Stephen Hovey (abt. 1783 - aft. 1861)

Born about 1783 in New Brunswick, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet Sayre — married 30 Oct 1807 in New Brunswick, Canada

Descendants

Died after 1861 after about age 78 in Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada

Stephen Hovey was born in 1783 in Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Aaron, was 21 and his mother, Dorothy, was 21. He married Harriet Sayre on 30 October 1807 in York, New Brunswick, Canada.^[1]. They had four children during their marriage. Stephen Hovey died sometime after 1861 when the census showed him living with his son Johnathan in Stanley parish, York county.

Stephen filed land petitions in Northumberland county with his father, Aaron, in 1809; with his brothers Edmund, James, Jacob,and Allen in 1815; at the age of 35 in 1819; and at the age of 35 in1820. He was granted 200 acres starting at the bank of the Miramichi in 1823 in York County, lot # 1553.

1820 Land Petition of Stephen Hovey: The memorial of Stephen Hovey of Ludlow in the county of Northumberland humbly showeth that your Excellancy's memorialist is a married man aged thirty five years with a family of five children was born in this province and has always resided in the same, he has received one lot of land from government but owing to a mistake in the person who drew the memorial for the same, did not get a grant of a large island in front of which was his chief inducement to settle on said lot as the rest of the land was generally high and poor, and after making large improvements thereon he finds the arable part too small to Support an increasing family and therefore humbly prays your Excellency to grant him two hundred acres of wilderness land situate on the south side of the southwest Miramichi above the old portage next adjoining land granted to a George Price, but running at right angles with the river and your memorialist further prays that your Excellency would be pleased to indulge him with a front of one hundred _oods upon the river as the interval is very narrow not exceeding five acres, and your memorialist begs leave further to state that he is of ability to make improvement thereon as is required by the Royal instructions, and further that he has not directly or indirectly agreed to sell or transfer to improve the same with lap of time and your Excellency's memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray. Ludlow 13th October 1820 Stephen Hovey

Residence

1861 Stanley, York, New Brunswick, Canada. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: First Families, New Brunswick Genealogical Society Marriage
2. ↑ Census Returns For 1861; Roll: C-1007, page 15, Stanley Parish, York, New Brunswick, Canada. Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 1861 census

• 1861 Canadian census for NB
• https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1861&op=pdf&id=4108529_00674

• https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/stephen-hovey-24-2bxhzt

Information according to "The Descendants of Edmund and Jane Webb Price"