Mary Margaret (Vaughan) Pulsifer (1760 - 1820)

Born 1760 in Rhode Island

Ancestors

Wife of John Pulsifer — married 31 Aug 1780 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 1820 at about age 60 in Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Mary Margaret was born in 1760. She passed away in 1820.^[1] In 1964 she went with her parents and her baby brother to Nova Scotia at the time that Americans were being drawn there for two reasons: Many were influenced by the recruiting efforts of England to find "planters" to take over the land from which the Acadians had been evicted to Louisiana. At much the same time the lines in America were beginning to appear between those who were didn't want to break with the crown and those who wanted to break away and establish their independent country. ^[2]

Mary Margaret married John Pulsifer in 31 August 1780 in the Dutch Reformed Church, Chester, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. ^[3] They had 10 children ^[4]

Mary Vaughan was born circa 1750 at Chester. She married John Pulsifer on 31 August 1780 at Dutch Reformed Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He was 29.

Sources

1. ↑ Chester Township Records, Ebenezer Fitch Clerk
2. ↑ General information about the Loyalists at the time of the Revolutionary War
3. ↑ the Diary of Joseph Dimmock edited by George E. Levy, published by Lancelot Press
4. ↑ Chester Township Books, Town of Chester Nova Scotia, Early Family Records

• Bezansons from Nova Scotia", by Dorothy Evans, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Privately Published, 1986, revised 1991 (https://bezansons.com)
• Dutch Reformed Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada