Jonathan GREENLAW b. SAY 1733 d. 1818 St Andrews, Charlotte, NB: Boombridge Genealogy

1733 - 1818 (~ 85 years)

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Name	Jonathan GREENLAW
Born	SAY 1733
Gender	Male
Birth	Glasgow, Scotland
	Obituary son Thomas
Birth	Bef 1739
	Assessed at Falmouth in 1760 Marriage intention at Falmouth in 1759
Birth	Bef 1740
	In the army in 1756
Immigration	SUMMER 1753	Dolphin: Greenock to America [1]
	https://archive.org/stream/annalsoftownofwa00lceato#page/84/mode/2up/search/dolphin Annals Of The Town Of Warren: With The Early History Of St. George's, Broad Bay And The Neighboring Settlements On The Waldo Patent 4 editions By Cyrus Eaton p 85 Greenlaw on the Dolphin 1753 These offers attracted the attention of sundry persons in Stirling, Glasgow, and other places in Scotland, who, after consultation, entered into an agreement, the terms of which are not exactly known, to emigrate. Some of them, who were without families, agreed to work for Waldo four years in payment of their passage. Others, at stipulated times after their arrival, were to pay for their passages as well as for supplies furnished. Being collected for embarkation to the number of sixty, besides ten or more children, who went passage free, they went on board the brig Dolphin, Captain Cooters, in the summer of 1753, and, after touching at Piscataqua, where they remained a week or more, arrived in George's river in September. Dr. Robinson had contracted with Waldo to erect a house, and have it ready for their reception on their arrival. This he commenced near the house occupied by the late Capt. Dagget, since rebuilt by his grandson, E. B. Alford. He built the walls of logs, and partitioned the inside into fourteen rooms designed to accommodate the whole company, which contained that number of families. But from the want of materials, or other cause, the roof was never made, and the structure remained unfinished and unoccupied till the timber decayed. In consequence of Robinson's failure to complete this job, the emigrants scattered round and lived the first winter with the old settlers. Provisions were supplied them by Waldo; who appointed Boice Cooper a kind of commissary to take charge of, and deliver them out at stated times. The names of these emigrants were Archibald Anderson, John Dicke, Andrew Malcolm, John Miller, John Crawford, Thomas Johnston, John Mucklewee, John Brison, Andrew Bird, John Kirkpatrick, John Hodgins, John Carswell, John Brown, Robert Kye, Grenlaw, Wilke, Beverage, Auchmuty, and Anderson. They were mostly mechanics, and unacquainted with all agricultural operations, except reaping and threshing. Malcolm was a Glasgow weaver; and Archibald Anderson, who married his sister and belonged to Bannockburn, was of the same trade, and had worked in the same city. Dicke of Stirling, was a maltster and brewer, Miller a delfware manufacturer, Kirkpatrick a cooper, Hodgins a bookbinder, Crawford a shepherd or herdsman, and Auchmuty a slaie maker. Having the promise of lands within two miles of tide waters, they naturally looked forward to the comforts of city life to which they had been accustomed at home; and fearful of Indian hostilities, and unacquainted as they were with the wild beasts that frequented the woods, they could not think of going to separate farms, and fixing their habitations at a distance from each other.
Military	From 1 Apr 1756 to 17 Dec 1759
	French and Indian War
Residence	12 Apr 1757	[Falmouth, York, ME]
	Bounty list at Falmouth
Military	1759
	Fall of Quebec? with General Amherst
	See Loyalist Claim. "He served the last War with General Amherst." Peg Kearney HTY 599 Land, Loyalty, and Self-Interest: One Family?s Journey from Neutrality to Exile Jonathan Greenlaw served with General Amherst and may have been present at the fall of Quebec.14 14 Charles R Greenlaw, Synopsis, Greenlaw Folio. Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013). [Nil] From Loyalist Claim: p 118 St John 22d March 1787 Evidence on the Claim of Jonathan Greenlaw, late of Massachusetts. Claimant Sworn Says he lived at Deer Island before the War, went to Penobscot, staid 2 years, went away on the Evacuation to St Andrews. Had no opportunity of sending his Claim home from St Andrews. Knew of no vessel going to England. He came into the Garrison at Penobscot under General McLean, lived there for Protection, went in in the Fall after the Siege, He had been in Irons because he would not serve the Rebel Army. He served the last War with General Amherst.
Residence	10 Feb 1759	Falmouth, York, ME
Residence	1760	Second Parish [Cape Elizabeth], Falmouth, Cumberland, ME
	https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788 Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives v. 128 -- Usurpation (from p.109), 1688 ; v. 129 -- Usurpation, 1688-1689 ; v. 130 -- Valuation of Towns (to p.436), 1760-1770. Granite Mountain Record Vault United States & Canada Film 2400777 7703441 https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007703441?cat=1055547 [832/1139] A List of the Polls and the Estates Real and Personal of the Several Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Second Parish Falmouth for the year 1761 William Simonton William Cotton Humphrey Merrills Assessors for the Town of Falmouth for the year 17[torn] This to certify that there has Ben Several Persons moved out of the Second Parish in this Town Sence the List was taken in the year 1760 and Several that are taken in the first Parish. ... [834/1139] Jonathan Greenlaw [84+ acres] Polls rateable: 1 Dwelling Houses and Still houses: 1 Oxen four years old and upwards: 2 Cows and Heifers of three years old and upwards: 1 [7?] Sheep one year old and upwards: 12 Swine one year old and upwards: 1 Acres of pasturage and what number of Cows it will keep yearly: 60-20 Acres Tillage Land: 2 Bushels of Grain and Corn of each Sort: 20 Acres of Mowing Land: 20 Tuns of English And upland Hay it yields in one year: 20 Acres of Salt Marsh and what it yields in one year: 2-2 Sum Total of Rents: 17 1 3 [By far the greatest value in the Parish [Next entry from Jonathan Greenlaw is William Green 1 poll rateable. There appears to have been a William Green living in Falmouth at the time.] [836/1139] Charles Greenlaw 1 poll rateable Ebenezer Greenlaw 1 poll rateable Alexander Greenlaw 1 poll rateable The foregoing lists is the Total of the Real Estate & Personal of the Town of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland Raken by William Cotton William Simonton Humphrey Merrill Assessors: For 1760
Residence	1762	Campbell's Neck, Deer Isle, Lincoln, ME
	https://books.google.com/books?id=dvc7AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The Maine Historical Magazine Volume 8 Page 13 Deer Isles and Settlers ... [1762] Jonathan, Charles, Ebenezer, Alexander and William Greenlaw settled on Campbell's Neck. They all moved to Castine and from thence to St Andrews, New Brunswick. Two of the sons of Jonathan returned and settled at Deer Isle. p 13-14 Petition to the General Court 1762 [For Deer Isle, Maine] Jonathan Greenlaw Ebenezer Greenlaw Charles Greenlaw Alex Greenlaw William Greenlaw p 14 1763 William Foster from Dedham, Massachusetts, settled on the Greenlaw lands; he had sons.
Petition	4 Aug 1762	Petition for Deer Isle
Petition	11 Jun 1775	Eggemoggin Reach, Deer Isle, Lincoln, ME
Residence	5 May 1777	[Deer Isle, Lincoln, ME]
	https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/334690?availability=Family%20History%20Library Deeds 1791-1861; index 1791-1864 Authors: Hancock County (Maine). Register of Deeds Index to grantors and grantees 1790-1824 Family History Library United States & Canada Film 10944 7834661 https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834661?cat=334690 [153/702] Index of Nason Deeds v. 3-4, 1794-1797 Family History Library United States & Canada Film 10948 7834660 https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834660?cat=334690 Volume 3 Page 47 [30/596] Deer Island May 5th 1777 Robert Nason Senr r Deer Island John Cambell late from Portsmouth 6 pounds land being a gore adjoining Eben Greenlaw's Farm and running a west course from a large stone at the eastern end of the gore aforesaid said line turning a west course until it run out to the water at the Fish Creek formerly to be improved by William Greenlaw was first granted from William Greenlaw to Mr Blake of Bagaduce secondly to Francis Haskell of Georges thirdly from Francis Haskell Jr to me Robert Nason Senr Robert Nason Wit: Jonathan Greenlaw, Ebenezer Greenlaw Recd and entered Septr 16th 1794
Occupation	September 1779
	Laborer
	The Maine Genealogist. Farmington, ME: The Maine Genealogical Society, 1977-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) Volume 26 Page 51 The Artificers and Inhabitants who Built Fort George, Penobscot, 1779-1780 by Robert Carver Brooks p 58 Inhabitants Employed During September 1779 Skill - Pay Rate - Name - No Days Laborer 1/- Cha Greenlaw 8 Laborer 1/- Eben Greenlaw 8 Laborer 1/- Jon Greenlaw 8 p 62 Inhabitants Employed During March 1780 Laborer 2/6 Jon Greenlaw 8 1/2 Laborer 2/6 Cha Greenlaw 8 1/2 Laborer 2/6 Alex Greenlaw 8 1/2 Laborer 2/6 Will Greenlaw 10 The Maine Genealogist. Farmington, ME: The Maine Genealogical Society, 1977-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB531/rd/14529/58/265106018 p 58 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB531/rd/14529/62/265106304 p 62 The lists of names presented below were compiled from over 300 pages of payrolls and accounts which name the artificers, military personel, and inhabitants who built Fort George, Penobscot. All accounts are marked "Duplicate" and were kept by the Engineer Department at Majabigwaduce (now Castine). The accounts are dated from 22 May 1779 to 30 June 1780 and, following 28 blank pages, from 1 March 1783 to 31 December 1783. The volume is now preserved at the Public Record Office (PRO), Great Britain's national archives at Kew in Surrey. It was microfilmed in 1991 for the National Archives of Canada. The PRO citation is: AO [Audit Office] 3/141 Account Books 1764-1783
Occupation	March 1780
	Laborer
	The Maine Genealogist. Farmington, ME: The Maine Genealogical Society, 1977-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) Volume 26 Page 51 The Artificers and Inhabitants who Built Fort George, Penobscot, 1779-1780 by Robert Carver Brooks p 58 Inhabitants Employed During September 1779 Skill - Pay Rate - Name - No Days Laborer 1/- Cha Greenlaw 8 Laborer 1/- Eben Greenlaw 8 Laborer 1/- Jon Greenlaw 8 p 62 Inhabitants Employed During March 1780 Laborer 2/6 Jon Greenlaw 8 1/2 Laborer 2/6 Cha Greenlaw 8 1/2 Laborer 2/6 Alex Greenlaw 8 1/2 Laborer 2/6 Will Greenlaw 10
Residence	26 Apr 1783	Penobscot, Lincoln, ME
	http://www.royalprovincial.com/genealogy/settle/lndpenb2.shtml A List of Houses their Owners Names & Value Exclusive of the Lotts on which they stand. Penobscot 26th April 1783. LYMBURNER?s 100. 0. 0. GREENLAW?s [Jonathan] 70. 0. 0 ... LINKLITERS 60. 0. 0 ... LINKLETER?s 100. 0. 0. ... Hutts south from the Fort 100. 0. 0. ... RIGBY?s, DAVIS?s & sundry Hutts in that Neighbourhood 320. 0. 0. The above is a Copy of a valuation of all the Houses Private Property on the Peninsula of Penobscot Called Campbelltown, as [illegible] the lowest Computation in April 1783 And forwarded to His Excellency Sir Guy CARELTON then At New York. Robr. PAGAN Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 13, Volume 51 Folio 252.
Residence	4 Jul 1783	Penobscot, Lincoln, ME
	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aek740/PL-132.jpg Downeast Ancestry December 1983 Volume 7 Number 4 Penobscot Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute Robert C. Brooks Penobscot Inhabitants Certified Loyal: 1783 [4 July 1783] "A List of Inhabitants with their Familys who propose to Remove from Penobscot to Nova Scotia" Jonathan Greenlaw 10 [Ten years and older: Jonathan, Elizabeth, William, Rebecca [m William], James, Thomas, Richard, Jonathan, Jean, Ebenezer] 3 [Under 10: Sarah, Elizabeth, Rebecca (Also? William, John sons of William] Total: 13 [15 assumed including the two children of William] [The family appears to be in need of clothing]
Children	2 Aug 1783	[11: 8 ten and older. 3 under ten]
	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aek740/PL-132.jpg Penobscot Inhabitants Certified Loyal: 1783 "A List of Inhabitants with their Familys who propose to Remove from Penobscot to Nova Scotia] Jonathan Greenlaw 10 [Ten years and older: Jonathan, Elizabeth, William, Rebecca, James, Thomas, Richard, Jonathan, Jean, Ebenezer] 3 [Under 10: Sarah, Elizabeth, Rebecca (Also? William, John sons of William)] Total: 13 [15 assumed including the two children of William] [The family appears to be in need of clothing]
Children	10 Jun 1784	[10]
	Two extra probably the children of William
Residence	10 Jun 1784	Passamaquoddy, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB [2]
Children	August 1784	8
	Jonathan Greenlaw Women: 1 [Elizabeth] Children: 8 [10 children assumed from return of 10 June 1784. William and Robert returned to Maine. So: James, Thomas, Jonathan, Jean, Ebenezer, Sarah, Elizabeth, Rebecca.] Servants: - Acres: 450
Residence	August 1784	Back Lands, Penobscot Grant, Charlotte, NB
	http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cannbfam/CH.pdf RETURN OF THE BACK LANDS OF THE PENOBSCOTT LOYALIST - 1784 [August 1784 per http://genforum.genealogy.com/trott/messages/117.html] {This may match the item that follows, althoush the papers seem to be separate in the PANBreference file.} A = Settlers B = Women C = Children D = servants E. = no. of acres Ebenezer Greenlaw Women: 1 [Eunice] Childeren: 7 [11 children assumed in return of 10 June 1784] Servants: - Acres: 400 Mathew Limeburner ... Alexr. Linkleter John McIntosh Finley Malcom Patrick Callahan Jonathan Greenlaw Women: 1 [Elizabeth] Children: 8 [10 children assumed from return of 10 June 1784. William and Robert returned to Maine. So: James, Thomas, Jonathan, Jean, Ebenezer, Sarah, Elizabeth, Rebecca.] Servants: - Acres: 450 John Carlow John Rigby Benjm. Pumroy Samuel Trott Alexr. Greenlaw Women: 1 [Hannah] Children: 6 [6 children assumed from return of 10 June 1784: Walter, Hannah, Abigail, Jane, Elizabeth, William] Servants: - Acres: 350 John Nason James Malony Lachn. McCurdy James Stewart John Dowling 27 Greenlaws. 3 not mentioned are the family of William Greenlaw and Rebecca Babbage. So who are the missing 6 between June and August?
Residence	1 Sep 1784	[Judgment] Deer Island, Hancock, ME
Residence	15 Apr 1785	Sunbury, NB
	Deed in Lincoln County Registry Deer Isle Deed
Residence	14 Jan 1788	Lot 44, Bayside, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
Residence	5 Feb 1788	[Charlotte, NB]
	Volume A Page 399 [402/485] No 223 Timothy Roix Junr yeoman St Andrews and wife Hannah Nathaniel Giddings & Samuel Brooks gentlemen St Andrews 20 pounds 1/2 Lot 50 Penobscot, that half adjoining Lot 51 purchased from Benjamin Pomeroy and Hannah his wife [Volume A Page 239] 1/4 to Giddings and 3/4 to Brooks 5 February 1788 Timothy Roix Jr [His mark] Hannah Roix [Her mark] Wit: Ebenez Greenlaw, Jonathan Greenlaw
Residence	27 Mar 1788	Lot 44, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
	Volume A Page 361 [364/485] No 193 James Stewart vintner Town of St Andrews James Goslin yeoman Charlotte County 30 pounds 1/2 Lot 43 on the River St Croix 50 acres bounded on the north by Jonathan Greenlaw on the south by me James Stewart 27 March 1788 James Stewart Ann Stewart Wit: John Robinson, Robert Watson
Residence	29 Sep 1789	St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
Residence	2 Oct 1789	St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
Residence	9 Feb 1791	[Charlotte, NB]
	Lot 49 Penobscot Volume B Page 99 [102/753] No 402 David Mowatt St Andrews Nehemiah Gilman, Benjamin Piper both of St Andrews 30 pounds Farm lot 49 between Benjamin Pomeroy and James Perey 9 February 1791 David Mowatt Wit: Jonathan Greenlaw, Dorothy Caleff
Residence	25 May 1795	[Charlotte, NB]
	Volume C Page 46 [49/560] No 37 John Lymburner Robert Pagan & Co 51 pounds 15 shillings Farm Lot 67 sold to my deceased father by Joel Brig and since my father's decease conveyed to me in consequence on the debts paid by me for my father's estate by my father Thomas Karr & my mother Margaret Carr 25 May 1795 John Lumburner Wit: Jonathan Greenlaw, John Craig
Petition	1793.1796
	Petition for land allowed for wife and children https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS108/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=56440 RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 Name GREENLAW, JONATHAN Year 1796 County Charlotte Microfilm F1040 See petition of TURNER, JAMES . BALDWIN, JOHN . BRADFORD, BEN . COOKSON, WILLIAM . DALEY, DAVID . DOUGHERTY, EDMOND . EASTMAN, DAVID . GREENLAW, JONATHAN . HALEY, JOHN . HITCHINGS, AMOS . JOYCE, JOHN . LINNEKIN, ZEBEDEE . MCCURDY, LACHLAN . MCINTOSH, JOHN . MILLEKIN, DOMINICUS . PENOBSCOT ASSOCIATION, ----- . RIGBY, JOHN . SIM, ROBERT . THOMSON, DUGALD . TURNER, JAMES https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/78954?availability=Family%20History%20Library Land petitions, 1783-1857 Authors: New Brunswick. Crown Land Office 1796 Leonard, George Jr. - 1798 Raymond, Samuel Family History Library United States & Canada Film 1288462 8191399 https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008191399?cat=78954 [215/829] To His Excellency Thomas Carleton Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Brunswick etc etc The memorial of James Turner, David Eastman, Jonathan Greenlaw, Lachlan McCudy and others... Humbly sheweth That your Memorialists were of the number of those persons who during the war between Great Britain and her Colonies, left their possessions on account of their attachment to the British Government, and sheltered themselves and families from the rage of their enemies in His Majesty's Garrison then established at Penobscot... That previous to the Garrison's evacuation Penobscot the General there commanding agreeable to his instructions, directed to be made known to your Memorialists, that besides the Land allowed indiscriminately to all Loyalists desirous to settle in the bay of Passamaquaddie, those of the Penobscot association who had families should be allowed a certain proportion of Land for each woman and child to be laid out in the rear of the Land given to the Loyalists... That accordingly directions were given to the Surveyors who actually did lay out land for each woman and child belonging to the families of the Penobscot association and the Lots were drawn and assigned to each one. That numbers of those children now come to maturity and others concerned in the said Land have been and are still desirous to occupy and improve but have been much discouraged therefrom, as hitherto no Grant could be obtained to confirm the Possession- as also it having been represented to your Memorialists that certain persons now of the Association have applied for and allowed License to occupy a large portion of the Lands allotted to the families of your Memorialists Your Memorialists therefore beseech your Excellency a Grant of the Land agreeable to the original Survey... And as in Duty bound etc St Andrews, County of Charlotte 1st February 1796 [Signed] James Turner David Eastman Jonathan Greenlaw Lachlan McCurdy Amos Hitching William Cookson David Daley Dominicus Millekin John Hurley John Joyce Dugald Thomson John McIntosh Robert Sim John Baldwin Ben Bradford Zebedee Linnekin Edmod Dougherty John Rigby James Turner & others of Penobscot Association for their Family lots Saint Patricks The Family lots fall mostly within the reserve the Survey of them is therefore Anulled Filed 12th March 1793 [sic]
Aged	1818	80 years
Residence	[1761]	[Stroudwater, Portland, Falmouth, Cumberland, ME]
	See William Census 1800
Residence	2 years in the fort, then built a house near Penobscot
	Loyalist Claim
Military	[1761]
	French & Indian War
	American Migrations 1765-1799, Coldham, Peter Wilson Genealogical Publishing Co Surrey, England 2000 p 37 Greenlaw, Ebenezer of Penobscot. He was settled on Deer Island in 1761 and served with his five brother during the French War. At the beginning of he rebellion he was taken by the rebels and put in irons because he would not join them in the siege of Penobscot. After coming within British lines for a year, he returned to Deer Island but, when Penobscot was evacuated, came away to St Andrews, NB. His father divided his estate between three of his sons. Claims for a fishing schooner part owned with Jonathan and Alexander Greenlaw; a house and 40 acres; 250 acres of woodland. Greenlaw, Jonathan & Alexander of Penobscot. Memorial, St Andrews, NB, 1786. They are two of four brothers who, with their brother Charles Greenlaw, took up lands on Deer Island near Penobscot and cleared 30 acres. When the British came there they all took the oath of allegiance to the Crown and, on the coming of the rebels, the four brothers were drived into the woods before trying to escape on their own vessel, the Egamagan. They were intercepted by the rebel brig Pallas flying British colours and were schackled hand and foot to the deck while their estate was plundered. They were so badly abused that their brother Charles is not sometimes out of his senses. Ebeneer Greenlaw had disposed of his estate but at a small consideration. Jonathan Greenlaw, when Penobscot was evacuated, took his house to pieces and brought it with him to St Andrews. Claim for a small schooner with cargo of salt & provisions; pork, fish, etc. Account [undated] of the Sufferings of Ebenezer Greenlaw.
Military	REVOLUTIONARY
	Nathan Phillips's Company?
	See Alexander's Claim
Died	1818	St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
	Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution with an historical essay Lorenzo Sabine. 1864 Little, Brown and Company Boston p 498 GREENLAW, Jonathan. Of Castine, Maine. Brother of Charles Greenlaw. At the evacuation of Castine by the Royal forces, in 1783, he removed to St Andrew, New Brunswick, where he died, in 1818, aged eighty. His sons, six in number [William, James, Thomas, Richard, Jonathan, Ebenezer], were Whigs [ie, American colonists who supported the Revolution]. His son William, the only one who entered the service, was a soldier under Washington, and at the peace settled at Deer Isle, Maine, where he died, in 1838, aged eighty-seven. His son, the late Jonathan Babbage Greenlaw, was a ship-master, and lived at Eastport, Maine. http://books.google.com/books?id=dvc7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=penobscot+association+loyalist+greenlaw&source=bl&ots=pkQ9VcxE9Q&sig=xzLctucYpyd6IdMVI2Jjrsenjjw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XVgKVO_hKNGxogTd5oCoCQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=penobscot%20association%20loyalist%20greenlaw&f=false The Maine Historical Magazine, Volume 8 p 12 Penobscot, Castine and Brooksville The Loyalists at Penobscot and Castine 1779-1783 I have prepared a list of those who appear to have been at Castine and Penobscot and went to St. Andrews. John Pagan, Robert Pagan, Esquire, from Portland, died Nov. 23, 1821, aged 71; John Pagan, Jr., Thomas Wyer, Esquire, from Falmouth (Portland), died Feb. 24, 1824, aged 79; David Wyer, from Falmouth; Nathaniel Phillips, Thomas Phillips, Thomas Pagan, Daniel Brown, Neil Brown, Jeremiah Pote, Dr. John Calef, Matthew Lymburner, Finley Malcom, Benjamin Milliken, the founder of Ellsworth; William Reidhead, who returned to Penobscot; Samuel Trott, John Trott, Jonathan Greenlaw, from Deer Isle, died 1818, aged 80; Charles Greenlaw, from Deer Isle, died 1811, aged 65; Ebenezer Greenlaw, from Deer Isle, died 1801, aged 70; John Carlow. Other Loyalists there John Carlton, Jr., Woolwich; Nathaniel Gardner, Edmund Doherty, Doctor Mayer, Doctor James Tupper, Jacob Dyer. (Rev. Jacob Bailey's Memoirs.) The Loyalists of Massachusetts Their Memorials, Petitions, and Claims E Alfred Jones Cearfield, MD 1969 p 154 Jonathan, Ebenezer and Alexander Greenlaw These three loyalists (whose aged parents died about 1776) had lands on Deer Island, near Penobscot. They were all taken prisoners, with their brother Charles, by the "rebel brig Pallas," and treated with every indignity, so much so that Charles became insane. They were all settled at St Andrews, New Brunswick, in 1786. (A.O 13/50.) The three brother claimed L657 1s, and were allowed L50 each. (A.O. 12/109.) According to Sabine, Jonathan died in 1818, aged 80; Ebenezer about 1810, aged 70; and Charles about 1810, aged 70, all at St Andrews.
Person ID	I21428	4 February 2018
Last Modified	18 Feb 2023

Father	William GREENLAW, b. Bef 1707, d. [1776]
Mother	Jane, d. [1789]
Married	C 1726
Family ID	F4727	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Elizabeth LAMB, b. C 1738?, d. BY 1788?, [St Andrews, Charlotte, NB]

_MARI 10 Feb 1759 Falmouth, York, ME

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/299948?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1712-1891
Authors: Falmouth (Maine). Town Clerk
Town records, vol. 1-2 (original and typescript), 1712-1775: proceedings of meetings, land and boundary matters, marks of animals, roads, intentions of marriage and marriage records 1733-1763.
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
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p 64 [Transcription]
William Greenlaw of Boston Enterd his Name and Purpose of Marriage with Elizabeth Fauset of Falmouth Nov 21 1758
Pr Stepn Longfellow Town Clerk
p 65 [Transcription]
Jonathan Greenlaw Entered his Name and Purpose of Marriage with Elizabeth Lamb both of Falmouth Febry 10th 1759
Pr Stepn Longfellow Town Clerk

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p 65 [Transcription]
William Greenlaw of Boston Enterd his Name and Purpose of Marriage with Elizabeth Fauset of Falmouth Nov 21 1758
Pr Stepn Longfellow Town Clerk
...
Jonathan Greenlaw Entered his Name and Purpose of Marriage with Elizabeth Lamb both of Falmouth Febry 10th 1759
Pr Stepn Longfellow Town Clerk
Source: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 16 (Oct. 1862).
p 317
RECORDS OF FALMOUTH (NOW PORTLAND) ME.
[Continued from vol. xiv, page 226.]
Intentions of Marriage, from the Records of the Town of Falmouth.
Alphabetically arranged.
Wm. Greenlaw of Boston with Eliz. Fausset, Nov. 21, 1758.
Jona. Greenlaw of Boston with Eliz. Lamb, Feb. 10, 1759.
Jonathan Greenlaw
Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907
Name: Jonathan Greenlaw
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Lamb
Event Date: 10 Feb 1759
Event Place: Falmouth, Maine
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I03041-4 , System Origin: Maine-EASy , GS Film number: 9795
"Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F463-V4M : accessed 13 Sep 2014), Jonathan Greenlaw and Elizabeth Lamb, 10 Feb 1759; citing Falmouth, Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 9795.
Jonathan Greenlaw
Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907
Name: Jonathan Greenlaw
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 10 Feb 1759
Event Place: Falmouth, , , United States
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Lamb
Spouse's Gender: Female
GS Film Number: 000009795 , Digital Folder Number: 007031719 , Image Number: 03009
"Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907 ", index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QV3S-GSMD : accessed 13 Sep 2014), Jonathan Greenlaw and Elizabeth Lamb, 1759.
Jonathan Greenlaw
Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907
Name: Jonathan Greenlaw
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 10 Feb 1759
Event Place: Falmouth, , Maine, United States
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Lamb
Spouse's Gender: Female
GS Film Number: 001002601 , Digital Folder Number: 007015877 , Image Number: 03214
"Maine, Vital Records, 1670-1907 ", index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2HVC-TCW : accessed 13 Sep 2014), Jonathan Greenlaw and Elizabeth Lamb, 1759.

Children

	1. William GREENLAW, b. [1761], d. 16 Nov 1832, Deer Isle, Hancock, ME
	2. James GREENLAW, b. 1766?
	3. Ebenezer GREENLAW, b. [1766], d. 1848-1851
	4. John GREENLAW, b. B C 1768, d. 17 Jun 1792?
	5. Jonathan GREENLAW, b. [BEFORE 1770], d. *[1822-1831]
	6. Thomas S GREENLAW, b. [1770], d. 15 Jun 1847, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB
	7. Richard GREENLAW, b. 3 Feb 1772, d. 14 Sep 1841?
	8. Sarah GREENLAW, b. *[1774-1776], d. Bef 1861 CENSUS
	9. Jane GREENLAW, b. *[1774-1779], d. [30 Jun 1802]
	10. Abigail GREENLAW, b. *[1777], d. Bef 1871 CENSUS
	11. Elizabeth GREENLAW, b. 27 Aug 1778?, d. 29 Dec 1844?, Caistor, Lincoln, ON
	12. Rebecca GREENLAW, b. US , d. 18 Jun 1856

Family ID F6173 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents		St Andrews Rural 1805 A look at the families living on the Penobscot Association Grant in the rural part of St Andrews, New Brunswick, around 1805.
		The Jonathan Greenlaw Problem
		Notes on the First Greenlaw Generation in Maine and New Brunswick
		Ebenezer Greenlaw Loyalist Claim
		Timeline of the Greenlaws during the Revolutionary War Timeline of the Greenlaws during the Revolutionary War
		Determining the Children of the New Brunswick Greenlaw Brothers
		Greenlaw Deer Isle Deeds
		Greenlaw Land on Deer Isle Before the Revolutionary War
		Greenlaw French and Indian War Records
		The French and Indian War and the Arrival of the Greenlaws in Maine
		Petition for Deer Isle 1762

Notes

Scotland's People Website 5 October 2014: Nil
Early NB Probate: Nil
Johnson's Vitals: Nil
MHS: Nil
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine Volumes 1-4: Nil
Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England (NEHGS): Nil
All Saints Anglican: Checked
British Military and Naval Records [Including War of 1812 and Revolutionary War ] (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY [Library and Archives of Canada]: Nil Greenlaws
Charlotte County Court of Equity: Nil [See letter on file]
Falmouth Assessment 1761: Nil

3/12 children named a child Jonathan

* * *
Evidence for children
1783: 11. 8 over 10 [James, Ebenezer, John, Jonathan, Thomas, Richard, Sarah], 3 under 10 [Jean, Abigail, Elizabeth, Rebecca[
1784: 8 [James, Ebenezer, John, Jonathan, Thomas, Sarah, Jean, Abigail, Elizabeth, Rebecca]

Note on order of children: An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine: With Notices of Its Settlers and Early Inhabitants. George Lawrence Hosmer. Says Richard Greenlaw is the youngest son of Jonathan Greenlaw

Sabine says he had 6 sons [William, James, Thomas, Richard, Jonathan, Ebenezer]
Charles Greenlaw believe that Ebenezer m Ann and Jonathan m Sarah are sons of Jonathan, but only "attempts" to place the children from the 1784 muster roll.

Return of Back Lands 1784: 8 [If William m Rebecca family had retured to Maine by this point, there should be 12]

William: [Direct] Hosmer's sketch of Deer Isle
James: m Abigail d Alexander. Lot 5 Chamcook grant eventually passes to Jonathan descendants.
John: 2 John Greenlaws in St Andrews. Alexander's family doesn't have room for one.
Thomas: [Direct] Obituary names father
Richard: [Direct] Hosmer's sketch of Deer Isle
Jonathan: [Direct] Deed for Lot 44 1808 "granted to my father Jona Greenlaw Senr." Sell out Lot 44 at same time he appears at Chamcook
Jean: d? Charles Greenlaw. Other of his children end up in St Stephen and Calais
Sarah: m Jonathan Greenlaw s Ebenezer
Ebenezer: [Direct] 1798 Deed calls him son of Jonathan.
Abigail: m Walter Greenlaw r Chamcook
Elizabeth: Ontario orders of Council names father. Children named Jonathan and Elizabeth
Rebecca: Married John Rigby whose grant was in the immediate neighborhood of the Jonathan Greenlaw grant Lot 44. Could she be a daughter of William m Rebecca, born before their marriage, or named for this Rebecca?

Children of Jonathan Greenlaw m Elizabeth Lamb and their farms
William: Returned to Deer Isle
James: In Chamcook by 1811 perhaps as early as 1808
John:
Thomas: Lot 42 before 1831, Davis lot. Descendants own Lot 44 original grant
Richard: Returned to Deer Isle
Jonathan: Owned part of the original grant Lot 44
Jean: r St Stephen
Sarah: m Jonathan s Ebenezer. Lot 56
Ebenezer: Owned part of the original grant Lot 44. d c 1798
Elizabeth: m John Lymburner r Ontario
Rebecca: m John Rigby r Lot 47
Penobscot Loyalists
Brooks

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~aek740/PL-150.jpg
Downeast Ancestry
December 1983
Volume 7 Number 4
Penobscot Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute
Robert C. Brooks
List of Cattle brought down in the Sloop from Penobscot
20 June 1784
W F Ganong compiled the following list from an old account book (author unknown, no not found). In the original, against each name was a mention of the number of cattle and other livestock carried.
Ebenezer Greenlaw
Matther Limburner
Jonethean Greenlaw
Alex Greenlaw
John Nason
James Rusel
Mr Thomson [James?/Dugal?]
Daniel Brown
Mr [William] Cooksons
Mr William Sween [Swain]
New Brunswick Museum MS F61, Book IV Page 370
Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution with an historical essay
Lorenzo Sabine.
1864 Little, Brown and Company
Boston

p 498
GREENLAW, Jonathan. Of Castine, Maine. Brother of Charles Greenlaw. At the evacuation of Castine by the Royal forces, in 1783, he removed to St Andrew, New Brunswick, where he died, in 1818, aged eighty. His sons, six in number [William, James, Thomas, Richard, Jonathan, Ebenezer], were Whigs [ie, American colonists who supported the Revolution]. His son William, the only one who entered the service, was a soldier under Washington, and at the peace settled at Deer Isle, Maine, where he died, in 1838, aged eighty-seven. His son, the late Jonathan Babbage Greenlaw, was a ship-master, and lived at Eastport, Maine.
Canada, Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835
Name: Ebenezer Greenlaw
Previous Residence Place: Massachusetts
Record Type: Account of Losses
Piece Description: New Claims B-I
US Region: Massachusetts
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835; Class: AO 13; Piece: 050.

p 491
A True Account of my Sufferings
By the Rebels for My Loyalist to the Government of Myself & Family from the first Movement of the Rebellion untill I moved my family down to Pasmaquady. They abused myself and family. But More Especially in the time of the Seige of His Majesty's Fort George at Penobscot. four Brothers of us was in our Own Vessel in the Beach Call'd egamagon, the Pallace Brig came down under British Colours, brought us too lock us on Board & Put us imediatly into irons hands and feet Bolted us down to the deck took our Vessel & their Captain with a Number of them went on Shore to our Farms and Kill'd Our Creatures Plundered Our houses and destroyed What we had Growing & Reported that they had hangd us four. By the Capt's Orders & To Conirm their Report hoisted up Block up to the Yards arm in form of a Person for fiteen Minutes or so Sussesivly four times to terrify Our families and sent us in irons on board a Small Boat up to their Comador. We was brough before him who asked us if we Would assist our answer was no. Who said we Remain Prisoners during the Expedition and so put us on board four different Ships. I myself on board the Black prince, then in a Little time they took hold of me & Took me up upon the forcastle and pull'd & hauld be and tied my hands behind my back put a Roap about my neck and haul'd my Cap Over my face and went to hoist me up to the Yards arm hoisting me to tiptoes. Consider Gentlemen and please your honrs the terrors of an approaching death, then they Let me go and one of them asked me to eat a Little & the said he Would Rather run a Knife through my heart after sun set their Lieut came on board who Call'd me and examined me and on Watson said I had piatiled on of the Kings tenders and taken on of their prizes then he told me to be gone & if I step one foot one way or other to run me through with the Byonet and afterwards I had my threatned
Ebenezer Greenlaw
Canada, Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835
Name: Ebenezer Greenlaw
Previous Residence Place: Massachusetts
Record Type: Account of Losses
Piece Description: New Claims B-I
US Region: Massachusetts
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835; Class: AO 13; Piece: 050.

p 492
County of Charlotte in the Province of New Brunswick

Alexander Greenlaw late of Penobscot maketh Oath that he resided at Penobscot and Saint Andrews from the 15th of July 1783 to the 25th of March 1784 and this deponent further Saith that he was utterly incapable of preferring or delivering to the commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty third year of the Reign of his present Majesty entitled An Act for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Losses and Service of all Such persons who have Suffered in their Rights properties or possessions during the late unhappy dissentioned in America in Consequence of their Loyalty to His Majesty and Attachment to the British Government or at their Office any Memorial Claim or request for Aid or relief on Account of thie Deponent Losses during the late unhappy dissention in America within the time allowed by the Said Act for the delivery of Such Claims by reason that this deponent during all Such time Viz between the 15th of July 1783 and the 25th of March 1784 lived or resided at Penobscot & Saint Andrews and although he had heard of the Act and that Claims were to be delivered in a certain time - yet the anxiety he was in respecting the removal of his family to a new Settlement - prevented his paying attention to forward his Claim in Season
Alexander Grenlaw [Signature]
Sworn this 6th day of April 1786
before me Robr Pagan J Peace

p 493
County of Charlotte in the Province of New Brunswick

Jonathan Greenlaw and Ebenezer Greenlaw late of Deer Island but now of Saint Andrews make Oath & Sy that they resided at Penobscot and Saint Andrews from the 15th of July 1783 and the 25th of March 1784 and these deponents further Say that they were utterly incapable of preferring or delivering to the Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament passed in the Twenty fifth year of the Reign of his present Majesty entitled an Act for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Losses and Services of all Such persons who have Suffered in their Rights, properties and possessions, in Consequence of their Loyalty to His Majesty and Attachment to the British Government pray their Office any Memorial Claim or request for Aid or relief on account of these deponents Losses during the late unhappy dissentions in America within the time allowed by the Said Act for the delivery of Such Claims - by reason that these deponents during all Such time Viz between the 15th July 1783 and the 25th march 1784 lived or resided at Penobscot and Saint Andrews but having never Seen the Act of anything relating to it but having only report to proceed on - they were obliged to attend to the removal of their families which engaged their whole time and thoughts - till it was out of their power to forward their Claims to be delivered in Season
Jonathan Grenlaw [Signature]
Ebenezer Grenlaw [Signature]

Sworn this 29th day of March 1786
at Saint Andrews before me
Robert Pagan J Peace
Canada, Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835
Name: Jonathan Greenlaw
Residence Year: 1786 - 1788
Previous Residence Place: Deer Island
Record Type: Memorial
Piece Description: Evidence
US Region: Massachusetts Bay
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835; Class: AO 13; Piece: 011.
p 57
(New claim)
To the Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament for enquiring into the Losses and Services of the American Loyalists
The Memorial of Jonathan, Ebenezer and Alexander Greenlaw
Humbly Sheweth
That your Memorialists had formerly taken up Lands on Deer Island near Penobscot, on which they had made great Improvements (besides clearing thirty acres for their aged Parents who died ten years ago) tho they had no Title from the Crown to hold those Lands being prevented by the War from obtaining it.
That they were always esteemed Loyal Subjects, and when the British Troops took Post at Penobscot, they with another Brother went and took the Oath of allegiance before General McLean who permitted them to return to their Families. That this proceeding gave great offence to their Rebel Neighbors. On the arrival of the Rebel Force against the Fort your Memorialists finding it impossible to give their assistance to the British retired into the Woods for a time, and after returning home were advised to go up and satisfy the Rebel Commadore that they were not in the Fort and thereby save their Property. That on their wy up for that Purpose with their other Brother in a Vessel of their own they were taken by the Rebel Brig Pallas, and were treated with every Indignity by the Crew who made a Prize of their Vessel, plundered their Farms, frightened and abused their Families, and carried your Memorialists to the Commadore, who ordered them to be closely confined on board of different ships where they were abused in a most inhuman manner, insomuch that their Brother Charles is at time bereft of his Sences. That after the Siege your Memorialists returned home, and as the place was under Subjection to the British two of them remained upon their Farms until the Evacuation, when knowing it would not be possible to live in peace under the Rebel Government removed to St Andrews, but previous to his coming away Ebenezer disposed of his Farm for an invaluable Consideration which has not yet been fully made, rather than lose his whole Improvement.
That Jonathan Greenlaw removed his Family to Penobscot where he built a House which at the Evacuation he took to Pieces and brought with him to St Andrews at a great Expence.
Your Memorialists therefore having stated their Cases beg your Honors will be pleased at attend to their Claims which are hereto annexed, and as each of them has a large Family and His Majesty's allowance of Provisions is almost at an end, the smallest Compensation will be accepted with Gratitude.
And your Memorialists etc.
St Andrews April 1786

p 115
Losses Sustained by Jonathan Greenlaw during the late unhappy dissentions in America in consequence of his Loyalty to His Majesty and attachment to the British Government for which he craves Compensation.

1/4 part of a small Schooner, Salt & Provision Clothing and other necessaries taken by the Pallas brig....10 - -
2 Cows @L5 - 30 Sheep @ 15/ L22 10....32 10 -
1 young Ox L8 3 one Quarter Beef @ 20/....9 3 -
60 lb Pork L1 10 Six Cheeses L4 60....6 6 -
2 Quintals Codfish....@ 15/....4 10 -
2 Muskets L2 one pair Silver Buckles 35/....3 15 -
2 Silver Spoons 5/ four Dollars 20/....1 5 -
8 yards Cloth 24/ four new Sheets 40/....3 4 -
Wearing apparel....13 18 -
Household Furniture....- 17 -
Clearing 10 acres of Land for my Parents (since dead) @ 20 Dollars per acre....50 - -
Loss in taking down a House and bringing it to St Andrews....20 - -

Halifax Currency 165 8 -
Diffce of Currency 16 10 9
Sterling 148 7 3

p 116
Account of Losses sustained by Ebenezer Greenlaw during the late unhappy Dissentions, and for which he craves Relief.
1/4 part of a Schooner....L20 - -
2 Cows L10 five Sheep L3 15....13 15 -
3 Cheeses 30/...7 lb Butter 10/....2 - -
Vegetables L5. 2 Tons Hay L7 10....12 10 -
12 lb Flour 5/. 1 Gun - Lines, Leads & Hooks 45/....2 10 -
40 Acres of land cleared in Mowing Pasture and planting with an Orchard of 80 young Apple Trees @ 20 Dollars per acres....200 - -
1 Dwelling House and Barn....15 - -
250 Acres of Wood Land @ 10/....125 - -
Clearing 10 Acres of Land for his Parents who are since deceased....50 - -
1 Crow Bar 20/ - 40 lb Flax 25/....2 5 -
Potatoes and other Roots taken after he fled with his Family to Penobscot....15 - -
458 - -
Deduct 40 ? Boards@ 30/ which he was obliged to take for his Farm & possessions or lose the whole....60 - -
Halifax Currency....398 - -
Exchange 1/10....39 4 -
Sterling L 358 16 -

p 117
Losses sustained by Alexander Greenlaw during the late unhappy Dissentions in American etc etc for which he solicits Relief
1/4th Part of a Fishing Schooner./...L20 - -
1 Cow L5. Sow and 7 Pigs L3....8 - -
12 bushels Corn @ 5/. 3 Bushels Pease @ 7/6....4 2 6
Wearing Apparel....7 6 -
1 Ring, 1 pair Sleeve Buttons and breach....1 5 -
7 Dollars L1 150 Furniture L3....4 13 -
6 Cheeses L3. 6 Sheep L4 10....7 10 -
1 Barrel Salt 20/. Line Lead & Hooks 17/....1 17 -
12 Bushels Potatoes 30/ a pot Butter 6/....1 16 -
Clearing 10 Acres Land for his Parents who are since dead @ 20 Dollars per Acre....50 - -
Loss in selling a Farm 40 Acres Cleared....50 - -
Another Farm containing 80 Acres....10 - -
Halifax Currency....L166 11 6
Difference of Exchange....16 13 1
Sterling....L149 18 5

p 118
St John 22d March 1787
Evidence on the Claim of Jonathan Greenlaw, late of Massachusetts.
Claimant Sworn
Says he lived at Deer Island before the War, went to Penobscot, staid 2 years, went away on the Evacuation to St Andrews. Had no opportunity of sending his Claim home from St Andrews. Knew of no vessel going to England.
He came into the Garrison at Penobscot under General McLean, lived there for Protection, went in in the Fall after the Siege, He had been in Irons because he would not serve the Rebel Army.
He served the last War with General Amherst. He had petitioned for lands in Deer Island but had no Grant. Dr Califf was to have got his Grants. Had began an Improvement.
His father and all his Children settled there above 20 years ago, it was then a new Country.
Claimant had 300 acres, had built an House and cleared 40 Acres.
Lost two Cows, one Ox, Thirty Sheep Cloathes and Furniture.
p 119
When Penobscot was besieged the Rebels came and took these Things because they would not join them.
There was a Schooner belonging to himself and three Brother. Claimant was entitled to 1/4th. She was seized by the Rebels.

Ebenezer Greenlaw Sworn
Says his Brother's Lands were seized for a Debt.

p 120
St John 22d March 1787
Evidence of the Claim of Ebenezer Greenlaw
Claimant Sworn
Gives the same account as his Brother that they had no opportunity of sending their Claims to England.
He was settled on Deer Island in the years 1761.
Was taken by the Rebels and put in Irons because he would not serve with them at the Siege of Penobscot. After that came in to the British, confined there a twelvemonth, returned to Deer Island, but came away to St Andrews about the time of the Evacuation of Penobscot.
Served during the last War in His Majesty's Service he and five brothers. [French and Indian War]
He had 300 Acres, 40 acres clear, built a House and Barn.
Sold it in 1783 before he came away for Boards Value about L60.
Lost 1/4th part Schooner with Salt etc values his Share at L.20 Value Ship alone at 75 Dollars.
Cow, five Sheep, Hay, Potatoes, taken by the Rebels because they would not Serve.

p 121
Claimant says he and his Brothers had been particularly obnoxious by carrying General McLean's Proclamations thro the Country.
His Father had 300 acres which came amongst three Sons. Values the Wild Lands at one Dollar per Acre. Cultivated at 20 Dollars.

p 122
St John 23d March 1787
Evidence on the Claim of Alexr Greenlaw
Claimant Sworn
Says he went with his Father and Brothers to settled on Deer Island many years ago. Parted with his Lands for a quarters of its Value.
His Father had 300 acres which came on his death amongst his three Sons who had supported him and done Work. Near 20 Acres of this Father's Land clear.
Lost a Cow, some Corn in the House, Furniture, Provisions, Utensils, taken by the Rebels on account of his having refused to serve with them.
Claimant was imprisoned and in Irons during the Siege, his Life was threaten'd if he did not agree to their Measures.
Doctor Califf Sworn
Says the three Greenlaws went to St Andrews in September 1782, Witness left them there, thinks no Ship went that Winter from St Andrews for England. They carried some Stock, but Witness understood they had lost some before which had been taken from their Farms on Deer Island.
They are all three very Loyal and industrious Settlers.

p 123
He was at their Settlements, they seemed to have each a considerable Stock and very good Improvements.
As soon as the Siege of Penobscot began they were taken Prisoners by the Rebels, and kept in Irons as they refused to join the Rebels.
After they came in to Penobscot, they were enlisted in Nathan Philips Compy.

Canada, Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835
Name: Jonathan Greenlaw
Residence Year: 1782 - 1783
Record Type: Minutes
Piece Description: Minute Book
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835; Class: AO 13; Piece: 098.
p 324
Thursday 22d March 1787
Present
Both the Commissioners
Heard the Memorials of James Brittain, Sarah Grant Widow, Thomas Walker, Northrope Marple, John Heard, Ebenezer Greenlaw, Jonathan Greenlaw, Peter Partior, Matthew Lymburner, and Jonathan Munday and examined the Evidences thereon

Determined in the Claim of Stephen Thorne.
Hear the Memorial of Mary, Samuel & Charles Henry Chander for Temporary Support and determined thereon

Ordered that the Decision Cotransmitted to the Lord of the Treasury.
Adjourned till Tomorrow
at 10 o'Clock

p 325
Friday 23d March 1787
Present
Both the commissioners
Heard the Memorials of Alexander Greenlaw, Samuel Mallows, and Seth Squier, and examined the Evidences thereon.
Heard further Evidence in the Cases of William Domayne, and Thomas Gummersall, and William Wright.
Determined on the Claim of Jame Cable.
Adjourned till Tomorrow
at 10 o'Clock
Town Lot St Andrews Lot 2 Block E Bulkley

RS686 :: Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997
Name GREENLAW, Jonathan
Volume NS-A
Page 165
Grant number 95
Place Saint Andrews
County Sunbury
Date 1785-05-21
Accompanying plan No
Acres 0
Microfilm F16302
Comment Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/06/01: Town Lot

Volume A Page 191 [194/485]
No 56
Mortgage
Jonathan Greenlaw yeoman St Andrews
William Gallop St David
43 pounds 12 shillings 8 pence
lot in Town of St Andrews Lot 2 Block E Bulkley granted to Jonathan Greenlaw
16 August 1786
Jonathan Greenlaw [SS]
William Gallop [SS]
William Wyer
H B Brown

Volume A Page 408 [411/485]
No 228
Jonathan Greenlaw yeoman St Andrews
John McIntosh yeoman St Andrews
80 pounds
Town Lot 2 Block E Bulkley's Division St Andrews
6 February 1789
Jonathan Greenlaw [SS]
Wit: Jeremiah Pote, William Gallop
Lot 44 St Andrews

Ebenezer Greenlaw s Jonathan Greenlaw m Elizabeth Lamb
Thomas Greenlaw s Jonathan Greenlaw m Elizabeth Lamb
Jonathan Greenlaw Jr s Jonathan Greenlaw m Elizabeth Lamb
Elias Greenlaw s Thomas Greenlaw m Elizabeth Davis
Sarah Greenlaw w Jonathan D Greenlaw s Thomas Greenlaw m Elizabeth Davis
Christopher Greenlaw s Jonathan Greenlaw m Sarah Stinson
John G Greenlaw s Jonathan Greenlaw m Sarah Stinson

RS686 :: Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997
Name GREENLOW, Jonathan
Volume NS-A
Page 176
Grant number 96
Place Passamaquoddy
County Sunbury
Date 1785-05-21
Accompanying plan No
Acres 100
Microfilm F16302
Comment Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/08/03: Penobscot Association
Grantee: Jonathan Greenlaw
Grant Number: 96
Grant Date: 8 February 1784
Location: 44 St Croix River

Volume A Page 371 [374/485]
No 199
Jonathan Greenlaw husbandman St Andrews
son Ebenezer Greenlaw husbandman St Andrews
40 pounds
Lot 44 St Andrews on St Croix Bay
100 acres
on which I now live
14 July 1788
Jonathan Greenlaw [SS]
Wit: Maurice Hanley [RB: 1795 leaves Robert Pagan to settle his debts should he die], Nancy Smith [Her mark]
Registered 17 July 1788.

Volume B Page 599 [602]752]
No 895
Ebenezer Greenlaw Jr yeoman St Andrews
Thomas Greenlaw yeoman St Andrews
40 pounds
Lot 44 granted to Jonathan Greenlaw Senr conveyed to me by Deed
100 acres
22 September 1798
Ebenezer Greenlaw Junr [SS]
Wit: Ebenezer Greenlaw Senr, Anth W Carpenter [Anthony Carpenter is the father of Abigail Ann Carpenter m Jonathan Babbage Greenlaw s William s Jonathan]

Volume B Page 738 [741/753]
No 1032
Thomas Greenlaw yeoman St Andrews
Jonathan Greenlaw Junr [sic] yeoman St Andrews
60 pounds
Lot 44 100 acres
20 March 1802
Thomas Greenlaw [SS]
Wit: Thomas Wyer Jr, Jno Robinson

Volume C Page 487
[492/560]
No 367
Jonathan Greenlaw Junr yemoan St Andrews
Robert Pagan Esq St Andrews
100 pounds
100 acres with the dwelling house, barn and other improvements in St Andrews
Farm Lot 44 Peobscot Loyalists
being the lot which was granted to my Father Jona Greenlaw Senr
13 May 1808
Jonathan Greenlaw Junr
Wit: H B Brown
Registered 19 September 1808

* * *
These are descendants of Thomas Greenlaw s Jonathan

Volume Q Page 407
No 418
7 March 1837
Sarah Greenlaw widow St Andrews [wid Jonathan D Greenlaw s Thomas]
John Hastey farmer St Andrews [m Prudence Ruth McCurdy s John Hasty m Patience Sprague] [Hasty lived on Lot 45]
Lease part of Lot 44 and adjoining lot 45
A certain piece or parcel of land situate lying and being on the Southwestern side of the road leading from St Andrews toward St Stephen being part of the lot No 44 in the Penobscot Association Grant and adjoining Lot No 45 on the northwest side containing 5 acres
5 acres
Sarah Greenlaw [SS]
John Hastay [SS]
Wit: David Eastman [David Eastman m Abigail Grant d Daniel Grant s Capt David Eastman ], Robert Eastman

Volume Q Page 408 [411/557]
No 419
12 March 1838
John Hastay St Andrews
Richard M Andrews St Andrews
36 pounds 15 shillings 7 pence
5 acres of Lot 44 adjoining 45
Mortgage
John Hastay [SS]
Wit: Robert Roberts
[No other disposal by Hastey]

Lot 44
Volume S Page 152 [154/909]
No 199
Assignment of Lease
John P Greenlaw farmer St Andrews
John Treadwell blockmaker St Andrews
30 pounds
southwestern side of the road leading St Andrews to St Stephen part of Lot 44 adjoining Lot 45
northwest side
5 acres
John P Greenlaw hold under and by virtue of a Lease from Sarah Greenlaw to one John Hastey recorded in the 407 and 408 pages of Book Lettered Q
assignment of least from the said John Hastey to John P Greenlaw
27 July 1840
John P Greenlaw
Wit: Thomas Whitlock, William Garnett
[No disposal by Treadwell]

Volume 1 Page 301 [304/666]
Deed
No 218
Christopher Greenlaw farmer St Andrews and John Gay Greenlaw farmer St Andrews
Anthony W Rideout caulker St Andrews
5 pounds
[south part of lot, west of the road, west of the brook, on the water]
bounded northerly by Johnsons Cove and a brook running into the same
easterly by the New St Stephen Road
southerly by land in the possession of Thomas Johnson
westerly by the St Croix
3 acres
14 November 1854
Christopher Greenlaw
John G Greenlaw
Wit: J W Chandler

Volume 19 Page 457 [460/606]
No 347
Deed
Christopher Greenlaw & John G Greenlaw farmers St Andrews
Elizabeth M D Greenlaw St Andrews single woman
25 pounds
[east side of the road, south half]
beginning at the east of the great road leading from St Andrews to St Stephen and on the south line of land owned by the said John G Greenlaw
thence east on said line 102 rods
thence south about 28 rods to the north line of Lot 43 owned by Thomas Johnson
thence by his line west to the Great Road
thence by the road northerly to the place of beginning containing 18 acres
part of the southern half of Lot 44 owned by my late father Jonathan D Greenlaw
27 April 1857

Volume 19 Page 465 [468/606]
No 354
19 September 1871
Elizabeth M D Greenlaw St Andrews spinster
Thomas Beckerton St Andrews grandson of Thomas Johnson
$160
near Johnson's Cove [South half of Lot 44 east of the road, but not to the rear of the lot.]
beginning at the east side of the road leading from St Andrews to St Stephen
on the south line of land owned by John G Greenlaw
thence east on the said line 102 rods
thence south about 28 rods to the north line of Lot 43 owned by Thomas Johnson
thence by his line west to the great road
thence by the road northerly to the place of beginning
18 acres
part of the southern half of Lot 44 owned by the late Jonathan D Greenlaw
also
land in rear of the above described land to run 1/3 the width of the land from Wiley's south line to Thomas Johnson's north line [Rear of the lot, southern 1/3]
thence in an easterly direction until it strikes the back line of the farms in the rear
also
that piece of land commencing at the bridge on the St Stephen road crossing a brook [2 acres west side of road, south of the brook, probably to south line of Lot]
thence running westerly following the course of said brook 50 rods
thence about south until it strikes the cross road
thence east until it comes to the highway comprising 2 acres
also
all right to beach shore or flats pertaining to any and all of these parcels
Elizabeth M D Greenlaw
Wit: H H H Hatch

Volume 25 Page 544 [547/656]
Deed No 365
Christopher Greenlaw yeoman St Andrews, Elizabeth M D Greeenlaw single woman St Andrews
25 pounds
John G Greenlaw yeoman St Andrews
quit claim [North half of Lot 44 east of the road[
beginning on the east side of the Great Road leading to St Stephen on the water line of Lot No 45 (called the Malloch lot)
thence east on said line 102 rods
thence at right angle south to the center of the lot called about 28 rods
thence at a right angle west to the Great Road
thence by the road north to the place of beginning
18 acres
part of the north half Lot 44 formerly owned by our late father Jonathan D Greenlaw deceased
27 April 1857
Christopher Greenlaw
Elizabeth M D Greenlaw
Jane Greenlaw
Wit: C H Hatheway

* * *
This is the Alexander Greenlaw Lot 45

Volume 15 Page 118
[122/624]
No 96
William Mallock Jur r Calais, Elizabeth Mallock spinster r Portland, Everett Glidden r Calais and wife Sarah Gledden, Samuel G Porter r Portland and Addie C Porter his wife
John Wiley farmer St Andrews
$200
35 acres in St Andrew
east side of the Bay Shore Road
homestead farm of the late Daniel Malloch
westerly by the highway
northerly by the farm of said John Wiley
southerly by land of John Gay Greenlaw
9 October 1867
Petition 1796 for land allowed for wife and children

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Name GREENLAW, JONATHAN
Year 1796
County Charlotte
Microfilm F1040
See petition of TURNER, JAMES
. BALDWIN, JOHN
. BRADFORD, BEN
. COOKSON, WILLIAM
. DALEY, DAVID
. DOUGHERTY, EDMOND
. EASTMAN, DAVID
. GREENLAW, JONATHAN
. HALEY, JOHN
. HITCHINGS, AMOS
. JOYCE, JOHN
. LINNEKIN, ZEBEDEE
. MCCURDY, LACHLAN
. MCINTOSH, JOHN
. MILLEKIN, DOMINICUS
. PENOBSCOT ASSOCIATION, -----
. RIGBY, JOHN
. SIM, ROBERT
. THOMSON, DUGALD
. TURNER, JAMES

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Land petitions, 1783-1857
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1796 Leonard, George Jr. - 1798 Raymond, Samuel
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To His Excellency Thomas Carleton Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New Brunswick etc etc

The memorial of James Turner, David Eastman, Jonathan Greenlaw, Lachlan McCudy and others...

Humbly sheweth

That your Memorialists were of the number of those persons who during the war between Great Britain and her Colonies, left their possessions on account of their attachment to the British Government, and sheltered themselves and families from the rage of their enemies in His Majesty's Garrison then established at Penobscot...

That previous to the Garrison's evacuation Penobscot the General there commanding agreeable to his instructions, directed to be made known to your Memorialists, that besides the Land allowed indiscriminately to all Loyalists desirous to settle in the bay of Passamaquaddie, those of the Penobscot association who had families should be allowed a certain proportion of Land for each woman and child to be laid out in the rear of the Land given to the Loyalists...

That accordingly directions were given to the Surveyors who actually did lay out land for each woman and child belonging to the families of the Penobscot association and the Lots were drawn and assigned to each one.

That numbers of those children now come to maturity and others concerned in the said Land have been and are still desirous to occupy and improve but have been much discouraged therefrom, as hitherto no Grant could be obtained to confirm the Possession- as also it having been represented to your Memorialists that certain persons now of the Association have applied for and allowed License to occupy a large portion of the Lands allotted to the families of your Memorialists

Your Memorialists therefore beseech your Excellency a Grant of the Land agreeable to the original Survey...

And as in Duty bound etc

St Andrews, County of Charlotte
1st February 1796

[Signed]
James Turner
David Eastman
Jonathan Greenlaw
Lachlan McCurdy
Amos Hitching
William Cookson
David Daley
Dominicus Millekin
John Hurley
John Joyce
Dugald Thomson
John McIntosh
Robert Sim
John Baldwin
Ben Bradford
Zebedee Linnekin
Edmod Dougherty
John Rigby

James Turner & others of Penobscot Association for their Family lots
Saint Patricks
The Family lots fall mostly within the reserve the Survey of them is therefore Anulled
Filed 12th March 1793 [sic]
Lincoln County, Maine, Registry of Deeds

All Extracted
Book 17 [1784-1785]
p 43 John Greenlaw to Thomas Oxnard
p 116 William Greenlaw to Alexander Greenlaw

Book 18 [1785]
p 221 Alexander Greenlaw to William Foster

Book 22 [1788]
p 199 Jonathan Greenlaw to John Campbell
An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine

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An Historical Sketch of the Town of Deer Isle, Maine
George Lawrence Hosmer
Press of Stanley and Usher. Boston. 1886

p 19
Jonathan Greenlaw, who came as early as 1762 or 1762, one of the family of that name who came shortly after, and next to William Eaton, the first settler, gave a deed to Kent of a tract of land containing a mile square, in consideration of the erection and maintenance of a grist-mill.

p 43
Greenlaw - The next persons who came were five by the name of Greenlaw. They settled on Campbell's Neck, and the farm of Mr Samuel W Campbell, and that of Mr William Foster's heirs - in all about five hundred acres. Their names were Jonathan, Charles, Alexander, Ebenezer, and William, and whether they were all brothers or not, I do not know. They were natives of Scotland, and had emigrated from that country not long before, and were endeavoring to find a place to settled upon with which they might be suited. The places they took up did so, and they commenced settlements. After the occupation of Bagaduce by the British in 1779, they made frequent visits there, as they were zealous loyalists, and were suspected of carrying information - a cause of displeasure to their neighbors, who almost all were friendly to the American cause. They were the persons before spoken of as going with the British in 1783 to the Provinces, where they settled, and their descendants still reside there. Some time after, two of the sons of Mr Jonathan Greenlaw, Messrs William and Richard Greenlaw, came back and remained will their deaths. They were brought back by the brothers in law of Mr William Greenlaw - Messrs Joseph Whitmore and Captain Seth Hatch - who went after them in a vessel.

p 51
Mr [William] Foster settled upon a part of the land formerly occupied by the Greenlaw family, but whether he came here before they left or not is not known to us, but as he had a two hundred acre lot it is probable that he purchased the rights of one of them at least, which with his own would entitle him to that quantity.

p 52
[John Campbell was a large landed proprietor, owning one lot of two hundred acres, another known as the Campbell's Neck lot of 77, and the island near known as Campbell's Island, of 88 acres, and it is probable that he purchased the rights of some of the Greenlaw family, as he would of his own right be entitled to but 100 acres.

p 61
William Greenlaw was the first settler near what is called Fish Creek. He was the son of Mr Jonathan Greenlaw, mentioned before, who went with the British to New Brunswick in 1783. As before stated, the subject of this sketch returned with his brother Richard. The wife of Mr Greenlaw was Miss Rebecca Babbidge, a daughter of Mr William Babbidge; and at the time of their marriage there was no person qualified to solemnize marriages nearer than Bagaduce, where the chaplain to the garrison officiated. The person who performed the duties of chaplain, as well as surgeon, was Dr John Calef, a refugee from Massachusetts, in which State he was born, in Ipswich; and when the troops evacuated the place, he went with them into the Province of New Brunswick, where he lived the remainder of his days. Mr Greenlaw was married in 1780, and he and Mr Joseph Whitmore, with their intended wives, who were sisters, went there for the purpose, and they were both joined in marriage on the same day. Mr Greenlaw and wife were the parents of 10 sons and 1 daughter, who lived to manhood and womanhood. The eldest of the sons was William, who was lost at sea on a whaling voyage, when a young man. The second son was the late Captain John Greenlaw, who was a capable and intelligent master-mariner, who died in 1870, at the age of 87 years, after having lived with his wife in wedlock 66 years. He was the father of the present Captain Jeremiah H, Ebenezer, and William Greenlaw. Another son was Mr James Greelaw, who was drowned not far from 1830, leaving a family. Anotehr was Captain Jonathan Greenlaw, who removed to Eatport, out of which place he sailed many years. Another was the late Captain Richard Greenlaw, the father of the present Mr Thomas R Greenlaw. Another was Thomas Greenlaw, who was drowned when a young man. Another was Mr Ebenezer Greenlaw, the father of the present Mr Eben Greenlaw 2d. Another was the late Captain Walter Greenlaw, well known in his day, who died at sea in about the year 1847. Another is the present Levi Greenlaw, the sole survivor, at te age of 79 years in 1882. And the other was the late Mr William Greenlaw. The daughter was the wife of Mr Daniel C Copp, who removed from this place to Castine, who was by trade a ship carpenter and joiner, and from Castine he removed to the city of Ellsworth, where he died.

About this family there was one singularity; of the 10 sons there were 5who could use no food or drink in which there was anything sweet, operating upon them as an emetic; while upon the remaining 5 it had no such effect. Mr Greenlaw was one of whom every one who knew him spoke in praise, as a quiet, honest, and upright man. The land occupied by him was not a part of that taken up by his father and uncles, as that passed into other hands; but as he was here so early, he was entitled to a settler's right, and the place is still the property of his descendants.

p 142
Richard Greenlaw was the youngest son of Mr Jonathan Greenlaw, who settled here shortly after William Eaton and went when a child to New Brunswick with his father in 1783, but returned with his brother William. He was not the owner of any real estate, we think, but resided upon the farm of his son during the later years of his life. His wife was Miss Mary Jordan, a daughter of Mrs James Jordan, and he was by trade a ship-carpenter. Their sons were: Richard, who removed to the town of Kilmarnock, Maine, which is now called Medford. Another was the late Mr James J Greenlaw. Another was the present Mr Joseph S Greenlaw. Another was Mr Samuel J Greenlaw. Another was Mr William L Greenlaw, who resides in Newburyport. Another was Mr John C J Greenlaw, who died many years ago. The daughter were the wives of Mr George Barbour and Mr Thomas V Howard; and two live in Massachusetts.
Revolutionary Petitions Massachusetts

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To the Gentlemen of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts Government ? ?
Sendeth Greeting Humbly Representing unto Your Honrs Out distressed Condition. On account of the General Distress that Ariseth from a Bad Statesman & King at Home By Sending an army & Vesels of forse destressing boting & Stoping all trade and Comerse Rendering us incapable of procuring the Least Sustainance of Bread or Other Sustainance for us or Our families as We formerly use to enjoy & as we avow ourselves sons of Liberty for the Comen Wealth of Ourselves & Others

We Humbly Petition Your Honrs to take this Our destressed Condition into your Most Wise Consideration & thereupon May Be pleased to send us Such Nessary Supplies as mose asuredly is Wanted for our Lumber Which we use procure Such Charge is Been of no use to procure Such things 1stly Bread Corn Molases Coffee Salt & pork Sheeps wool flax Shoes & Other Cloathing & Latley powder and Ball. Or lead So that we may By these Stand against yours & our Enemies One or two of Our Brethren will afirm the Same or tell it Your honrs By Word of Mouth we do not Ask those Nessarys for Nothing But Are willing to pay for them in Lumber when these destressing times are Over

So praying that God May Grant your Wisdom & Guide your honrs into all truth & presernce us from hands of all any yours & Our enemies
Farewell
Egemagan Reach No 4
June 11 1775
Our Names as Followeth
Vizt
Robert yard
John Carter Junr
John Cater Senr
Daniel Bridges
John Billings
Elisha Hopkins
Daniel Bredges
Smith Woodward
John Carson
Jacob Orcutt
Solomn Maken
Moses Eaton
Jonathan Grenlaw
Ebenezer Grenlaw
Josiah Harden
Elijah Richardson
Richard Wells
John Eaton
Alexander Greenlaw

p 39
The comte on the petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of Egemagan Reach No 4 so called beg leave to Report by Wat of a Resolve Viz June 20 1775 Resolves that the Committee of Correspondance the town of Salem

In Provincial Congress Watertown June 20 1775 on the Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of Egamagon Reach No 4 so called praying for a small Supply of provisions. Resolved

that it be Recommended by this Congress to the Committee of Safety or Committee of Correspondence of the Town of Salem or the Like Committees of any other towns within that province to Supply Messrs Robert Byard & Alexander Greenlaw of Egemagen Reach No 4 for there present Relief of the said Inhabitants with the Following Articles viz forty bushels of Indain Corn and Five Barrels of Pork and cake in Return for the same Cord wood or such other payment as the said Robert Byard and Alexander Greenlaw may be able to make: and in Case they the said Byard and Greenlaw Should not make Satisfaction for the Same: in a Reasonable Time it Shall be allowed and paid out of the publick Treasury of this province and the said Byard and Greenlaw Shall Refund the Same a Soon as may be

Accepted
Deer Isle Petition and Grant

Petition for Deer Isle 1762

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Province of the Massacht Bay
To His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esqr Capt General and Governor in Chief of the said Province, The Honble His Majesty's Council and the Honble House of Representatives in Genl Court Assembled, Augt 4th 1762.

The Subscribers Humbly Show
That Sixteen of them have been at considerable Expense at Transporting themselves to a Certain Island at the Eastward within this Province situate on the South West of Egemogen Reach, known by the name of Deer Island, which at High Water seems to be separated into Two, tho' at Low Water appears to be one Intire Island, have built themselves Houses And are with the rest of your Petitioners Willing to bring forward a Settlement there. Pray this Court for the Incouragement of so good a Work to make them a Grant of the whole of said Island, or at least that End of it, settled upon as aforesaid; which is accounted to be about Six or Seven Miles in Length, and two or three in Breadth In The Widest part thereof; tho' in some places not half a Mile. Or otherways to dispose of the whole of said Island to them, or only the South East end aforesaid, as this Court in their Wisdom shall think fit for such Sum or Sums of money as may be Judged reasonable, and your Petitions
As in Duty bound
Shall every pray &c

Your Petitioners beg Leave further to add That they are not Petitioners Included in the Twelve Townships already granted

Daniel Wardwell
Jeremiah Wardwell
Danl Clark
Danl Clark in behalf of Edward Jones
Jno Stone
Moses Sewall
Daniel Holt
Stephen Littlefield
Willam Grenlla
Jonathen Grenlaw
Ebenezer Grenlaw
Charles Greenlaw
Alex Greenlaw
William Grenlaw
Nathan Closson
David Torey
Joseph Thoms
Michel Carnay
JohnTinker
George Liley
John Win
William Eaton
John Staples
Ebenezer Low
Samuel Low
Eliakim Eaton
Enoch hutchins
Nathaniel Webber

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Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
by Massachusetts
Volume 1784-85
Page 924

Resolve on the petition of the inhabitants of Deer-Island, granting and confirming one hundred acres of land to each of said settlers, on condition.

Whereas it appears to this Court from a survey and plan of a certain island, lying within the county of Lincoln, called Deer-Island, taken by Rufus Putnam, Esq; in the year 1785, together with a small island lying near the west shore of the said Deer-Island, called Sheep-Island, that the said islands contain in the whole, sixteen thousand eight hundred and seventy-six acres, whereon were eighty settlers, before the first day of January, 1784; and whereas Joseph Tyler and others, settlers on the said islands, have petitioned this Court for a grant of the same, to them, their heirs and assigns: Therefore

Resolved, That there be, and here is hereby granted and confirmed to the said Joseph Tvler, and the other settlers, who settled thereon and made a separate improvement before the first day of January, 1784, their heirs and assigns, one hundred acres each, to hold in severalty, to be laid out so as to include their respective improvements, as a compensation for settlement; on condition, that the aforesaid settlers pay into the treasury of this Commonwealth, within one year from the date thereof, for the survey, and other charges, one hundred and twenty pounds, in specie, with interest until paid ; provided that where any original settler has sold, or otherwise disposed of his improvements, the purchaser of such improvements, his heirs and assigns, shall hold the same lands which such original settler would have held by virtue of this resolve, if there had been no such sale or disposition.

And be it further Resolved, That the remainder of the said Deer- Island, with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging, be, and is hereby granted and confirmed to the said
Joseph Tyler
Mark Haskell
Joseph Colby
John Campbell
Charles Pressey
Ignatius Haskell
Thomas Saunders
Edward Haskell
Joshua Haskell
Thomas Haskell
Jonathan Eaton
Ezekiel Marshall
George Tyler
Thomas Stinson, Jun
Belcher Tyler
Nathan Dow
John Pressey
Thomas Stinson
Nathan Closson
Elijah Donham
Theophilus Eaton
Levi Carman
Ezra Howard
Ambrose Colby
Nathaniel Bray
Robert Nason
Benjamin Cole
Ezekiel Moory
John Hooper
Lot Curtis
Chase Pressey
Thomas Saunders
Samuel Frunday
John Raynes
Samuel Raynes
Thomas Smalley
Job Smalley
Charles Sellers
Josiah Crocket
Thomas Robbins
William Babbage
Joseph Whitmore
William Greenlaw
George Frees
Cortney Babbage
John Frees
Peter Hardy
Jeremiah Eaton
William Eaton
John Closson
Thomas Thompson
Robert Lin
Marcy Staples
Charles Greenlaw
Simon Fowler
David Torry
Jonathan Torry
Samuel Crombie
Joseph Donham
their heirs and assigns ; on condition, that they appropriate three hundred acres of land for the use of the ministry, and three hundred acres for the use of a grammar school, and that they pay into the treasury of this Commonwealth, within one year from the time of passing this resolve, one thousand two hundred and forty-one pounds, eight shillings, in consolidated securities of this Commonwealth, with interest."
March 22, 1786.

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Chapter 69
Resolve Repealing A Resolve Of The First Of March 1786, Relative To A Certain Island, Lying Within The County Of Lincoln, Called Deer Island, And Confirming the Whole Of The Island, Excepting As Mentioned, Unto Joseph Tyler And George Tyler Upon Certain Conditions.

Whereas by a Resolve of the General Court of this Commonwealth of the twenty first day of March AD 1786, a certain Island, lying within the County of Lincoln, called Deer Island, together with a small Island, lying near the west Shore of the said Deer Island, called Sheep Island, was granted & confirmed to Joseph Tyler & the other settlers thereon, upon certain conditions in the said Resolve mentioned: And whereas from the large number of Grantees of the said Islands, it has been found inconvenient to execute the measures proposed by the said Resolve, and the conditions of the Grant aforesaid have not been performed, though the time limited for the performance thereof hath expired, whereby the settlers upon the said Islands are deprived of the benefits intended them by the Government, and the interests of the Commonwealth are retarded: It is therefore

Resolved, that the said Resolve, be, and it is hereby repealed, and that the whole of the Islands aforesaid, excepting as hereafter mentioned, be & hereby are granted and continued, unto Joseph Tyler and George Tyler, resident on Deer Island aforesaid, and unto their Heirs and assigns forever, upon the following conditions, Viz That the said Joseph and George, lay out and appropriate unto all persons who settled on either of the Islands aforesaid, and made a Seperate improvement by erecting a Dwelling House, and residing before the first day of January AD 1784, Their heirs or assigns, one hundred acres each, to hold in Severalty, and so laid out as to include their respective improvements, As a Compensation for Settlement, excepting to the heirs or assigns of Nathaniel Kent, who in consideration of his extraordinary expences in promoting the Settlement of the Said Islands, shall be intitled to hold and enjoy forever, a certain Tract conveyed to him by Jonathan Greenlaw and others, which lands so to be appropriated as aforesaid, are hereby granted and confirmed unto the said settlers, and to their Heirs and assigns forever, on condition that they pay unto the said Joseph and George, or to their Heirs or assigns, the Sum of Thirty Shillings for each lot, to be appropriated as aforesaid, within Twelve months from the date hereof, for the Survey and other charges, And in case it shall be found, in laying out the Lands to be appropriated to the Settlers as aforementioned, that there shall not be Sufficient land containing improvements for every Settler to take the quantity aforesaid, without interfering with land, previously occupied by some other person, any settler in such case shall be intitled to receive the whole, or any part of his proportion elsewhere.

And the present grant to the said Joseph and George, is upon the further condition, that they, their Heirs or assigns, appropriate three hundred Acres of Land, for the use of the Ministry, and three hundred acres for the use of a Grammar School; & that they pay into the Treasury of this Commonwealth, within fifteen Months from the passing of this Resolve, the Sum of One hundred and Sixty three pounds, in Specie, and the further sum of Two hundred and Sixty five pounds, in consolidated Securities of this Commonwealth, within Three months from the passing of this Resolve.

The said Deer Island, and Sheep Island, granted as aforesaid, are bounded as follows, Viz Northeasterly, on Eggamogan Reach, which seperates Deer Island from Township No IV, lying between Penobscot River, and Union River, begining at Hardy's Point, at the northend of the said Island, from thence running southeasterly by several head lands to Campbell's Point, from thence southwesterly, to the Northwest point of Campbell's Island, thence by the westerly and southwest shore of Campbells Island, to the South extreme of the same, from thence easterly, passing on the Southerly side of Island B, as marked on a plan taken by Rufus Putnam, Esqr; in the year 1785, to the northeast point of Stinson's Neck, from thence Southerly, touching the extreme headlands of Stinson's Neck, to the most southerly point thereof, from thence Southwesterly to the east point of Babbridge's Neck, from thence southerly to the southwest point of Deer Island, from thence Southwesterly & westerly, touching the extreme head Lands of Deer Island, to a point thereof, opposite Crotch Island, by Deer Island thoroughfare, from thence northwesterly, to the west point of Deer Island, near Southwest harbour, from thence northerly, touching the west extreme of Sheep Island, to Donham's Point or ragged head, from thence Northeasterly, touching the East extreme of Carnne Island, to Hardy Point aforesaid, which description includes Deer Island, proper, Greenlaw Neck, Stinson's Neck, Babbridge's Neck, and Sheep Island, which lies near the west shore of Deer Island.
March 24, 1788.
French and Indian War

Canada, Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835
Name: Jonathan Greenlaw
Residence Year: 1786 - 1788
Previous Residence Place: Deer Island
Record Type: Memorial
Piece Description: Evidence
US Region: Massachusetts Bay
The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835; Class: AO 13; Piece: 011.

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St John 22d March 1787
Evidence on the Claim of Jonathan Greenlaw, late of Massachusetts.
Claimant Sworn
Says he lived at Deer Island before the War, went to Penobscot, staid 2 years, went away on the Evacuation to St Andrews. Had no opportunity of sending his Claim home from St Andrews. Knew of no vessel going to England.
He came into the Garrison at Penobscot under General McLean, lived there for Protection, went in in the Fall after the Siege, He had been in Irons because he would not serve the Rebel Army.
He served the last War with General Amherst. He had petitioned for lands in Deer Island but had no Grant. Dr Califf was to have got his Grants. Had began an Improvement.
His father and all his Children settled there above 20 years ago, it was then a new Country.
Claimant had 300 acres, had built an House and cleared 40 Acres.
Lost two Cows, one Ox, Thirty Sheep Cloathes and Furniture.
p 119
When Penobscot was besieged the Rebels came and took these Things because they would not join them.
There was a Schooner belonging to himself and three Brother. Claimant was entitled to 1/4th. She was seized by the Rebels.

Ebenezer Greenlaw Sworn
Says his Brother's Lands were seized for a Debt.

Sources

[S3975] Loyalists to Canada: The 1783 Settlement of Quakers and Others at Passamaquoddy, Theodore C Holmes, (Picton Press 1992).
[S3977] Return of Men, Women and Children of the Penobscot Loyalists Settled in the District of Passamaquoddy the 10th of June 1, (http://members.shaw.ca/caren.secord/locations/NewBrunswick/Lists/PenobscotGroupSorted.html).