Isaac Stickney (1741 - 1794)

Born 26 Mar 1741 in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Died 15 Jun 1794 at age 53 in Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick

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Biography

ISAAC STICKNEY (Faith, Elizabeth, Ezekiel, Maximilian, Edward) was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, March 26, baptized in Byfield March 29, 1741. He married Elizabeth Barker, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Spofford) Barker of Linebrook Parish, Rowley.

He enlisted in Capt. Anthony Stickney's Co. of Newbury, March 14, 1760, and served until Dec. 10 following. His services were at Louisburg. He paid taxes in Rowley in 1761, and soon after removed to Nova Scotia ^[1] and settled at Maugerville^[2] on the St. John River. Others that removed to the same place were his neighbors. Deacon Jonathan Burpee, who married Hannah Platts, his mother's sister, and their son, Jeremiah Burpee; Joseph Barker, Jacob Barker, Richard Estey, Sr., Richard Estey, Jr.; Joseph Lesley, Daniel Jewett and John Pickard, all heads of famihes, except Daniel Jewett, from Rowley; a number of young men from Boxford; Daniel Palmer and family from Byfield; Nehemiah Howard of Reading, who married Mary Stickney, a sister of Isaac; Samuel Bridges of Marblehead, who married Sarah Stickney, a sister of Isaac; also Capt. Francis Peabody, Smith, and Saunders. Part of this land was in that part of Maugerville now called Sheffield, Sunbury Co., New Brunswick. He died in Sheffield June 15, 1794. She died in the fall of 1831 at the home of her daughter, Betsey Burpee, in Sheffield, New Brunswick.

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1. ↑ Present day New Brunswick
2. ↑ Provincial Archives of New Brunswick: Maugerville (pronounced "may-jer-ville"): settled in 1760's by New Englanders and first called Peabody for Francis Peabody, who was the founder of the settlement: renamed Maugerville by 1800 after Joshua Mauger (1725-1788)

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pgs. 66, 128-9.
• Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch (4 December 2014), Isaac Stickney, 26 Mar 1741; citing ROWLEY,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0496782 IT 1-2.
• Maugerville Land Grants List
• Find A Grave: Memorial #139489937, Sheffield United Church Cemetery, Sheffield, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada