Malcolm B Wilmot (abt. 1771 - abt. 1859)

Born about 21 Sep 1771 in Rhode Island

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Died about 9 Sep 1859 at about age 87 in Boundary Creek, Westmorland County, New Brunswick

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A Loyalist Heritage

COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Volume I, Saint John, N.B., The Daily Telegraph Steam Book and Job Print, 1894. From a paper read before the New Brunswick Historical Soc. on 10 Dec 1886 by Jonas Howe.

Lieutenant Malcolm Wilmot was born in Rhode Island, in 1771. His father was a captain in the British army and served through the Revolutionary war, and in 1783 came to New Brunswick with the Loyalists and settled in Sunbury County. Lieutenant Wilmot remained in the King's New Brunswick Regiment until it was disbanded in 1802, when he retired on half-pay. Early in the century he established a general merchandise and shipping business at the Bend of Petitcodiac, in Westmoreland County, which he conducted successfully for many years. One of his enterprises is well remembered. To facilitate the shipping business of the locality he built, at considerable expense, a wet dock at Hall's Creek, to counteract, to some extent, the extreme rise and fall of the tides in the Petitcodiac River; the dock, however, proved only partially successful, and after a time was abandoned. Lieutenant Wilmot was very popular with the people of Westmoreland County, and for many years represented the county in the Provincial Assembly. He died at the Bend of Petitcodiac, on September 7th, 1859, aged 88 years. His wife, whom he married while serving in the King's New Brunswick Regiment was a daughter of John Bentley, a grantee of St. John.

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