Showing posts with label New Brunswick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Brunswick. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

(Then) Colonel Joseph Grubbins


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Travels Amongst the Loyalists: 1813 – by Stephen Davidson:

"In July of 1813, Lt. Colonel Joseph Gubbins prepared himself for his annual inspection tour of New Brunswick's militia regiments."

"In Kouchibouguac, Gubbins met Jacob Kollock, a loyalist from Delaware. As well as serving as a supervisor of roads, Kollock also was the major for the local militia. He had persuaded his neighbours to build a blockhouse to defend the community during the war."

"(Gubbins' New Brunswick Journals 1811 & 1813, edited by Howard Temperley, was published in 1980 by New Brunswick Heritage Publications.)"

See more about Grubbins' Journal here.


A report of retired Major-General Joseph Grubbins' death:

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Captain A. McDonald And A Court Martial


British Military and Naval Records (RG 8, C Series) - INDEX ONLY
Microform: c-11837



President of Regt'l Court-Martial held at Fredericton on 11th March 1813, by order of Major Bliss for trial of Andrew Steadholm and Michael Guriet (Gurier)

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

British Officer McLean In Two Wars

Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution ..., Volume 2, also included an officer, Archibald McLean, who served both in the Revolutionary War as well as the War of 1812:



McLean, Archibald.  He was a captain in the New York Volunteers, and was in several battles.  He married Prudence French and Susan Drummond.  A little genealogy can be found here.

During the war of 1812 he was again in commission, and was Staff-Adjutant.  His place of residence was in York County...he died at Nashwaak, New Brunswick, in 1830, aged seventy-six.