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GEORGE HENRY BELL.....1838 - 1914. Henry came from Petite Reviere,
over the Lunenburg Co. line,along Nova Scotia's South Shore. He had
learned his trade as a Blacksmith and for many years operated a shop on the
Tupper Mill property, at the Milton Lower Falls. Ship building was
still a very important local industry, as was lumbering and sawmilling, all
needing iron work from his and several other similiar shops in the area.
He built his home near the Shop, and his family were born there. His daughter
Diadem (by his first wife) was a missionary to Africa. His son Havelock
went to California and was there in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
His daughter Frances (1873-1948) married in 1898 Frederick Raymond Freeman (1871-1922),
and was mother to Edith, Mrs Thomas H. Raddall (author).. The Fred Freeman's
had one son Ralph Freeman who served in WW1, another daughter Marie, Mersey
Mill Sect., unmarried, and a younger son Terrence served in WW11. The youngest
member of the Bell family was Marie Bell, a school teacher.
REV. R.K.BLACK......
RUFUS COLE......1812 - 1874 He was the son of Israel Cole and Hannah Morton. He married Martha Kempton and they had no children.
JOHN COLE......
ISRAEL COLE...... 1813 - ?????...Israel was the son of Israel and Hannah (Morton) Cole. He married three times, 1. Eleanor McLeod, 2. Melinda Dexter, 3. Hannah (Sanders) Henry.
HIRAM COLE....
JOHN L. COOMBS......1809 - ????? Later years John and his family moved to the USA. He was the son of Ebenezer and Dorcas (Heater) Coombs and his home burned near the location where in 1996 is the home of Lester and Phyllis (Manthorne) Moore , which is built at 294 West St, in Milton, NS.
JOHN DEXTER......1828 - 1909.. (Nickname..Jingle).He was a Brooklyn, Queens Co., NS., boy who married a Milton Girl, Martha Rebecca Cushing Kempton, their family was: Harvey,d/y; William died of a gunshot wound at age eighteen; Mary married W.B.Snow; Jessie became Mrs James Mills. The 1860 census reported 4 males and one female.
WARREN DEXTER......1804 - 1872 married Mary Kempton, daughter of John and Sarah (Snow) Kempton.
JOSEPH FORD......1820 - 1891..was the son of Joseph (1791-1863) and Jane (Harlow ) (1793-1885) Ford. He married 1843 Rebecca Freeman (1823-1911) daughter of Zoeth (1799-1878) and Dorinda (Freeman) (1798-1881) Freeman. They had nine children, and lived in a house destroyed by fire about 1990, located on West St. almost opposite School St.
STEPHEN GARDNER FREEMAN......1820 - ???? .. was the son of Enoch and Rebecca (Gardner) Freeman, and lived at 591 West St., Milton. Stephen married in 1850 Eliza Donaldson (1827-1902), four children Burton, Lena (Woodworth), Willard Parker, and Porter.
THOMAS K. FREEMAN......1819 - 1910.. was the son of George and Mary (Kempton) Freeman. He and five of his six brothers and sisters were born in Milton, and moved to Harmony in North Queens Co.. He married there in 1848 the widow (with two children) of the Poet John McPherson, Charlotte Irene (McPherson) McPherson. They moved back to Milton before 1852, where three more children were born. Charlotte Irene died at Burdett, Kansas in 1906, Thomas died at Bear River, NS., in 1910.
WM. EDWARD FREEMAN......1837 - 1912 He was the son of Edward P. and Lucy (Hayes) Freeman, a family that moved early to North Queens Co., NS., at Kempt. Cash money was being offered in Milton for labour, sawmills and shipbuilding was booming, and one would expect the most likely place for him to stay would be with his grandparents, Wm. and Lucy Hayes. He was married in Milton, in 1865 to Tryphene Allison, also a Kempt girl. They moved back to Kempt, and their seven children were born there.
ELLIS FORD......1831 - 1905 Ellis was the son of Joseph (1791-1862) and Jane (Harlow) (1793-1885)Ford. He married about 1860 Mehitable Freeman (1830-1910) daughter of Elisha and Marie (Coville) Freeman of Pleasant River, Queens Co., NS. His home built by him is now in 1996 owned by Harry and Shirley Zwicker, 374 West St., Milton. He was a lumberman, part owner of the Ford mill, and enterprises. Both he and his wife died at the home of their son, a druggist in Kingston, NS., the home was in Tremont, NS. Another son Dr. Harley Ford,a dentist, lived in the family home.
WM. FORD......1816 - 1892.. He was the son of Joseph (1791-1862) and Jane (Harlow) (1793-1885) Ford. He was unmarried, and we expect he lived with his parents Joseph and Jane (Harlow) Ford.
CAPT. LATHROP FORD......1834 - 1892 This was another son of Joseph and Jane (Harlow) Ford. He was a Captain in the Militia. Margery Hemeon (1859-1880) was his wife, they had 3 children.
CHARLES MURRAY FORD......1822 - 1883 was another son of Joseph
and Jane (Harlow) Ford. He married a daughter of Whitman and Azelia (Dexter)
Freeman in 1851, Mary Azubah Freeman. Their children were all born in Milton
during the 1850's and 1860's, but as adults all four children went to
California, where they lived and died. Their mother joined them
there, and also died there. Charles died in
Milton.
ELISHA FORD......1824 - 1897.. Elisha was another son of Joseph and Jane (Harlow) Ford. He married Ann Knight and they had five children. Two younger boys of this family went to the Canadian west, Belmont Ford, and Wilson Ford.
JAMES T. FREEMAN......1812 - 1896..
ALEXANDER FORD......1825 - 1890.. was the son of Theodosius (1783-??) and Abigail (Tabby) (Morton) Ford. He married in 1847 Susan Teal (1820-1890). Albina Ford ,their daughter married Charles Ryer, whose house has recently (say 1990) been torn down, that located across from Milton's Senior Citizen Apts. on Highway #8. A son George went to "the Boston States", Watertown, Mass.. Four other children died young. The Alex. Ford house is thought to have been located halfway up School St.
JOSEPH AVARD GATES......1836-1893 was born in Wilmot, Annapolis Co., NS. The booming lumbering and shipbuilding industry brought him to Milton, Queens Co., as a young man. His interest in the new Christian Church, its freedom to worship as one's conscience dictates, encouraged him to be a preacher, and he became an elder ordained to go out and start new churches. His first preaching was along South Shore communities from Blueberry, (West Berlin, Queens Co.) to Barrington. He married in Milton ,Rebecca Minard (1844-1866), daughter of Allen and Mary (Houston) Minard, a fellow elder in this local church. Joseph and Rebecca lived in a home they had bought from Edward Kempton, 376 West St., Milton. Rebecca's daughter born there was Anne, who later married Orlando Harlow, but she died in childbirth. She was buried in the Moose Hill Cemetery, her stone still visible on the last cleanup of that old site. Several years later Joseph remarried, a cousin of Rebecca's, Maria Minard (1842-1895), daughter of W.S. and Eleanor (Gardner) Minard. Joseph became ordained and again ventured out as an Elder to start new churches, this time more successfully, at many ports on both sides of the Bay of Fundy, in Westport NS, to Deer Island New Brunswick, where at least several dozen pioneer churches were formed. He, his wife and some children are buried in Southville, Digby Co., Ns., where a beautiful stone marks the graves. His education as a preacher was not quite formal, although he spent several years studying at Alexander Cambell's College at Bethany West Virginia.
ABNER HARLOW......1818 - 1899.. He was the youngest son of
Abner and Polly (Slocombe) Harlow, an early lumbering family in Milton.
The Harlows are a family well known in Queens County, their ancestry is from
the immigrant to North America, William Harlow, at Plymouth Colony, New
England, as early as 1646. That first Sgt. Harlow married Rebecca
Bartlett, whose father was a Mayflower
Passenger, and all Harlows qualify as Mayflower Descendants. Abner marr. Susan
Coops, daughter of John and Hannah (Murray) Coops. The Harlow home still
exists, #444 West St. in Milton. There were 10 children in this family.
CHARLES HARLOW......1815 - 1900.. Charles also was of the Abner and Polly (Slocombe) Harlow family of eight children. He married Rebecca McLeod(1823-1905), daughter of Angus and Nancy McLeod, they had two children, John Henry, and Mary Rebecca, who married Ira Pride Freeman. He built the house next to his father's, now occupied in 1996 by Mervyn Walker, 440 West St.
ISRAEL HUBLY......
GEORGE JAFFERY......
JACOB CURTIS KEMPTON......1815 - 1892 The second person of this name, named for his father, Jacob Curtis Kempton who had married Joanne Crowell, and was one of twelve children. Jacob Sr's first home was that now in 1996 occupied by Mrs Norma Walker, 458 West St., he later built another home, that occupied until recently by the late Fred Wharton, in 1996, 450 West St. Jacob Jr. married in 1839 Jane Mcleod Gardner, and they had eleven children. One of these sons was Philson Kempton, a partner of John Henry Harlow, in the sawmilling, lumbering, shipping Co of Harlow and Kempton.
JOSEPH G. KEMPTON......1840 - ????.. He was a son of Jason C. (Jr.) and Jane (Gardner) Kempton. He married in 1864 Charlotte Whitman, daughter of Nathan and Matilda (Freeman) Whitman and they had seven children. He was a carpenter and went to the USA in 1881, where he became a builder and contractor.
BENJAMIN KEMPTON......1830 - 1920..He was born in Caledonia, North Queens Co.,, son of Jonathan and Susan (Christopher) Kempton. He married Jane M. Harlow (1830-1859) and they had three children. After he moved into Milton he built his new home, a double Gothic Revival house. His house was written up in "South Shore Seasoned Timbers" page 114, now in 1996 owned by Mrs Marion Douglas, 427 West St. Known as Mr. Benny, he was the sawyer in the sawmill, and was a shareholder in the Potanoc Gang Mill, one share of the twenty-four.
CURTIS KEMPTON......An advertisement in Liverpool Transcript, 1854, indicated Cutis Kempton and Frederick S. Kempton were set up as wheelwrights and house builders and located in Milton, near Tupper Corners.
SIMEON KEMPTON......1840 - 1906.. He was the son of Samuel D. and Hope (Murray) Kempton, and inhis youth he attended Acadia College and from that beginning became a school teacher. It was late in life, 1897, when he married Georgina A. Kempton at Middleton, Annapolis Co., NS. A note book of his was found by Mrs Mervyn Oickle, it had notes of lectures and lists of probable students he had taught.
THADDEUS KEMPTON......1842 - 1931..Son of Simeon Gardner and Jane (Payzant) Kempton, he marr. in 1869 Annie Tupper (1847 -1902), daughter of John and Hepzabeth (Kempton) Tupper. He was a lumberman. Their home was at #424 West St.
SAMUEL D. KEMPTON......1805 - 1868.. J.P. He was the son of Thomas (1767-1852) and Elizabeth (Doggett) (1767-1857) Kempton. Hope Murray and he were married in 1829, and they moved to Kempt in North Queens Co., NS., and ten years later in 1839 moved back to Milton where he formed the company of S.& D. Kempton. This was a lumbering company, involved in shipbuilding and merchandising. Twelve children were born into this family.
THOMAS KEMPTON......1830 - 1914..Thomas was the son of Samuel D. and Hope (Murray) Kempton. He was part of his father's company, and owned 21 shares in the Schooner Morning Light, built 1857. He married Elizabeth Knowles in 1886. There were no children.
ROBERT KEMPTON......1838 - 1886.. Robert was another son of Samuel D. and Hope (Murray) Kempton. He marr. in 1867 Clara Morton (1844-1926) daughter of Sylvanus and Ezelia (Ford) Morton. Robert was a lumberman, and a Captain in the Militia. They had five children.
JAMES KEMPTON......1822 - 1891was the son of Jacob Curtis (Sr.) and Joanna (Crowell) Kempton. He married in 1846 Louisa Snow (1827-1910) of Liverpool. She was the daughter of Atwood and Mary B. (Fader) Snow of Liverpool, NS. James was a lumberman and he and Louisa had only one daughter Alice born in 1847, who married John Henry Harlow, a very important business in Milton. One of his schooners, built in 1900, was named the Alice for his wife.
AUGUSTUS KEMPTON......1825 - 1887 He was the son of Jacob Curtis (Sr.) and Joanna (Crowell) Kempton. He married in 1860, Isabella Lloyd of Lockport, NS.,daughter of David and Isabella (Thompson) Lloyd.(She marr. a second time after her husband's death, Augustus Murray of Milton, in 1890). Edward Kempton and Augustus Kempton were brothers and partners for a time in some ventures, such as building the Schooner, "Industry" in 1858 in the shipyard of the Hon. Freeman Tupper. The business of these partners included Groceries, Dry Goods, and General Merchandise, and the Milton Post Office was located in their establishment on Bridge Strret in Milton. They dissolved the partnership in 1860. Augustus' health must have started to deteriorate about this time, he died five years later from TB, called Consumption in those days.
JOSEPH KEMPTON......1840 - 19?? He was also a son of Jacob Curtis (Sr.) and Joanna (Crowell) Kempton. He married in 1864 Charlotte Whitman (1844?) daughter of Nathan and Matilda (Freeman) Whitman. He was a carpenter and builder in his younger days here in Milton, in 1882 he and his family moved to Newton Falls in Mass., and he carried on a successful building contractor carreer there, where he died in late life.
OLIVER KEMPTON......1813 - 1894..was the son of Francis and Abigail (Millard) Kempton. His first marriage was to Priscilla West (1816-1840), a son Edwin was born in 1840. His second marriage was to Sarah Ann Wright (1819-1895) in 1842. This union provided seven children.
HUBBARD KEMPTON......
ALBERT KEMPTON......
THOMAS KNOWLES Sr.......1798 - 1886 .. was the son of James and Elizabeth (Burbank) Knowles. The Knowles property in those days ran north from School St. along West St. Milton Schools over the years have been built on that property. Thomas Sr. was a blacksmith, his shop was on West St., near School St. The old foundation of the Knowles house is just south of Mrs. Laing, at 368 West St.
THOMAS KNOWLES Jr......1838 - 1919..He was the son of Thomas and Dorcas (Prentiss) Knowles and lived with his parents.
RICHARD PRENTISS KNOWLES......1829 - 1904..He also was a son of Thomas and Dorcas (Prentiss) Knowles. He married Jane R. Tupper, daughter of the Hon. Freeman and Jane (Roberts) Tupper. They had nine children.
STEPHEN KEMPTON......
ADDISON LeCAIN......He was a carpenter, from away,we believe in Annapolis County, NS., and involved with the shipbuilding demand for skilled trades. He married a local girl, Alwilda Kempton (1847-1867), daughter of Oliver and Sarah Ann ( Wright) Kempton. This couple were very much involved with Milton Christian Church. Her death at age twenty years was tragic, and he left this area.
HENRY LARRY......
SILAS H. MURRAY......1825 - 1916.. was the son of Charles Jr. and Susannah (Harlow) Murray and married in 1851 Salome Leadbetter, daughter of Luther and Maria (Parker) Leadbetter. Silas and Salome had nine children, they both died in Missouri, he in Altamont, she in Amity.
WILLOUGBY MURRAY......1841 - 1928..was the son of Charles Jr. and Susannah (Harlow) Murray and married in 1869 Helen Miles ( -1877) daughter of Samuel and Angela (Parsons) Miles. They had two children when his first wife died. He moved to Colorado where he married and later divorced a second wife. He returned to Caledonia where he met and married Sarah Maria Wallace (1859-1910), daughter of John and Catherine (Bell) Wallace. This union produced four more children.
ELDRED MINARD......1829 - 1915.. Eldred was the son of Levi and Martha (Freeman) Minard. He married in 1857 at Milton, Zilpha Morton Murray, daughter of Charles and Susannah (Harlow) Murray. Eldred was a sawmill owner, his mill was located on Potanoc Dam, west side, yet north of the Ford Mill.
JOHN H. MINARD......1938 - 1909..He was the son of Allen and Mary (Houston) Minard. He was married in Milton in 1865, to Frances A. Wyman, daughter of Russel T. and Margaret (Phillips) Wyman of Yarmouth, NS. He was a sawmill operator, his mill was at the east end of Potanoc dam. He and Eldred Minard together built a tramway from the west end of Potanoc Bridge, to the west side of the lower bridge. Lumber was transported there for piling, and to be nearer to shipping for export. He later sold his mill to others, it became Harlow and Kemptons. He and most of his family moved to California, he was a contractor there as well as carpenter, and builder. His address in 1902 was 307 Abbey St., Fresco, Cal.
ALLAN MINARD......1813 - 1898 son of Levi and Rebecca (Kempton) Minard. He married Mary Houston and had six children. He was senior elder at the Milton Christian Church and was the chairman of many early meetings and preaching elder when the situation demanded. He was a lumberman and lived at 512 West St., Milton, NS.
ANGUS McDONALD......1830 - 1906..He was the son of Eleanor (Gardner) McDonald and her first husband, and as a youth was part of her second husband's family, that of W.S.Minard. It was natural for him to follow a lumberman's carreer. He married Lucy Morton,(1839-1911) in 1850 at Middlefield, NS, she was daughter of James and Mary Drew (Sponagle) Morton.
W.S.MINARD......1807 - 1884..He was the son of John and Mehitabel (Draper) Minard. His father, John Minard, was drowned in Liverpool Harbour in 1817, his mother later remarried, as the second wife of Abner Harlow Sr. He also followed a lumbering carreer, built his home in the north-east corner of Potanoc St., and Highway # 8, that house is now owned by his great-grandson, Gordon Minard. in 1996. He married a widow, Mrs Eleanor (Gardner) McDonald, their family became six daughters, and one son Parker Minard. This whole family showed great leadership in the Milton Christian Church, two daughters married preaching elders, E.C.Ford, and Jos. Gates.
JAMES MORTON......1835 - 1915.. This James was son of Jabez (1794-1868) and Sophia Zilpha (Murray) Morton who were early settlers in the area of Middlefield, or often called the Twelve Mile. At the time of this history, James was unmarried and probably working for the lumbering or shipbuilding industry. He married in Bridgewater in 1862 Matilda Jayne, and they had two children, daughters who died about age twenty years. His wife died in 1903 and he marr. a year later in Shelburne, Janet (McGill) Harlow, widow of Millard Harlow.
NELSON McLEOD......
SAMUEL McLEOD......
GEORGE MARTIN......1839 - 1885..was the son of George and Eliza (Johnson) Martin, who had married in Bridgetown Annapolis Co., NS., in 1836. George and Eliza had lived first in Aylesford, Kings Co., NS., the 1841 census showing them there, and the 1861 census as being in Milton, Queens Co., NS. and having 4 sons and 3 daughters. Their home was one they had started to carve out of the high land west of Milton. This was located several miles up what is known today as School St., two farms there were Martin's and Randalls.
CHARLES MARTIN......1837 - 1882.. was the son of George and Eliza (Johnson) Martin, who had carved a farm out of the high land west of Milton. It was 1865 when a terrible forest fire swept down through that country, the farm buildings were burned and eventually members of this family built newer homes in the village closer to the river, and industry. The story of the fire is told in More's history of Queens Co, page 41, in the facsimile edition,
JAMES McGOWAN......
VALENTINE MUNRO......1814 - ????..This Munro family had Scottish
roots, Lt. Col. Henry Munro was the Immigrant ancester who received a large
grant of land in Granville Township, Annapolis Co., NS. Valentine was grandson
of this immigrant, son of Robert and Penelope (Green) Munro, and born in Maitland,
just over the Queens Co., line in Annapolis
County. His wife was the former Deborah
Smith, born about 1818. It was during this period of labour activity on the
lower Mersey River in Milton that this couple lived here and were therefore on
the voters list of 1861. They later lived in Annapolis Co., on Highway # 8.
JAMES MURRAY......born about 1835, he was the son of Nehemiah (1810- ) and Eunice (Miles) Murray. Most of the Murray family lived on Tupper Street, at near the summit of the hill, on the western side of that street.
WHITMAN MILES......1822 - 1885..He was the grandfather of Elmer
Miles. Elmer related how he had been a seaman and fisherman, and was lost at
sea. His family was quite large, he had married Christie Inness of Beech Hill,
NS. Frank his son remained in Milton, and was the father of Elmer, who was born
about 1876. Elmer once told this writer that his early
schooling was at the old Zion Chapel, across
from the Milton Christian Church. At the time my own father , born 1881, stated
he started school in Milton's Academy on School St. in Milton. The
Whitman Miles home was torn down by Aubrey Coombs Jr.to be replaced with
a new home, now 276 West St. Milton.
JACOB McLEOD......
AUGUSTUS MURRAY......1833 - 1920..He was the son of John and Hannah (Coops) Murray. His first marriage was at Ragged Islands, Shelburne Co., NS., IN 1855 to Lucy Hardy (1836-1883). He married (2) in 1890 Isabella Lloyd, daughter of David and Isabella Ann (Thompson) Lloyd of Lockport, NS, she was the widow of Augustus Kempton who had died in 1887.
JAMES NICKERSON......1831 - 1930 He was the son of Warren(1794- ) and Dorcas (Gardner) (1835-1890) Nickerson. His first marriage was to Sarah Kempton, daughter of David S. and Rebecca (Harlow ) Kempton of Harmony, North Queens Co., NS. They had two daughters, Alice, (marr. John Aukerson), Caroline who marr. Thomas Thompson. He married 2nd the widow of Joseph Chandler, nee. sarah Hemeon, (1833- ) daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Wolf) Hemeon. A third marriage was to Nina Lee Bolivar,(1884-1968) daughter of Norman and Leona (Faulkenham) Bolivar. They had a daughter Grace Achoa Nickerson, a well known Royal Bank employee, a soloist in the Milton Baptist Church, who married in 1945 William Donald Payzant, local Merchant. Mr James H. Nickerson was a manufacturer of boots and shoes, his home and establishment are now gone, their location was several hundred meters north of School St., on West St. and on the river side.
JOHN F. TURNER......
JOHN TOBIN......
EDWARD THOMPSON......1839 - 1896..He was a mechanic, and later in life he was an Inspector of Iron Bridges. He married in 1862 in Lunenburg, NS, Eliza VanHorn.
GEORGE TARR......1809 - 1896 He lived in Western Head, that section apparently was in the Milton Polling Area.
JOHN TARR......1840 - 1925 His wifes name was Sarah, and also lived at Western Head.
WM. TAYLOR......
JOHN M.VIETS......Little is known of John Viets, his grandfather was Rev. Roger Viets who had married Jane Roberts daughter of Robert Roberts of Liverpool. Rev. Viets later in 1786 was Rector in Digby.
EDWARD VanHORN......He was the son of Edward VanHorn, of Lunenburg? He married in 1859 the daughter of John Lightizer.
JESSE VanHORN......1840 - 1914.. He was the son of Edward and brother of Edward, James and Mrs Edward Thompson.
JAMES VanHORN......1836 - 1921 He was born in Liverpool, NS., and an older brother of Jesse, and son of Edward. He married (1) in 1855 Delight Tupper, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Freeman)Tupper of Pleasant River,NS. This was the first marriage at the Milton Congregational church. He married (2) Mary Toole in St John, NB. He was a master carpenter.
EDWARD VERGE......
CHARLES VERGE......
JACOB WAGNER......
SILAS WEST......
CHARLES WEST......
GEORGE WRIGHT......
NATHAN WEST......
CHARLES WRIGHT......
ALEXANDER WEST......
THOMAS WINTERS......
JOHN WINTERS......
JOHN WADE......
CHRISTOPHER WAGNER......
JAMES WILE......
DANIEL WINTERS......
GEORGE WINTERS......
JOSEPH WINTERS......
RICHARD WILLIAMS......
JOHN WINOT......
JAMES WALSH......
GEORGE WAGNER Sr......
WM WINCEL......
RANDALL WOLF......
MARTIN WOLF......
LEWIS WEST......
THOMAS WEST......
JACOB WOLF......
NICHOLAS WOLF......
GEORGE WOLF......
ROBERT WALLS......
HUNT WINOT......
WM. WILLIAMS......
DOUSEER ZWICKER......
JAMES YOUNG......
JOHN NORMAN......
JOHN PUTNAM......
JOHN RANDALL......
ISAAC STEWART......
DANIEL STARRATT......
JEREMIAH STARRATT......
NICHOLAS SMITH......1830 - 1907.. He was the son of Nicholas and Louisa (Tupper) Smith. He married Patience Kempton in 1861 in Milton, she was daughter of Samuel Doggett (1806-1868) and Hope (Murray ) (1806-1900) Kempton. Their home has been destroyed by fire, and replaced, old location on West St., in Milton, near # 382. He was a well educated Principal of Milton Academy, and had great success in encouraging young people to continue in education. This resulted in many Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Ministers, etc. going out into the world in a period when making a livelihood at home became non-existant. He later was Pricipal of the Liverpool Academy. They had three children, one died young.
LODOWICK SMITH......1817- ...was the son of Lodowick (1786-1817) and Elizabeth Doggett (Kempton) (1780-1871) Smith. His father died in the West Indies when he was a small child. His sister Letitia planted an oak tree in front of their house on West Street, in Milton. A Plaque in memory of Letitia still remains in 1996, having been placed there by her descendants. Lodowick married Sarah Godfrey in 1848.
WM. STARRATT......
EDWARD SHEFFER......
JAMES G. TELFER......1816-1885.. This man came from Scotland as an immigrant, he was a contractor and builder. He married in 1870 Matilda Freeman Kempton, b. 1841, daughter of Jacob Curtis and Jane McLeod (Gardner) Kempton. They had three children, Minnie who married Barney Selson, Helen, and James Garfield Telfer. Their home was that of the former father in law, now 458 West St, Milton, NS.
HENRY THOMAS TUPPER......1835-1903.. He was the son of Nathan Prentice Tupper (1802- ) and Mary (Freeman) Tupper of Pleasant River, NS. He married first, 1869, Elizabeth Kempton, second, 1892 Hannah Kempton. He had no children.
NATHAN TUPPER......1828 - 1907..He was the son of the Hon. Freeman and Jane (Roberts) Tupper. He married at Salem Mass., Caroline Hutchinson, born 1825 at Salem, Mass.. She was the daughter of Michael and Mary (Raymond) Hutchinson. Their children were Freeman (1858-1887); Henry (1861-1917); and Frederick (1855-1891). He was engaged in Lumbering.
HON. FREEMAN TUPPER......1802 - 1880..was the son of Nathan and Lydia (Freeman) Tupper, and the youngest brother of "Nathan Tupper the Privateersman". These brothers had a sister Experience Tupper who was an early female entrepreneur in Milton, her establishment is now in 1996 the home of George Fraser, 348 West St. in Milton.Hon. Freeman Tupper married in 1828 Jane Roberts(1797- ). He was appointed a Magistrate in 1838, and the Legislature of Nova Scotia in 1858. His father had bought the Simeon Perkins Sawmill, and 60 acres adjoining, and opened up the lowere part of Tupper St., and built his new home at that site, a Neo-Classical house at 82 Tupper St., This generation of Tuppers continued on with the Sawmilling, the Ship-building, the ships at sea and the merchandising and transport of supplies and materials around the world.
ALLEN TUPPER......1830 - 1904.. Son of the Hon. Freeman and Jane (Roberts) Tupper. He married in 1866 Frances Stevens daughter of Francis and Agnes (Dechman) Stevens of Halifax, NS.. Allen and Fran had two sons, Archibald and Francis, (the Historian). He was a Sea-Captain, a Col. in the local Militia, and Warden of the County of Queens Co., NS. He was a member of the firm that ran the Tupper Sawmills, and the shipyard, his son Francis later was known as a historian.
JAMES TUPPER......1833 - 1897.. Son of the Hon. Freeman and Jane (Roberts) Tupper. It was at Granville Ferry, Annapolis Co., NS., that he married quite late in life, Ezelia Freeman , both originally from Milton, NS. There were no children from this marriage. James with Allen, and Nathan, and their father the Hon. Freeman Tupper carried on a considerable Sawmilling, Lumbering, Exporting, Shipping etc. business into the West Indies. James was involved in the foreign portion of this business.
TATHAN TUPPER Jr......(Unknown)
PRENTICE TUPPER......1829 - 1900 His grandfather was "Nathan the Privateersman" (1779-1810) and established a reputation as a mariner. He had married Delight Prentice at Cornwallis in 1799. They had several children, one was Nathan Prentice Tupper, (1802- ) who married in 1828 (2nd) Mary Freeman. This Nathan and Mary Tupper had seven children, the eldest was Prentice born in 1829. Nathan Prentice Tupper was a merchant and he set up in Pleasant River, North-east Queens Co., NS, and Prentice was born there. Prentice married in 1856 Lydia Knowles (1834-1870) daughter of Thomas and Dorcas (North) Knowles. Prentice was a lumberman. The two children, Mary married a Freeman and died in Ferndale Wash., Horace drowned in Florida in 1891.
NATHAN TUPPER WHITMAN......1816 - 1896..He was the son of Jacob Jr. and Lydia (Tupper) Whitman. Lydia Tupper was the daugter of Col. Nathan and Lydia Tupper. They had married May 8, 1810. Jacob Jr's father and mother were married in Annapolis, he was son of Jacob Sr. and Ann (Spinney) Whitman Nathan was married three times. He marr. (1) Matilda G. Freeman in 1841, she was daughter of Zoeth and Dorinda (Freeman) Freeman. Matilda died in 1854 leaving two children,Charlotte who married Joseph G.Kempton, and Rev. Freeman Whitman, both went to Mass., one died in Worcester, the other Newton Falls. Nathan marr. 2nd Matilda Coombs in 1863. He married 3rd. Mary Wharton, dau of Alexander and Elizabeth (Wolfe) Wharton. She was widow of Joseph Gardner. Nathan's obituary showed 1 wife, 3 sons, 1 daughter, 2 brothers, and a sister as survivors.
ISIAH WHITE......
EDWARD WINOT......
ALEXANDER WATERMAN......
FREDRICK WINCEL......
NOTES: BACKGROUND OF THE VARIOUS TUPPER FAMILIES.
THE IMMIGRATING ANCESTOR TO NORTH AMERICA. This first Tupper to visit North America was from Bury, Sussex, England. Thomas, 1578-1676, was a sailor , ships carpenter and general seaman, who had made previous trips to America before his final imigration to Sandwich, New England, in 1637, at age 59. He had been married three times, first in England , second in Topsfield, Mass, in 1628, third in Ipswitch, Mass. in 1634. Two sons were with him, Robert (2) returned to England, Thomas(2) stayed in N.E. Most Tupper descendants in N.A. descend from Thomas (2) . His daughter Katherine marr. Benj. Nye, and they had a family in Sandwich, Mass.
CAP'T. THOMAS TUPPER OF PLYMOUTH COLONY MILITIA. Thomas (2) (1638-1706) was known as Capt. Thomas, (Capt. for Military), as times were unsettled in this new colony, the Indians and the French were at times enemies. Capt. Thomas had a big family and several Nova Scotia Immigrants were his grandchildren. The Nova Scotia Tuppers came from either of these two sons; Medad(3)1677-1773, or Eliakim (3) 1681-1760.
NOVA SCOTIA'S ANNAPOLIS VALLEY TUPPERS. Charles Tupper (5) 1748-1821, son of Eliakim (4) son of Eliakim (3) was the grandson who went to Cornwallis Township in Nova Scotia. A Prime Minister, Sir Charles Tupper was a descendant. Most Kings County, NS., and Annapolis Valley Tuppers are from this Immigrant.
NOVA SCOTIA'S COLCHESTER TO PICTOU CO.'S TUPPERS. Eliakin Tupper (5), 1742-1810, son of Elias (4) son of Eliakim (3) was an immigrant to Truro, NS. Many in that area are his descendants. Colchester, Cumberland and Pictou Counties Tuppers are probably descendants of Eliakin Tupper.
LIVERPOOL TOWNSHIP IN NOVA SCOTIA Medad (3) 1677-1773 , This Medad never came to Nova Scotia, he was the father of one of Liverpool's very important proprieters. His name was Nathan (4) 1709-1784. Nathan did have a number of sisters but his only brother was drowned in Mass..This Nathan is the father of most of all the Liverpool Tuppers.
PROPRIETER AND SHERIFF NATHAN
TUPPER Nathan (4) 1709-1784, was born in Sandwich, Ma.,
in 1709, he died in Liverpool Township in 1784. He married in
Sandwich Experience Gibbs (1714-1777) daughter of Thomas and Joanna (Swift)
Gibbs. (This gives a direct route to Mayflower passenger, Richard
Warren). His son Nathan (5) 1757-1832 was
one to carry on the name here in Liverpool as
Sheriff of Queens County, NS., another son Medad (1746-1800) also came to
Liverpool Township, in NS. Two sons of Nathan (4) died young. He also had eight
daughters.
NATHAN (6)..1779-1810.. WAS KNOWN FOR HIS PRIVATEERING SUCCESS. He was the eldest son of Nathan (5) who was married to Lydia Freeman in 1778. He married in Cornwallis, he was a Liverpool, NS., mariner, descendants of this mariner included a storekeeper in Pleasant River, a shoemaker in Bridgewater and other south shore areas.
THE HONORABLE FREEMAN TUPPER(6) , was b.1802, d.1880. , He was 23 years younger than his oldest brother Nathan the Privateer. He was a lumberman, a shipbuilder, a member of the Nova Scotia Legislature Council. He was Custos Rostulorum of the county. It was with his two sons Nathan and Allan that the Tupper empire grew the most. They purchased the lands and mill of Simeon Perkins at "The Falls" and built several homes there, and operated the mills to advantage. Freeman set up his sister Experience in a business in the George Fraser house, He was instrumental in creating the new Congregational Church, and parsonage on a new street that he created.
Note: Tupper genealogy is taken from the
book published privately by Reporter Press of North Conway, N.H.
Author was Eleanor Tupper, on behalf of the Tupper Family Association of
America, Beverly, Mass, 1972.