- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LFR .C5F5R4
- Category:
- Family
- Creator:
- Clark and Flewelling Families.
- Material Description:
- 1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
- Background:
The Clark (Clarke) family name appears in early Kings County records. The ship, Amity's Production, brought to Saint John a Loyalist by the name of James Clark, Sr. and his family, consisting of a wife and four children, Michael, Samuel, Robert and James, Jr., who lived in Rhode Island before the American Revolution. James Clark, Sr. received land in the Parish of Greenwich, Kings County. The Clark and Flewelling (Fluellen or Fluelling and many other variations in the spelling of the name) families became acquainted in New Brunswick and intermarried.
Thomas Flewelling arrived in Saint John aboard the ship, Cyrus, with a wife and six or seven children, including John, Joseph and Enos, and petitioned for land in 1785, settling in Oak Point, Greenwich Parish. A Thomas Flewallen and an Enos Fluallen both served in the King's American Regiment. James Brittain (1752-1838), who is also mentioned in the records, was a farmer from New Jersey and a member of the New Jersey Volunteers during the American Revolution. He settled opposite Belle Isle Bay, New Brunswick.
- Contents:
The reel contains the records of the Clark, Flewelling and Brittain families of Greenwich Parish, Kings County, New Brunswick. Included are receipts, indentures, wills and other legal documents. Of particular interest is a list of passengers aboard the ship, Favourite, which sailed from the Port of Glasgow for Saint John, 22 October 1816, John Hundman, Master. Also included on the same reel is a will of Mary Ann DeVeber, 1785, and two indentures, as well as a letter to Mrs. John Beverly Robinson, 4 August 1797.
- Originals:
The original records were held by the York-Sunbury Historical Society and are now stored at the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Archival Ref. No.:
MC300 York-Sunbury Historical Society Collection