Thomas BRISLEY b. [1754] Surrey, England d. Bef 1823 ASSESS?: Boombridge Genealogy

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Name	Thomas BRISLEY
Born	[1754]	Surrey, England
	Petition 1821
Gender	Male
Birth	England
	Death Benjamin
Residence	Aft 28 Jun 1790	Fanning Division, St David, Charlotte, NB
	Cape Ann Association Regrants in 1790 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbstdavi/1790annownerslot.html The list below is a combination of: a) those land owners who were not absent in 1788, but no regranting could be discerned in 1790 b)the names of regrantees lots of 1790 Letter & Number: K1 Division: Fanning Original Grantee: Samuel Dodge Jr Name of Regrantees after June 28, 1790: Thomas Briselly Letter & Number: K2 Division: Fanning Original Grantee: Samuel Dodge Name of Regrantees after June 28, 1790: Thomas Briselly
Occupation	27 Dec 1799
	Blacksmith
Residence	27 Dec 1799	St Stephen, Charlotte, NB
Residence	1812/1813	St David, Charlotte, NB
	SCHEDULE OF PURCHASES IN THE RESERVATION No. 1 & 2 St. Stephen & St. David, Charlotte County 1812 - 1813 State of the Population, Buildings, Cultivation, Stock and Produce of the applicants included in the annexed Memorial with remarks at foot as they stood. (NOTE: Colums 3,4,5,15,16 are not included in chart to follow = remarks for these follow the number in reference columns below. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbstdavi/1812mast.pdf HEADINGS FOR THE CHART: 1. Strength of Families: 8 2. Settlers Names: Thomas Brisley 3. Houses (each listed had house): 4. Barns (each listed had barn = Thomas & James Smith had two each): 5. Workshops (only Thomas Brisley had one): 6. Mowing: - 7. Tillage: 2 8. Pasture: - 9. Horses: - 10. Oxen: - 11. Cows: 1 12. Young Stock: - 13. Sheep: 2 14. Bushels of Wheat: - 15. Bushels of Barley: 16. Bushels fo Corn: - 17. Bushels of Oats: 70 18. Bushels of Potatoes: 70 19. Tons of Hay: -
Petition	8 Mar 1814
	https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/78954?availability=Family%20History%20Library RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918 Name BAMFORD, JOHN Year 1814 County Charlotte Microfilm F4176 See petition of CLENDENIN, ANDREW 1813 Hansen, Benjamin - 1814 Mace, Isaac Family History Library United States & Canada Film 1288472 Andrew Clendenin and others 8th March 1814 Referred to W Odell & Judge Saunders to enquire and Report To the Honorable Major General Sir Thomas Sumarez President of His Majesty's Councel and Commanding in Chief His Province of New Brunswick Class 1st The petition of Andrew Clendenin John Berry, William Thompson, David Keyzer, John Bamford, Samuel Beal, Jacob Young Junior Jacob Young the third, James Brown Junior, Samuel Thomas, Elisha Davidson, James Smith, John Humphrey, James Brown the third, Jonathan Pineo Ebenezer Ross. Class 2nd David Howe Stone, George Smith, James Brown senior Greene Brown, Thomas Brisley, Tristram Moore, Stephen Brooks, Lewis Brewer Mundie and Elisabeth Bunton Class 3d Samuel Connick, Thomas Connick, Caleb Bartlett, William Higgins, Daniel Hill Humbly Sheweth That the lands whereon the first numbered class are settled was sett off and a part by John Jones Esquire the deputy Land surveyor in seventeen hundred eighty four, to make up the allowance for Women and children after giving to the Head of each Family, one Hundred acres on the Rivers and Bays anove the mouth of the River St Croix In a few weeks after Mr Jones run out a sheet leading from the rear of the front lotts at the Head of Oak Point Bay Westerly and marked off a line of lotts on each side thereof for a number of Gentlemen from whom most of the present settlers became purchased either direct or from their assigns paying in some instances at the rate of five Hundred pounds New Brunswick Currency purchase. It so happened that in October of the same Year Sir John Wentworth his Majesty's surveyor General of Woods for North American was pleased to make a reservation of forty six thousand acres of Land in the district of St Stephen and Saint David except a small strip in the Northerly and Westerly part of Saint Andrews from prehending the lotts as aforesad within the limits thereof for the purpose of preserving to His Majesty's Use the Pine Timber standing in the Vallies between the Ridges of Hard Wood Land, thereby presenting Your Honors Petitioners from obtaining their expected titles. The second class are seated on the Gore west of and between the Cape Ann Association Grat and that to Nehemiah Marks Esquire and others. Moore & Brooks by Purchase from Peter Christie Esquire - Against several of the others who expected to obtain Titles there are prosecutions for Trespass now pending in His Majesty's Supreme Court instituted y the Attorney General. The Third class have possession and improvements on the Wawig, Par of which were, by letters licensed to Benjamin Bradford, the others sett down under, encouragement from His Majesty's Assistant deputy Surveyor for that district. The schedule of the Parishes of St Stephen and St David transmitted to Your Honor by Captain Frink will shew Your Honor what Progress they have made in Cultivation / the third Class expected who are within the district of Saint Andrews/ by a reference to the Title of Crown Tenants at Will. Your Honors Petitioners beg leave to State that, the original Object in making the reservations aforesaid hath long since ceased to exist- The masts suited to the Royal Navy were cut and taken off under the Contract of Messrs Hunter and Robinson by their Agents Messr Blacks, The Milling business and the call for square Timber for the British Markets since the Baltic Sea hath been shut up caused the other timber to be felled which was near the shores, but such as had not, hath been killed by the fires during the last & preceeding Years, that there remains at this present, no timber which can ever be an object for Government use, and those about their particular seatins never aforded any Pine Timber, being hard wood Lands The late President Ludlow, but a few weeks before his death directed a similar application to be made thro him giving an apearance that he would transmit the same to the Secretary of State for His Majesty's most gracious will and Pleasure therein. To Your Honors Protection the Petitioners hereunder humbly submith themselves & should any doubts arise in Your Honots breast as to the facts sett forth, they bed their Petition may be referr'd to the Justices of the General Session & the Grand Jury of the County of Charlotte with directions for them to certify the situation of the reservations and that of the Present applicants As in duty Boung so prays Your Honors Petitioners Namely Class 1 Andrew Clendenin Jno Berry William Thompson David Keyzer Jno Bamfod Samuel Beal Jacob Young 2nd Jacob Young 3d James Brown Junr Samuel Thomas James Smith John Humphrey James Brown 3d Jonthn Pineo Ebenr Ross Class 2 David H Stone Geo Smith James Brown Greene Brown Thos Brisley Tristram Moore Stephen Brooks Lewis B Mundie Elizabeth Bunton Class 3 Samuel Connick Thomas Connick Caleb Bartlett Daniel Hill William Higgins The undersigned beg leave to recommend the prayer of the preceeding Petition first--as it respects the applicants who are a P????able and industrious sett of Loyal Inhabitants. Secondly If the reservations Attended to were taken off those lands, would soon be applied for, taken up & Peopled, thereby strengthening a frontier settlement, add security to the present inhabitants, and open a door to provide lands for a number of Families who have had no provision made for them altho resident in the Parishes as aforesaid for fifteen to twenty five Years past Nathan Frink Schedule of Purchasers in the Reservation No 1 & 2 St Stephen & St David Charlotte County Schedule to the application of the Crown Tenants in the Reserves in St David and Saint Stephen Mason Whetten & 4 others they pay one tenth to P Cristie & the ? ? N Frink 1. Andrew Clendenin paid for one Lott 25L To Joseph More? St David one [Lott] 100 ____ L125 six Americans are more culling staves staff by License on this Man's Farm 2. John Berry purchased of William Vance who gave an absolute deed, ? a Bond from Himself, Jno Dunn and Joseph Porter Esquire to indemnify him in the ? possession of those lotts for 21 years as a Guarantee against the Kings Claim 3. William Thompson is included in the above / he is in Lease to Jno Berry 4. Kezer and Bamford purchased of Vance the purchase not known originally 5. Samuel Beal purchased his License at _____ 14 but the same tract was included in Vance sale to him under? of a former license from Capt Hatch 6. James Brown Junior paid the same _____ 14 and under the same Circumstances 7. Elisha Davidson sett down, with his Father in Law Samuel Thomas 24years since Thomas Began his farm by M James? Cozen? 8. Jacob Young 3d purchased of Capt Hatch & paid _____ 15 9. Jacob Young Junr [purchased of Capt Hatch &] paid _____ 15 10. Samuel Thomas paid 23 years since 25 years settled __ 25 11. Jno Humphrey paid 28 years since Since 1784 __ 17.10 12. James Smith [paid 28 years since Since 1784 __] 25.00 13. James Brown 3d paid/under Vances claims . . 165.00 14. Jonathan Pineo [paid] to Robert Hitchings [under Vances claim] 150 15. Ebenezer Ross [paid] to Josiah Hitchings [under Vances claim] 150 Carried over L1215.10 Mr Harris Hatch owned the lott fronting Ross. He purchased of Glidden when he Run away at 25L Glidden paid Josiah Hitching 100L & owns him now 50L Wm Vance Either Had or Pretended to have Sir John Wentworths License for in? from Land Amount brought over ______ 1215.10 16. George Smith was to pay Mr Cristy but afterward could get no tittle 25 He therefore referred on the advice of Mr Frink 17. James Brown Senior agreed to pay 25 conjointly with Green their papers were Lost? into Mr Odells office long since by Mr Frink 18 Green Brown . . . the same 25 19. Thomas Brisley . . . the same 25 Those persons afterwards referred and their papers are in the Secretaries Ofice will explain how thet sett down 20. Tristram Moore paid Mr Critie 25 This same is now acknowledged Mr C promised to indorse the original Memorial with Mr Frink 21. Stephen Brooks paid Mr Cristie 25 [same] 22. David Howe Stone is a deserter from the American Troops, about six years since He sat down and made some improvement but on being served with a process? from the Higher Court abandonded them immediately and now lived in Rosss Place 23. Lewis Brewer Mundie purchased of Brooks in the rear such? as he paid is not recollected 24. Elisa Buntons late Husband purchased of Mr Cristie 300 Acres at 300$ Mr Cristie acknowledges to Have recd 100 of Brooks above But her brother Tristram says 288 $ was paid Fitzgerald now a soldier with Genl Coffin sat down on two hundred a process? issued agt him, he ?, his Wife & Children possess one lott of the same Purchase by Mr Buntons late Husband ____ 1265.10 Amount brought up 1265.10 Samuel Connick Bought of Benja Bradford who had letters of Leave from Colo Winslow and took up Bradford's note due in Boston for _____ 300 Thomas Connick Bt of Mr Cristie a Sawmill and some Land uncertain what he paid for the Mill. Samuel says Thos was to pay 30L for the land to Caot Hatch & is to be believed Caleb Bartlett _____/ uncertain Law or in what Manner he sat down _____ William Higgins (Claimed by a License of Mr Cristy) Christies ? ? ? ? ? Daniel Hill payts to Capt Hatch for a Meadow 40/- pr year to Capt Hatch ______ L1565.10 During the last winter I was applied to beg Andrew Kennie the assr Cons at St Andrews to make him Return of the Parish of St Stephen & St David in compliane with the ? letter of the Commr in Chief No 49 in doing of which I became posses'd of the fact as stated above and reported ot the schedule--I advised these Persons to state their Case and those themselves in the Clemency of the Governmen--They applied to me to state their Situation by petition and to come up and present it Nathan Frink Whereas on this twenty Ninth day of January in the Year one thousand Eight Hundred and seven - It hath been Mutually agreed between Peter Cristy of the Parish of St Stephen in the County of Charlotte and Province of New Brunswick Esqr and Benjamin Bradford of the same Parish County and Province aforesaid as follows Namely That in case the said benjamin Bradford shall obtain a License of occupation from His Majesty's Surveyor of the Woods for a tract of Land at the Head of Wawig included in the Reserve Number two, He the said Benjamin Bradfod shall give grant allow and assign one Hundred acres of the same to and for Mill Privilidge ? adjoining and Contiguous to the new Mill called the Love and Unity Built by Messrs Libby's - And that then and in that case, the said Peter Cristy shall convey to him the said Benjamin Bradford the one fourth of the said Mill Love & Unity ? for sawing, with the Quarter part of the aforesaid one Hundre Acres of Land and the appurtenances thereunto belonging - And it is further hereby agreed that in case the said Benja Bradford shall encline to disposses of his fourth part as aforesaid agreed for; he shall give the said Peter Cristy the Referrall of the same giving as much as any other persons and it is hereby further agreed and understood that in case the said Benjamin shall dispossess of the whole License Mr Cristy is to have the first offer on those terms, and in like manner should the said Peter Crity here after he enclined to dispossess of his proportion place or right to first give said Benj Bradford the Referrall In witness Whereof the Partied have hereunto set their hands and seals at St Stephen the day and year aforesaid Peter Cristy [Seal] Benj Bradford [Seal] Wintess Nathan Frank Ebenr Buzbee Connick's Voucher Mr Bradford Had letter of lease or License from Colo Winslow for fine Hundred Acres North of the Mill Privilidge on the Wawig Stream. Bradford Sons in Law Charles & Thadeus Libby with Joshua Coleman Built a Saw Mill on the stream Mr Bristie purchased the Mill of those three American - he has since sold the Mill to Thomas Connick and Samuel as bt the Land - I drew this agreement which was left in my hand by the Parits and is now offered as a Voucher in behalf o the two Connicks - Libbys or Coleman never got any thing for the Expenses or Labour nor did Bradford on Acct of the Mill but for the Land he got his debt of 1200$ paid by Samuel Connick Nathan Frink 28 Feby 1814 State of the Population, Buildings, Cultivation, Stock and produce of the applicants included in the annexed Memorial with remarks at foot as they stood Feby 1813 Strength of Family, Settlers Names, Houses, Barns, Shops, Mowing, Tillage, Pasture, Horses, Oxen, Cattle, Young Cattle, Sheep, Wheat, Barley, Corn, Oats, Potatoes, Tons of Hay 13 Andrew Clendinin Lieut of Militia 1 1 - 30 7 10 1 4 6 4 27 100 10 - 60 300 30 13 John Berry 1 1 - 25 5 15 - 4 4 6 14 20 14 - - 50 30 7 William Thompson 1 1 - 10 4 10 - 2 4 - 13 24 - - - 60 15 7 David Keyzer 1 1 - 13 3 5 - 2 4 3 6 15 - - - 150 15 7 John Bamford 1 1 - 10 5 - 1 2 2 2 6 40 - - - 200 12 11 Samuel Thomas 1 2 - 30 3 30 1 4 5 4 26 80 - - 50 310 25 7 Elisha Davidson 1 1 - - 4 - 1 - 1 1 5 12 - - - 100 - 10 James Smith 1 2 - 30 7 6 1 4 7 - 28 50 10 6 30 200 25 3 John Humphrey 1 1 - 10 7 6 1 4 4 3 16 20 - - 60 200 25 1 James Brown 3e 1 1 - 5 4 2 - - 1 2 4? 70 - - 20 70 8 12 Jonathan Pineo 1 1 - 2 3 4 - 2 1 2 10 10 - - - 130 3 6 Ebenezer Ross 1 1 - 10 3 12- 2 1 2 8 15 - - - 50 4 4 David Howe Stone 1 1 - - 4 - - - 1 - 6 - - - - - - 4 George Smith 1 1 - 4 4 - - - 3 - 7 16 - - 25 67 2 1 James Brown & 8 Greene Brown Father & sons together 2 1 - 4 8 - - 2 4 1 11 36 - - - 100 6 8 Thomas Brisley 1 - 1 - 2 - - 1 - 2 - - - - 70 - 3 Stephen Brooks / paid 25L/ 1 1 - 6 4 - - - 1 1 - 20 - - - 30 5 10 Levi Brewer Mundie 1 1 - - 4 - - - 2 - - - - - - - 2 [Total] 135 Souls in Nineteen Families all settled within the limits of Sir John Wentworth Reservations 19 19 1 189 81 100 6 32 52 31 185 528 34 6 245 2087 207 1 Jacob Young Junior Comr the Parish Militia 2 2 1 40 4 100 3 10 12 2 30 45 - 6 - 500 - 2 Jacob Young 3d [None] 3 Samuel Beal 1 1 1 2 6 1 1 - 2 - - - - - - - 100 - 4 James Brown Junior 1 1 - 2 2 - - - - - - - - - - - The above four persons are settled on the shore lotts at Oak Bay and have lands Licensed in their rear. Tristram Moore, lived on a Granted lott but paid 25L for 100 Acres of the Reserve, where he now raises his Bread. Mrs Buntons claim is similar, Samuel Connick Jr Thomas Connick Daniel Hill Caleb Bartlett Wm Higgins are on the Waweig streat & have considerable improvements but being within the Parish of St Andrews, the extent thereof cannot at present be ascertained. Remarks that other side Remarks The preceeding statement is copied from a Return called by the Comr in Chief in Feby 1813 and gives ? an Account of their Products for 1812, a very unfavourable season, the Crop of 1813 may be estimated at nearly double. Instituted by the Attorney General for the Province in behalf of the Crown The Schedule of the Parish of St Stephen & St David transmitted by Captain Frink will shew Your honor what progress they have made in cultivation the three Class excepted who are within St Andrews by referencing to the Title of Crown Tenants at Will Your Honors Memorialists As in duty Bound Prays 1. Andrew Clindinning 2. John Berry 3. William Thompson 4. David Kezer 5. John Bamford 6. Samuel Beal 7. James Brown Junr Elisha Davidson 8. Jacob Young 3d 9. Jacob Young Junr 10. Samuel Thomas 11. James Smith 12. John Humphrey 13. James Brown Third 14. Jonathan Pineo 15. Ebenezer Ross 16. 17. George Smith 18. James Brown Senior 19. Green Brown 20. Thomas Homer? Brisley 21. Tristram Moore 22. David H Stone 23. Lewis Brewer Mundie 24. Elizabeth Bunten 25. Stephen Brooks Samuel Connick Thomas Connick Caleb Bartlett Daniel Hill William Higgins Mr Connick came over after the original was drawn and signed to request I would add his own & the other fourt persons opposite to this Petition Nathan Frink Fredericton 16th Feby 1814 The Original Petition being drawn on Bad paper & ? I have drafted a fair copy and added the signatures of the Petitioners, for and in their behald Nathan Frink License will be granted to settled on the Land reserve for Black's Harbor Neck - at 1/3 for an acre ? applies to me, to know if Capt Hatch could give him a Title - I directed Mitchel to go Back and ask Capt Hatch to put the Terms in ? telling him, he should have an Answer; he brought the above minute & I advised Him, to have nothing to do with Capt Hatch of the Kings Reservations as ? had ? against some persons in a Similar situation Nathank Frink The Situation of other Reserves in the County is as follows No. Two lotts before the Grant to Allen Stewart ? and the Penobscot Grant in Scodiac - They were licensed to Peter Cristy Esqr. He sold them to Mr Porter for 50L they were inclosed and the old Road through them shut off that lead to the Head of Oak Point Bay which caused a new one to be cut (now impassable Spring Fall) No. A Oak Point the Reservation is divided into five parts and disposed of to B Bradford, Mr Hops, & others they say they paid 12.10 pr lott to Captn Hatch No. The Reserve at the mouth of Wawig was originally Licensed to Mr Dougherty, who had Charge of Mr Black's Pond under the Contract of Hunter and Robertson- It was taken from the Widow and Given to Wm Simpson who settled Down thereon & remained for some years - He has Exchanged it for Maloy's lotts on the Banks of the Digdeguash & on the Fredericton Road where Simpson now lived and Maloy is in the Reserve- He was an American & do not know Whether is now otherwis No. 1 William Garcelon tells be, that he paid Capt Hatch 50L for a License of 1200 acres Northerly and Easterly of the Grant of Mill Priviledge at at the Head of Oak Point Bay Granted to Colin Campbell Thomas Wyer & Wm Gallop - Garcelon had Purchased Wyer & Gallops right at 750L He calls himself a Subject, but his sons reported themselves as American Citizens at the declaration of War by America [No ] Black's Harbour reserve was offered to sale at 1/3 pr acre Mitcheles Boys applied to me for advice which prevented the sale, tho I sent them for a Memorandum pointing out the the Terms annex'd it was given & brought to one in Sepr last & by me shewn the same ? to the All? Genl at St Andrew's No 2 East of Goldsmith's mill - Stephen Ford, Henry Rigby & Alexander Greenlaw Junr Purchased of Peter Cristy Esqr 500 acres of the Kings Reservation They applied to me to draw the deed, but was referred & advized to the Contrary - Mr Cristy drew them a Quitclaim and took their joint note for 250L on the Strength of Which they went to work getting timber - Capt Hatch went to them seized seventy odd Tons in the woods it was undermined in the Court of Admiralty & lost to them Moses Mosely had a permite about the same Quantity of Timber ? ? number of Round ? were seized and Condemned but he did not Claim a right to the ? To the above I have not hesitancy in subscribing my name & not in Private Nathan Frink
Residence	13 Mar 1817	St David, Charlotte, NB [1]
	Daughter Betsey Jane
Aged	3 Apr 1821	67 years
Immigration	[1783]	"With the Loyalists"
	Petition 1821
Military	6 YEARS
	American War
	Petition 1821
Died	Bef 1823 ASSESS?
Person ID	I28872	4 February 2018
Last Modified	3 Jun 2018

Family Elizabeth SHAW, b. Bef 1776, d. Bef 1821 PETITION

Married 25 Apr 1796 All Saints Anglican, St Andrews, Charlotte, NB [2]

Samuel Andrews Anglican
25 Apr 1796 Brisely Thomas Shaw Betsy 29

Children

	1. Mary B BRISLEY, b. 25 Nov 1797, St David, Charlotte, NB , d. 11 Mar 1872 (Age 74 years)
	2. Joshua BRISLEY, b. [1801], bur. 31 Dec 1844, Christ Church, St Stephen, Charlotte, NB
	3. Benjamin S W BRISLEY, b. [27 Jun 1803], d. August 1879, Washington, ME
	4. Lydia Ann BRISLEY, b. [1808], NB , d. From 19 Apr 1862 to 1871
	5. Daniel BRISLEY, b. Bef 1810, d. October 1830, Lubec, Washington, ME (Age > 20 years)
	6. Child BRISLEY, b. Bef 1812
	7. Elizabeth Jane BRISLEY, b. [1817], NB , d. 16 Aug 1887, Oshkosh, Winnebago, WI
	8. Child BRISLEY, b. [1812-1821]
	9. John BRISLEY

Family ID F8503 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Family 1812/1813: 8 [Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, Joshua, Benjamin, Lydia, Elizabeth, ?]
Family 1821 Petition: 7 children [Mary m 1817]

Caren Secord Loyalist Lists: Nil
Johnson's Vitals: Nil
NH/ME Gen Dic: Nil
Loyalists to NB: Nil
Early Probate: Nil
Census 1851: Brisleys in St James
Esther Clark Wright: Nil
Census 1790: Nil NH/MA
Desc of Wm Moore Josiah Hitchings and Robert Livingstone: Nil
First Families: Nil
St Andrews Assessment 1822: Nil
Kirk McColl: Nil
All Saints Anglican: Nil
Christ Church: Nil
Caren Secord: Nil
St David Assessment 1823: Nil
St David Assessment 1831: Nil
St David Assessment 1843: Nil
St David Assessment 1844: Nil
PANB Petitions: Thomas Denis Brisley for Oromocto River
ECW: Thomas Dennis Brisley blacksmith Oromocto River
Old Soldiers: Nil
Registry Books: Several. Abstracted the earliest. 2 first book grantor torn index, can't read.
UEL: Nil
Vital Records Eastport Sentinel: Nil
St Stephen Rural Cemetery: Nil
Eastport Sentinel: Checked
Washington County Marriages: Checked
Calais Vitals 1&2: Checked
Charlotte County Probate: Nil
Cape Ann Association
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbstdavi/capeann.html
The CAPE ANN ASSOCIATION granteees were 'economic Loyalists' rather than refugees from direct persecution. After the Rev. War's end the British Government wanted to increase settlement in the border area and offered enticing free land and support. In this case settlers were actively recruited in the New Boston, NH and Gloucester, MA areas especially.
http://www.archive.org/stream/exodusofloyalist00sieb/exodusofloyalist00sieb_djvu.txt

The Exodus of the Loyalists from Penobscot to Passamaquoddy
Volume XVIII Number 26
The Ohio State University Bulletin
April, 1914
WILBUR H. SIEBERT, A. M
Professor of European History
1914

p 31
Another settlement worthy of mention was that of the Cape Ann Association in what is now the Parish of St. David. This parish lies northwest of the Bay of Passamaquoddy, and includes the headwaters of Dennis Stream and the Digdeguash River, which are not navigable. The as.sociation numbered two hundred and twenty members, and received a grant of nearly 23,000 acres on October 1, 1784. Many of the grantees appear to have come from Gloucester, Massachusetts, and vicinity. Several, however, were from New Boston in New Hampshire. Francis Norwood, the leader of the association, was one of the latter. Twenty-six of those who had grants at St. Andrews drew lands also in St David; while several others, whose names appear in the Penobscot Association grant, are listed among the grantees of the Cape Ann Association. Among the latter were Moses Gerri.sh, John Gillis, and William Monroe. These facts indicate that nearly one seventh, if not more, of the Cape Ann company were loyalists. Since, however, most of them did not belong to this cla.ss, the association was assigned "back lands," that is, lands back from navigable waters, evidently on the principle that loyalists and disbanded troops were entitled to the best locations. It is probable that the St. Andrews and Penobscot grantees drew "back lands" either for their children, which they had a right to do, or as a matter of speculation. However, the settlement in St. David did not fulfil its promise, although the soil there was of excellent quality: in 1788, there were nearly one hundred and fifty absentees, and two years later, all but forty-six lots had been escheated. By 1803, the settlers numbered two hundred and eighty-six, and were reported to be the most independent farmers of any in the County of Charlotte.
Reuben Smith - from New Boston, NH to St. David, NB ??
http://www.smithfamilypages.org/reuben.htm

That there is a frame House and Barn thereon, and about thirty five acres cleared and under good cultivation and fenced being the Western part of Lots Numbers three and four, lying West from Block Lettered J. in Wentworths division of the Cape Ann Grant, [p.2] Grant [sic], bounded Eastwardly by Land now applied for, by Joseph Connick on the West Side of the Dennis Stream Lake, Northerly by Land occupied by Thomas Brisley, Southerly by the parish Road and Westerly by a Gore Lot at the North Westerly angle of Marks? Grant, granted to William Grant containing in the whole about Ninety Acres.
Inhabitants of New Hampshire, 1776: Nil
Source: Original data: Wilson, Emily S. Inhabitants of New Hampshire, 1776. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogicl Publishing Co., 1993.
Description:
In 1776, at the outset of the American Revolution, the New Hampshire Committee of Safety directed that all males over the age of twenty-one sign the Association Test--a kind of loyalty oath to the Patriot cause. In effect this resulted in a unique census of the adult male population inasmuch as the names of both signers and non-signers were recorded, and it is the most comprehensive list of New Hampshire residents available before the Census of 1790. Previously available in two separate, unindexed booklets, the present publication has placed all the names--well over 9,000--in one alphabetical sequence to enable the researcher to find a person and his town of residence at a glance.
RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918
Name BRISLEA, THOMAS
Year 1811
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4174
See petition of ST. DAVID'S, SUNDRY INHAB
All names on this petition : 9
. BRISLEA, THOMAS
. BROOKS, STEPHEN
. BROWN, GREEN
. BROWN, JAMES
. HOWE, DAVID
. MOORE, TRISTRAM
. SMITH, GEORGE
. ST. DAVID'S, INHABITANTS
. TRITES, GERALD
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbstdavi/brown.pdf
Circa 1808-1815? Land Petition, undated.
To the Honr Major General Martin Hunter Esquire, President of His Majestys Council and
Commanding [sic] in Cheif [sic] New Brunswick. &c. &c. &c.
The Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Parish of t [sic] David
Humbly Sheweth
That your petitioners had seated themselves down on Lands under Purchase from persons in whom they had been lead [sic] to belive [sic] possessed a right to sell and convey the same as an indefeatable Estate. That afterwards it appeared they had been decived [sic] and led into an Error. That they have been for some years part or w[h]olly settled under their respective Purchases before they were given to understand that the Lands so bought, were part and Parcel of His Majestys Reserve Land for Crown Use. Thus Situated Your Honors Petitioners cannot have any relief but by addressing themselves to His Majestys Government. Stating that the Lands on which they are settled doth not contain any white Pine Timber for His Majestys use or any other Purpose. And that under these circumstances Your Honor will have the goodness to take this subject under consideration and that some means may be adopted by which they can obtain a Title or that your Honor will [propose?, or, purpose?] some order to be made, that when the said Reserves may be allotted for Settlement
The Improvements by us Severally made, may be secured to us, as it must appear from the documents here with, that We were not originally trespassers.
As in duty Bound Prays
X Purchasers
100 $ X Green Brown
100 $ X James Brown
100 $ X Thomas Brislea
100 $ X Stephen Brooks
George Smith Squatter
200 $ X Tristam Moore
100 $ of Chase who is gone away and left his family David Howe Stone Squatter
- Gerald Fitzs Gerald do
700 $ his x mark
[Petition for land grant: Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. David, undated. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B.]

RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918
Name BRISLEY, THOMAS
Year 1814
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4176
See petition of CLENDENIN, ANDREW
All names on this petition : 33
. BAMFORD, JOHN
. BEAL, SAMUEL
. BERRY, JOHN
. BRADFORD, BENJAMIN
. BRISLEY, THOMAS
. BROOKS, STEPHEN
. BROOKS, STEPHEN
. BROWN, GREENE
. BROWN, JAMES
. BUNTON, ELIZABETH
. CHRISTIE, PETER
. CLENDENIN, ANDREW
. CONNICK, SAMUEL
. CONNICK, THOMAS
. DAVIDSON, ELISHA
. GARCELON, WILLIAM
. HATCH, HARRIS
. HIGGINS, WILLIAM
. HILL, DANIEL
. HUMPHREY, JOHN
. KEYZER, DAVID
. MOORE, TRISTRAM
. MUNDIE, LEWIS BREWER
. PINEO, JONATHAN
. PORTER, JOSEPH
. ROLF, EBENEZER
. SMITH, GEORGE
. SMITH, JAMES
. STONE, DAVID HOWE
. THOMAS, SAMUEL
. THOMPSON, WILLIAM
. VANCE, WILLIAM
. YOUNG, JACOB
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbstdavi/brown.pdf
1813, February. Land petition: The petition of Andrew Clendenin ... [et al.]. [Lists three classes of petitioners.
In the first class are 16 names, including James Brown, Junior, and James Brown, the Third. In the second class are 9 names, including James Brown, Senior, and Greene Brown. The Third class lists 5 names]
To the Honorable Major General Sir Thomas Sumarez, President of His Majesty?s Councel [sic] and Commanding [sic] in Chief His Province of New Brunswick
The petition of [Class 1st:] Andrew Clendenin, John Berry, William Thompson, David Keyzer, John Bamford, Samuel Beal, Jacob Young, Junior, Jacob Young the third, James Brown, Junior, Samuel Thomas, Elisha Davidson, James Smith, John Humphrey, James Brown the third, Jonathan Pineo, Ebenezer Rolf.
[Class 2d:] David Howe Stone, George Smith, James Brown senior, Greene Brown, Thomas Brisley, Tristam Moore, Stephen Brooks, Lewis Brewer Mundie, and Elisabeth Bunton.
[Class 3d:] Samuel Connick, Thomas Connick, Caleb Bartlett, William Higgins, Daniel Hill.
Humbly Sheweth,
The lands whereon the first numbered class are settled, was sett [sic] off and apart by John Jones Esquire the deputy Land surveyor in seventeen hundred eighty four, to make up the allowance for women and children after giving to the Head of each Family, one Hundred acres on the Rivers and Bays above the mouth of the River St. Croix.
In a few weeks after Mr. Jones run [sic] out a sheet reading from the rear of the front lotts [sic] at the Head of Oak Point Bay Westerly and marked off a tier of lotts [sic] on each side thereof for a number of Gentlemen from whom most of the present settlers became purchasers either direct or from their assigns paying in some instances at the rate of five Hundred pounds New Brunswick Currency purchase.
It so happened that in October of the same Year Sir John Wentworth His Majesty?s surveyor General of Woods for North America was pleased to make a reservation of forty six thousand acres of Land in the destrict [sic] of St. Stephen and Saint David except a small strip in the northerly and westerly part of Saint Andrew [sic], comprehending the lotts [sic] as aforesaid within the limits thereof, for the purpose of preserving to His Majesty?s Use the Pine Timber standing in the vallies [sic] between the Ridges of Hard wood Land; thereby preventing their expected titles.
The second class are seated on the Gore west of and between the Cape Ann Association Grant and that to Nehemiah Marks Esquire and others. Moore & Brooks by Purchase from Peter Christie Esquire. Against several of the others, who expected to obtain Titles, there are prosecutions for Trespass now pending in His Majesty?s Supreme Court instituted by the Attorney General.
The Third class have possessions and improvements on the Waweig, Part of which were, by letters licensed to Benjamin Bradford, the others sett [sic] down under, encouragement from His Majesty?s Assistant deputy Surveyor for that district.
The schedule of the Parishes of St. Stephen and St. David transmitted to Your Honor [sic] by Captain Frink, will shew [sic] Your Honor what Progress they have made in Cultivation, the third Class excepted who are within the district of Saint Andrews, by a referrence [sic] to the Title of Crown Tenants at Will.
Your Honors Petitioners beg leave to state that, the original Object in making the reservations aforesaid hath long since ceased to exist. The masts suited to the Royal Navy were cut and taken off under the Contract of Mesrs. Hunter and Robinson by their agents Mesrs. Black?s. The milling business and the call for square Timber for the British Markets since the Baltic sea hath been shut up caused the other timber to be felled which was near the shores, but such as had not, hath been killed by the fires during the last & preceeding [sic] Years, that there remains at this present, no timber which can ever be an object for Government use, and those about these particular [seatings?, or, ratings?] never aforded [sic] any Pine Timber, being hard wood Lands.
The late President Ludlow but a few weeks before His death directed a simular [sic] application to be made thro? [sic] him giving an apearance [sic] that he would transmit the same to the Secretary of State for His Majesty?s most gracious will and Pleasure therein.
To Your Honors Protection the Petitioners hereunder, Humbly submit themselves, & should any doubts arise in Your Honors breast as to the facts sett [sic] forth; they beg their Petition may be referr?d [sic] to the Justices of the General Session & the Grand Jury of the County of Charlotte with directions for them to certify the situation of the reservations and that of the Present applicants. As in duty Bound so prays Your Honors Petitioners, Namely ...
[The signatures appear to be copied, all in same handwriting; not the original signatures]

RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918
Name BRISLEY, THOMAS
Year 1821
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4190
See petition of MOORE, TRISTRAM
. BRISLEY, THOMAS
. BROWN, GREEN
. CHASE, WILLIAM
. MOORE, TRISTRAM
. MUNDIE, GEORGE
. MUNDIE, LEWIS
. PERKINS, JAMES
. SMITH, GEORGE
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"That your Memorialist Thomas Brisley was born in the County of Surrey England, came to this country with the Loyalists after having served six years in the American War; has resided in the Parishes of Saint David and Saint Stephen ever since, is now residing on a tract of the said Reserve which he purchased from the aforesaid Peter Christie Esquire, is sixty seven years old, a widower with seven children, and has never received any Grant of lands from the Crown.

RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918
Name BRISLEY, THOMAS
Year 1825
County Charlotte
Microfilm F4201
See petition of MOORE, TRISTRAM
. BRISLEY, THOMAS
. CHRISTY, PETER
. MOORE, TRISTRAM
. SMITH, GEORGE
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RS686 :: Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997
Name BRISELBY, Thomas
Volume B
Page 452
Grant number 311
Place Saint David Parish
County Charlotte
Date 1797-01-28
Accompanying plan No
Acres 180
Microfilm F16302
Other names on this grant (110):
BABB, Josiah 180 acres
BEATON, John 90 acres
BOWKER, Levy 180 acres
BURRELL, John 180 acres
CAMPBELL, James 180 acres
CAMPBELL, John 180 acres
CHALONER, William 180 acres
CHRISTY, George 88 acres
CHRISTY, John 90 acres
CHRISTY, Peter 90 acres
CHRISTY, Samuel 90 acres
CLARK, Parker 180 acres
CLARKE, John 90 acres
CLYNDENNAN, Andrew 90 acres
CLYNDENNAN, David 90 acres
CLYNDENNAN, Vance 90 acres
CLYNDENNEN, Moses 90 acres
COCHRAN, John 74 acres
COCHRAN, Robert 48 acres
COLEMAN, James 90 acres
COLLINS, Davis 180 acres
CONNER, John 90 acres
CORNACK, John 180 acres
CORNACK, Joseph 173 acres
CORNACK, William 90 acres
CORNECK, Thomas 90 acres
CUTSHANNON, Richard 90 acres
DUNN, John 180 acres
ELLIS, Samuel 180 acres
ELLIS, Simeon 180 acres
GARNETT, George 90 acres
GARNETT, William 90 acres
GOLDSMITH, Henry * 166 acres
GOVE, Jonathan 90 acres
HITCHINGS, David 90 acres
HITCHINGS, John 90 acres
HITCHINGS, Josiah 90 acres
HITCHINGS, Robert 90 acres
HITCHINGS, William 90 acres
HOGG, John 90 acres
HOLMES, John 180 acres
INGLY, Ebenezer 180 acres
INGLY, Morris 180 acres
KEESER, David 180 acres
KEESER, David Jr. 180 acres
KELLEY, John 180 acres
KELSO, William 90 acres
LINDSAY, Vivian 90 acres
LINEGAN, Benjamin 90 acres
MALCOMSON, Robert 90 acres
MALCOMSON, Robert Jr. 180 acres
MCALLISTER, Daniel 90 acres
MCCALLUM, James 90 acres
MCCALLUM, Peter 60 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Archibald 180 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Donald 180 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Joseph 180 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Lauchlan 180 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Robert 90 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Thomas 180 acres
MCLAUCHLAN, Zachariah 90 acres
MOOR, Allan 90 acres
MOOR, Benjamin 180 acres
MOOR, George 76 acres
MOOR, John 90 acres
MOOR, Robert 90 acres
MOOR, Thomas 90 acres
MOOR, Tristram 90 acres
MOOR, William 90 acres
MOOR, William Jr. 90 acres
MOWATT, David 180 acres
MOWATT, John 180 acres
NORWOOD, Francis 90 acres
PARSONS, Nathaniel 90 acres
PENNYMAN, James 180 acres
PUMEROY, Benjamin 90 acres
PUNNEROY, Benjamin Jr. 180 acres
RAMSAY, Robert 90 acres
SHAW, Benjamin 90 acres
SMITH, Adam 90 acres
SMITH, Elisha 180 acres
SMITH, Ellis 180 acres
SMITH, James 180 acres
SMITH, James Jr. 180 acres
SMITH, William 180 acres
SPEAR, Ebenezer 90 acres
STEWART, Joseph 180 acres
STRETCH, John 236 acres
STRETCH, John Jr. 236 acres
SWEAT, David 180 acres
SWEAT, Ebenezer 180 acres
SWEAT, Joseph 180 acres
THOMAS, Samuel 180 acres
THOMPSON, Alexander 90 acres
TOWERS, William 180 acres
TRAVERS, Robert 180 acres
VANCE, James 90 acres
VANCE, Jesse 180 acres
VANCE, John 180 acres
VANCE, John Jr. 180 acres
VANCE, John Sr. 180 acres
VANCE, William 90 acres
WATTS, David 180 acres
WHITING, Leonard 90 acres
WHITNEY, John 90 acres
YOUNG, Christopher 90 acres
YOUNG, Jacob 90 acres
YOUNG, Jacob Jr. 90 acres
YOUNG, John 90 acres
YOUNG, Michael 90 acres
Lot 2 Block C Wentworth

Volume B Page 704 [707/753]
No 9941
Peter Christy merchant St Stephen
Thomas Brisley St Stephen blacksmith
$50
Lot in St David 100 acres
Lot 2 Block C formerly granted to John Clarke
Wentworth Division
27 December 1799
Peter Christy
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Vital records, ca.1811-1924
Authors: Lubec (Maine). Town Clerk
Vital records, ca.1811-1924
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7595733
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Records of Deaths
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1830 Oct Daniel Brisley

Sources

[S821] Christ Church Anglican Records, Charlotte, NB, Transcribed by Shirley O'Neill, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbstdavi/christchurch/index.html).
[S3913] All Saints Angilcan Church Records, St Andrews, NB, Transcribed by Shirley O'Neill.