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William Black (1727 - 1821)

William Black
Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotlandmap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married 1758 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Englandmap
Husband of — married after 1776 in Nova Scotia, Canadamap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , , , , , , , and
Died at age 93 in Dorchester, Westmorland, New Brunswickmap
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Biography

Progenitor of the Black family in eastern Canada, William Black was born October 14, 1727 in Paisley, Scotland. He died on April 11, 1821 in Dorchester, Westmorland County, New Brunswick in what is now part of Canada. William worked in Scotland in the linen and woolen drapery business. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Stocks in 1758 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. William travelled alone to Cumberland, Nova Scotia in 1774. Satisfied with the prospects, he returned with his wife Elizabeth and children the following year onboard the Jenny:

William Black, linen draper, age 43, a passenger (with his wife Elizabeth and family) on the Jenny, 1775.[1]

Elizabeth died soon after arriving in Nova Scotia, and in about 1776 William married his second wife, Elizabeth Abber, at Chignecto, Nova Scotia.

Life

William Black's father (not named) was a public officer, and possessed an independent fortune. In his youth, William's leisure was largely employed in the chase, and he kept a good pack of hounds. Around the age of 21 William began working as a travelling salesman for a large manufacturing concern. In one of his tours he met an English lady in Huddersfield, England - Elizabeth Stocks - whom he married. About the same time he engaged in the linen and woollen drapery business. They took up residence in Huddersfield and had five children; They remained in Huddersfield until they left for Nova Scotia.

In early 1774, William sailed to Halifax, arriving in May 1774. The purpose was to see the country before committing to emigrate. After arriving at Halifax he proceeded to Cumberland. At Amherst, he purchased an estate. William returned to England in the autumn of 1774. In April 1775 William chartered a vessel in which he brought his wife, four sons, and a daughter. He also brought a nurse girl who married a son of one of the emigrants. He also brought some stock of improved breeds. The family was detained at Halifax for two weeks when they again embarked for Cumberland. It appears that his first wife Elizabeth Stocks died within a year of their arrival in 1776.

William held the Commission of Justice of the Peace for Cumberland, and in 1779 was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas. In 1788 William, Edward Barron and Charles Baker were deeded the Court House grounds at Amherst in trust for the County of Cumberland, those three men being then prominent Justices of the County. In 1779 William and his family joined the Methodist Church. Most of the people in the are were of the Methodist denomination.

After his second wife, Elizabeth Abber died in 1813, William purchased a large estate in Dorchester, New Brunswick, where he lived the latter part of his life with his son Joseph, and where he died in the year 1820 at the advanced age of 93 years. In the 1880's some of his grand-children still lived on portions of this same farm.

William survived his second wife by several years. He, at the age of 88 rode on horseback from Dorchester to Amherst, then thirty miles, to visit his sons residing there. He was a remarkably well proportioned man, and retained an erect and dignified bearing to old age. [Black, 1885][2]

Research Notes

At some point William moved to Dorchester. Cyrus Black says the move took place after his second marriage. Does this mean after they married in 1776 or after she died in 1813 or some time in between? Did Elizabeth die in Dorchester? Her burial is not mentioned. Her children are listed here as being born in Dorchester but the oldest of his second wife married in Amherst.

Name: Rev. William Black*. Given Name: Rev. William. Surname: Black*. A Given name was found in addition to a first name in the NAME tag. File .

External Files

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Sources

  1. ↑ Yorkshire Immigration to Nova Scotia, 1772-1775 William Black, linen draper, age 43
  2. ↑ Adapted from a synopsis by Brian Orr at RootsWeb 2019

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Gullison-3 Aaron Gullison
Black-24415 and Black-2406 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate
posted by Aaron Gullison
Ward-21155 Jeffrey Ward
Restored Paisley as POB. Other POB was not sourced; was counter to the record.
posted by Jeffrey Ward
Ward-21155 Jeffrey Ward
Black-4527 and Black-2406 appear to represent the same person because: Same person - the place of birth is disputed. Paisley is the stronger case.
posted by Jeffrey Ward
Ward-21155 Jeffrey Ward
Black-4527 and Black-2406 appear to represent the same person because: Same person - the place of birth is disputed. Paisley is the stronger case.
posted by Jeffrey Ward
Dave Nicolson
Now I feel very strongly that the unjustified claim that THIS William Black was the one born in Watten, Caithness should either be removed or relegated to a disputed alternative view. Please see my prior comments on this, the birth of another William Black was wrongly attached to this William Black. [comments from 20 Sep 2016 and from 28 Oct 2016]
posted by Dave Nicolson
Ward-21155 Jeffrey Ward
I agree. I don't see any evidence in Orr for the assertion that Wm Black was born in Watten. Without a reliable source for Watten, I suggest it be revised.
posted by Jeffrey Ward
Dave Nicolson
Thank you for merging the duplicate William Black and Elizabeth Abber records.

Now I feel very strongly that the unjustified claim that THIS William Black was the one born in Watten, Caithness should either be removed or relegated to a disputed alternative view. Please see my prior comments on this.

His own descendant wrote in the 1880s that William was born in Paisley in 1727. That should take precedence over the fact that someone found a 1727 birth record for someone named William Black hundreds of miles away from Paisley, on the opposite end of Scotland, and for no clear reason decided these were one and the same person!!

For reference, this is the brief summary I have on his coming to the New World in my offline database:

"His father was a public officer, and possessed an independent fortune."30 "… he arrived in Nova Scotia in 1774 and came on to Cumberland. Here he purchased a property and in the spring of the following year he chartered a vessel and brought his family, consisting of his wife, four sons, a daughter and a nurse girl."29 "In the month of April, 1775, the whole family sailed from Hull, on board the Jenny, Captain Foster; and after a propitious passage, arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia. […] After remaining a fortnight in Halifax, they sailed for Cumberland, where they arrived in June." Some data in the 1900 Biographical Review32 appears to be questionable (e.g., 'in 1774 Captain Black emigrated with his wife and children to Nova Scotia… bringing with him his private physician…')

29. Cyrus Black and L.W. Black, History of the Blacks, Revised Edition. Historical Record of the posterity of William Black, Who settled in this country in 1775 […] up to the year 1885 by Cyrus Black of Amherst, N.S. […] 1885 to 1959 were compiled by L.W. Black of Middle Sackville, N.B., The Tribune Press Ltd., Sackville, NB, 1959-1961, 1-176.

30. Black, Cyrus, Historical Record of the Posterity of William Black, Who Settled in this Country in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-five, Also a Sketch of 23 English Families and Some Early Settlers from New England.., Amherst Gazette Steam Printing House, NS, 1885, 209 pp., http://books.google.com/books?id=6W4ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1.

32. I. Allen Jack, Biographical review -this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the Province of New Brunswick , Biographical Review Publishing Company (Boston MA 1900), 599 pp., http://archive.org/details/cihm_07345.

posted by Dave Nicolson
Dave Nicolson
Black-8283 and Black-2406 appear to represent the same person because: These are definitely the same person, William Black of the family detailed in Cyrus Black's 1885 book. Unfortunately, some of the details differ. Although the 1885 book specifically says "William Black was born in Paisley, Scotland, in the year 1727," someone has apparently asserted that a birth record for *a* William Black in Watten (at the very northern tip of the Scottish 'mainland') is this particular William Black, although Paisley is near the southern end of Scotland, nearly opposite to Watten!! Without some evidence to substantiate that these two William Black people are "one and the same" person, I do not think this Watten record can be accepted over the existing birth claim for Paisley. If someone can track down the source for this (I was unable to get to anything from the citations given in the Rootsweb pages, so my sleuthing ended there... anyone??).
posted by Dave Nicolson

Rejected matches › William Blake (abt.1730-) › William Blake (1729-)

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