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Samuel Bernard (1753 - 1842)

Samuel Bernard
Born in Normandy, Francemap
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married about 1783 in New Jerseymap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 89 in French Village, Prince Edward Island, Canadamap
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Biography

The Bernards were Huguenots and Loyalists.

Samuel Bernard (b. 1759) married Elizabeth Vine of New Jersey. Their children were Samuel, Charles, John, William, Elizabeth, David, Mary, James, Charlotte, Sarah, Lydia, Archibald. All born between 1785 and 1810.

Samuel's family left France as a Huguenot family. They went first to Holland, then on to England. Samuel came to New York (not able to find out exactly when that was). He married Elizabeth Vine, of New Jersey. He was a carpenter while living in New York.

On Prince Edward Island, Samuel Bernard, late of New York and now of Charlottetown and his wife Elizabeth signed a memorial of deeds and lease and release on June 22 and 23 1787 for 500 acres on Lot 65, to George Dairymple, a captain in His Majesty's 42nd Regiment of Foot, for the sum of thirty pounds. [1][2]

Their sons Samuel, Charles and John were all baptized on May 15, 1785, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Two of their sons later emigrated to the United States and settled in Wisconsin, in Wyoming Township, Iowa county; the oldest, Samuel, born May 20, 1785 and the youngest, Archibald, born 3 October 1810. The other children, there were 12 in all, stayed in Canada. [3]

In the 1798 Census of Prince Edward Island, it reports, Samuel Bernard, his wife and five sons and two daughters settling in French River. Samuel Bernard of New London signed a land conveyance with John Cambridge for a lease land on the west side of French River in 1810. [4]

Sources

  1. Prince Edward Island Land Registry Office, Land Conveyance Records, vol 2 (75) 1787.
  2. The document granting the 300 acres to Samuel by Walter Patterson "on account of his Loyalty and Attachment to His Majesty" is in Land Conveyance Records, vol 3 (386) dated 1787
  3. Information taken from an on-line document found on Genealogy.com, Family Tree Maker Online. A number of PEI local histories have the story of the Bernard family - the text here is similar to that in the History of Baltic, Lot 18
  4. Prince Edward Island Land Registry Office, land Conveyance Records, vol 26 (152) 1810.
  • An Island Refuge, Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of Saint John, by Orlo Jones and Doris Muncey Haslam. Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, 1983 pg 38 -
  • The History of French River and Park Corner, 1773-2006, French River and Park Corner History Committee. pg 134-
  • Author: JB Tolman Title: Tolman Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree Page: Elizabeth Bernard [Vine] A918F576-48B0-4AA1-8618-3E21CE7874BB
  • Author: <unknown> Islander Title: Islander Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree * Author: William Luedtke Title: Luedtke Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • Author: Steve Delaney Title: Harding-Heniff-Delaney Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • Author: Ken J Picketts Title: Picketts Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • Author: Kathy Willer Starks Title: David Montgomery Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • An Island Refuge: Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of Saint John by Orlo Jones and Doris Haslam
  • Author: Donald Jack MacDonald Title: MacDonald Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • Author: Margaret Morgan Title: Our Ancestors Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • Author: Richard Townsend Title: Townsend Family Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree
  • Author: Francis Springer Title: Sprengers Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree CONT
  • The Descendants of Samuel Bernard and Elizabeth Vine, family tree posted to the Island Register website by Harold Downe
  • Media Type Textual item Item Number RG5/S4/2 (1)/56 File Year 1787 Name Samuel Bernard Address Charlotte Town Occupation Carpenter

description Requests a Town and Pasture Lot in Charlotte Town Governor Edmond Fanning Date Petition Considered by Council 23 May 1787; 5 June [1787] Council's Decision Referred; Granted Lot 59 in the 1st hundred, Pasture Lot 103

  • Royal Gazette, May 5, 1841, Page 61:Loyalist List includes Samuel Bernard
  • Ancestry.com. Prince Edward Island, Canada, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1780-1983 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017. baptism of Samuel, Charles and John Bernard sons of Samuel and Elizabeth on 15 May 1785
  • "Canada, Prince Edward Island Death Card Index, 1721-1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK6V-JLL6 : 18 February 2021), Samuel Bernard, 02 Jun 1842; citing 02 Jun 1842, , Prince Edward Island, Canada, Division of Vital Statistics. Public Archives, Charlottetown; FHL microfilm 1,487,741.



Acknowledgments

Thank you to Margaret Moyer for creating WikiTree profile Bernard-749 through the import of mmcook3.ged on May 24, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Margaret and others.





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