Joseph Dow (1774 - 1813)

Born 1774 in Southport, Lincoln, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Currier) Dow — married 23 Nov 1797 in Anglican church, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick

Descendants

Died 1813 at about age 39 in New Brunswick

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Biography

Joseph Dow & [bbbfa] (RN3472) was a Tory - or Loyalist to the English Crown. He was in Boston in 1774, took part in the Boston Tea Party, and then fled with most of his family to Southport, an island on the coast of Maine, for twenty years. Finally, he and most of his children accepted the offer of the Crown to relocate the family's ship building enterprise to New Brunswick, Canada - first at St. John and then at Oromocto. Although he and some members of the family later returned to Maine, many remained in New Brunswick, including those of our Dow line of the sixth, seventh and eighth generations

Sources

• Marianne Grey Otty Database at UNB
• https://motty.lib.unb.ca/?q=list&field_first_name_value=Joseph&field_last_name_value=Dow&field_event_date_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=&populate=&field_event_type_tid%5B%5D=2&field_event_type_tid%5B%5D=18&field_event_type_tid%5B%5D=7

• Census Wakefield, Carleton, NB [T-6298-p.39 for daughter Emeline] says Joseph b. in US

• https://gwdow.net/rn3472_joseph_dow.htm

• https://minerdescent.com/2010/05/24/david-dow/

• https://loyalist.lib.unb.ca/node/4526

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Toby Rockwell for creating Dow-817 on 21 Sep 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Toby and others.