Margaret (Brewer) Worden (1785 - 1850)

Born 14 Sep 1785 in Kingston, Frontenac, Upper Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Jarvis Worden — married 1 Jun 1804 in St George Church, Kingston

Descendants

Died 1850 at about age 64 in Kingston, Frontenac, Canada West

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Margaret was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

Margaret was born September 14, 1785, the daughter of Aaron Brewer, UEL (born in 1760 in Monmouth, New Jersey and died in 1802 in Kingston, Frontenac Co, Upper Canada) and Elizabeth Cooper (born in New Jersey in 1763 and died in 1831).^[1]

She married, on 1 June 1804, Jarvis Worden by license.^[2]

Her husband died at age 80 in September 23, 1858 in Kingston. Margaret Brewer died in 1850 in Kingston. ^[3]

Quakerism

Following his immigration to Upper Canada, Aaron Brewer became an active member of the Religious Society of Friends. While resident in Upper Canada, he and his wife Elizabeth requested admission to the Nine Partners Monthly Meeting in New York in 1795. Both were accepted as members in 1796.^[4]

In 1799, the Nine Partners Monthly Meeting accepted Aaron Brewer’s request that his daughters Margaret, Sarah and Elizabeth be admitted to membership in 1799.^[5]

Aaron Brewer became an Overseer of the Adolphustown Monthly Meeting, which was established in Upper Canada in 1798. On request of Aaron and Elizabeth Brewer, their sons John and Aaron were admitted to membership of the meeting in 1799.^[6]

Loyalist Land Petitions

Margaret Worden nee Brewer filed a land petition to the Land Board of Upper Canada as a daughter of Aaron Brewer in 1806.^[7]

Reid’s Loyalists in Ontario ^[8] records six children of Aaron Brewer of Kingston who filed UEL land claims, as follows:

• Margaret [+ Jarvis Worden of Kingston on 1 Jun 1804]
• John [+ Ann Warner on 20 Sep 1807]
• Sarah [+ William Spafford of Hallowell on 7 Aug 1808]
• Aaron
• Philip
• Elizabeth + William Jackson

Estate Litigation

The family tree of the Brewer family is discussed at length in Den v. Gifford (1827)^[9]. It records that Margaret Brewer married Jarvis Worden; that she was the daughter of Aaron Brewer who had removed to Canada and died in 1802; that Aaron Brewer was the son of Eleazarus Brewer who died April 1821 in Monmouth, New Jersey; that Eleazarus Brewer was the son of Adam Brewer who died 13 January 1769 in Monmouth, New Jersey.

Sources

1. ↑ Loyalist Lineages of Canada (Toronto: United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada), Vol I, pt. I, p. 83; see also Waller and Russ, Frontenac County Loyalist Families‘’ (Kingston, 1996) at p 25.
2. ↑ The Parish Register of Kingston, Upper Canada, 1785-1811; online at: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/midlanddist.htm and at http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/kingstn2.htm
3. ↑ The Brouwer Family Genealogy (see Person page - 116) <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/p116.htm#i49694>.
4. ↑ Swarthmore College Archives, Nine Partners Monthly Meetings, Men 1790 - 1797 (online at https://cfha.info/NP1790-97.pdf).
5. ↑ Swarthmore College Archives, Nine Partners Women Monthly Meetings 1794 - 1811 (online at: https://cfha.info/NP1794-11.pdf).
6. ↑ Canadian Quaker Archives and Library, Adolphustown Monthly Meeting Minutes 1798 – 1813 (online at: https://cfha.info/AdolphusO-2-1.pdf).
7. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Upper Canada Land Petitions RG 1 L3, C-2953, Volume 525, Bundle W8, Petition 6 (online at: https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.02-e.php?q2=29&q3=2652&sqn=138&tt=1231&PHPSESSID=rgi7t06a60or2jdheocn6v65f4)
8. ↑ William D. Reid, The Loyalists in Ontario: The Sons & Daughters of The American Loyalists of Upper Canada, (Lambertville: Hunterdon House, 1973) at p 34.
9. ↑ William Halstead, ed. New Jersey Law Reports, Vol 9 (Supreme Court of Judicature 1827-8) (Trenton, 1875) at p 46 ff.