Search for content in message boards

JOHN GARLAND FAMILY

Re: JOHN GARLAND FAMILY

Jacqueline Garland (View posts)
Posted: 5 Jan 2006 4:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 10 Feb 2006 11:56AM GMT
Surnames: Garland, Brooks, Wilmot
Is this the text of the clipping you mentioned? It gives as source - Archives of Hopewell Hill, Albert County. As there are no Archives in Hopewell Hill, I plan to visit the Museum in Hopewell Cape, Albert County as soon as they open in the spring to try and verify this document.

Now an English lad was taken aboard a hostile war-ship and made captive.It came into a Saint John, New Bruswick, Canada port.

It may be of interest to some of your readers to know that Saint John was once visited by a hostile war-ship, and one of His Majesty's subjects a little English boy, forced to serve under the enemy flag.

About the year 1779 a lad of thirteen years was attending a boarding-school in the city of London, England. He was the eldest of John Garland, a wealthy butcher who supplied for the London market. His Uncle, Captain Brooks sailed a vessel from England to the American coast. On his return from one of these voyages he visited his nephew at the boarding-school; and yielding to the entreaties of the young lad to be allowed to accompany him on his next voyage, he took him away without the knowledge of his parents and against their wishes on account of his youth and the fact that American cruisers swarmed the sea and inflicted heavy losses upon English shipping. It was in the days of the American Revolution.

Young Garland left England with his Uncle, little thinking he had seen home and friends for the last time. They crossed the ocean without mishap and entered Saint John harbour presumably for water; but it was not the Saint John of today. It consisted of less than a dozen houses, and a few homes in the wilderness. Young Garland was delighted and went ashore. In playing with some boys he went out of sight of his Uncle's ship and when he returned it was nowhere to be seen. He wandered around until evening when a press-gang from a French man-of-war in the harbour, seized him and carried him aboard their ship. He was forced to perform the most menial labour and for the four years that he remained with them and endored untold hardships.

At the close of the war in 1783, his captives left him where they found him and once more he was alone in Saint John; penniless, friendless and alone; but the Loyalists were coming in with a young man by the name of Wilmot. He made his way to Little River, (Coverdale?), Albert Co. New Brunswick. And afterwards located on a farm there. All this time he had not heard from his friends or family in England, but after some years a
small vessel sailed to the Old Country carrying the mail, taking six months to go and return. He then learned his Uncle was forced to leave him, after searching for him in vain. The presence of the French war-ship no doubt hastening his departure and he was obliged to carry the sad news to the grief-stricken parents, that some wild beast had evidently destroyed him. Great was their joy to learn that the boy was alive, yet sad to relate, owing no doubt to the unsafe means of communication. He never received any more news from home.

He married in the country and his eldest daughter, a well-know resident of Hillsborough died in 1901 at the advanced age of ninety-nine years and her many descendants well remember this story as related by her to them, and several of his Great Grandchildren are now residing here.

Archives of Hopewell Hill, Albert Co., NB

Re: JOHN GARLAND FAMILY

Posted: 5 Jan 2006 3:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 10 Feb 2006 11:57AM GMT
Surnames: Garland, Steeves, Mills
Yes! Isn't it a great story? I believe that they daughter mentioned in this article was Jane Garland Steeves. She was born in 1802 and died 1901, making her 99 years of age. My grandmother, Ruby Garland Mills who is 94, remembers hearing different variations of this story as a child. We found this article at archives.
Sandy
sandreassi@comcast.net
My grandmother has information on descendents of Stephen Garland if anyone is interested.

Re: JOHN GARLAND FAMILY

Barb (View posts)
Posted: 7 Jan 2006 1:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Jacqueline and others

I am also a descendant of Moses through his son, Alexander Garland.

Alexander's daughter, Ella was my grandmother. If Moses is your husband's grandfather, I suspect that your husband is one of Frederick's children.

I'd be interested in sharing information. If you're local to the Moncton area, email me and I'll give you my phone number.

Nellie and her husband, Charles as well as numerous members of their family are buried in the Lower Lincoln Cemetery (across from the Fredericton Airport).

Barb
Riverview, NB

Re: JOHN GARLAND FAMILY

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 7:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Great story. My grandfather was Ora Fenwick Garland of Elgin. His father was George Atsel Garland.
per page

Find a board about a specific topic