Hugh Cowperthwaite UE (abt. 1735 - 1828)

Born about 1735 in Pittsgrove, Salem Co., New Jersey

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Died 2 Nov 1828 at about age 93 in Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick

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Hugh Cowperthwaite was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

Biography

Hugh Cowperthwaite was born circa 1733, the son of Hugh Cowperthwaite and Keziah Atkinson or Hannah Atkinson of Monmouth County, New Jersey^[1]

On 26 Oct 1767 in Salem County, NJ, he married Sarah Mead (b. in Falls Township, Bucks, PA, died after 7 Aug 1809, d/o Samuel Mead and Mary Downey)^[1]

They came to NB in 1783 as Loyalists: they first settled in Sheffield Parish, Sunbury County, then moved to Waterborough Parish, Queens County^[1]. Their children included:

1. William Cowperthwaite^[1]
2. Samuel Cowperthwaite, who was born in NB, married Mercy Briggs, daughter of Abiel Briggs and Elizabeth Chase, and settled in Woodstock, NB. He died circa 1822^[1] (before 1828
3. David Cowperthwaite, who married Olive Duel on 14 Jan 1794 at Maugerville, Sunbury County. They first settled at Oromocto, Burton Parish, Sunbury County: and then moved to Norfolk Ontario, where he died 13 Jun 1811
4. Reuben Cowperthwaite, who married circa 1792, Phoebe Yeamans (b. 1771 in USA, d. after 1851 probably in Saint Marys Parish, York County), and who died 28 Mar 1798^[1]
5. Sarah Cowperthwaite, m. (1st) Asher Timothy Miller and had three children: m. aft. 1795 James Jones: d. Bef 28 Mar 1817, Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick^[1]
6. Charity Cowperthwaite, b. 1769, m. 28 Apr 1788 in Sheffield, NB, James Harrison( b. c1749 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. 11 Mar 1806 or 11 Mar 1811), and who die 15 Sep 1855, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 86 years)^[1]
7. James Cowperthwaite, b. 1774, m. 27 Sep 1798 in Waterborough Parish, Queens County, Lydia Newcombe (b. 5 Dec 1777 in Cornwallis, NS, died 24 Feb 1863 d/o Benjamin Newcombe and Elizabeth Lewis); d. 14 Feb 1857, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 83 years)^[1]
8. Hugh Cowperthwaite, b. 1776, New Jersey , married 17 Oct 1799 in Waterborough Parish, Mary/Polly Newcombe (b. - , died before 1851, d/o Benjamin Newcombe and Elizabeth Lewis): settled in Sheffield, Queens County and died 8 Oct 1853, Woodstock, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 77 years)^[1]
9. Elizabeth Cowperthwaite, b. 1780, married James Banks born in North Carolina, s/o William Banks and Mary Sawrey: first settled in Sunbury County then on Tobique River in Victoria County: they had twelve children; she d. 19 Mar 1868, Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada (Age 88 years)^[1]
10. Mary Cowperthwaite, b. 1787, New Brunswick, married 28 Jul 1814 in Sheffield, Sunbury County, George Ferguson b. - , d. after 1851: they settled in Sheffield and had eight children:, she died after the 1851 Census^[1]

Hugh Cowperthwaite died 2 Nov 1828

Notes

from Publication: Cowperthwaite - Seven Generations From Hugh(1) Born in 1648 (1648-1983), Woodbridge, J. Eliot, (privately published at Princeton, NJ.), p.2-7. In Jan of the year 1777, when the Oath of Allegiance to the American States was extended to Hugh (4), he refused to take it and fled to Phildelphia. Subsequently, he became a member of a garrison of Loyalist at Billingsport on the Delaware River commanded by Major John Vandyke. Hugh (4) recruited between thirty and forty others (including his wife's brother, Richard Mead, who also ended up in NB, Canada, and probably his sister's husband, Jacob Vanmeter, who had his Salem Co. farm confiscated) and led them out on numberous reprisals against the enemy. A number of Continental officers and other prisoners were taken by this force. Upon the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British, he went to New York and served as a private in the Loyalist Corps of Colonel de Lancy. Hugh (4) had owned a 268 acre farm that he had bought from his brother, probably Joseph, with a good dwelling house, barn and waggons, and orchard. It contained 6 cows, 9 young cattle, 2 horses, corn and all sorts of grain in the barn, farming utensils, and furniture. As soon as it was learned that Hugh (4) had gone to Philadelphia, they came and seized his things and sold them at Vendue, at another Tory's house. They left Sarah nothing except the clothes on her back. Sarah and her children were sent to New York eighteen months after her husband went away. Hugh (4) arrived in NB in the summer of 1783. With the family came six sons and four daughters. They received land grants in 1785 and 1786. The later may have been a resurvey of the former as the same lot was concerned. Hugh (4) was allowed 444 pounds for his losses in his claim for 964.15 in five audit office findings. It appears that when Hugh (4) became too old to farm, he retired to live in Sheffield with his daughter Charity (5) Harrison. His will was registered 4 Jul 1828.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} New Brunswick Genealogical and Historical Society First Families listing for Hugh Cowperthwaite shows the following sources: Sources: MC80/364 E. Stone Wiggins, History of Queens County, 1876, page 21: see MC80/1055 J. Eliot Woodbridge’s Cowperthwaite: seven generations from Hugh (1st) born in 1648, pgs. 7-8, 16-17: Sarah Mead’s brother Richard Mead also came to NB as a Loyalist: he m. 28 Aug 1772 in Salem County, NJ, Penel or Rasnel Sutton: see also MC80/1720 Theodore C. Holmes’ Loyalists to Canada: the 1783 settlement of Quakers and others at Passamaquoddy, pages 45-46: see also MC80/1214 Ina MacLaggan et. al. Nashwaak families 1785-1885, pages 29-30: see also MC80/2801 Rollin C. Cowperthwaite et. al. The Cowperthwaite family and allied … families, 408 pages: the order of the children differs among the sources.

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