William Atwater (1759 - 1845)

Born 16 Feb 1759 in New Haven, Connecticut

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Died 21 Jul 1845 at age 86 in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

William Atwater was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

William Atwater, Jr., was born at Connecticut in 1759. Following the American Revolution, the family relocated to Nova Scotia, and were granted land at Manchester in what was then called Sydney County - today known as Guysborough County. He died in 1845.

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• Birth: From Connecticut Births and Christenings 1649-1906 as found on Family Search, Org
• Death: According to Christ Church burial records. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guys/deaths.html
• Also Christ Church Death Records: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMZ-YSS8-T?i=226&cat=250053. Age 86 years
• William Atwater, Jr. and family, "1 man, 1 woman, and 1 child", listed among the "Associated Loyalists of Connecticut" in Terrance M. Punch, "Loyalists Unmentioned", Nova Scotia Genealogist, vol.1, p.18 -19
• William Atwater's family and settlement in Nova Scotia described in chapter titled "The Hallowell Grant Settlers" in A.C. Jost, "Guysborough Sketches and Essays, revised edition", 2009, pp.169-182
• William Atwater family genealogy detailed in A.C. Jost, "Guysborough Sketches and Essays, revised edition", 2009, pp.453-456
• William Atwater's birth recorded in: Edward Elias Atwater, "Genealogical register of the descendants in the male line of David Atwater, one of the original planters of New Haven Connecticut to the sixth generation", 1873, p.15
• William Atwater, Jr., in "Loyalist Directory" maintained by the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada: http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=a&line=250