128. JEAN RODRIGUE married MARIE RODRIGUE.
130. ETIENNE JOSEPH PARANT married MARGUERITE VINET on 13 Jan 1731 in Point Claire, Quebec, Canada. [Parents]
131. MARGUERITE VINET. [Parents]
132. JEAN BAPTISTE MARTIN married THERESE HENAULT on 3 Aug 1733 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Parents]
133. THERESE HENAULT. [Parents]
Therese is found as "Therese dite Canada".
134. JOSEPH GERBERT FOUCHER married ANGELIQUE CHAUSSE' on 28 Feb 1724 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Parents]
135. ANGELIQUE CHAUSSE'. [Parents]
136. Living [Parents]
137. Living [Parents]
138. CHARLES PARANT married MARGUERITE CESIRE on 23 Nov 1715 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [Parents]
139. MARGUERITE CESIRE. [Parents]
140. ETIENNE PARE' married ANNE LACROIX on 18 Feb 1716 in Quebec, Quebec, Canada. [Parents]
Etienne and Anne were married at the church of Sainte Anne de Beaupre
in Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
141. ANNE LACROIX. [Parents]
142. NOEL VACHON married MARIE JEANNE BELANGER on 16 Jan 1719 in Beauport, Quebec, Canada. [Parents]
143. MARIE JEANNE BELANGER. [Parents]
144. GEORGE PIKE II. was born before 1694 in Massachusetts, USA. He died in Cape Cod, Barnstable, MA, USA. GEORGE married TABITHA (PIKE) on CIR 1693 in Cape Cod, Barnstable, MA, USA. [Parents]
145. TABITHA (PIKE) was born 1694.
146. JOHN SNOW was born 3 May 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA, USA. He died 14 Oct 1738 in Duck Creek (Smyrna), Kent, DE, USA. JOHN married ELIZABETH RIDLEY on 25 Feb 1700/1701 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA, USA. [Parents]
Munsell says John died at Truro, MA
147. ELIZABETH RIDLEY was born 13 May 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA, USA. She died 15 Feb 1766 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA, USA. [Parents]
148. JONATHAN SPRAGUE was born 24 Jul 1686 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA, USA. He died 10 Apr 1756 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA, USA. JONATHAN married LYDIA LEAVITT on 23 May 1712. [Parents]
Jonathan was listed as a carpenter, a house-wright and millwright. His will,
dated at Bridgewater, Nov. 8, 1748, proved May 3, 1756, mentions his wife
Lydia, children Benjamin, Lydia, wife of James Keith, Hannah, wife of Solomon
Bates, Jonathan, Mary, wife of Nathan Edson, Content, Betty and John.
(Plymouth Co. Probate. No. 19060)
149. LYDIA LEAVITT was born 1691 in Hingham, Plymouth, MA, USA. [Parents]
2nd says Jonathan and Lydia were married "before 1729".
160. WILLIAM COALDWELL was born 1695 in England. He died 28 Oct 1802 in Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia and was buried in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia. WILLIAM married JANE JORDAN on 10 Dec 1734 in Stoughton, Norfolk, MA, USA. [Parents]
WILLIAM COLDWELL OF GASPEREAUX by John Coldwell Adams
The Gaspereaux Valley of Nova Scotia is a patchwork quilt of fields and orchards, dotted with snug houses and well-kept barns. On a steep hillside overlooking the Gaspereaux River, you will find a cemetery crowded with tombstones which bear the name
of Coldwell. It used to be said that the Coldwell descendants were as numerous as the Gaspereaux herring that were spawned in the river. Today there are fewer herring, and many of the Coldwell's have scattered to other parts of the continent; but,
wherever the name appears, the chances are that the family roots can be found in this quiet valley adjacent to the Minas Basin. Their common ancestor was an early settler, William Coldwell, who was born in England in 1695.
Apart from his birthdate, the known facts about William Coldwell begin about 1711 when he was a sturdy youth of sixteen. While gathering sea shells on an English beach one day, he was suddenly seized upon by "rough hands" and hustled aboard a ship in
the harbor. In this unceremonious manner he was impressed, like many another lad of the time, into the Royal Navy of "Good Queen Anne." Family legend has it that his mother, a widow of comfortable means, was about to remarry. william strongly opposed
the marriage, with the result, according to the story, that the unscrupulous suitor conspired with the "press gang" to kidnap him.
Whatever the circumstances were that led to his abduction, William Coldwell never saw his mother again. Nor, although he lived to be more than a hundred, did he ever again set foot on his native soil. When the navy ship bore him off a prisoner, it
was as if England had disappeared into the sea taking all traces of his family with it. It is reasonable to suppose that the unfortunate young lad was frightened and homesick, but the only thing we know for certain is the fact that he rebelled against
his harsh treatment and made up his mind to desert as soon as possible. His chance came when the ship dropped anchor in the port of Boston a few months later.
At that time, Boston was the largest and most important town in America. A keen lad like William might easily have found employment there but, when he jumped ship, his only thought was to get away as far as possible, where there would no longer be
any danger of being recaptured. He struck out for the "blue hills" of Massachusetts and arrived at nightfall, exhausted and hungry, at a farmhouse near the settlement of Stoughton. He was taken in by the kind hearted farmer and his wife, and with them
he remained for several years, growing to manhood there among the granite hills of New England.
In 1733 he married Jane Jordan, the 16 year old daughter of a neighboring farmer, and established a home of his own. Over the next 18 years Jane bore him 10 children, one every two years. Six of their seven sons survived to adulthood as did two of
their three daughters. Jane remains a shadowy figure, following her husband from Mass. to Connecticut, and then farther afield to the distant colony of Nova Scotia. That she exercised some influence over their domestic affairs, however, may be deduced
from the fact that all the names of her brothers and sisters were reproduced in the names of their own children.
Although it is common knowledge among his descendants that William spent some time on Sable Island in the earlier part of the 18th Century, the details are blurred and the exact dates are impossible to ascertain. He was enticed there by Rev. Andrew
LeMercier, a French Huguenot who had arrived in Boston in 1714 as the minister of the French Protestant Church. LeMercier was a man of business as well as a man of God, and one of his ventures was a scheme to obtain the land on Sable Island rent free.
He probably had plans for exploiting the island, having in mind the huge profits to be made from seal oil and seal skins. However, since the island had already earned a reputation as "the graveyard of the Atlantic", he presented his plan to
Lieutenant-Governor Armstrong of Nova Scotiqa as the establishment of a "sea-hospital" for the rescue of shipwreck victims. In his petition, dated March 6, 1738, he stated that his men had already transported some livestock there and built a house.
Although he failed to get a definite answer from the British government, he continued to take matters into his own hands and established a small colony. William was on Sable Island sometime before 1742, but either he remained only a short time, or else
he paid periodic visits home, for the births of his first 5 children, born in 1734, 1736, 1738, 1740, and 1742, respectively, were all registered at Stoughton.
Sometime around 1744, William and his family moved to Stratfield, now Bridgeport, CT, where they remained for 14 year or more. The church records there show William's pew-holding, and refer to him as Captain Coldwell. No one knows how he acquired
that title, but it was not uncommon in those days for such distinctions to be conferred by popular opinion; and, in the eyes of his neighbors, William's brief association with the Royal Navy could have been enough to earn him that sobriquet. He was
still living in CT when the Governor of Nova Scotia announced in 1758 that the lands of the exiled Acadians were being offered practically free to residents of New England. Furthermore, the prospective settlers, were to be transported to Nova Scotia by
ship at the government's expense.
Although William was more than 60 years of age at the time, he was still hale and hearty, and had not lost his zest for adventure. He began at once to make plans to leave for Nova Scotia and start a new life. His eldest surviving son, John, and his
brother-in-law, Jeddediah Jordan, both received grants of land in Horton Township, and may possibly have been among the first arrivals there by ship from CT in 1760. As for William, although the date is uncertain, it is known that he began his journey
by setting off with his family by wagon train to Stoughton where he and Jane visited briefly among their relatives and friends. As they prepared to leave, their 13 year old son Ebenezer, a wilful boy who had resisted the idea of emigrating, could not
be found. After 2 days of fruitless searching, William was obliged to proceed without him, and never saw his errant son again. The runaway eventually turned up in the home of a family in Bridgewater, ten miles from Stoughton, and later served under
Montgomery in his expedition against Lower Canada during the American Revolution.
It would seem safe to assume that William took advantage of the free transportation to Horton Landing. There were not enough ships to move all the prospective emigrants at once, of course; but, even if William were impatient by nature (and there is
some indication that he was), surely he would have been prudent enough to wait his turn. However, one of his descendants, writing in 1910, was convinced that William had made the long, tortuous journey by land. The writer had talked to some older
people who remembered William's son Jonathan who died in 1843. The latter had been about eleven years old at the time of the expedition; and according to several witnesses, the rigors of the undertaking had left such an impression upon him "that they
became the burden of his thought and his conversation in the last years of his life." One is tempted to speculate that William might have been among those who landed at Piziquid (Windsor) and travelled overland to Horton, and that Jonathan's
recollections of that part of the trip were mistakenly believed to be an account of a 1000 mile trek from Massachusetts.
When William Coldwell arrived on the shores of the Minas Basin, by whatever route, he was allotted land on both sides of the Gaspereaux River and on the marsh. Like most of the other settlers, his family probably lived in tents until a house could be
constructed. However, although the English soldiers had burned the houses and barns of the Acadians, the land was ready for the plough, the meadows were luxuriant, and the orchards were fruitful. Moreover, the setting was one of such natural beauty
that a devout man like William might well have rejoiced in the words of the psalmist: "The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage."
William was destined to spend nearly fifty years in the lovely valley of the Gaspereaux. His wife Jane predeceased him on May 15, 1796, just two weeks short of her 79th birthday. It is said that, a short time before his death, he walked unaided from
his home to the house of his son Jonathan, more than a mile away. Another account claims that he was moving hay on his 100th birthday.
On July 1, 1909, a simple granite monument over William Coldwell's grave in the hillside cemetery at Gaspereaux was dedicated in the presence of nearly 150 of his descendants. Professor Albert E. Coldwell of Acadia University concluded a homage to
"Father William" with these words: "We ought all to commemorate the lenghty, self denying life of our sturdy ancestor and to set up this monument as a perpetual reminder of his sterling worth. May our children and our children's children in the
countless generations to come ever hold in grateful remembrance the life of him to whom we dedicate this monument.
161. JANE JORDAN was born 1 Jun 1717 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA, USA. She died 15 May 1796 in Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia and was buried in Gaspereau, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Parents]
162. DAVID (?) PIKE married Living.
David was one of the original grantees at Falmouth.
166. BENJAMIN CLEVELAND was born 30 Aug 1733 in Windham, Windham, CT, USA. He married MARY ALDERKIN on 20 Feb 1754 in Windham, Windham, CT, USA. [Parents]
Benjamin was a first cousin of Rev. Aaron Cleveland, who graduated at Harvard
n 1735, was in Halifax from 1750 to 1754, as first minister of the
ongregationalist Church there, but in England took Orders in the English
hurch, then returning to America. Rev. Aaron Cleveland, who was an ancestor
f the late President Grover Cleveland, died at the house of his friend,
enjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia. Deacon B. Cleveland was the author of a
collection of hymns.
167. MARY ALDERKIN was born 16 Dec 1735 in Windham, Windham, CT, USA. She died 24 Apr 1783 in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia.
172. JOHN NEWCOMB was born 22 Jul 1720 in Lebanon, New London, CT, USA. He died 13 Apr 1778 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. JOHN married MERCY BARNEBY on 18 Jul 1747 in Lebanon, New London, CT, USA. [Parents]
From the Newcomb Genealogy: John Newcomb settled in Lebanon upon a farm
adjoining his father's. From his father he received by gift "for love and
affection," in 1754, fifty acres; this farm was enlarged by several purchases.
His town tax in 1760 was 5 pounds 1 shilling 8 pence, a large tax at that
period. 10 Mar 1760, he and his father and their wives sold their lands at
Lebanon for 550 pounds and removed to Cornwallis, N.S. where they arrived
before 12 Oct 1760. He was one of the original grantees of the township of
Cornwallis, 1761. He received a one-half-acre lot in the compact part of town
by reason of the birth of his daughter, martha, 12 Oct. 1760. He also received
a five-acre lot, letter F, No. 5; six acres Dyke lot No. 18; sixty-six acres
farm lot No. 1--6th Division, draughted by his uncle, Benjamin Newcomb, and
surveyed by his cousin William, son of said Benjamin Newcomb. He appears to
have been a leading man among the first settlers. He is said to have had
twenty one children, a part dying young, their names not preserved. The first
four children were born in Lebanon, Conn.
The farm in East Cornwallis, upon which John Newcomb lived and died (and
upon which his father, Dea. John, died) was left to his son John, his son's
son John, and was later owned and occupied by his great-grandson, Elder John
Samuel Newcomb, who had a son named John Stewart Newcomb.
173. MERCY BARNEBY was born about 1730 in Provincetown, Barnstable, MA, USA. She died 27 Mar 1776 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. [Parents]
1 NAME MARCY /BARNEBY/
174. CALEB RAND was born 10 Jan 1730 in Charlestown, Suffolk, MA, USA. He died WP 1776 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia. CALEB married MARY MAYHEW. [Parents]
175. MARY MAYHEW was born 22 May 1734. [Parents]
1 NAME MERCY /MAYHEW/
176. STYRKAR DAVIDSON MOE was born 1687 in Moe, Norway. He died 1725 in Norway. STYRKAR married RANVEIG TORBJORNSDTR NESHEIM on 1710 in Norway. [Parents]
177. RANVEIG TORBJORNSDTR NESHEIM was born 1685 in Nesheim, Norway. She died 1751 in Norway. [Parents]