Miner was an upright man, and successful in his business of blacksmith and farmer.
DOBSON.
The Dobsons were among the first of Yorkshire emigrants to arrive in Nova Scotia.There were two brothers, George and Richard.George brought with him a wife and grown-up family.His daughter Margaret was married to William Wells before the family left England.Richard was a bachelor, and tradition says he had been a soldier.George purchased a farm in Upper Point de Bute.Neither of the brothers lived long in their new home.Richard died in February, 1773, and George in July of the same year.George's will is dated the 24th July, 1773, and is recorded the 24th November by John Huston.It is witnessed by Mark Patten and J.Allen.
George had four sons, George, David, Richard and John, and two unmarried daughters, Elizabeth and Mary.George and John settled at Point de Bute.Richard sold his share of the homestead to John in 1795, and moved to Cape Tormentine, where he secured a large tract of land and became one of the substantial men of the place.A large number of his descendants are in that locality at the present time.The Dobsons, of Cape Breton, N.S., are descendants of Richard.John sold his farm and moved to Sussex, King's Co., N.B.George Dobson, of Sussex, is a grandson of John.David went to Halifax.George remained on the homestead at Point de Bute, and the Dobsons of Jolicure are descendants of George by his son Abraham.
Mrs.Dobson, the widow of George (first) married a Mr.Falkinther.He did not live long, and Mrs.Falkinther, who was said to be a very fine looking woman, had one of her grand-daughters to live with her during the last years of her life.Her grandchildren called her "Grandmother Forkey.""Old Abe," as Abraham was familiarly called, was a character in his day.He used to make annual and sometimes semi-annual trips to St.John to dispose of his butter and farm products, and was the kind of man to get all the enjoyment out of these journeys that was in them.It was said that he had large feet, and that early in life one of them was run over by a cart wheel, making it larger than the other.One day, while sitting in a St.John hotel, with the smaller foot forward, a man, noticing the size of it, said, "I will make a bet that that is the largest foot in the city." "Done," said Old Abe.The bet was made, when Mr.Dobson brought forward the other foot and won the wager.
Abraham was one of the best farmers in the township.He named his eldest son Isaac, and had Isaac name his eldest son Jacob.Perhaps the likeness to the old patriarch ended here.He had a large family of boys, to all of whom he gave farms.His youngest son, Robert, was drowned in the Missiquash Valley one December morning as he was skating to his farm on the Bay Verte Road.
The Dobsons were good men for a new country, and did not take life too seriously.Jacob, Frank, Alder, Alonzo and John Dobson and their families represent the name now in Jolicure.Dr.Gay Dobson, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., U.S., is a descendant.John, a brother of Abraham Dobson, left no sons.
JONES.
William Jones came from Wales.He was one of the first settlers at Point de Bute Corner.He married Mary Dobson, a daughter of George Dobson.They had a large family.Ruth, their youngest daughter, married Stephen Goodwin and lived on the homestead.Stephen Goodwin came from St.John to Point de Bute with his mother, who was a widow.She subsequently became the second wife of Christopher Atkinson.By this marriage she had three sons, George, Abel and Busby, and one daughter, Nancy, who became the wife of John Fawcett, Esq., of Upper Sackville.
J.H.Goodwin, of Point de Bute, is a son of Stephen Goodwin.
TINGLEY.
Palmer Tingley emigrated from Kingston-on-the-Thames to Malden, Mass., in 1666.Josiah Tingley, a descendant, came to Sackville, N.B., in 1763.William, a grandson of Josiah Tingley, married Elizabeth Horton and settled in Point de Bute in 1794.He bought land from Josiah B.
Throop.The witnesses to the deed were Joseph and Ichabod Throop.Like most of the early settlers, Mr.Tingley raised a large family, and all his sons became farmers.Four of them, John, Harris, Caleb, and William, settled near their father.Josiah settled in Jolicure, Joshua at Shemogue, and Isaac at Point Midgie.There were four daughters.Ann married Joseph Irving, of Tidnish; Mary, Cyrus McCully, Amherst, N.S.;Helener, William McMorris, of Great Shemogue; and Margaret, Asa Read, also of Shemogue.There were eleven children in all, and their longevity will surely bear comparison with that of any family in Canada, and is well worth recording:
John Tingley, born 1794, died 1874, aged 80.
Harris " " 1794, " 1875, " 80.
Joshua " " 1797, " 1897, " 100.
William " " 1799, " 1868, " 69.
Ann " " 1801, " 1881, " 80.
Mary" " 1803, " 1890, " 87.
Josiah " " 1807, " 1888, " 81.
Helener " " 1809, still living in 1902, aged 93.
Isaac " " 1812, died 1891, aged 79.
Margaret" " 1816, still living in 1902, aged 86.
Caleb " " 1805, died 1880, aged 75.
The Tingleys are generally adherents of the Baptist Church.Robert, Obed, Harvey, William, Alfred and Err are grandsons of William Tingley and represent the name in Point de Bute and Jolicure.
SIDDALL.
Ralph Siddall came from Yorkshire to Nova Scotia in 1772, and soon after, in company with Richard Lowerison, settled at "The Bend," now the town of Moncton, N.B.The Eddy rebels proving too strong in that locality for the loyal Englishmen, they soon returned to the protection of Fort Cumberland, and eventually settled near the fort.Mr.Siddall had a family of five children--two sons, Ralph and Francis, and three daughters.The daughters married, respectively: Thomas Carter, -----Cook, and James Deware.The Dewares of Jolicure belong to his family.
Ralph (second) married ----- Ayer and had two sons, Edward and William and three daughters.William settled on Gray's Road, near Wallace.
