Nehemiah Marks (1746 - 1799)

Born 9 Oct 1746 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 Jul 1799 at age 52 in St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick

Nehemiah Marks was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:
Date: Undated

Biography

Captain Nehemiah Marks was a refugee from Derby. Connecticut, had served as a captain in the corps of Armed Boatmen and later as lieutenant in the Maryland Loyalists. His party landed where the town of St. Stephen now stands, May 26, 1784, hoisted the British flag, and called the place Morristown, a name it continued to bear for several years. In the following September, 19,850 acres on the Scoodic or St. Croix River were distributed among the members of the association, one hundred and twenty-one in number

Captain Marks became a grantee of both St. Andrews and St. Stephen, and was one of the first justices of the peace in Charlotte County. He died in St. Stephen in July, 1799, having lived long enough to see the community he had planted in the wilderness making substantial progress. By 1803, the parish as a whole had a population of nearly seven hundred. It boasted seven sawmills, or almost half the number to be found in the entire Passamaquoddy District, and was turning out annually 4,000,000 feet, of boards, or more than all the other mills together

Nehemiah MARKS ^[1][2][3] was born ^[4][5] 9 Oct 1746. He died ^[6] Jul 1799 in St. Stephens, New Brunswick, Canada. Nehemiah married Betty HAWKINS.

Birth

Date: 9 OCT 1746

Place: Derby, Connecticut (New Haven)^{[7][8][9][10]}

Death

Date: 12 JUL 1799

Place: St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada^{[11][12][13][14]}

Event

Type: Military

Date: 1775

SDATE 1 JUL 1775

Place: the Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783)

Residence

Residence: "came to this Province A. D. 1784"

Date: 24 JUN 1784

Place: St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada^[15][16]

Marriage

Husband: Mordecai Marks

Wife: Elizabeth Yorieu

Child: Mary Marks

Child: Zephania Marks

Child: Mordecai Marks

Child: Elizabeth Marks

Child: Nehemiah Marks

Child: Abraham Marks

Marriage:

Date: 15 DEC 1729

Place: Stratford, Connecticut (Fairfield)^{[17][18][19][20]}

Notes

"Nehemiah Marks was born in Derby, Connecticut, on 9 October 1746. He was the son of Mordecai Marks (1706-1771), a Shepardic Jew who emigrated from London, England, in 1721 and became a prosperous merchant. He converted to the Anglican faith and in 1729 married Elizabeth [Hawkins] of Derby, Connecticut. Soon after the Revolution began, Nehemiah Marks went to New York where it is believed he carried dispatches for the British army. He served as a captain in the Armed Boatmen, a Loyalist corps, with a commission dated 5 October 1782. His commission as a lieutenant in the Maryland Loyalists, dated 1 October 1783, can be found among the papers of his son, Nehemiah Marks, Jr. With the evacuation of New York City, Nehemiah Marks, Sr. was forced to seek refuge in Nova Scotia, and on 1 November 1783, he was appointed a captain in the Nova Scotia Militia for the District of Port Mouton, and charged with the responsibility of settling his men and their families. The refugees remained at Port Mouton for the winter of 1783, but in 1784 Captain Marks decided to move to the Falls of the St. Croix River (St. Stephen, New Brunswick), and a number of his men chose to accompany him. In 1770, Nehemiah Marks married Betsy (Elizabeth) Hawkins (1751-1812), the daughter of Abraham Hawkins (b.1725) and his wife, Elizabeth Basset (b.1728) of Derby, Connecticut. Eight of their children are known to have survived, including: Elizabeth Ann (b.1772), Betsy (b.1774), Hannah (b.1776), George Beckwith (b.1778), John, Nehemiah (1794-1853), Rebecca, and Abraham Hawkins (b.1796). When Nehemiah Marks died in 1799 at the age of fifty-two years, he left an estate that included a house and a store in St. Stephen, a large tract of land on which much of the present town is built, and several hundred acres of woodland. Elizabeth Marks (Betty or Betsy), the widow of Nehemiah Marks, died at St. Stephen in 1812."^[21]

Sources

1. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 422. "... a tory... His estate was confiscated and sold..."
2. ↑ Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, The Hawkins Association, 1939, p. 247.
3. ↑ Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 727.
4. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 422.
5. ↑ Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 266.
6. ↑ Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 422.
7. ↑ Source: #S74 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
8. ↑ Source: #S2170 Page: Pg. 25 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE Pg. 25 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
9. ↑ Source: #S2245 Page: 128 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE 128 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
10. ↑ Source: #S3735 Page: Pg. 745 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE Pg. 745 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
11. ↑ Source: #S3385 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
12. ↑ Source: #S608 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
13. ↑ Source: #S2245 Page: 128 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE 128 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
14. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43262836/nehemiah-marks: accessed 07 December 2022), memorial page for Capt Nehemiah Marks (1747–1799), Find A Grave: Memorial #43262836, citing Loyalist Burial Ground, Saint Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada; Maintained by Gary Boughton (contributor 46892198) .
15. ↑ Source: #S608 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
16. ↑ Source: #S2170 Page: Pg. 26 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE Pg. 26 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
17. ↑ Source: #S3385 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
18. ↑ Source: #S74 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
19. ↑ Source: #S596 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page
20. ↑ Source: #S2245 Page: 128 TMPLT FIELD Name: Page VALUE 128 Quality or Certainty of Data: 2 QUAL Information: S
21. ↑ https://loyalist.lib.unb.ca/node/4483

Probate record. https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/MC3706/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&abstract=8545&section=NameIndex

• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/detail.php?letter=m&line=112

• https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/FortHavoc/html/Passamaquoddy.aspx?culture=en-CA

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• Repository: R33 Name: Mike Walton's Personal Library Address: 1162 Battle Ridge Raod CONT Clinton, Maine 04927 CONT USA Address 1: 1162 Battle Ridge Raod City: Clinton State: Maine Postal Code: 04927 Country: USA Phone Number: 207-426-9437 Web Address: www.weareallrelated.info
• Repository: R35 Name: Mike Walton's Personal Library Address: RR2 Box 400 Clinton Maine 04927 Address 1: RR2 Box 400 Clinton Maine 04927 Phone Number: 207-426-9959
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• Land Petition:

"Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800"
Nova Scotia Archives; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Land Petitions (1765-1800); Volume Number: 9
Ancestry Record 5083 #4693 (accessed 22 March 2024)
Names on Land Record (Name):
Levin Townsend, Daniel Fisky, Allen Morrison, Jacob Rogers, James McComb, John Urquhart, Joseph Tallon, Zachariah Bailey, John Stewart, John Harling, Thomas Gill, James Tindal, William Owens, Benjamin Butler, Carmon Biggin, Daniel McEvoy, William Sowage, Joseph Carval, James Henley, Nehemiah Marks, Isaac Harry, Samuel Cohee, John Shadock, Samuel Woodward, John Cason, Hugh McDonald, Ephraim Cottingham, Jacob Remson, Caleb Jones, Isaac Cullen, John Clements, Thomas Young, Patrick Kennedy, Robert Kerr, Nicholas Brock, Simon Humphries, Joseph White, Fergus McLeod, James Cummins, James McDonald, Thomas Walsh, James Kenley, Anthony Stewart, Joseph Swift, Robert Harris;
Land Record Date: 1784; Land Record Place: New Brunswick, Canada; Details: Maryland Loyalists. Granted 13 750 Acres on the River Nashwack, on the Northeast Side of the River St. Johns. Bounded By Maugerville and Lands of Captain Lyman.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Marks-273 created through the import of mike_walton_2011.ged on Aug 20, 2011 by Mike Walton.