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Source #1:
Loyalists to Canada : the 1783 settlement of Quakers and others at
Passamaquoddy
Author: Holmes, Theodore C. (Theodore
Crozier)
Published: Camden, Me. : Picton Press, c1992.
Physical description: xxvii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 24
cm.
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical
references (p. 277-282) and index.
Subject: Baptists--Passamaquoddy Bay Region
(Me. and N.B.)--History.
Subject: American loyalists--Passamaquoddy
Bay (Me. and N.B.)--History.
Subject: United Empire loyalists.
Subject: Quakers--Passamaquoddy Bay Region
(Me. and N.B.)--History.
Subject: Passamaquoddy Bay Region (Me. and
N.B.)--History.
The following information was taken from the chapter "REFUGEES AND
SETTLERS". The only reference to any
Carey is found in these references to Joseph and Thomas Canby:
CANBY, JOSEPH - He was a Quaker merchant with a wife and child and was
from Upper Makefield, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. On May 28, 1778, in Upper Makefield, Bucks Co, PA. On
May 28, 1778, in Upper Makefield, he took an
oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania. Joseph Canby and
Thomas Canby, a blacksmith, were accused of
treason in Pennsylvania. Joseph Canby was a passenger on the ship
Duchess of Gordon, which arrived in Saint John in
June, 1783. Joseph Canby was a grantee, Lot #P1006, at Parr Town (Saint
John) in 1784. He signed two petitions at Saint
John: a January 10, 1786 protest about the conduct of elections in
Saint John and a March 3, 1786 petition protesting the
behaviour and practices of the government during an election in Saint
John. According to the Philadelphia Quaker Joseph
Moore, who visited New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1786, Joseph Canby
was living at Indian House village in
1787. He died on October 8, 1814 and was buried in the Loyalist
cemetery at Saint John, NB (New Brunswick).
Records of the Falls Township, Bucks County, PA, Monthly Meeting
contain the following information about Canby
families: in 1718 a Thomas Canby and family received a certificate at
the Abington PA, Monthly Meeting. In 1719, a Sarah
Canby, daughter of of Thomas Canby of Bucks County, married John Hill at
the Quaker meeting house in Buckingham, PA.
In 1766, a Thomas Canby was reported married to Mary Palmer. In 1770,
Benjamin Canby, his wife and children: Whitson,
Thomas Joseph, Elizabeth, Martha, Benjamin and Henry, received a
certificate from the Buchkingham Meeting. In 1771, a
Thomas Canby was granted a certificate to the Middletown Monthly Meeting
to marry Beulah Carey. The children of
Thomas and Beulah Canby were: Samuel b. July 12, 1772; Thomas Yardley,
b. May 12, 1774; Anne, b. July 7, 1781;
Mary, b. May 9, 1783; Beulah, b Aug 23, 1784; Hannameel, b. Jan. 13,
1787; Benjamin, b. Sept. 27, 1789. Thomas
Canby died on May 9, 1790.
CANBY, THOMAS - He was a Quaker blacksmith from Lower Makefield, PA.
The records of the Philadelphia Montly
Meeting indicate that a Thomas Canby, Jr., and children Sara and
Elizabeth, received a certificate from the Wilmington
Monthly Meeting in 1762. During the war, Thomas Canby served with the
King's American Dragoons. In Philadelphia,
during the hostilities, he signed a petition to supply the British with
blankets and other supplies. In 1775 the Falls,
Pennsylvania Monthly Meeting accused him of bearing arms. On May 31,
1778 he took an oath of allegiance to the state of
Pennsylvania. Thomas Canby served with the Bucks County Volunteers. In
1178, at the Falls Township Monthly Meeting
in Bucks County, a Thomas Canby, Jr., was disowned for joing the British
Army. In 1779 he was charged by the Society of
Friends for taking a test oath of allegiance and probably was disowned
by the Society. After the war he emigrated to
Canada. He signed two petitions at Saint John: a January 10, 1786
protest about the conduct of elections in Saint John and
a March 3, 1786 petition protesting the behaviour and practices of the
government during an election in Saint John.
According to the Quaker, Joseph Moore, he was living at St. Mary's Bay
in 1787. He may have been a grantee and/or a
settler at Kennebacasis, New Brunswick.
The following excerpts were taken from the same book from the
"introduction":
Followers of the Crown came from every walk of life and represented
all classes of society, including the clergy, royal
office holders, farmers, seament, professional men, landowners,
merchants, fishermen, tradesmen, etc. Although branded as
traitors by the Rebels, they were: "intellectually and morally good men,
and their principles were respectable."
Estimates vary regarding the number of Loyalists who left the United
States after the war. Historians have written that
between 70,000 and 80,000 emigrated. Around 35,000 moved to Nova
Scotia, including 12,000 who went to New
Brunswick.
The Quaker population in the American Colonies, at the time cannot
be accurately determined, although a historian
estimates their number at 50,000 in 1760. There were probably 25,000
Quakers in Pennsylvania during the war. Of the
total Quaker population, a large majority were faithful to their
religious principles and remained neutral during
the hostilities. Less than 2,000 Friends were disowned for reasons
including paying fines and taxes, taking tests
of allegiance, assisting in the war effort or performing military
service. After the conflict, few Quakers submitted
claims for property losses suffered during the war.
Most of the male heads of Quaker families who emigrated to Beaver
Harbour, New Brunswick, Canada, had
been disowned by the Society for disobeying the Quaker nonpartisan
principle during the war. The community at
Beaver Harbour represented a small segment of the Society of Friend in
America. The Philadelphia Quaker
Joseph Moore, who visited the area in the summer of 1786, reported:
"....at the place called Beaver Harbour there are
upwards of 40 persons members of our religious
society, most if not all of whom have removed from within the compass of
our yearly meeting...."
Passamaquoddy began to receive an influx of Loyalist from the
Colonies in the 1770's, although most arrived following the
end of the Revolutionary War in 1783.