifax, 1983), p.20, cites letters Wentworth to Waldron in: Collections, Mass Hist Soc, 6th Series, vol.iv, pp. 45,66,70,74 covering 1773-5).
"Ten days after [Governor Wentworth's] commission was read [13 June 1767], he nominated Peter Gilman, John Sherburne, and Thomas Westbrook Waldron for a vacant position on the council. These three men represented families long inveterate enemies of the Wentworths and their interests in New Hampshire. Out of personal inclination, and for obvious political reasons, Wentworth felt it was time to mend broken fences ...." (Paul W. Wilderson, Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution - The English Connection, Hanover, 1994, p. 137).
"....Thomas Westbrook Waldron in the years to come became one of Wentworth's close friends and confidents." (Wilderson, footnote 6, page 305).
He was also one of the Governor's councillors called from his Dover home to sit in council during what might be termed the Portsmouth Tea Party of Sep 1774. Despite this friendship he threw his lot in with the rebels and was "named in a list of inhabitants of Dover, New Hampshire who took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States and Continental Congress, 1776, published in the Dover Enquirer." (DAR as cited in: AS Wright Gencircles)
We don't know which of his sons Thomas offered to stay with the approximately seven year old Governor's nephew at Belknap's home to receive an education. Perhaps it was Richard, christened 11 Aug 1765, about whom we know nothing more at this time. In January 1770 Belknap politely declined to take students from either family. (Life of Jeremy Belknap, DD, by Jane Belknap Marcou, Jeremy Belknap, p. 57)
"Thomas Westbrook Waldron (1721-85) was a Recorder of Deeds, Strafford County, 1776. He was born and died in Dover, N.H." (From Lineage Book of Nat Soc of DAR, vol 68, p 221, entry 67630).
Chosen as a counsellor for Strafford County by the NH House of Representatives on Sat 6 Jan 1776 (See Stan Klos website). He declined in a letter to the NH Committee of Safety January 15 for health reasons, and at the same time suggested a revolutionary council was unnecessary as "friends of America in England" would assist the revolutionary cause (Stan Klos website). On Wednesday, January 17, 1776 an "Hon. John Wentworth, Esq., of Somersworth, [was chosen] one of the Counsellors for the County of Strafford, in the room of Thomas Westbrook Waldron, Esq., who was chosen, but did not accept." (See Stan Klos website )
A historian suggests Governor Wentworth hoped the American Revolution was temporary and unnecessary and that eventually wiser and more level heads would work together with more flexible leaders in Britain to restore the former allegiance to the crown. Colonel Waldron appears to have initially shared this view, as demonstrated by his "friends of America in England" comment. (Amazon.com book description of Governor John Wentworth and the American Revolution: The English Connection, by Paul W. Wilderson (2004) )
By August 19, 1776, as chairman of a revolutionary committee charged with inventorying a Loyalist's property, he wrote to the chief political figure in post-colonial New Hampshire, Meshech Weare, deploring that those who disagreed with the revolution had their property confiscated and expressing the hope that "politeness, justice, and lenity [be] among the shining characteristicks of the American States...." (Stan Klos website )
"[He] died there [the TW Waldron house] April 3, 1785. He was buried in the burial ground west of the Methodist church.
"After his death, the children were carried to Portsmouth, where they remained for several years.
"[He] made his will Aug 7, 1779. He owned large quantities of land. In addition to the Dover property he owned lands in Rochester, Barrington, Gilmanton, Grafton County, Lebanon, Chichester, Canaan, Kilkenny and the Globe Tavern, The Square and the Training field in Portsmouth, two mill privileges in Portsmouth, and part of the lower falls.
"These quantities of real estate were divided among his children, Charles and Daniel inheriting the Dover property. Daniel was the last owner of the extensive Waldron real estate in Dover. It probably came into the family in 1642 when the mill privilege in the center of Dover was granted to Major Richard Waldron. Upon January 31, 1820, an uninterrupted family ownership of 178 years terminated." (Cutts Genealogy, pp 536-7, which quotes Historical Memoranda by Rev. A.K. Quint, paragraphing altered).
"Thomas Westbrook Walderne in his will, dated 1779, bequeathed to his heirs his 'negro Dinah and her two children, Chloe and Plato.' This retention was, however, merely nominal, and slavery as an institution was extinguished on the adoption of the State Constitution." (Old Dover, New Hampshire. [The New England magazine. / Volume 23, Issue 1, Sept 1897], p. 108 Memory.loc.gov )
Called Colonel in Wentworth Genealogy, vol 1, p. 165.
His portrait, owned by the SPNEA/Historic England is shown here with permission. It hangs in the Langdon House. A copy previously hung in the "council chamber" of the Wentworth-Coolidge house (see Brewster's Rambles). That copy is also owned by the SPNEA and is in somewhat less pristine condition than the original (e mail from SPNEA).
"Waldron Street was named for Thomas Westbrook Waldron, a great grandson of Major Richard Waldron. ..." ("Dover Streets and Squares", Dover Library accessed 16 October 2007)
Birth, marr and death dates from C.H.C. Howard, Genealogy of the Cutts Family in America (Albany, N.Y.: Munsell's Sons, 1892), pp 34, 62, 536-7. LDS microfilm 928035 item 2.
His name was reused by ensuing generations, including an apparent great grandson who as Consul Thomas Westbrook Waldron died in Macao.
("Friend" John Wentworth's is at seacoastnh.com)
353. Constance DAVIS 1 was born 2 calculated 1734 in New Hampshire. She died 3 on 25 Sep 1783. She was buried 4 in Waldron cemetary, Dover, New Hampshire, United States.
Is said to have been "of Durham" and married Thomas Westbrook Waldron when she was 20 years old, "and they commenced housekeeping in the dwelling his grandfather had built, after the Maj. Waldron garrison was burnt by the Indians in 1689." ("Mr. Scales gives the facts on the T.W. Waldron House", Foster's Daily Democrat, 1923, as found at Dover Public Library).
Also known as Constantia (Cutts Genealogy, pp 34, 62).
"Mrs Constant Waldron
Wife of Col. Thomas W. Waldron, died September 25, 1783, aged 49 years. " (Grave inscription in Waldron cemetary as found at Worldconnect )
354. Ephraim HAM 1 was born in 1731 in Somersworth, , New Hampshire. He was christened on 9 Nov 1735. He died in 1806. He married Lydia HAM. [Parents]
"He was selectman 1776-8, and was a soldier of the Revolution." (Wentworth Gen, p.165). (Appears to follow closely the corresponding entry in John R. Ham, "Ham Family in Dover, N.H.," In: New England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, (1872), vol. 26, pp. 388-394, entry 17.)
He was not the same Ephraim Ham who was a private in the New Hampshire continental line from Grafton County. That Ephraim was paid 96 a year under a military pension from April 11, 1818 until the act under which the pension was issued was suspended in May 1820. Was paid a total of 182 13. (Ancestry.com. )
355. Lydia HAM 1 was born about 1735 in <Somersworth, , New Hampshire>. She was christened 2 on 26 Aug 1739. [Parents]
"[She] joined the 'First Church' in 1793." (Ham Family in Dover, N.H.., p. 393, see also p. 391). She married her first cousin.
360. Barton POLLARD Sr was born 1 on 28 Jul 1734 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He married 2 Elizabeth SMITH in 1754. [Parents]
"Barton (Sr) ... moved to Haverhill, Mass. at 2 yrs of age. Early years spent in Plaistow, Mass. A soldier at Ticonderoga and Crown Pt. settled at Raymond. N.H. A Revolutionary Soldier he served at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge. He became the ancestor of the Maine and New Brunswick branches of the Pollard Family." (Pollard Family, Mrs. Maxwell Richardson, p. 7).
362. Lt. Asa PHILLIPS was born on 30 Sep 1748 in Duxbury, Mass.. He died in 1827. He married Cynthia SOUTHWORTH on 5 Oct 1769 in Duxbury, Mass.. [Parents]
For a carefully researched biography see "Doctor's Bills, 1774-1788 : Asa Phillips' Account with Dr. Stephen Barton" by Steve Robbins
See also Steve Robbins' Worldconnect website.
"There is no absolute proof that Mary Phillips was the daughter of Asa and Cynthia (Southworth) Phillips. But it is almost certain that she was their daughter. In her application for pension, based on her husband's Revolutionary War service, Mary (Phillips) Pollard states that her maiden name was Phillips and that she was born at Vassalborough on 22 Aug. 1772. The only Phillips family known to be in Vassalborough at that time was Asa Phillips' family. Further, in the 1790 census of Vassalboro, Asa Phillips' household had two females listed of [a similar age to] Mary [who was married and we presume, living with her husband]. Also, both Asa Phillips' family and Barton & Mary (Phillips) Pollard's family moved to Winslow, Maine then to Albion, Maine." From files of Steve & Dale Robbins.
363. Cynthia SOUTHWORTH was born in Duxbury, Mass.. [Parents]
"Dr. Barton charged for 3 visits to Asa's home for "Bleeding your wife" (Sept. 1774, May 27 and July 6, 1776). Bloodletting therapy was often used for pregnant women. The doctor also gave Cynthia Phillips oil of anise during the Sept. 1774 visit. Made from the seed of the anise plant, oil of anise is the flavoring agent in licorice. As a therapy it was used for spasms, asthma, flatulence and coughs. Modern medicine advises against its use during pregnancy, because of its estrogenic property." ("Doctor's Bills, 1774-1788 : Asa Phillips' Account with Dr. Stephen Barton", by Stephen L. Robbins, In: E mail SLR to MH 10 Sep 2007, and this link)
"Residences: Duxbury, Mass.; Vassalborough, Maine before 1772; possibly Winslow, Maine; possibly Fairfax (later Freetown, now Albion), Maine. From files of Steve & Dale Robbins.
368. Jacob LORING 1 was born on 21 Apr 1676 in Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He died on 5 Dec 1751 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He married 2 Hannah JACOB on 8 May 1728 in Hull, Massachusetts. [Parents]
Jacob Loring "married first, February 9, 1708-9, Sarah, daughter of John and Hannah (Lincoln) Lewis, born July 12, 1690, died April 8, 1727. ...
"He was a constable in 1709, a selectman several terms. Resided on Leavitt Street near East Street.
"... His will, dated February 4, 1749, proved January 21, 1751-2, provided that his wife [Hannah] should have life use of the house and have a ll of the personal property. His son Jacob to have the home place (subject to his mother's rights); Zechariah to work in the smith's shop till he was twenty - three years of age, and to have one-half of the tools there; the three sons to have the rest of the land, paying £400 to their sister and £60 to their mother." (Loring Gen., p. 27).
See also (Savage)
369. Hannah JACOB was born on 22 Jul 1696. She died on 12 Nov 1778. [Parents]
Loring Gen, entry 14, p.27. Her husband's will, 'proved January 21, 1751-2, provided that his wife should have life use of the house and have all the personal property.'
370. Samuel JOY 1 was born 2 on 20 Aug 1706 in Hingham, Massachusetts. He died 3 on 28 Nov 1792. He married 4 Thankful LINCOLN on 9 Feb 1737/1738. [Parents]
"Cooper; adm[itted] to 1st Ch[urch] Hingham 1732; Constable 1739." (Joy Genealogy, p.61)
371. Thankful LINCOLN 1 was born 2 in 1714 in Hingham, Plymth, Ma. She died 3 on 2 Mar 1786. [Parents]
~"THANKFUL, named in her fa.'s will (birth not recorded). m. Feb. 9, 1737-38, Samuel Joy, and d. 2 March, 1786, æt. 72 yrs."
This individual is found on line at the History of Hingham website.This individual was also found on DA Sharp's Gencircles