Theophilus Chamberlain UE (1737 - 1824)

Born 20 Oct 1737 in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Lamira Humphreville — married 24 Dec 1781 in New York City, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1824 at age 86 in Preston, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Theophilus Chamberlain was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

Theophilus was born in 1737, son of Ephraim Chamberlain and Anne Merriman. His father Ephraim, a blacksmith, was killed during the New England expedition against Louisbourg in 1745, and an uncle adopted Theophilus and arranged that he received an education. During the Seven Years’ War, he served with Burke’s Rangers. He graduated BA from Yale College in 1765. His first wife died in 1776. He remarried in 1781.

Theophilus was a Loyalist and late in the Revolutionary War he accepted a captain’s commission in the New York city militia. He organized the resettlement of Loyalists at a new township in Preston, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, where he raied his own family.

He died on 20 July 1824.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173503072/theophilus-chamberlain : accessed 12 October 2021), memorial page for Theophilus Chamberlain (27 Oct 1737–20 Jul 1824), Find A Grave: Memorial #173503072, ; Maintained by Brian McConnell, UE (contributor 48857516) Unknown.

• "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FC42-S8L : accessed 18 Jun 2014), Theophilus Chamberlain, 20 Oct 1737; citing NORTHFIELD,FRANKLIN,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 886783.

• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=c&line=284

• Gertrude Tratt, “CHAMBERLAIN, THEOPHILUS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 12, 2021, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chamberlain_theophilus_6E.html.