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Royal Gazette
June 24, 1785
Ran away from the subscriber, living at the Nashwaaksis, in the county of York, between the 15th and 25th day of July, the following bound Negro slaves, wit Isaac about 30 years of age was born on Long Island near New York, and had on when he went away a short ? round hat and white trousers.  ? about 35 years old, had on a ? Kersey jacket lined with Scotch plaid, corduroy breeches and round hat.  Florence a wench about 27 years age, much scarred with the small pox, had on a ? cotton jacket and petticoat.  Nancy about 24 years old had with her a Negro child about four years old called Lodge.  The four negroes were born in Maryland county and lately brought to this Country.
            All persons are hereby forbid to harbor any of the above Negroes, and all masters of vessels are for big to take any of them on board their vessels, as they shall answer the consequences.  A reward of 2 guineas will be paid for any of the men, and 6 dollars for each Negro woman, by Mr. Thomas Jennings, if taken and delivered ? at the city of  Saint John, at York Parish, and if taken anywhere else and delivered to the said Jennings, of if the ? in York County, the like reward will be paid by the ? Jennings at the subscriber, Caleb Jones, 24 June, 1785.

Royal Gazette
July 19, 1787
Run away in a birch canoe from the subscriber two negro men and one wench, who have taken sundry things with them.  Sam, between a black and dark mulatto, 17 or 18 years old, middling tall and slim, quick spoken, attempt to play the violin, has a London brown coloured coat, ticking trousers and the clothes.
            Beller, a sister to Sam, between a black and a mulatto, 16 years old, middling tall and slim, is raw-boned and has a scar between her eye and temple, is slow in her speech, has a black covered hat with white lining and lived formerly with Judge Peters, in Saint john.
            Tony Smith, some call him Joe, is a free fellow, but hired for a time, he is tall and slim, between a black and a mulatto, speaks broken, wears a black or brown coat, ticking trousers, and has other clothes with him.  Two of the aove servants were raised in the family.  Any person apprehending them or giving information to Mr. Ezra Scofield, in King Street, Saint John, or the subscriber, shall have one guinea for each and if taken out of Saint Joh, reasonable charges paid—if taken out fo the province, it is requested that they may be confined in jail until called for.  All masters of vessels and every other persons is forewarned not to carry any of the aforesaid negroes off or from harbouring or concealing them, as they will answer it at their peril.  Thomas Lester, Waterborough, 19th June 1787.

Royal Gazette
July 30, 1787
Run away from the subscriber, the 19th of July last, London, a negro boy, aged 18 years, and had on when he went away a ? colored jacket, ticking trousers, green bay shirt, with white sleeves; and wants the first joint of the second toe of the left foot.  Whoever will apprehend the said Negro and secure him, so that his master may get him again, shall have one guinea reward, and all masters of vessels and other are hereby forbid to carry him off, or to employ him as a servant or otherwise.  Joseph Clarke.

Royal Gazette
Aug 17, 1787
Run away from the subscriber of Wed evening lat the 15th instant, a negro woman named Keziah, about 5 feet high, has the marks of a cut and burn, I believe, on her right cheek, near her mouth, took with her two calico gowns, the one a white, the other a ? ground, the flowers running through it in stripes, also a dark purple and white calico skirt and petticoat. . . .  Whoever will apprehend and tke up said Negro woman, so that her master may have  her again, shall receive reward of two guineas, and all reasonable charges paid.  All masters of vessels and other are herby forbid carrying off the said Negro slave, as they will answer it at their peril.  Aug 17, Thomas Bean

Royal Gazette
Sept 4, 1787
To be sold, a wench about 23 years old, is well acquainted with allkinds of household business, and particularly is an excellent cook.  To be disposed of for no fault, but want of employ.  Esquire as above.  (Dissolution of partnership of William Donaldson and Co.)

Royal Gazette
Sept 11. 1787
To be sold, a likely healthy negro wench, of about 17 years of age, is well calculated for the country, and sold for want of employ.  The title is indisputable.  If not sold within 8 days from the date hereof by private sale, she will be sold at public auction.  Esquire of Thomas Mallard.

June 15, 1788
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Christened June 15, 1788 Joseph and Charles, adult negroes
(same year Christopher Hatch comes to SA from SJ with Violet Tucker)

Royal Gazette
June 17, 1788
Three pounds reward, runaway last night, a negro man named Prince, a stout well-made fellow, about 5’ 8” high, has a four down lock, had on and took with him 2 black caps, one dog and the other bear skin.  May 20, 1788.  Fton.

June 14, 1789
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Two blacks christened

Sept 17, 1791
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Son of Black William Christened

1792
Birth of Moses Stewart (perhaps in SJ not SA—see 1861 census)
(according to cemetery stone)

May 20, 1792
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Violet, wife of Rueben, christened

May 20, 1792
Reverend  Andrews Daybook
Rubin Alexander married to Violet Tucker

May 5, 1793
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Mary Daughter of Rubin Alexander, Christened

Oct 25, 1795
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Two blacks of Charles Blacks, christened

Dec 20, 1795
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Son of Rubin, Black, christened

April 2, 1797
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Henrietta, daughter of Black Rubin, christened

Royal Gazette
Oct 24, 1797
Goshen, Sept 19th.  On Friday morning the 8th instant, an attempt was made by a negro boy about 15 or 16 years of age, to murder Mrs. Van Inwagen, the wife of David Van Inwagen, with whom he lived in Ulster County.  Mr. Van Inwagen having been from home, the evening preceding, he attempted to get to be to her, but she struck him several times, and ordered him out, which at length he obeyed.  In the morning Mrs. Van Inwagen, after milking, ordered him to drive away the cows and go to ploughing, he started but soon returned, she ordered him a second time, he refused, took an ax, whetted it, and sat by the leach tub, where she had been to work, when she ordered him a third time to go to ploughing, telling him if he did not go, she would acquaint her father in law, who owned the negro, and who lived about a quarter of a mile distant, and started to go—but having got about half the way the negro caught her and attempted with a large knife to cut her throat, but cut so high that the jawbone prevented it from killing her, he made a second attempt upon the other side, but by her resistance was prevented; she then endeavoured to wrest the knife from her, which she at length affected, having cut her hands in 15 places to the bone; he then threw her down and pulled her about 6 rods and took a stone, with which he struck her several times but it being not large enough to despatch her, he threw it down and took a larger one with which he cut 5 considerable holes in her skull.  Bu this time her cries had reached her father in law’s family, who immediately ran to her assistance, and the negro made his escape; he has since been taken, and was tried yesterday by three justices, who ordered him to receive 39 lashes, which was put in immediate execution.  Mrs. Van Inwagen, we are happy to say, is in a fair way of recovery.

Royal Gazette
July 9, 1799
To be sold—a negro man, about 20 years of age, is short, but well made, and very active, can do all sorts of farming work, and is a very handy house servant.  For terms, inquire of Mr. Ryan, Saint John, June 11, 1799.
 
1799, June—deed from Nivan McVicar to Rueben Alexander, lot 7, Block P, Morris’ Division.  1 pound, 6 pence.  X his mark.

July 14, 1799
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Horatio Nelson, son of Black Rubin christened.  Reverend Andrews Daybook

Oct 27, 1799
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Sarah daughter of Mr. William Stewart christened.  

Dec 23, 1799
Reverend  Andrews Daybook
Horatio Nelson, son of Mr. David Mowatt, christened

June 6, 1800
Reverend Andrews Daybook
John and [blank here] sons of Charles, Negro, christened

Sept 20, 1801
Reverend Andrews Daybook
James Rubin, son of Black Rubin, christened

no date but about 1800
Reverend Andrews Daybook
--?daughter of Black Rubin (christened)

Feb 16, 1800 or 1801
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Esther Stuart married to James Meloney. 

Sept 5, 1801
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Black Mary buried

1802
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Mary daughter of William Stewart born.

Sept 5, 1803
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Jannet daughter of William Stewart (christened)

March 19, 1804
Reverend Andrews Daybook
? daughter of Black Jeffery, christened

June 4, 1804
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Black man buried

1804
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Frederick son of Phoebe Campbell. 

1804
Reverend Andrews Daybook
—(a son and daughter?)(or just daughter?) of Charles Stewart. 

1805
Reverend Andrews Daybook
James Stuart buried.  Jan 20.  {prob. Scottish}

Nov 8, 1805
Reverend Andrews Daybook
3 children of Blacksmiths (?) christened

April 23, 1805
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Jeffrey son of Black Jeffrey Christened April 23, 1805.  

Feb 23, 1806
Reverend Andrews Daybook
and a Black child christened Feb 23.  

May 14, 1808
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Andrew and Jane son and daughter of Black Rubin christened

August 3, 1808
Reverend Andrews Daybook
William a black man buried

Sept 10, 1809
Reverend Andrews Daybook
? Hannah, daughter of Black Jeffrey christened Sept 10. 

1810, July 21—Ruben Alexander to Joseph Walton Lot 7 Block P Morris Division [site of NBCC], 1 pound, 2 shillings, 6 pence.  “Know all Men by these Presents, that I Rueben Alexander, of Saint Andrews, in the County of charlotte, and Province of New Brunswick, Black man, for and in consideration of the sum of one point, two shillings and six pence lawful money of the province aforesaid to me in hand with and truly paid by Joseph Walton of Saint Andrews aforesaid, yeoman, the weight whereof is herby acknowledge, have granted bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said Joseph Walton his Heirs and assigns, all that certain lot of ground, situate lying and being in the Town plat of Saint Andrews, in the County and Province aforesaid, known and described by the name of town lot number seven in block letter P in Morris’s division together with the appurtenances to have and to hold the said town lot with . . .”
            Alexander paid the same for this lot in 1799 from Nivan McVicar, Book B, p. 589-90, but Walton, a substantial land speculator, sold it in to james Turnbull in 1819 for 10 pounds.  Book E, p. 455.
            Alexander was illiterate—X his mark.
           

May, 1810
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Mary daughter of Mr. Stewart christened

Feb 10, 1811
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Abigail, daughter of Black Rubin christened

May 1, 1811
Reverend Andrews Daybook
. . . and an infant of B Geffery christened

Sept 15, 1812
Reverend Andrews Daybook
? son of Black Jeffrey christened Sept 15. 

1813, May 5—Deed Rueben Alexander, “Black man,”  to William McCan, for five pounds, but lot number left blank.  X his mark.

Nov 7, 1813
Reverend Andrews Daybook
A child of Black Jeffrey buried

1813-- ?
Reverend Andrews Daybook
son of Charles Alexander. 

Dec 22, 1815
Reverend Andrews Daybook
Black Jeffrey buried Dec 22. 

May 21, 1816
All Saints Marriages
Philip Lyman, a black man (and Phoebe)
SA.  Presence Robert Pagan and Thomas Wyer

August 11, 1816
All Saints Marriages
Joseph Brush and Julia Myres. (or Mires?)
In presence of Rubin Alexander

July 25, 1816.  (see #122)
#7 All Saints Burial
Moses Matthews, a black man.

Aug 11, 1816
All Saints Marriages
David Ross and Ann Simmonds
St. Andrews.  In presence of Thomas Daley and Abraham Munro

Oct 8, 1817.
#27 All Saints Burial
Kesiah (?) daughter of Rubin a black man. 7 yrs. {born 1810}

1818
All Saints Burials
Phebe Lyman, 28
(no month or day)

Feb 23, 1819
All Saints Baptisms
Alexander, son of Philip and Phoebe Lyman
St. Andrews, labourer

1819
All Saints Burials
Jeffery.  Age 30

June 20, 1819.
#56 All Saints Burial
William Alexander—a black boy.  Son of Robert. 

July 1, 1819.
#57 All Saints Burial
Robert Alexander, a black man. 

July, 1819
All Saints Baptisms
Martha, daughter of David and Anne Ross (people of colour)
St. Andrews.  Fisherman

Oct 23, 1819
All Saints Baptisms
George, man of colour
Born Feb 20, 1799.  St. Andrews
Labourer.  [last name unclear—looks like Eyac though that seems improbable]

October 24, 1819
All Saints Baptisms
Helen Maria Williams and Kezia Atwood
Daughters of Samuel and Sarah Watts. St. Andrews.  Shoemaker.  Born Oct 24, 1817 and June 6, 1819, respectively [probably not black]

Feb 1820.
#85 All Saints Burial
Philip Lyman, a man of colour. 

Feb 14, 1820
All Saints Burials
Laughlan McCurdy
St. Andrews.  62 years
Buried by his desire in his own grounds.

March 10, 1820.
#87 All Saints Burial
Stewart, a girl of colour.  16 yrs. {born 1804}

April 15, 1820. 
#90 All Saints Burial
Phyllis, a woman of colour.  Servant to J. or T. Dunn, Esq

July 23, 1820
All Saints Baptisms
Martha, daughter of David and Ann Ross (people of colour)
St. Andrews.  Fisherman.  Born Aug 14, 1820

1820—Lease Municipality of Charlotte to Moses Gilbert.  Lot 2 Western Commons.  10 acres.  21 year lease.  5 shillings. 

July 10, 1821. 
#107 All Saints Burial
Martha Ross, a girl of colour.  15 months.  {born 1819}  Cf. David Ross, barber, 1851 census

Oct 11, 1821
All Saints Burials
J. Matthews, from Tobago.
[see Moses Matthews, 1816]  39 years.

Jan 30, 1822. 
#134 All Saints Burial
J. Angelique of ship J. Farrell of Jamaica.  35 yrs.

April 27, 1822
All Saints Burials
Unknown.  Poor House.  St. Andrews.  [no age]

Dec 3, 1822.
#227 All Saints Baptismal
-- ? son of Henry ? and ? Alexander.  Labourer. 

July 11, 1823
All Saints Burials
John Wilkinson, a pauper.  At. St. Andrews poorhouse [abode]
70 years.

Sept 22, 1823
All Saints Baptisms
William, son of William Lockerman and Jane Alphin? 
St. Andrews.  People of colour.  Servants.  Born Feb 24, 1813

Sept 22, 1823
All Saints Baptisms
George, son of Jane Alphin
Father unknown.  People of Colour.  Born Nov. 1817

April 4, 1824.
All Saints Marriages
Charles Stewart and Alice Mires?  Both illiterate. 

May 3, 1825
#210 All Saints Burial
A woman of colour. 

Jan 1, 1826
All Saints Marriages
Edward Bannister and Hannah Alexander

1826
Birth of George Stewart
(according to cemetery stone)

Eastport Sentinel
August 19, 1826
A negro man and woman were sentenced to be hung at the late session of the Supreme Court in St. Andrews, on the 29th instant, for the murder of an infant child.  The circumstances relative to the murder are such that no good can result in the community by publishing the, and we question the propriety of spreading before the world, as is customary, detailed accounts of every horrid enormity that is committed.

Eastport Sentinel
Aug 27, 1826
In our last issue we stated that two persons of the last session of the Supreme Court in St. Andrews were convicted of the crime of murder.  In pronouncing the awful sentence of death the hon. Judge [Ward] Chipman [Jr.] in a distinct and emphatic manner, addressed the prisoners in the words to the following effect, which we taken from the St Andrews Herald:
            Richard Stuart, Maria Stuart:--You have been convicted by a jury of your country, after a fair and impartial trial of a horrid crime, and that jury would not have discharged themselves of he solemn oath they were under, nor have performed their duty to Society, if they had not found the verdict which they did.  Murder is the highest crime which one person can commit against another.  it is the taking away that life which he cannot restore, and for which he can make no compensation, and in your case, the crime is deeply aggravated, by the circumstance that the being which you have destroyed, was the fruit of your own incestuous connection.  I say this, for although the fact was not distinctly proved, yet the presumption from the facts which were proved, was irresistible.  Nature shudders at the contemplation of your offence—Even the beast of the field will cherish, protect and preserve its offspring with a force of instinct that renders it dangerous to disturb it.  And it is reserved for the perversion of human nature a perversion that can be brought about only by a course of guilt, to lay hands on its own offspring and strangle it in the hour of its birth—Your hearts were hardened by the foul mingling of that common blood which you derived from one parent; you commence by indulging you unhallowed passions, and you ended by murdering the infant to which they gave birth.  And this for the purpose of concealing your criminality, is in itself a full evidence that you had a deep consciousness of the guilt of your connection.  this horrid termination of your amours should be a warning to all against venturing on the path of vice and crime.  they cannot foresee whither it will lead them.  The particular circumstances of the case are also of a very aggravated character.  When the hour of delivery approached, you Maria Stuart, sent your daughter, the only inmate in the house besides yourselves, to be at an unusual hour of the day.—and preparation was made for the deadly scene.  But that all seeing eye which witnessed what you were doing, also provided a human witness in this very daughter, whose suspicions had been incited by your unusual conduct, to appear in your condemnation.  She did observe what passed through an opening in the partition, and she has testified it at the bar of this Court.  And here let me say that heart rending as it is, to see a child give evidence against its own parent, ye tit is a natural working of the human heart, especially in a young person, when made the depository of such horrid secrets, to unburthen itself by disclosing them, even against the impulses of natural affection.  The great ends of public justice have also been answered.  This girl has been the instrument in the hands of Providence to bring to light a foul crime, and upon every principle of justice and good policy, is entitled to the countenance and support of this respectable community.  the girl heard the scream of the infant as it was left to drop from the mother’s womb, in the hope perhaps that the very fall would deprive it of life.  the child was found concealed on the premises—the fatal string found around its neck has been identified—the girl discovered traces of blood in the morning and the chain of evidence is complete.  there is also no difference in he guilt of the two offenders.  You, Maria Stuart, were the person who ordered the girl to bed, and there is not a shadow of doubt from the circumstances of the transaction, tha tit was the effect of preconcert between you.  The birth was at all hazards to be concealed, and this could only be done by putting an end to the child if born alive.  It would indeed be a dangerous principle if, when more persons than one are present, assisting in the commission of a crime and participating in its execution, the hand that actually perpetrated the act should along be condemned, while perhaps the more guilty mind should escape.  In such circumstances, law and reason unite in making the act of one, the act of all.
            By the law of God, by the law of England, by the law of this province, I may add by the law of every civilized community, death is the punishment for this enormous crime.  the calls of justice imperiously require that your lives, should be forfeited for this foul offence, and to operate as an example to all others from entering upon such works to destruction.  I can therefore hold out to you no hope of mercy in this world.  But God has revealed his holy will to mankind, and has pointed out the way by which the foulest sinners even at the eleventh hours, may obtain pardon from him, by sincere repentance, through the merits and intercession of the blessed Redeemer whom he sent into the world.  You have but a short time to lie, I therefore exhort you, if you have every had religious instruction, earnestly to recall it, if not at once to seek it and to make your peace with your God without delay, that your souls may not be condemned by Hi, as your bodies much perish on the Gallows.  it remains for me only to pronounce the awful sentence of the law, and that is, That you Maria Stuart and Richard Stuart be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, on Tuesday the 29th day of August instant, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, and that there you and each of you be hanged by the neck until you are dead.  And may God have mercy on your souls.

Vestry Book for the Church of St. Andrews, Charlotte County
In Vestry, Tuesday Morning, 7 o’clock
29 August 1826
The Rev. Mr. Alley, Rector
Thomas Wyer, Dr. Frye Churchwardens
P. Smith, G. Campbell, George McMaster, James Parkinson, S. Nelson, John Aymar, J. Barber, Peter Stubbs Vestrymen
Resolved that a lot in the burying ground in the south east corner thereof to contain 8 feet by 12 feet be set apart for the reception of the bodies of the aforesaid criminals Dick and Maria Stewart who are to be executed today, or for any others that may suffer the sentence of the law; and resolved that the church wardens and William Barber be a committee to measure the ground accordingly. 
            The ground measured, as aforementioned, by the committee

New Brunswick Royal Gazette
August 29, 1826
The Circuit Court for Charlotte County closed its session in St. Andrews on Wednesday the 16th inst.  On that day, at two o’clock, Richard and Maria Stewart were brought up to receive the sentence of the Court, for the crime of murder, of which they had been some days previously convicted by a Jury of the country after an impartial trial.  The Hon. Judge Chipman, after having addressed the prisoners in a feeling and impressive manner, pronounced the awful sentence of the law, which was: “That you Maria Stewart and Richard Stuart, be taken from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, on Tuesday the 29th day of August, instant, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, and that there you and each of you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead.  And may God have mercy upon your souls.”
            The Herald says Maria Stuart appears to be exceedingly agitated, but Richard Stuart exhibited no appearance of emotion whatever.  there has been only one execution in this County since its erection.  We deeply lament that there should be any cause for present sacrifice of human life, but the case was so clear, that nothing was left for either Court or Jury, to induce them to lay any statement in favor of the miserable culprits before the Executive.  We hope most sincerely, that this awful example will act as a warning to others in this vicinity, who, there is too much reason to believe, although not guilty, as in the present case of incest, yet are strongly suspected of having taken away the lives of their own children, the fruits of their illicit amours.

Eastport Sentinel
Sept 2, 1826
Richard and Maria Stewart were executed on Thursday lat, agreeably to their sentence.

Aug 30, 1826. 
#236 All Saints Burial
Richard and Maria Stuart, convicts, executed for murder. 

1826.
All Saints Marriages
John Stewart and Marianne Miller.  Both illiterate. 

Aug 20, 1827. 
#257 All Saints Burial
Charles Stuart.  70 yrs. {born 1757}

1828
Birth of Helen Stewart (later Helen Henderson)
(according to cemetery stone)

Dec 13, 1829. 
#312 All Saints Burial
Susan Stewart, a woman of colour.  56 yrs. {born 1773}

June 30, 1829
All Saints Burials
Jane Bohia, a woman of colour
St. Andrews.  68 years

Feb 23, 1829. 
#317 All Saints Burial
Charles Stewart, a boy of colour.  1 yr 9 months. {born May, 1827}

April 29, 1830.
#439 All Saints Baptismal
William Henry, son of Edward {Bannister} and Hannah Alexander. 

1830
birth of Jessie Stewart
(according to cemetery stone)

Oct 9, 1830
All Saints Burials
David Barkliff?  St. Andrews Island abode and buried thereon.
19 years.

Nov 30, 1830
All Saints Baptisms
Abagail Ann, daughter of William and Margaret Jeffery
St. Andrews.  Boatman?

Dec 5, 1830
All Saints Burials
Margaret Ann Jeffery.  St. Andrews.  5 months

Feb 28, 1831
All Saints Burials
Cluinda? Jones, woman of colour
St. Andrews, 56 years

March 10, 1831.
#490 All Saints Baptismal
Margaret Ann, daughter of E ?  (people of colour) last name begins with B. 

Nov 23, 1832. 
#360 All Saints Burial
Margaret Stewart, a girl of colour.  18 yrs. {born 1814}

Feb 5, 1832. 
#367 All Saints Burial
Claudia (?) Jones (?) woman of colour. 50 yrs. {born 1781}

1832.
#375 All Saints Burial
Celia [Julia?] Brush, a woman of colour.  Buried in the poor house ground.

Aug 30, 1832.
#378 All Saints Burial
Edward Bannister.  49 yrs. {born 1783}

Jan 18, 1833. 
#534 All Saints Baptismal
William Henry Mark, son of Charles and Deborah Stewart, people of colour.  St. Andrews.  Labourer.  Born June 3, 1832. {Henry son of Charles and Eliza Stewart?, aged 17 in 1851 census but actually 19}

April 25, 1833
All Saints Burials
George Saint?
Poor House.  St Andrews.  Buried in the poor house ground.  45 years

October 17, 1833
All Saints Burials
James Thomson.  Man of Colour.  Brig Ontario.  St. Andrews.  25 years

June 28, 1834
#407 All Saints Burial
Elizabeth Pagnam, who died suddenly at poor house and was buried in the poor house ground. 20 years.

November 26, 1834
All Saints Burials
Robert Pagnam, St. Andrews.  30 years

April 27, 1834
All Saints Baptisms
Phebe Ann, illegitimate daughter of John Campbell and Eliza Alexander.
St. Andrews.  Woman of colour.

July 6, 1834. 
All Saints Marriages
Abraham Lodge and Harriet Alcock, both of SA Parish.  Married Both illiterate.

Aug 10, 1834. 
All Saints Baptismal
James Brixton, son of Edward and {prob Susan} Brixton, people of colour.  Ship’s Cook.  Born July 22, 1834.

Jan 28, 1835. 
All Saints Marriages
John Alexander and Lucy Baldwin, Illiterate.

October 16, 1835
All Saints Burials
Samuel Cormick, “buried in his own field.”
61 years

1835
All Saints Burial
Elizabeth Stewart, (#457?)

Sept 24, 1835. 
SA Standard marriages. 
Charles C. Stewart of SJ. 

Dec 21, 1835
All Saints Baptisms
Francis, son of James Kelly, St. Stephen, and Hannah Simonds (coloured woman)
St. Andrews.  (He storekeeper, she servant.)

Dec 28, 1835.
#454 All Saints Burial
Miss Ross a coloured woman. 
St. Andrews

April 17, 1836
#635 All Saints Baptismal
Elizabeth Ann, daughter of John Stewart and Mary Richardson.  
Labourer and servant, respectively.  St. Andrews

April 19, 1836. 
#457 All Saints Burial
Elizabeth Ann Stewart. 9 months.

November 22, 1836
All Saints Burials
John Maloney.  “Buried on St. Andrews Island”
35 years

April 27, 1837
#539 All Saints Baptismal
Phoebe Ann, Illegitimate daughter of John Campbell and Eliza Alexander. 

1837. 
#678 All Saints Baptismal
Alfred son of Alfred and Sarah Stewart.  Labourer.  Born 1836. {probably Alfred son of Joseph Alexander and Sarah Stewart, 14 years in 1851 census}

May 28, 1837
#679 All Saints Baptismal
Edward Sidney son of Edward and Susan Brixon.  Mariner.  born 1836.

1837
#682 All Saints Baptismal
Susanna Alice, Illegitimate daughter of Jane Alexander, father unknown.  No occupation. 

1839. 
All Saints Marriages
Joseph Alexander and Sarah Ann Stewart.  Illiterate.

1839
birth of Almira [or Elmira] Stewart
(according to cemetery stone)

Feb 16, 1840. 
#8 All Saints Baptismal
William Henry, son of Joseph and Sarah Alexander.  Mariner.  Born oct 26, 1839.

May 29, 1840. 
SA Standard Marriages
James Stewart, at SJ. 

Commissioners of Poor RS 148
Commissioners of Poor to Moses Stewart
Nov 28, 1840
Please pay to the bearer for five cows, to the Bull
One only has been to Bull since I have been here but I understand from Anthony that four had the Bull before I came
W. Wheaton
To Mr. T. Sime
Commissioner
For use of Bull for 5 cows 2/6
Pounds? 12.6
Witness T. Sime Secretary/
Received payment Moses Stewart [x his mark]

Oct 3, 1841
All Saints Baptisms
Harriet Ann, child of colour
Daughter of Joseph and Sarah Alexander.  Farmer
Born March 27, 1841

May 4, 1841.
#546 All Saints Burial
Louisa Brother, a girl of colour.  Child. 

May 4, 1841
All Saints Burial
Bodin Stewart, St. Andrews, infant
[this and Louisa Brother occupied one entry before Stewart was scratched out and made a separate entry below]

May 31, 1841. 
#548 All Saints Burial
Hanna Brixon.  Infant

July 27, 1841. 
#552 All Saints Burial
Susan Brixon, 32 yrs.  {born 1809}

Sept 27, 1841. 
#553 All Saints Burial
Julia Ann Brixon.  35 yrs. {born 1807}

Oct 3, 1841. 
#59 All Saints Baptismal
Harriet Ann (child of colour), daughter of Joseph and Sarah Alexander.  Farmer.  {no longer mariner?}  Born  March 27, 1841.

Oct 28, 1841. 
#555 All Saints Burial
James Brixon.  8 yrs. {born 1833} {sounds like disease carried off mother, aunt and children}

Feb 5, 1842. 
# 575 All Saints Burial
James Laughlin was buried in poor house ground.  30 yrs.

March 27, 1842
All Saints Marriages
John Richardson and Elizabeth Ross.  Illiterate.  In presence of John McCurdy and Maria Ann Ross.  [prob not black]

May 8, 1842
All Saints Baptisms
Alice Elizabeth (coloured)
Daughter of John and Margaret Brooks
St. Andrews.  Born March 18, 1842

May 24, 1842. 
All Saints Marriages
Moses Stuart and Elizabeth Smith.  Illiterate.  Presence of Benjamin Tufts and Sarah Alexander.  She was illiterate also.  {49 when married}

March 30, 1843.
#578 All Saints Burial
Jane Alexander, a woman of colour. 

Feb 15, 1843
All Saints Burial
James McLaughlin.  Buried in poor house ground.
St. Andrews.  30 years
[notes often indicate special burial grounds, such as “in his own field,” “at Chamcook,” “on St. Andrews Island,” or “in the Kirkyard” {Howard McCullough here, July 9, 1849}

June 9, 1843
All Saints Burial
John Greenlaw, illegitimate, buried in poor house ground.  St. Andrews.  Infant.

Sept 10, 1844. 
#147 All Saints Baptismal
Caroline Amelia, Daughter of Joseph and Sarah Ann Alexander. 
Labourer.  Born Dec 26, 1843.

Nov 24, 1844. 
#603 All Saints Burial
Edward Sidney Brixon.  9 yrs.  {born 1835}

Dec 9, 1844.
All Saints Marriages
Charles Platt and Mary Richardson. 
(see 1851 census)

T. 639  40  Abram Lodge from Hugh Flaherty, St. George.  40 pounds to Flaherty.  1844
U. 759  Deed to Constant Dimock.  22 pounds, 10 shillings.  Land Parish of St. Patrick.  Maquadavic River property.  100 acres.  1848.  X his mark.  Wife Harriet Lodge.  X her mark.  No. 1089.

1845
#623 All Saints Burial
Margaret Stewart.  19 yrs.  {born 1826}

Oct 18, 1846
All Saints Baptisms
Sarah Alexander
Daughter of Joseph Alexander (Labourer) and Sarah Alexander (coloured person)
St. Andrews

Sept 12, 1847
All Saints Baptisms
Phebe Ann (coloured), daughter of Thomas and Dinah Squires

Sept 12, 1847
#253 All Saints Baptismal
Mary Helen Elizabeth (coloured),
daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Stewart.  Labourer.
19 years [born 1828]

Sept 12, 1847
#254 All Saints Baptismal
Jessie Ann (coloured) daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Stewart.  Labourer. 
17 years old [born 1830]

October 12, 1847
All Saints Baptisms
John Alan, illegitimate son of William Fisher, seaman, and Jane Stewart, servant

Nov 27, 1847
#658 All Saints Burial
Susan Alexander, coloured girl.  10 yrs.  {born 1837}

Dec 8, 1847
All Saints Marriages
John Stuart and Eliza Alexander.  By Banns.  Both illiterate, also witnesses, one of whom David Ross.  {probably John Stuart, step-son of John and Deborah of 1851 census, born 1821}

Sept 22, 1847. 
SA Standard marriages.
Married—John Stewart, at SJ. 

Standard
May 10/1848
Communication, for the Standard
Mr. Editor,
A copy of the Eastport Sentinel of the 3d inst. having been sent to me, I noticed the following editorial remarks, which if founded on fact, were deservedly severe, but if not, require to be confuted.  Now sir, I, as a resident of SA, am not willing that any incorrect statement or wholesale slander, respecting our town, should be sent abroad, without being refuted, and have taken some pains to ascertain the true version of the affair.  The following paragraph is from the Sentinel of Wednesday last:--
            St. Andrews Magnanimity.
            We learn that a respectable citizen of this town was refused a dinner at a public house at St. Andrews recently, because our common Father and Creator was pleased to create him with a dark skin.  He had been busily engaged with his customers about the house, and being much fatigued and hungry, requested to be provided with a luncheon--his own delicacy preventing him from wishing a seat at the general eating table; and he was answered only by a gaping stare of some dirty servants.  What we once heard of a runaway slave is strictly true: that people at the north need not fear to be overrun by the black in case they should be emancipated by the South, for the cold weather would half kill them, and prejudice would half kill them, and so halves make a whole.  Refuse brother man a dinner merely because he is black?  O, free and equal bluenosedom!  Tell it not in Gath!  Mr. Crawford is a man we should be happy at any time to have seated with us at our table.
            The above is the statement given to the Sentinel, and a more willfully false and malicious report has seldom been circulated.  But what are the facts?  A decently dressed coloured man (the Eastport barber I am informed) called at one of our hotels, during the sitting of the court in this town, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, he was met in the hall by one of the attendants, a clean neatly attired girl, and asked for a luncheon, he was shown into the public sitting room, where he was shortly after met by some of the gentlemen who returned from dinner, and asked them if he could get a lunch, the reply he received was that they would see, and immediately informed the landlord, who at once ordered a dinner; he then went to see "the respectable citizen of Eastport," but learned he had gone out, leaving word that he would return in a few minutes.  The dinner was kept waiting upwards of an hour, but he "hungry man" did not return.  This is the true version of the affair.  A word more and I have done.  Your brother editor of the Sentinel, in his notice, has cast a reflection upon the whole inhabitants, based upon Crawford's false report; perhaps he may yet find out--that the Bluenoses are truly free, and that they hail every honest man be he ever so dark skinned, as a brother.  We have neither slaves nor slaveholders amongst us, nor are we living in slavish fear.
            Yours,
            Fair Play.

March 1, 1849
All Saints Burials
Susannah Dougherty
Poor House.  St. Andrews. 45 years.

June 30, 1850. 
#223 All Saints Baptismal
Maria Elizabeth (coloured) daughter of Edward and Jesse Brixton.  Seaman.  Born march 26, 1850.

July 21, 1850. 
#690 All Saints Burial
Alexander Stewart, coloured.  16 yrs. {born 1834}

Feb 3, 1852
All Saints Burials
Mary Ann Andrews, St. Andrews
Minister’s Island.  33 years

August, 1858
All Saints Baptisms
Georgiana, daughter of George and Eliza Stewart.  Born Sept 1857.  SA.  Labourer

1851 Census
Frame 2 storey— [Poor House]
James McMonagle, wife and four children.  Irish labourer 1836
John Regan, wife and six children.  Labourer.  1837
John Waycott, wife and child.  English Mariner.  1830.
3 widows, one Scotch, two Irish, dates 1819, 1847, 1826
John Byrne, wife and four children.  Irish. 1848
Widow Shea and two children.  Irish, 1837
Clarissay Richardson, African, 62, widow, daughter Margaret 18 and granddaughter Ann 5.  No date.
34 persons

Harris Hatch
Ellen Stuart, servant.  21.  SA.  [daughter of Moses?]

William McStay, irish Physician, wife, seven children. 1818.
Phebe Brickson, 22, African.  Servant

Frame Shanty—
Charles Platt.  African.  Mariner.  36
Mary Platt.  African.  Wife.  27
Louisa.  African.  5.  daughter

Frame One-Storey—
David Jack, Dept Treasurer, Scotch, 1802, wife and two sons, two daughters
Mary Banks, African Servant.  35.

Slabtown:

Frame Shanty—
David Ross 63, African, Barber. 
Elizabeth 30, daughter.  African

Frame One-Storey—
Charles Stuart, African, 50
Eliza Stewart, African, 40
Henry Stewart, African, son, 17
John Stewart, African, 15
Emma Stewart, African 13
Susan Stewart, African 11

Frame Two-Storey— [must be along Cedar Lane]
John Hutchison, 56, Irish, labourer, wife seven kids.  1825 sickly.
Margaret Tufts, widow, Irish, 32, 1834, two daughters and step-daughter
William Henderson, bachelor, 24 [marries into Stewart family?]
Phebe Carrey, spinster, 50, African
William Avery, lodger, 40, English Mariner, 1835
Edward Brickson, 35, African, Mariner, wife Maria, African 26

Frame Shanty—
John Brooks, 38, African, Mariner, 1836
Mary Brooks, wife, 37, African
Hannah Tatton, adopted, native, 8

Log House—
Moses Stewart, 46, African, native, farmer
Elizabeth Stewart [nee Smith] 44, English 1819 [white?]
George Stewart, son, 23, mulatto, farmer
Ellen [Helen] Stewart, daughter, 21, mulatto
Jessie Stewart, daughter, 19, mulatto
Maria [prob Almira], daughter, 15, mulatto

Cabin—
Joseph Alexander, 40, African, Mariner
Sarah Alexander [nee Stewart], African, wife, 38
Alfred Alexander, son, 14, African
Henry Alexander, son, 12, African
Ann Alexander, daughter, 10, African
Caroline Alexander, daughter, African, 8
Sarah Alexander, daughter, African, 6

Frame Shanty—
John Stewart, African, 52, farmer
Deborah Stewart, African, wife, 36
John Stewart, son, 30 [can hardly have been Deborah’s son], African
Phebe Campbell, step daughter, 14, mulatto
Josiah Campbell, step son, 12, mulatto
Violet Alexander, lodger, 96, African [our Black Violet, no less]

Frame One-Storey— [Hume’s Hill?]
George Hume.  Irish.  Blind last 14 years.  Wife, seven children. 
Sharing house with Hume:
Francis Riggs, 35, African, husband, shoemaker
Ann Riggs, 24, wife, African
Edward Riggs, 2, son, African

Frame One-Storey—
Abram Lodge, 43, African, husband, Millman (Chamcook—see Deed)
Harriet Lodge, 40, Irish [white?] [nee Alcock]
Richard, 16, NB, son
Benjamin, 11, NB
Harriet, 9, NB
Sarah, 7, [will inherit property] NB
Alfred, 5,  NB
Elloner, 3 NB, daughter

(Total 1851 Census 51 Blacks)

Dec 24, 1851. 
Sa Standard Marriages
Married—Sarah Stewart. 

X. 380.  No. 2524  Deed.  Joseph Alexander, Mariner, from William A. Black of Halifax.   Lot 1.  Block S, Bulkley’s Subdivision (corner Water and Harriet).  16 pounds.  44 feet along Water Street, 88 feet back.  June 10, 1852.

Joseph Alexander, Mariner.  Mortgage.  June 10, 1852.  Lot 1 corner Water and Harriet.  12 pounds, 6 pence.  X his mark.  3 year mortgage @ 4 pounds, 6 pence per year.

July 28, 1852. 
#707 All Saints Burial
Violet Alexander, coloured woman.  90 yrs.  {born 1762}

Commissioners of Poor RS 148
July 19, 1855
Paid Betsy Ross Relief 2/6
Aug 18 Cash paid Marg? Richardson 2, 0
Sept 28 paid Marg Richardson Relief 2, 6
Oct 16 Cash paid Marg Richardson 5

Commissioners of the Poor RS 148
June 18, 1855
To Donald Clark
April 20 For sundries for Mrs. Richardson [Clarissay]
Tea 6 May 2 For Mrs. Richardson ½ bushel meal 3, 6
May 11 For Mrs. Richardson ½ Tea 1 ½ gall Molasses 1, 10
May 29 for Mrs. Richardson 1 peck Meal
June 9 For Mrs. Richardson 1 peck meal, bread 3
Received payment John Lockney and Donald Clark

Sept 27, 1855. 
All Saints Marriages
William Henderson and Ellen Stewart.  Illiterate.

Abram Lodge from Edward Dewolfe.  1855.  Lodge of Chamcook.  (Maybe had his mill there)  20 pounds.  Lot 13.  Part of Minister Lot, so called.  12 ¾ acre.  “commencing at high water mark on the Bay shore at the south easterly corner of Lot 13 adjoining the school land on the north east and running northerly and westerly 164 rods along line of said school land until it intersects a reserved road adjoining lot 9 and thence westerly and southerly along said reserved road 14 ½  rods until it intersects the line of lot 12 southerly and easterly along lot 12 to the shore thence along shore to starting point.”

Certificate—W. A. black to Joseph Alexander, July 1, 1856.  Mortgage paid off.  In 1854 William a. black leased a lot along queen Street for about 100 pounds to George Jackson formerly belonging to the Rector of the Anglican Church.  See 1.6ff.  Black is described as “esquire.”  Mortage to Jackson from Black.  Church land granted 1802.  See p. 64.

July 9, 1856. 
SA Standard Marriages.
Married—Lavina Stewart. 

Commissioners Poor St. Andrews RS 148
March 17 Weekly allowance to Marg? Richardson and Bastard child 9 weeks 2 pounds, 9 shillings, 9 pence

Commissioners Poor St. Andrews
May 21 to Nov 10, 1856
To George Cole
May 21 Hauling 2 children to poor house 1. 0
May 29 Hauling 1 load land to Poor House 3, 6
May 29 Hauling 1 cask? lime? and load brick 1. 6
June 7 Removing the barns lumber to cap Balson Schooner 2. 0
for  making up clothing for inmates poor house by Mrs. Cole 1 dress and 2 caps 4. 0, four shirts 3. 4, Two suits clothing for Mulhall boys 4. 0
Nov 10 2 stripe shirts, two flannel ditto, 1 pair woolen drawers, 6.0
15 pounds, 11 shillings
Received payment Mrs. Cole

July 16, 1858
Poor House Records RS 148
Commissioners of Poor St. Andrews Parish
For sundry expenses paid by me for burying a dead body found on the beach and handed over to overseers poor by S. T. Gove Coroner after inquest
Paid Thomas Young for coffin, 12 shillings
Paid for digging grave at the burial ground at poor house, 5 shillings
Paid George Cole carting body from Lighthouse to poor House, 5 shillings,
2 pounds 6 pence ? for wrappers, 2 shillings 6 pence
Total 1 pound 5 shillings.
Paid Odell ? Turner
St. Andrews, 1858

July 21, 1857
All Saints Marriages
Theodore Gustavus Bounds and Elmira Stuart
Presence of Emma Stuart

Poor House Records RS 148
Feb 6, 1858
Commissioners of Poor to Thomas T. Odell Secretary
For funeral expenses Mr. Higgins
Paid ? Young for coffin 12, 6
Paid W. Scott digging grave 6, 3
Cotton for Shroud 2, 9
1 ? Hose? 1 ? Cinders? 2
Paid Cole for taking Corpse to Grave 1, 3
Total 1 Pound, 4 shillings, 9 pence
Paid T. Odell

Aug 1, 1858. 
#542 All Saints Baptismal
Georgianna Elizabeth, daughter of George and Eliza Stuart.  Labourer.  Born Sept 15, 1857.

July 28, 1858. 
SA Standard Marriages.
Married—Elmira Stewart, {to Theodore Bounds}

July 21, 1858. 
All Saints Marriages
Theodore Gustavus Bounds of St. Andrews to Emira Stuart of St. Andrews.  Witnessed by Emma Stuart and William McAllister.

6. 494  To Abram Lodge from Edward Wilson.  24 pounds.  Lot 12.  Eastern half of Minister’s Lot, Chamcook. 1859.

1859
#557  All Saints Baptismal
Samuel Richard, son of Eliza and George Stewart.  Labourer.

1859. 
#21 All Saints Burial
Caroline Alexander.  16 yrs.  {born 1843}

April 27, 1859.  
SA Standard
Death of Mary Walker Stewart,

Aug 22, 1859. 
#29 All Saints Burial
Susannah James 33 yrs. 

Commissioners Poor Parish St. Andrews RS 148
Aug 1, 1859
To Edward Dewolfe, Director
To board William Gibbins from may 1 to August 1, 1859—92days
Mary Stewart ditto

1859. 
#38 All Saints Burial
Mary Ann James, 2 months.

SA Standard
Sept 14, 1859
Large fire Church block Water Street.  Barber shop of T. G. {Theodore Gustavus, of New Jersey} Bounds, James Butler dry goods store, R. T. Fitzsimmons store, Thomas Berry’s larger building corner Water and William—all burned.  D. Bradley’s new brick building corner Water and William threatened.

Commissioners Poor St. Andrews RS 148
Feb 6, 1860? D. Ross sundries 15
Feb 13 D.  Ross Sundries 15
Feb 20 D. Ross sundries 15

July 18, 1860. 
#63 All Saints Burial
Mary Stewart.  90 years.  Buried in Alms House burial ground.
[probably the last burial in this cemetery]

march 14, 1860 
SA Standard
Death of Margaret Richardson,

1861 Census—
Elija Gindrell?  29.  West Indies.  Mulatto. Hairdresser.  Baptist
Rebecca Gindrell, wife, Coloured, 22.  Greenbank? Maine, Baptist

John Ross, 75, black.  New York.  Barber and hairdresser.  Episcopal

Joseph Alexander, 62, Black, SA.  Mariner.  Episcopal
Sarah Alexander, 34, black, SJ. Wife [date wrong]
William Henry, 22, SA.  Black
Henrietta, 19, black, SA
Sarah, 16, black

Eliza Stuart.  [nee Cole] 40.  Black.  Gagetown, General Work [see George Stewart, below]
Margaret Stuart, daughter, 8, black, SA [later Margaret Kemp, of Lewiston, Maine]
Georgianna Stewart, 5, black, SA
Samuel Stewart, 2, black, SA [see later story of Sam Cole]

Slabtown—
One house:
Elizabeth James, 39, colored, SA
Sarah James, 14, daughter, colored, SA
Jessie Brickson, 30, servant, colored, SA
Maria Brickson, 11, servant, colored, SA

One House:
Moses Stewart, 60, colored, SJ, farmer
Elizabeth Stewart, 65, colored, SJ
George, son, 36, colored, SA

One House:
John Stewart, 60, colored, SA, labourer
William Henderson, 33, native SA, servant [white? see 1851 census]
Ellen Henderson [prob. Helen Henderson, daughter of Moses], 29, servant, colored,  SA
John Henderson, lodger, 12, colored, SA [son?] see later censes
Charles Henderson, lodger, 9, colored, SA [son?]
George Henderson, lodger, 7, colored, SA [son?]
James Henderson, lodger, 5, colored, SA [son?] see later censes
Walter Henderson, 4, colored, lodger, SA [son?]

(add Lodges:
Abram Lodge, 50
Harriet Lodge, 48
Bridget Lodge, 20, daughter
Huldy Lodge, 7, daughter
Richard Lodge, 27--lodger
Mary Lodge, 25--lodger
Charlotte Lodge, 2--lodger

(Total 1861 Census 35 Blacks)

1861 Census: Land Registry—
No John Shannon; no Robert Eastman; no Egleton; no Brixons; No Elizabeth James, no Samuel Getty; no Ellen Bell.  John Fryer purchases from Harris Hatch “the corner of the SW side of the highway leading from SA to Joe’s Point [Joe’s Point named after the old black man named Joe who lived at the head of the town and made splendid spruce beer?], which fence divides the land occupied by George Russell, and the John Gray hence running by the bend of the highway NW 27 rods and 20 links to the line dividing the said land occupied by the said John Fryer and Sarah McAlinden, thence southerly to the shore”  1847.  Book U.301 No Henry Rigby for 1834-74 period except piece of land on Johnson’s Cove, SA, 1871

Commissioners Poor RS 148
Sept 15, 1862
The parish is indebted to Moses Stewart for three cows and one sow in 1861.  Ditto three cows and one sow 1862 that will make six cows to the bull ditto George Stewart to for three days and a half at 20 cents per day.  John Dolby Keeper Alms House.  6. 30
Received payment Moses Stewart [“Moses Stewart” is signed in a different hand]

August 7, 1862
All Saints Baptisms
Elmira Elizabeth, daughter of Theodore and Elmira Bounds.  St. Andrews.  Labourer

August 17, 1862
All Saints Baptisms
Harriet Jane, daughter of Richard and Mary Jane Lodge.
Chamcook.  Labourer.  Born May 1862

1862. 
#134 All Saints Burial
Henry? Stewart.  2 years.

Jan 12, 1863. 
All Saints Marriages
Hannah Howard (?) and Henry Alexander, Witnessed by Sarah Alexander

May 22, 1863
All Saints Burials
Henrietta Alexander.  St. Andrews.  22 years

Standard
Sept 23/1863
A smart trick--a woman disguised as a colored person went into one of the stores in town a few evenings ago, and said a lady with whom she lived sent her for some crockery ware; the lad selected the ware and the woman took it away; after she had gone someone I the store remarked her arms were white.  This awakened the suspicions of the land and he at once went to the house where the woman resides, and ascertained that he had been swindled, as she had not sent for the articles.  As the person who committed the act is known, and will be compelled to return the articles, her name is withheld for the present.

Commissioners Poor RS 148
Nov 17, 1864
To George Stewart 1 days hauling turnips from farm to Market Square
Received payment George Stewart, x his mark
Witness James Keler

Overseers Poor RS 148
Dec 5, 1864
1 load wood for Eliza Stewart, colored, 75 cents

Standard
Feb 7/1866
“A poor darkey who was sent to jail for marrying two wives, excuses himself by saying
that when he had one she fought him, but when he had two they fought each other.”

Commissioners Poor St. Andrews RS 148
June 26, 1866
1 dress for Margaret 25 cents
1 bonnet for Margaret 25 cents
1 dress for Clara 25 cents
2 caps for Clara 20 cents
2 pinafores for Mary 15 cents
2 for baby 15 cents
2 dresses for baby 25 cents
Total 1 dollars 50 cents
Hanna Maria Dolby [wife of keeper]
To Mr. John Lochary St. Andrews

Feb 20, 1867. 
SA Standard
Death of Isabel Stuart. 

Commissioners Poor St. Andrews Rs 148
May 4, 1867
1 load wood for David Ross.
[David Ross on list of sundries for Poor House 1868 but not necessarily living there—see other lists]

Poor House Records RS 148
Dec 23, 1868
The parish of St. Andrews is indebted Moses Stewart for 47 days horse hire on the Alms House farm at $8.00 per month.
Nov 25, 1868 $14.55
1867 seven cows $3.50
1868 five cows $2.50
$20.55
John Dolby Keeper Alms House
R. Glenn commissioner

Commissioners of Alms House RS 148
[part of shoe repair list]
July  24, 1868
Clary shoes heeled and sewed 30 cents
Paid William Miller

Poor House Records
1848
Sundries such as flannel shirts, dresses, caps, aprons and pinafores for Margaret, Kitty, Clara
Paid H.M Dolly

Feb 12, 1868. 
#201  All Saints Burial
John Stewart.  78 years.  {born 1790}

Overseers of Poor RS 148
To James Hartford
1 load wood for Eliza Cole $1.00
Received payment James Hartford [x his mark]

Rural Cemetery Burial
Almira Bounds
Age 30
Lot 26B
Sept 22, 1869

1870 United States Federal Census
Houlton, Maine
Aroostook County
June 18, 1870
Bounds, Theodore G. 45, Barber, New Jersey.  Mulatto
Bounds, Charlotte.  12.  At Home.  NB.  Mulatto (b. 1858)
Bounds, Theodore G. Jr.  9.  Maine.  Mulatto (b. 1861)
Bounds, Edward G. or C.  6. NB.  Mulatto (b. 1864)
Bounds, Elmira.  5.  Maine.  Mulatto (b. 1865)
Bounds, Maria.  4. Maine.  Mulatto (b. 1866)
Bounds, John.  9 months, born February.  Maine.  Mulatto (b. 1869)
Brixton, Jessie.  36.  NB.  Mulatto.  Housekeeper

Sept 7, 1870. 
SA Standard
Death of Joseph Alexander. 

Sept 28, 1870. 
SA Standard
Death of Charles C. Stewart. 

1871 Census—
One House:
Margaret Brooks, 55, African, Episcopal. illiterate
Hannah Dutton, 25, African, Episcopal, literate, washerwoman
In same house George Lowry, 25, seaman, no color listed

One House:
Isabella Graham, 74, Jamaica, lives with Henry Johnson, Norwegian, Tide Waiter and family

One house:
Mary Jane Kyle, 38, African.  Illiterate
Lives with William 60 and Mary 13, irish, same last name.  Mary illiterate

One House:
William Henderson, 42, Illiterate, Irish, labourer
Ellen  [Helen] Henderson, 44, labourer, Irish
John Henderson, 21, barber, irish
Charles Henderson, 20, sailor, illiterate, irish
George Henderson, 18, labourer, Irish
James Henderson, 16, labourer, irish
Walter Henderson, 14, irish
Ada Henderson, 10, irish
Maud Henderson, 7, irish
Harry Henderson, 4, irish
Fred Henderson, 2, irish
[Helen Henderson was the daughter of Moses Stewart, and mulatto, not irish]

Poor House--
Clara Richardson, 81, American, African, Episcopal
Margaret Richardson, 38, African, American
Mary E. Richardson, 9, African, American
[lives in dwellwing with mixed families, mostly irish, 15 persons less themselves, almost all “paupers.”  Thomas Finly, Manager

One House:
Eliza Cole, 48, NB, Irish [no], labourer
Margaret Cole, 16
Georgianna E. Cole, 14
Samuel R. Cole, 12
[no color given for these persons]

One House:
George Stewart, 45, English [no] farmer
Eliza Stewart, 35
Margaret Stewart, 14
Georgianna Stewart, 10
George Stewart, 3
Moses Stewart, 77
Elizabeth Stewart 75
Margaret Brooks, 40
(duplication here—Eliza Cole and children)

Joseph Alexander, 8, African
Sarah Alexander, 46, washerwoman, African, illiterate
[seems to have moved into Slabtown after husband’s death—all the other kids are elsewhere]
(Poor House?)

David Ross, 86, Bermuda, Episcopal, African, barber, Illiterate, pauper
Betsy [Elizabeth], 52, African, NB, simple—caused by being burned [see fire of 1859; must have been partners with Theodore Bounds]
(Ross definitely lived in the Poor House with Betsy)

Chamcook—
Abram Lodge, 63, English farmer
Harriet Lodge, 52, irish Catholic
William Lodge, 23, Irish Catholic
John Lodge, 21, irish Catholic
Ellen Lodge, 22, irish Catholic
Sarah Lodge, 28, irish Catholic
Jane Lodge, 15, Irish Catholic

(1871 Census—38 Blacks)

1870 Federal Census—Maine
Houlton, June 18, 1870
One House:
Theodore Bounds, 45, barber, New Jersey
Charlotte Bounds, 12, at home, NB
Theodore G. Jr. 9, at home, Maine
Edward G or C, 6, NB
Elmira, 5, Maine
Maria, 4, Maine
John, 9 months, born Feb., Maine
[no Almira, must have died in childbirth, death 1869)
Brixton, Jessie. 36.  Housekeeper, NB

1872, March 4
Deed Justices of Charlotte to James Doherty. 
[Doherty pays off his mortgage on a piece of land on the Frye Road purchased in 1867 and becomes legal possessor thereof.

1872, April
Justices of Charlotte to Charles Tupper. 
Book 20, 294.  More deeds in this section.

April 10, 1872
All Saints Burials
David Ross.  St. Andrews.  87

Commissioners Poor St. Andrews RS 148
April 11, 1872
To Alex Donald for digging grave in cemetery (D. Ross) 2.00
Box and trucking 1.50
Total 3.50
Paid Alexander Donald
To Commissioners Poor St. Andrews
Alexander Donald
For digging Black Ross Grave $2.00
Box and trucking $1.50
Total $3.50

1872, April 26
Justices of Charlotte to Andrew Boyd. 
Lot 3 Western Commons.  25 acres.  “heretofore leased by the late Henry Smith”  Book 20, 292

1872, April 26
Lease Justices of Charlotte to William Maxwell. 
Lot 12 Western Commons.  240 dollars.  25 acres

1872, April 25
Lease Justices of Charlotte to James Maxwell.  Lot 13 Western Commons.  240 dollars.  “to said James Maxwell, his heirs and assigns . . . according to the plan [of Western Commons] thereof made by the late Archibald Fisher . . .

1872, April 27
Lease Justices of Charlotte to James Doherty. 
Lots 5, 7, 8 and 9 Western Commons.  400 dollars.  10 acres each.  “aforesaid three of said lots being on the Western side of the highway leading through said western commons past the dwelling house of said Dougherty and one of the said lots being on the eastern side of the said road . . .”  Book 20, 299.

Standard
March 13/1872
H. M. “Niger” grounded on Western bar on way to SS in 1866.

Commissioners of Alms House and Poor
To Alexander Campbell, Director
Sept 21, 1872
February for coffin for Chr. Stewart? 4.00
March for coffin for Eliza Ross 4.00
May for coffin and attendance William Anderson 4.50
total 12.50
Paid Alexander campbell
St. Andrews Sept 21, 1872

May 29, 1872
All Saints Burials
Betsy Ross.  Alms House [abode]
St. Andrews.  [age illegible]  [daughter of David Ross?]

Commissioners Poor House Rs 148
aug 1, 1872
For making Betsy Ross and dress  40 cents
Annie Miller
[was this her funeral dress?]

August 21, 1872
Marriage of Charles Norris and Maria Brickson
(marriage certificate)

March 11, 1874. 
#277 All Saints Burial
Ellen Henderson.  (or Helen Henderson, nee Stewart—see cemetery stone)

May 14, 1875
All Saints Burials
Margaret Richardson
St. Andrews.  About 40 years old

1875
Lease Municipality of Charlotte to William Maxwell,
lot 12 Western Commons, 25 acres.  West side of highway leading to Chamcook.

1876
Lease lots 12 and 13 to Almire Maxwell, Western Commons.  Highest bidder at 100 dollars.  Immediately mortgaged for 76 dollars.

Nov 6, 1876. 
#331 All Saints Burial
Clara {prob. Clarissay of 1851 census} Richardson.  80 years.   Alms House {born 1796}

Jan 10, 1877. 
#314 All Saints Burial
Betsy [Elizabeth] Stewart.  89 years.  [wife of Moses Stewart? prob. 79 years] {born 1798, according to cemetery stone}

Standard
May 9, 1877
Terrible Accident
On Friday last, about one o’clock, George Stewart, a coloured man, who resides on the Commons, was repairing a horse collar, was seized with a fit, and fell among the embers of the fire left after cooking dinner.  There were only two small children in the house at the time, who attempted to drag the poor man out of the fire place, which they partially accomplished, but finding they could not get him out, they started for the shore where his father {Moses} was at work, and while on their way, met a son of Mr. James Dougherty, and having informed him of the accident, he started at once for the house, and pulled the poor man away from the fireplace, not however before his face had been fearfully burned, the lower part of his right ear actually roasted and his right eye destroyed.  The unfortunate man was some time before he showed signs of consciousness, and when able asked for water; his mouth was so dreadfully swollen that it was difficult for him to drink.  Dr. Gove having been sent for, dressed the wounds, and ordered the suffering man to the Alms House.  Little hopes are entertained of his recovery.

St. Croix Courier
May 10/1877
Terrible Accident—A Man Roasted Alive
George Stewart, a coloured man who resides a short distance out of the Town of SA, while in a fit on Saturday last, fell off the chair on which he was seated headlong into the fire.  There was no one in the house at the time besides Stewart except a girl of some six years, a niece of his.  She ran out and called her brothers and sisters, who were at play in a field a short way off.  They came in and with their united strength (they were all children) were unable to drag him from the fire, on which he lay roasting.  One of the children ran for help, and had to go about half a mile to the shore where some men were at work.  When they entered the house they found Stewart lying on the fire, head close to the back of the chimney and clothes burning.  They speedily removed him and tore the burning shirt off him.  Young Dougherty went at once into town for medical aid.  Dr. Samuel T. Gove, and Dr. Harry Gove promptly repaired to the sense of the accident, and administered what remedies were necessary at the moment.  The house in which Stewart lived in was a mere hovel, presenting a scene of squalid misery, and was not a proper place in which to take care of the man.  The Doctor ordered his removal to the poor house, on reaching which a thorough examination was made and all that could be done to alleviate the suffering of the patient was attended to.  Fortunately, he was unconscious.  His person presented a sickening appearance.  The right arm from the wrist to the neck was literally roasted, the right side from the lower rib upwards, and extending from near the back bone to the right breast was almost as bad, the fingers of the left hand were burned, the fore finger dreadfully so, his right ear was burned off, also all the hair from his hear, the scalp and flesh on the forehead were literally charred, right eye destroyed, and right cheek roasted.  It is not possible for him to recover.  Sunday he was conscious, complaining of the pain to his shoulder; his head and arm had swollen very much, and the swelling was increasing.

May 31. 
#339 All Saints Burial
             Stewart.  1877.  51 years.

32.56   No. 39.             Lease Municipality of Charlotte to Moses Stewart.  Oct 18, 1877.  Farmer.  Lots 13 and 14 Western Commons.  7 year lease.  $12 dollars.  Illiterate—X his mark.

Municipality of Charlotte to Moses Stewart.  18 October 1877.  Lots 13 and 14.  17 acres.  7 year lease (to 1884).  21 year maximum lease allowed.  $12 per annum.

Abram Lodge to Sarah Lodge, daughter..  One dollar.  1878.  Chamcook property.  Record stops here—nothing of Sarah Lodge after this date.  26 acres—both lots. “Being the homestead farm where I now reside and containing 26 acres more or less fronting on the beach at the nigh water mark and of the width of 26 rods and extending to the land of John Cunningham preserving the same width for the whole distance. . . “

April 19, 1878
Poor House Records
Board of Charlotte Bounds at Alms House from May 18, 1878 to Aug 9, 1878 12 weeks at $1.25 per week.  $15 dollars

Nov 6, 1878. 
SA Standard
Death of Abram Lodge,

1878 Municipality of Charlotte to Thomas Truesdale, lot 10 Western Commons.  Book 28, p 184

Poor House Records RS 148
In the record for Nov 12, 1878 Charlotte Bounds: cash “from Commissioners of Poor Parish West Isles (Deer Island) for expenses incurred in case of Charlotte Bounds (colored, and ? statement,  42 dollars, 90 cents.
           
Pilot
Dec 5/1878
A gentleman in New Orleans was agreeably surprised to find a plump turkey served up for his dinner, and inquired of his servants how it was obtained.  “Why sir,” replied Sambo, “dat turkey been roosting on our fence tree nights.  So dis morning I seized him for the rent of de fence.”

Poor House Records
In the record for Dec 31, 1878 C Bounds is listed as an inmate for 3 months, and her child T. Bounds is listed as an inmate for 5 weeks. 

Poor House Records RS 148 e5h3
May 6 to 19, 1879
Charlotte Bounds support for child
“Received from Commissioners of Poor Parish of West Isles for E. S. Polleys Secretary Commissioners Parish of St. Andrews nine dollars seventy five cents for allowance for care and support of my child from Feb 1, 1879 to May 3, 1879—13 weeks at 75 cents per week.”  Charlottie [sic] Bounds
                       
Standard
Jan 15/1879
Fifty years ago last April, two persons, black Dick and Maria, were executed in SA for murder of their children, and but few of the residents who witnessed it, are now living.

March 12, 1880. 
#345 All Saints Burial
Gerry Cole.  78 years.  {born 1802} {brother of Polly Bignall / Cole?}

1881 Census—
Town:
One House:
James Henderson, barber, 23.  Lives with ?  unclear house numbering

One House:
Charles Norris, African, cook, US, 33
Maria Norris, 30
Helen Norris, 8 [not listed as blind, but not in school either]
Jessie Norris, 6
Edward Norris, 1

Rural:
One House:
Eliza Stewart, 57, washerwoman
George Stewart, 23, servant
Samuel Stewart, 21, servant

One House:
Moses Stewart, 87, African, farmer
Jessie Brixon, 40, African, no profession listed
George Griffith, 13, African, no in school
Lottie  Bounds, African, 22, no profession given
Myra Bounds, African, 3, African

One House:
George Henderson, 30, African farmer
Isabella Henderson, 28, English
Mary Henderson, 2, English

Slabtown area a mixture of professions—farmers mostly but also dairymen, labourers, servants, washerwomen

Outside Slabtown Area:

One House:
William Henderson, 50, labourer, lives with William Pye, carpenter, and Pye family [does not seem to be in Slabtown area per se]

One House:
David Murphy, 42, Seaman, Presb.
Harriet Murphy, 33, Roman Catholic, African [Harriet Lodge, Junior?]
Eight children, Irish, Presbyterian

One House: [next door to David Murphy above]
Harriet Lodge, 70, Ireland Roman Catholic, female farmer [soldiering on without her husband, who died 1870]
John Lodge, 25, NB, RC, seaman
Bridget Lodge, 22, NB, RC, servant
Ellen Lodge, 24, NB, RC, servant
Sarah Lodge, 26, NB, RC, Irish servant

(1881 Census—31 Blacks assuming Harriet Murphy is Harriet Lodge)

32.61   No. 41              Moses Stewart to Jessie Brickson.  Assignment of Lease.  Sept 5, 1881.  Moses Stewart of St. Andrews; Jessie Brickson his daughter, also of SA.  Lots 13 and 14—17 acres.  Western Commons.  X his mark.

June 6, 1882. 
#377  All Saints Burials
Clifford Norris.  8 weeks.

April 26, 1883
All Saints Burials
William Lowry
St. Andrews Alms House.  84 years

36.374 No. 290            Mortgage Jessie Brickson to T. T. O’Dell via Bank of St. Andrews.  200 dollars.  Nov. 14, 1884.  Lots 13 and 14.  Western Commons.  X her mark.

36.373 No. 289            Lease.  Municipality of Charlotte to Jessie Brickson.  Nov. 19, 1884.  Lots 13 and 14 Western Commons.  6 dollars biannually.  (She was illiterate—x her mark)  17 acres.

1887. 
#437  All Saints Burials
Ella Henderson.  16 years.  {born 1871}

1888.
#1308 All Saints Baptisms
{looks like George?} Samuel and Bridget Cole. Labourer. 

Pilot
Feb 16/1888
What Does It Mean?
Several owners of real estate in SA and vicinity have recently been approached by American gentlemen, with a view to ascertain if they could be induced to sell their property, and if so at what price.  In two or three instances memorandums have been issued by which the owners agree to accept amounts for their property, stated in said memorandums the parties of the other part to have the refusal thereof up to the dates mentioned therein.  It is also reported that the parties referred to have an eye upon the almshouse farm.  We think however the ratepayers of SA will not be so foolish as to part with that property.

40.421 No. 278            Assignment of Mortgage from T. T. O’Dell to Henry Osburn “given by Jessie Brickson, widow of the Parish of SA.”  $253.00 Osburn to O’Dell. (lots 13 and 14)

41.256.            No. 175            Assignment of Mortgage—Henry Osburn to St. Andrews Land Company.  $253.50 by SALC to Osburn.  Aug 22, 1888. (lots 13 and 14)

St. Andrew Bay Pilot
Dec 6, 1888
“Over the Pottery Bridge” (re Slabtown)
On the evening of Saturday, 24th, Mr. Samuel Graham left St. Andrews to drive to his at Dumbarton.  Mr. Graham got along alright until he got outside the town limits, then it being pitch dark, and finding it difficult to keep the road, he dropped the rains and trusted to the horse finding his way.   The horse instead of turning the corner at the shore road, kept on through slabtown and was making the circuit towards town.  Graham, discovering that the horse was travelling in the wrong direction, took hold of the reins and while attempting to turn backed the wagon and horse over the Pottery Bridge (which is not protected by either rail or parapet) to the bed of the brook, eight or ten feet below.  Graham, tremendously surprised, having been pitched out of the wagon, scrambled to the road and made for a light which was found in the house of Mr. Robert Peacock.  Mr. Peacock’s son lighted a lantern and proceeded with him to the scene of the wreck.  After some exertion the horse and wagon were extricated and got upon the road.  Strange to say the horse escaped uninjured, the harness was broken, and the contents of the wagon, parcels of groceries, etc., were badly broken and mixed up.  Having with the aid of Master peacock tied up the harness, Mr. Graham got into  his wagon and proceed towards home.

Dec 17, 1888. 
#457 All Saints Burials
Moses Stewart.  95 years. {born 1793}

Pilot
Dec 20/1888
The oldest resident of St. Andrews at the date of his death on Friday last, was Mr. Moses Stewart. He was the last pureblooded Negro born in this vicinity. The late Mr. Stewart was a most exemplary man, and during the long period of his pilgrimage of 95 years, led a most harmless life. He retained his sight and hearing until nearly the last. He was a member of the Church of England, and until failing health prevented, was a regular attendant at its services. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon. His remains were taken from his late residence, Queen Street, to All Saints Church and from thence to the rural cemetery, and were followed by a number of relatives and friends.

43.496 No. 343            Deed.  Municipality Charlotte to Jessie Brickson.  Nov. 25, 1889.  75 dollars.  One half of lot 11, (12?) Western Commons.  Western Half.  5 acres.  Formerly leased to Thomas Algar; April 23, 1875.  Before that to William Garnett and Thomas Turner.

43.499 No. 344            Deed Jessie Brickson to SALC. $500.  Western half of lot 11, (12?) Commons.  Nov. 25, 1889.  Bounded on west by highway road to Brandy Cove, on north by lot 10, formerly owned by George Lowell; on south by O’Brien lot; on east by George Lowell lot.  280 feet frontage on road; back 870 feet.

43.496                         Certificate.  SA Land Company to Jessie Brickson.  April 22, 1890.  SA Land Company assumes mortgage from henry Osburn, who assumed it from T. T. O’Dell, March 10, 1888.  Book 40, pp. 421-22.  Osburn to Land Company August 22, 1888.  Book 41, p. 256. 

Oct 13, 1889
All Saints Burials
George Lane.  Alms House.  St. Andrews.  80 years.

1890
least Municipality of Charlotte to Thomas Doherty, lot 19, western commons.  25 acres.

Oct 25, 1890. 
All Saints Baptisms
#1337 John Cadman, son of Charles and Maria Norris.  Cook. 

1891 Census—
One House:
Charles Norris, 43, US. Cook.  literate
Maria Norris, 41.  NB.  literate
Helen Norris, 17, illiterate [prob not in school because blind]
Jessie Norris, 15.  literate
Edward Norris, 11.  literate
Kathleen Norris, 3. 
Cadman Norris, 8 months

One House, beside Norris’:
Eliza Stewart, 70, NB.  Mother and Father US [no].  Illiterate
James Stewart, 8. Grandson.  Can read, Parents NB

            Rural--
One House:
James Henderson, 35, NB, also parents NB.  Ship’s cook.  Illiterate
Alice Henderson, 25, wife, NB, father English, Mother NB.  Illiterate
Harry Henderson, 10, NB, can read
Herbert Henderson 6
Jimmy Henderson, 4
Lizzy?  Henderson, 3
Alice Henderson, 1 year six months

One House:
William Bignall, 81.  England.  Labourer.
Mary Bignall, 69, wife.  NB.  Father West Indies [must be Jerry Cole], Mother NB. 

One House: (Slabtown?)
George Henderson, 38, NB, parents NB, farm labourer
Anabelle, 36, wife, father English
Mary Henderson, 12, literate
James Henderson, 8, literate
George Henderson, 6
Jennie? 2

Poorhouse:
Edward Irwin, 45, NB.  Parents Ireland.  Almshouse keeper.
Jane Irwin, 50, wife, NB, Parent Ireland
Harry Irwin, 15, NB
Michael Driscoll, 75, inmate, widower, Ireland, RC, pauper
Pattie McDonald, 49, Male, Ireland, RC, Pauper
Fred Craig, 30, NB, Episcopal, pauper
William Hunt, 64, NB, parents Ireland, pauper
John McCann, 75, widower, pauper.
Margaret Mailer? 84.  Ireland.  Pauper, RC

One House:
Jessie Brickson, 70, black, widow, NB, Parents US, Methodist, Nurse, literate.  [next to Hume]
John Bounds, 9, black, Grandson, Parents NB (b. 1882)
Edward Bounds, 7, black, Grandson, NB (b. 1884)
Thomas Stewart, 20, black, nephew.  Farmer, illiterate (b. 1871)

(1891 Census—28 Blacks)

Beacon
July 20/1893
A newspaper correspondent, hearing that Mr. Van Horne, had brought his “advisor” with him to Sa, last week, asked Jim French, the colored porter, who Mr. Van Horne’s adviser was.  “I’m his adviser,” replied the redoubtable Jim, without so much as a smile.

Jan 18, 1894
#521 All Saints Burial
Eliza Stuart.  69 years.  {Eliza Cole, wife of George Stewart}

Beacon
Jan 25, 1894
Died at her residence King Street, St. Andrews, Jan 16, 1894, Mrs. Eliza Stewart age 69 years.  (She would have been the wife of George Stewart, of the disastrous fire of 1877)

Beacon
may 17/1894
Mrs Bignall, the aged colored woman, was knocked down and run over on Saturday by one of g. D. Grimmer’s teams, driven by a lad named McCurdy.  She escaped without serious injury.

Beacon
Aug 16/1894
A colored gentleman named Rev. Alexander Kersey, came to SA last Wednesday, and announced by handbills that he would lecture in the Methodist church that night on “The Spun Web,” and also sing a number of plantation melodies. When the hour for lecturing arrived, the church authorities refused to allow the lecturer to have the building, and so he was unable to spin his web.  A very disgusted colored man left town that night.

Beacon
Aug 16/1894
Was it Incendiarism? (arson)
Mrs. Brixton, the colored woman who resides on the outskirts of town, is without her barn.  She also mourns its contents, consisting of about fourteen tons of hay, a calf, several geese and hens, a wagon belonging to a neighbour, Mr. Ray, a number of agricultural implements, two stoves, a trunk containing her winter clothing and a variety of other things that she could ill afford to lose.  All these disappeared, when her barn disappeared in smoke on Thursday morning. . . . 

November 8, 1894
All Saints Burials
William Bignall.  St. Andrews.  84 years.

Pensioners again on the List
Beacon
March 14, 1895
Almost two years ago a resolution was passed by the Congress of the United States that only those pensioners who resided on United States territory should receive pension money.  This, of course, shut out those old soldiers who had fought and bled and risked their lives for the Union, but who had taken up their abodes in Canada “after the cruel war was over.”  Two of those pensioners—Arthur MacAlinden and Charles Norris—resided in St. Andrews.  For twenty one months they have not received a cent of pension money.  It was a little hard on them, but they could not brook the idea of abandoning their little homes.  Nor will they have to now, for on the second of March, Congress, deeming the original resolution a stain upon its history, repealed it, and ordered that all pensioners, no matter under what flag they live, should receive their dues.  Mr. McAlinden’s back pension foots up to the neat little sum of $168, while Mr. Norris’ will be about $200.   It will make quite a neat nest egg in their old age.

Beacon
July 11/1895
The Golf links at Joe’s Point, which was laid off by Mr. Winch, president of the SA Golf club, is said to be one of the best natural links on the American continent.  Every fine day it is patronized by half a score or more enthusiastic golfers.

Beacon
Sept 12/1895
A Costly Vacation
There are few people who can afford to travel in the style of Mr. Louis Cabot, of New Hampshire. who is now enjoying an outing on Campobello, together with his wife and sister, a man-servant and maid-servant, and one of the Raymond-Whitcomb guides.  It is over three weeks since Mr. Cabot and his party came to Sa in a luxurious Pullman car; since then this car, with two colored men in attendance, has been lying in Sa yard, at a daily expense to Mr. Cabot of $50.  When he is travelling he is required to pay for his party a sum equal to eighteen fares.  this amount, added to hotel bills, cost of car, etc., during Mr. Cabot’s outing would make a respectable little fortune for some people.

Beacon
Nov 19/1896
*A Colored Artist.  Who first breathed the Air of Heaven under SA skies.
appeared in New York Sun, by T. Thomas Fortune
Article on Edward Bannister
T. Thomas Fortune has an interesting two-column sketch of Artist Bannister in the New York Sun, from which we make the following extracts:--
Edwin M. Bannister of Providence who has grown old as an artist, was born in SA, NB, about sixty-three years ago.  His parents were of French, Indian and African origin.  He attended the village school, and while there laid the foundation of a practical education.  Before his tenth year he had gained a local reputation for cleverness in making pictures of his schoolmates and his fathers’ neighbors.  he was apprenticed to a most successful cobbler in Sa, but all his relatives and friends expected him to become a great artist.  At that early day there were not many colored people in Sa, and so thoroughly free from race prejudice were the inhabitants that “colored” was rarely heard among them.  it was not until he became ambitious to develop his artistic powers, and consequently left his native town, that he was made to feel the distinction between a white and a brown skin.
            While at home in SA, he lived in an atmosphere of British fair play, where character and not race made the man, consequently his individuality was that of an enterprising “down Easter.”  The presence of African blood in his veins had no power to make him accept a prescribed course, or be other than what his environments made him. . . .  Mr. Bannister had been but a short while from SA before he began to deal directly with attempts to estimate his manhood by the appreciation of his complexion.  Naturally this aroused his British ire, and led to many vigorous protests, which rarely ended short of fistic exploits.  Had his love for art been less determined, he would have given up in despair and settled down to ship building or some other mechanical calling hi his native village.  he was ever sensitive to the beauties of nature.  As a boy trudging after his father’s cows {SLABTOWN?} he has stood in open-mouthed wonder at the gorgeous sunsets, and followed with breathless suspense the tipping of tree and flower with gold.  In total forgetfulness of everything save the wonderful color combinations he has laid for hours stretched flat on the grassy plain, or perched, gnome-like, on some great, bare rock watching the colors die away into soft translucency, then into night.  Many a time he has gone supperless to his garret bed, because he was so late retuning with the cows.  It is told of him that the really loved the black darkness, because it made the colors the next day newer to him.  And a visit to his well-filled studio indirectly gives a semblance of truth to the story.  Among a great number of landscape studies only an occasional moonlight is to be seen.  His fancy seems to run entirely in sunny studies.
            When he left SA his brain was fired with the ambition to reproduce on canvas the glowing pictures of wild coast life and sylvan loveliness that had filled this childhood hours with never ceasing wonder.  But contact with narrow, prejudiced minds threw a pall over these bright hopes and turned him mind from nature to the contemplation of man.  He became absorbed in his hope to pain the human figure.  After considerable wandering, embittered by many hardships and incidents calculated to dishearten a less rugged nature, he settled down to the study of art is Boston.  he studied under Dr. Rimmer, and showed such indications of genius that he soon attracted the attention of all the professors labouring with Dr. Rimmer.  In this way he became associated with some very choice spirits.  his first experience as an art student made his very slow in the formation of friendships outside of the realm of art, and the majority of his associates of today resulted from the old student contact in Dr. Rimmer’s classes.  he finished his studies at Boston and went to Providence in 1871, where he has since resided.  Before leaving Boston he became a regular exhibitor at the annual exposition of the Boston Art Club.  The members of the Providence Art League met him very cordially and in the studies that he regularly presented they recognized a decided addition to the class of painters located there devoted to the French school illustrated by Bouguereau.
            Having found a greater demand for landscapes than figure pieces he attended the Narragansett coast indefatigably, meeting with most flattering success, if a ready market can be deemed such.  His most noted effort as “Under  the Oaks,” which received the first award medal at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876.  It was with many misgivings that he sent it to the Art Committee, like hundreds of other ambitious artists, with nothing but his simple signature attached. For many days he waited in feverish anxiety as to the result.  As it was not  rejected, his spirits rose appreciably.  “No news is good news,” he argued, and so time passed until the opening of the Art Gallery.  Trembling he secured a catalogue, and soon found “Bannister—‘Under the Oaks” (54)”  He was so glad that he sat down and thought of his boyhood dreams and wished that he might see again the well-remembered sunsets.  Like one in a dream he threaded his way through the thronging crowds, and stood before his effort, his head bounding with joy.  It was hung in the most favorable place.  In his own modest way he tells an interesting incident as to how the Jury of Awards discovered that he was an Afro-American.
            “I learned from the newspapers,” said he “that ‘54’ had received a first-prize gold medal, so I hurried to the committee rooms to make sure that the report was true.  There was a great crowd there ahead of me.  As I jostled among them, many resented my presence, some actually commenting within my hearing, in a most petulant manner, “What is that colored person in her for?” and similar discourteous remarks.  Finally, when I succeeded in reading the desk where inquiries were made, I endeavoured to gain the attention of the official in charge.  he was very insolent.  Without raising his eyes, he demanded in the most exasperating tone of voice, “well, what do you want here anyway?  Speak lively.”
            “I want to inquire concerning ’54.’  Is it a prize winner?”
            “What’s that to you?”
            “In an instant my blood was up; the deprecatory looks that passed between him and others in the room were unmistakeable.  I was not an artist to them; I was simply an inquisitive colored man.  His manner suggested a nature so small and petty that I could not bring myself to his level.  Besides the thought flashed through my mind, Why give this man a change to express his prejudice?  So, controlling myself, I said deliberately: I am interested in the report that “under the Oaks” has received a prize; I painted the picture.”
            “an explosion could not have made a more marked impression.  Without hesitation he apologized, and soon every one in the room was bowing an scraping to me.  Mr. Duff of Boston purchased the picture for $1,500.”  Since that time Mr. Bannister has labored very industriously, exhibiting each year in Boston and Providence making a comfortable income.  A few years ago he purchased s fine sailing yacht, and all his leisure hours were spent sailing around Newport, and adjacent points for pleasure.  He is naturally fond of the sea, and is as thoroughly at home when on water as on land.  A recent attack of the rip makes the enjoyment a doubtful benefit, much to his regret.
            Up to the present time his figure pieces have been almost entirely Scriptural. Four of his best compositions in this lien have been purchased by one of the Roman Catholic churches of Providence.  At odd intervals he has devoted considerable time, to an original conception of the invitation, “Come unto Me all that ye that are weary and heavy laden.”  He hopes to make it the crowning work of his life.
             Mr. Bannister’s studio is very pleasantly situated in a large building, almost entirely occupied by artists.  there is nothing about it to suggest the Afro-American except the painter himself and a portrait of his wife.
            [Old residents of SA recollect the Bannisters very well.  There were two young men in the family, one known as “Ed” and the other as “Bill.”  They were smart, athletic young fellows, and left here between forty and fifty years ago., One of them established himself as a barber on Haymarket Square, Boston.—Editor]

January 13, 1897. 
#554 All Saints Burial
Mary {nickname Polly?} Bignall.  Alms House.  Age unknown, over 80 years.

Beacon
Jan 21/1897
Minister’s Island.  A Few Facts in Connection with the Early History of the island.
One of the oldest and most respected residents of the parish of SA is Mr. Marshall Andrews, who shares the ownership of Minister’s Island with his son and Sir William Van Horne.  In his younger days, Mr. Andrews was a man of commanding height and as strong as a lion.  His weight of 84 years has bowed his figure and robbed him of much of his youthful strength, but his intellect is as clear as ever it was, and he can discourse most interestingly on events of bygone days. . . .  Mr. Andrews further informed the Beacon that the old colored woman, who died in the Alms House last week, {this was Mary Bignall} was the daughter of a slave owned by his grandfather on his maternal side, Rev. Richard Clark, who came here with the loyalists and was the first rector of Gagetown.  He brought with him two slaves--Jerry Cole and wife.  Polly, lately deceased, was one of the fruits of this union.  She was brought up by a daughter of Rev. Mr. Clark, who resided in SS.  She was about 95 years of age.

May 29, 1897.
#574 All Saints Burial
William Henderson. St. Andrews.  70 years

Beacon
Dec 2/1897
Hanson and Grady, Tailors, SA, ad showing 3 apparently black men.

1898
All Saints Burial
Kitty [Kathleen] Norris, 10 years.  Born 1888.

Beacon
Nov 3/1898
Work begins on Van Horne's 20,000 dollar barn. 
 Mr. McKenzie has a camp for his men on the grounds. James Henderson is the landlord. They have Mr. Norris (must be Charles, Caddy’s father) for a cook and are living on the fat of the land.  Under the one roof are the cook house, dining room and sleeping quarters for the men. Mr. McKenzie has a separate room for himself, adjoining the kitchen.  In it he has three sleeping berths, a dining table and a stove.  Although in poor health lately, life on Minister’s island seems to be agreeing with him.
           
Beacon
May 4/1899
A colored family has arrived from Woodstock to go into the laundry business. (related to Bounds?)

1901 Census—
One House:
Charles Norris, 54.  Born Dec 25, 1846.  US. African
Maria Norris.  48. Jan 26, 1853.  African
Helen Norris, 27, June 30, 1872
Jessie Norris, 25, July 9, 1875
Edward Norris, 21, November 2, 1879
Cadman Norris, 10, Aug 4, 1890

One House:
James Henderson, 45, June 12, 1855
Alice Henderson, 35, April 7, 1865
Harry Henderson, 18, May 31, 1882
Herbert Henderson, 16, Sept 11, 1884
James Henderson, 14, Jan 21, 1886
Elizabeth Henderson, 13, Aug 3, 1887
Alice Henderson, 11.  Jan 11, 1890

One House:
George Henderson, 48, labourer, March 28, 1853
Anabella Henderson, 50, Feb 5, 1851
Mary Henderson, 22, May 20, 1878
James Henderson, 20, June 11, 1889
George Henderson, 16, Sept 3, 1884

no Jessie Brickson in this census, though she was here—maybe just not in town at the time

(1901 Census—18 or 19 Blacks)

Beacon
Jan 17/1901
A New Brunswick Artist
Providence, R. I.  Jan 10—Edward M. Bannister, a native of SA, NB, a famous negro artist, died suddenly of heart disease today.  he ranked with the foremost American artist, his work being on exhibition in the leading galleries, and won prizes at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.  he was born of West Indian parentage.  [Though many years have elapsed since the Bannister family left SA, there are some of the older residents who still remember the famous artist.]

Oct 29, 1901. 
#611 All Saints Burial
Jessie Norris.  28 years.

60.7     No. 7874          Deed.  Municipality Charlotte to Jessie Brickson.  Oct 2, 1902.  “And whereas the said Jessie Brickson is now, and was in the year 1889, lessee of the several lots or portions of said Western Commons . . . and has been . . . the lessee thereof continuously since a date prior to 1881, at an annual rent . . . of 16 dollars and 2 cents, that is to say 12 dollars in respect of Lots number 13 and 14 . . . and four dollars and 2 cents in respect of the West half of lots number 12, also herein after described; and whereas the County Council . . . in the month of January, 1889, made and passed a bylaw in the following terms: ‘ordered, that the lessees of the Western Commons . . . shall have the right to purchase, under the provisions of the Act of Assembly passed 12th April 1861, Chap. XXXV, the lands by them respectively occupied at a sum the interest of which at 4 percent per annum is equal to the rent which was payable by such lessees, or those under or through whom they claim, at the time of the passage of the Act, with all rent ot date and the expense of conveyance,’ . . . and whereas . . . the said Jessie Brickson is desirous of obtaining a fee simple title of the said lands, . . . paying therefore a sum of $400.50, the sum sufficient to yield at 4 percent per annum an amount equal to the said rent of 16.02 . . .

60.8     No. 7875          Deed. Jessie Brickson to F. Howard Grimmer. Oct 6, 1902.   One dollar.  Lots 13, 14 and half of 12.  “All of which said lots together form one block of land bounded on the westerly side by the Brandy Cove Road, southerly by the highway connecting the last mentioned Road with the Commons or Bayside Road, and easterly in part by the east half of said commons lot no 12, and on the northern side by lands of the SA Land company, and said East half of said commons lot no. 12.

Beacon
April 2/1903
The Algonquin golf course will be enlarged to an 18 hole course this summer.  the Brixton property, recently purchased, will be included therein.  A portion of the Alms House farm may also be leased for the purpose.  A professional golfer from Toronto, will arrive here in a few days to look over and lay out the ground.

Beacon
April 16, 1903
Laying out the Golf Links
Mr. George Cumming, of the Toronto Golf Club, was in Sa on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, laying out an eighteen hole golf course for the Algonquin golf club.  He is delighted with the SA links.

Beacon
Aug 6/1903
C. N. to be formed.  another line from coast to coast.  Yardage of each hole on golf course.  ladies to compete for cup offered by Miss Reta Benson.
The new golf course is proving very popular.  The course is divided as follows:--
Club House—225 yards
Kidd’s treasure—235 yards
Knoll, 300 yards
Target, 125 yards
Joe’s Point, 225 yards
Grove, 400 yards
Westward Ho, 300 yards
Big Spruce, 550 yards
Cedars, 235 yards
Haw Trees, 135 yards
Eastward Ho, 290 yards
Apple Trees, 315 yards
Maple Tree, 160 yards
Brook, 170 yards
Swamp, 215 yards
Cedar Lane, 390 yards
The Stumps, 140 yards
Home, 205 yards.  (total—4615 yards)

Beacon
March 16/1905
A new golf club house is to be built on Cedar Lane, near where the Brickson House stood.

Beacon
March 30/1905
While here last week, Mr. O’Leary arranged for the building of another Golf Club House on Cedar Lane.  He expected to do some cottage building this spring but it is now too late of this season.

April 22-26, 1905
Lewiston Journal—Illustrated Magazine Section
A Family of Military Fame: the History of the Browns of East Livermore Covers three Wars: Anecdotes from the Revolution to the civil War.
. . .
About the time Wesley Brown’s term of enlistment expired, one of his little girls broke the head of a little black doll of which she was very fond; so pap was written to bring her home another.  Word soon came back that he was on his way back, and that he was bringing Emma’s ‘nigger baby’ with him.  When he arrived there was consternation dire among the children of the Brown family, for the ‘nigger baby’ proved to be a great overgrown fourteen-year-old coloured boy, black as charcoal and green as grass, a combination of color not at all pleasing to the little girls.  Indeed, so great was their terror, the new importation was obliged to spend his first night at East Livermore in the barn on account of it.
            The way Mr. Brown came by his unique acquisition was this: While encamped near Harper’s Ferry, before the emancipation proclamation, this lad kept watching around the cook’s tent until he made up his mind the soldiers were about to leave; then he sidled in and asked to be taken along too.  Mr. Brown told him to be around the next morning and he might go.  In the bustle of breaking camp, the darkey boy was entirely forgotten,, until he turned up bright and early, his bundle in his hand.  When the transport that carried the soldiers started, the young negro was on board.
            This boy, Charlie Norris, by name, acted as cook’s assistant for Co. I, and soon became a general favorite.  he was eager to learn to read and write, and he kept a piece of clapboard on which he used to get the soldiers to print capital for him to copy.  In this way he learned his letters.  When he came North, Mr. Brown’s daughters taught him to read in the primer.  He stopped at East Livermore for a year or more, working for Mr. Brown in the mill and on the farm, and went to school there during the winter.
            Finally, Charlie Norris enlisted himself, from the town of East Livermore, and joined a colored regiment, seeing active service all over Georgia and the neighoring states, and remaining until the close of the war.  Then he came back to Maine and worked about East Livermore, going to school winters, as before.
            At length he went to Portland and got a position on the steamboat John Brooks, then plying between that city and Boston, and kept that job for several years.   The Browns had a few letters from him during this period, as well as one or two visits.  he soon developed into a big, brawny man, weighting two hundred pounds or more.
            Charlie Norris was very fond of music and he had a voice like that of a lion.  On the occasion of his last visit to the Browns, he attended a prayer meeting one evening: when the congregation started a hymn, Norris joined in the singing.  Rev. Mr. Waterhouse was the pastor of the East Livermore charge that year, and when Charlie let out that big voice of his, it is said the worthy elder jumped almost out of his chair in astonishment.
            The ex-slave finally drifted off Nova Scotia way and married a woman of his own race there, evidently of some considerable education, for the Browns subsequently had a number of letters from her.  They ceased more than twenty years ago, however, and what finally became of the Norris family is not known.

Beacon
Sept 14/1905
Aug 12, 1826 Richard and Marie Stewart, a brother and sister, were arrested for murder of their illegitimate child.  Judge Chipman ordered execution.  Executed Aug 28.  Hanging took place in public square beside Kennedy’s

Nov 29, 1905. 
#653 All Saints Burial
George Henderson.  21 years.

1910. 
#698 All Saints Burial
Mary L. Stuart.  23 years.

Beacon
March 23/1911
Charles Norris
Mr. Charles H. Norris, whose death occurred on Monday last, had been for 32 years a resident of St. Andrews.  (1879)  The greater part of this time he had spent as chef at Kennedy’s hotel.  Born in Maryland 67 years ago (1844), he took part in the Civil War of the United States and at the time of his death was in receipt of a pension from the U. S. Government.  He was a quiet, industrious, model citizen.  he is survived by his wife, two sons and one daughter.  His funeral took place yesterday afternoon.

Beacon
Sept 26/1912
Reminiscences of Old SA (written by the late R. Melville Jack and read before the Canadian Literary Club of SA):
One of my first memories is my father telling me that he had seen a hundred vessels loading pine timber here at one time.  That was before the duty was taken off Baltic lumber in England.  My father came from the West Indies, where he had been manager on a plantation and had the management of the slaves. . . .  Among others I recall were . . .  Old Joe, (Joe’s Point?) a negro who lived in an old ship’s cabin at the head of the town, and made splendid spruce beer; the Pottery on the brook that crosses the Joe’s Point road just above the town.  Flower pots were their principal product but they made clay marbles and we could get a lot for a copper (no cents in those days).

1913
Death of Jessie Brickson
(1830-1913 according to cemetery stone)

1915. 
Burial All Saints,
Charles E [dward] Norris, 36 years.  Born 1879.

Nov 19, 1918. 
#767 All Saints Burial
George Henderson.  64 years.

Beacon
Aug 10/1918
To His Worship the Mayor,
Dear Mr. Greenlaw:
It has been suggested to me by the Manager in Chief of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s hotels, that it might be possible for the Town of SA to be willing to exchange the Poor House, situated on the Farm and which is rented by us for Golf Links, for the property known as The Inn and Indian Point. 

May 29, 1922. 
#796 All Saints Burials
Maria Norris, 73 years.
(she may have erected the stone to the Stewart family, if not Jessie)

1928--Frances Wren’s pictorial history shows Slabtown along Cedar Lane.  “Black violet, who came with Colonel Hatch’s family, could remember as a little girl in Africa when the slave ship came and took her away.”

Grace Helen Mowat
The Diverting History of a Loyalist Town, 1935
36 The ships anchored in the harbour, the small boats were lowered and the gallant gentlemen, in their powdered wigs and plum-colored coats and three-cornered hats, helped the ladies to alight.  How quaint and delightful a picture.  Those courteous gentlemen and gentle, courageous ladies, in silks and quilted petticoats, tripping up over the sands to their new homes.  Was there ever before so strange an exodus as that of the Loyalists?  There they were with all their household goods, priceless mahogany and silver plate, damask and linen, family portraits, and heavy trunks, brass-studded and covered with calf skin, their servants and colored slaves.  All landed there on the red sandstone with the gorgeous forest back of them in the haze of a lovely Indian summer day, starting again to build them a city to dwell in.  What a picture for Watteau or Fortuney.

Mowat, Diverting History
61 {Colonel Christopher Hatch, from Boston with Loyalists, originally to Saint John, where he had been granted land, later obtaining a military appointment in St. Andrews.  Could Moses Stewart have come here from Saint John with him?}
Among his various retainers was an old colored slave named Violet, who was unsurpassed as a cook and served up many a sumptuous dinner for the Colonel’s parties.  This old woman lived to a great age and was in later days a source of much interesting information of Revolutionary times.

St. Croix Courier
Aug 20/1936
Shire town Items—A Sincere Tribute.  About 250 people helped Caddy Norris, the Shiretown’s one and only colored gentleman, celebrate his birthday last Tuesday evening in Elite Hall.  The party was typical of that ideal democracy practiced by Mr. Norris himself.  Pauper or millionaire alike were welcomed by the friend-loving, friend-making host.  No person remains long in SA without knowing “Caddy” and everyone who knew him was welcome.  Miss Edna Smith and Larry Lace took charge of the dance program, and the music was provided by Caddy’s orchestra, which plays in Elite Hall several nights a week. Several solos were sung during the evening, which was enjoyed by everyone.  A cash presentation was made to Caddy by the steward of the Algonquin Hotel on behalf of the staff of the hotel.

Courier
Oct 15, 1936
Shiretown Items
An old friend returns
Do you remember Sam Cole?  If so, you are getting along in years; you are not as young as you used to be.  Same Cole is an aged colored gentleman, who was born and brought up in SA but moved to Caribou, Maine, 45 years ago.  His real name is Stuart but in SA he was always called Cole, his mother’s name.  Same Cole, after living in Caribou for a number of years where he lost his wife and three children, moved to New Waterford, Cape Breton.  In this latter town he lived for 22 years.  Until recently Sam Cole was comfortably situated but the last year or two he has been unable to obtain work due to his age.   The aged colored gentleman, now 78, (born in 1858) has been on a visit to his only remaining son in Caribou, hoping to have a home with him there.  However, the son was in too poor circumstances to bear the additional weight of supporting another, and the kindly old man returned to SA, his old home town, to see if the town would do anything for his relief.  the town is under no obligation to give relief to Sam Cole, who, though born in SA, is still a resident of New Waterford, having left there only in last April.  The relief committee, rather than turn the poor old fellow out on the cold world, are giving him a letter to the Mayor of New Waterford and enough funds to carry him at least part of the way to his destination.

St. Croix Courier
May 28/1942
Photo of militia outside market House, circa 1860.  Reference to hanging of blacks circa 1870.

July 6, 1942.
#920 All Saints Burial
Helen Norris,

Aug 28, 1948. 
#973 All Saints Burial
John Cadman Norris.  58 years.

Lewiston Evening Journal
July 23, 1956
Mrs. Margaret Kemp
Leeds—Mrs. Margaret Kemp, 102, Leeds’ oldest resident, died Saturday night following a short illness.
            Born at St. Andrews, NB, June 12, 1854, she was the daughter of George and Eliza Stuart. 
            Mrs. Kemp came to Lewiston at the age of 21 {1875} with the family for whom she worked.  She married John Kemp in 1876 and moved to Leeds in the same year.  They resided on the former Dube place which became popular as a social gathering place and was later turned into the Royal Palm Club by the Kemps.
            Mr. Kemp died in 1941.  The couple were the parents of six children, four of whom survive.
            On her 100th birthday, Mrs. Kemp received among other congratulations, a card from pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower.   She was a member of the three-Quarter Century Club in Portland.
            Survivors include two sons: Maurice of Leeds, with whom she made her home, and Henry of Mon., 2 daughters Mrs. Etta Nichols of Auburn and Miss Lottie Kemp of Leeds, 8 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a nephew.
            At Leeds, July 21, Mrs. Margaret kemp age 102.  Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 pm at Bragdon and Flanders Funeral home in Mon.  Joseph LeMaster conducting.  Buried at Lothrop Cemetery in Leeds. 

(Her granddaughter Elaine Bragdon, in an email to me March 6, 2005: “Yes, I am a descendant of the Stuart/Stewart/Norris/Brickson and Henderson families. . . .  My family was very poor (as were most of the blacks in St. Andrews) and as the younger generations became of age they moved to maine, a few actually moved back to Canada.  I found it interesting that most were actually taken back to St. Andrews to be buried.” {ebragdon@gwi.net}

St. Croix Courier
Aug 4/1966
Rose refers to an incident at “nigger corner.”