Thomas Wetmore (1767 - 1828)

Born 20 Sep 1767 in Rye, Westchester, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Peters) Wetmore — married 17 Mar 1793 in Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

Descendants

Died 22 Mar 1828 at age 60 in Kingswood, Kingsclear, York, New Brunswick

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Biography

Thomas Wetmore is Notable.

Thomas Wetmore, Attorney General of New Brunswick, 1809 - 1828, was born in Rye, New York, 20 Sep 1767; christened there by the Rev. Mr. Ephraim Avery, 25 October, the same year; ^[1] died at Kingswood, his estate at Kingsclear, New Brunswick, 22 Mar 1828, ae 61y, ^[2] and buried in the Old Burying Ground, Fredericton, New Brunswick; ^[3] married, 17 Mar 1793, at Gagetown, New Brunswick, by the Rev. Mr. Clarke, rector of Gagetown, Sarah Peters, daughter of Judge James Peters and Margaret Lester; had children: Margaret Lester, George Ludlow, Jane Haviland, Charles Peters, Ann Peters, Sarah Peters, Timothy Robert, Thomas Allen, Susannah Mary, Eleanor, Emma, and Thomas Saunders. He was a loyalist, and removed with his father to Nova Scotia, and from thence to N. Brunswick, where he studied law with the late Hon. Ward Chipman, was admitted to the bar, and practiced with credit and success. ^[4]

For more detailed biographical information, see his entries in The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, ^[5] the Wetmore Genealogy, ^[6] and Sabine's, American Loyalists. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ James Carnahan Wetmore, The Wetmore Family of America, and Its Collateral Branches: With Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Notices (Munsell & Rowland, Albany, New York, 1861, 670 pages), p. 226
2. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics', Volume 3 Number 1534, citing the [Saint John] New Brunswick Courier, issue of 29 Mar 1828: "d. Fredericton (York Co.) Saturday morn., 22nd inst., Henrietta WETMORE w/o Coes P. WETMORE, Esq. and eldest d/o George MINCHIN, Esq., age 28.7 d. Afternoon, same day, Kingswood (York Co.) Thomas WETMORE, Esq., Attorney General, age 61."
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #61902793, which has a picture of his gravestone.
4. ↑ Wetmore, op. cit., pp. 226-227
5. ↑ Phillip Buckner, “WETMORE, THOMAS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 22, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wetmore_thomas_6E.html).
6. ↑ Wetmore, op. cit., pp. 226-230.
7. ↑ Lorenzo Sabine, The American Loyalists, or Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown, Alphabetically Arranged (Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1847, 733 pages), p. 683

See also:

• Wikipedia:Thomas_Wetmore
• Wikipedia:Office_of_the_Attorney_General_(New_Brunswick)

Acknowledgments

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