John (Boobar) Bubier (abt. 1756 - bef. 1830)

Born about 15 Jul 1756 in Georgetown, Sagahadoc County, Maine

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Died before 18 Sep 1830 before about age 74 in Wicklow, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

Seaman John (Boobar) Bubier served with Massachusetts Navy during the American Revolution.

John was born about 1756. He is the son of Joseph Boobar and Matha Grover. ^[1]

"Georgetown Births" say John, son of Joseph and Marcy Boober was born July 15, 1756, in Georgetown, Maine. When the Loyalists arrived in New Brunswick in 1783, Major Guilford Studholm in Saint John sent a party of four surveyors, two Loyalists and two old inhabitants, up the Saint John River to collect information about the old inhabitants, the status of their title to land, their character, loyalty, etc. John Bubar was living in the Township of Newtown (Parish of St. Marys, York Co., N.B.) and the surveyors reported: "John Booby has a wife, log house and about four acres of cleared land. Been on the river about 16 years, but on where he now possesses about one year." Later in the same report the surveyors commented, "John Booby, a rebel." John apparently did not have title to the land on which he had built his log house in the Parish of St. Marys. On July 14th, 1784, 13,750 acres in that area was assigned to disbanded officers and men of the late Maryland Loyalists. As a result, most of those who did not have title were obliged to remove elsewhere. John's improvements were appraised at 21 pounds, but Lieut. Samuel Wilson argued that was "three times their value," and asked for an evaluation by "some disinterested persons." The fact that John was a rebel during the Revolutionary War likely did not operate in his favour in dealings with the newly arrived Loyalists in the Province. In 1785, John, and his brothers Christopher and William Bubar, petitioned for land on the South Branch of the Oromocto River in Sunbury Co., saying they were "exceedingly distressed," and that the unsettled state in which they had lived lately had reduced them to great poverty. But they did not receive land there. (continued)

Before 1770, his father was settled in Maugerville, then Nova Scotia, "Above Oromocto Island we find the lots of … Joseph Buber, … and the Widow Clark. Thence to the upper boundary of the township, a distance of two miles, there were at first no settlers, …." ^[2]

Further evidence of the family's and town's support of the insurrection comes from ^[3] "In the latter part of 1776, Jonathan Eddy, a native of Norton, Mass., who had settled in Cumberland in 1763, made an attempt to capture Fort Cumberland, then held by a weak garrison under Col. Gorham. The people on the St. John River furnished a contingent of one captain, one lieutenant and twenty-five men for this enterprise. Hugh Quinton, William McKeene, Elijah Estabrooks, Edward Burpee, John Whitney, Benjamin Booby, Amasa Coy, Edward Price, John Pritchard, John Mitchell, Richard Parsons and Daniel Lovet were of this party, but I have not been able to ascertain the names of the others."

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Janice Hardin, Aug 3, 2011
2. ↑ https://minerdescent.com/2012/10/15/new-england-planters-in-new-brunswick/
3. ↑ The Maugerville Settlement 1763 – 1824 by James Hannay Maugerville, New Brunswick, Canada [Published in Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society Vol. 1, 1894]

• Birth record
• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4HY-KJL

• George Hayward Collection Page 8
• https://nbgs.ca/upload/files/George_Hayward_Collection/Joseph_%26_Joan_(Codner)_Bubar_2004.pdf

• Janice Hardin, firsthand knowledge. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Janice and others.
• Massachusetts. 1896-1908. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War : A Compilation from the Archives. Boston: Wright and Potter Print. Co. State Printers Volume 2, Page 742.
• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFF-L9JY-7?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-R9P%3A1597372304 : 29 August 2019), Massachusetts, Soldiers and Sailors, Bese, David-Byxbe > image 744 of 986; citing various published state rosters, United States.