Issachar Currier (1743 - 1807)

Born 30 Sep 1743 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 1807 at about age 63 in Kingsclear, York, New Brunswick,

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Issachar Currier was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:Proven
Date: Undated

Biography

Issachar was born in 1743.

Issachar arrived in N.B. in late 1783 or early 1784 and according to his July 1785 petition for Lot No 75 at Upper Gagetown, immediately started to work “building Mr. Beckwith's ship.” Nehemiah Beckwith was a Loyalist who built the first sloop on the Saint John River for General Benedict Arnold. Issachar Currier said he wanted to build a shipyard on Lot 75 and thus continue the tradition of several generations of Curriers in Amesbury, Mass. He was granted Lot 75 in 1786 and received Lots 69 and 71 at Kingsclear in 1799. He is listed as a Loyalist in Esther Clark Wright's book The Loyalists of New Brunswick as having received land in Block 2. Block 2 at Kingsclear was originally granted to Lt. Colonel Isaac Allen and the 2nd New Jersey Volunteers in 1784. The grant was made collectively and the grantees asked the Crown to make a re-grant on an individual basis which was done on December 31, 1799. Issachar Currier's name was not on the 1784 grant but he received 2 lots in the 1799 re-grant. The Currier family continued building boats at Gagetown for at least two more generations. Captain David Currier, grandson of Issachar, began active life in charge of a passenger sloop and afterwards as that of the first river steamer. In a February 17, 1883 interview in the Saint John Daily Sun Captain Currier recalled “his family moved from Upper Gagetown to St. John in 1805 and in 1810 to Kingsclear, thence to Maugerville in 1811, where my father (also named David) engaged in shipbuilding for different parties building the Eliza Ann, a brig of 350 tons for Capt. MacDonald; the Mary Ann, 200 tons for Nelson Deveber and several schooners for William Taylor and Benjamin Taylor. In 1813 we removed to Gagetown where my father continued shipbuilding and was assisted by an elder brother of mine, Daniel Currier.”

Sources

• https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carletoncountynb&id=P72589

• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=c&line=867

• NB Land Grant 1876
• https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS686/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=37984

• NB Land Grant 1799
• https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS686/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=40028

• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/extras/Currier-Issachar/Issachar-Currier-family-descendants-John-Noble.pdf

• Probate record
• https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/MC3706/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&abstract=7798&section=NameIndex