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Ephraim Young mystery

Re: Ephraim Young mystery

Posted: 21 Apr 2012 2:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
ephraim young, who married a daughter of john hanson of bocabec and saint andrews lived for many years near the mouth of the stream connecting lake utopia and the macadavic river at the place called young's bridge. he died in 1841 at the age of eighty eight. ephiam and wife sarah [hanson] had one son - isaac young. isaac young would have been my great grandfather. if my information is right, he at some time fathered harry young, that is my grandfather. they both lived and died, living out there life in the pennfield area.

Re: Ephraim Young mystery

Posted: 6 May 2012 9:01PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello,
According to the obituary for both Sarah and Isaac Young, they had 13 children. Their son, Isaac, married Mary Turner. Together they had 9 children. My line follows their son Moses Young who married Mary Creasey. About 1848 Isaac & Mary along with the families of their sons Moses & Richard and daughter Abigail moved to Wisconsin. The daughter of Moses Young, Mary Ann Young, is my great-grandmother. They all show up on the 1850 & 1860 US Census for Wisconsin - also land records in Milwaukee, WI area.

Another son of Isaac & Sarah Young was John Bailey Young. He married Priscilla Hawkins. One of their children was Isaac A. Young (1848-1932)married a Susan (I think). He lived and died in Pennfield, NB, Canada. Perhaps this is your Isaac.

There was one more Isaac Young. He was another the son of Isaac Young & Mary Turner. But he married Lydia Ann Hawkins and they died in Ontario, CA.

Too many people with too many identical names! Makes it hard to keep them straight. I have quite a bit of documentation on my line (Ephraim Young & Sarah Hanson to Isaac Young & Mary Turner to Moses Young & Mary Creasey to Mary Ann Young & James Henry Randall who are my great grandparents.) but could be in error on the other "Isaacs" listed above.

Hope this helps.

Re: Ephraim Young mystery

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 5:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Sarah Hanson, who was married to Ephraim-III Young was born 1758 and died 1845. Ephraim is also my great grandfather. They had over a dozen children. Issac, Mary, Robert, Mark Turner Young, Daniel, John and Emphraim and a number of others who were not named.

Re: Ephraim Young mystery

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 5:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Ephraim Young is my 3rd great-grandfather, so it is always nice to meet another cousin. I became interested in genealogy about ten years ago when I discovered a box full of hundreds of Civil War letters in our family attic. Based on my research, I am completing a book about the two soldiers who wrote the letters home to their parents in Vermont during the war, as well as telling the story of the ancestry search to understand my connection to the two soldiers.
That side of the family traces back to Ephraim Young. What I know of him is that he was a Loyalist who left from Maine at the start of the Revolution rather than fight against the British. Together with his father-in-law, John Hanson, they first spent some time on Campobello Island then continued on to New Brunswick on a whaling ship. In 1777 they became two of the earliest settlers at St. Andrews. They settled on Chamcook Island (later known as Minister’s Island) brought in their families and lived there for the next six years. However, they had no true legal claim to the island, and this became a major problem for them when the British decided to relocate a large group of loyalists to St. Andrews in 1783. Their island was given over to Captain Samuel Osborn. When they initially refused to recognize his claim to the island, Osborn began using the island for target practice for his ship. Although forced to flee, they then appealed to Governor Thomas Carleton (I have seen a copy of Ephraim's signed legal appeal). He and Hanson lost the appeal, although they were given some monetary damages, and re-settled nearby at Bocabec in Charlotte County. According to his newspaper obituary,by the time of his death in 1841, Ephraim Young had 13 children, 108 grandchildren, 140 great grandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren.

Re: Ephraim Young mystery

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 5:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
The Island did not see white residents until the arrival in 1777 of John Hanson and Ephraim Young. Traces of early European buildings were excavated in the 1970s.\l " Having received location tickets in recognition of their service in the Revolutionary War (Hanson fought with Wolfe in Quebec), Hanson and Young set out from Salem, Massachusetts in a whaling boat and eventually found their way to St. Andrews, the first Loyalists to arrive in the area. At that time St. Andrews consisted of little more than a trading post operated by two trappers from Saint John, along with a mainly ceremonial native presence. Having decided to settle on Consquamcook Island (or Chamcook Island, as it later was called), they cleared fields, raised families, and for a few tough years were forced to subsist almost entirely on shellfish and what they could bring down with their guns. With the arrival of the main United Empire Loyalist influx to the area in 1783, there was some concern that they might be ousted from their island by the new settlers, so they petitioned Governor General Carleton in Halifax for title to the Island but were informed that a prior application had been received from Samuel Osborn, Captain of the warship Arethusa, then stationed at St. Andrews for protection of the refugees. There is a legend, probably true, that Osborn was forced to use his ships cannons in some sort of not-so-friendly target practice to persuade the squatters to leave the premises. There is another story that Osborne, in cahoots with the Town’s new rector, Samuel Andrews of Connecticut, got Hanson drunk and persuaded him to sign over his property to the Minister. This is certainly not true. as Hanson and Young had in fact no legal title to the Island, and the deed transferring the Island from Osborn to Andrews is dated 1791, seven years after the two unfortunate settlers had left the Island.
Neither Osborn nor Andrews seemed particularly attached to the Island. Though Andrews built a small stone cottage there, still standing today, though in bad repair, he put the property up for sale in 1798 but apparently had no takers, as it was still in his possession upon his death in 1818. After that it passed to his son Elisha Andrews, the town’s Sheriff, then to Elisha's son Marshall, and finally to Marshall's son Edwin. Edwin Andrews and his father Marshall were still living there in 1889 when the celebrated William Van Horne, newly appointed President of the CPR, arrived in St. Andrews on a tour of inspection of the New Brunswick Railway, a new addition to the CPR's rapidly expanding system. Van Horne was impressed with the town and a few years later, in 1891, purchased 150 acres (0.61 km2) from Edwin Andrews and began construction of Covenhoven, his summer home.
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