Edward Whelpley

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• Married: say 1840; Margaret Wallace. She was born about 1820. Issue: 1. William Wallace Whelpley (c1850-1907)
• Census: 1891, Saint John, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada; : 71

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• Probate/Proved: 16 Jul 1830, Saint John, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada; City of Saint John, St. John County, Cooper. Intestate. Administration granted 16 July 1830 to the widow Mabel WHELPLEY, son William WHELPLEY and Lauchlan DONALDSON Esq., a creditor. Fellow bondsmen David WATERBURY and Henry PORTER, all of the City of Saint John. Inventory of "Articles of Furniture now in the Brick House belonging to the Estate of the Late William WHELPLEY" valued at £24, inventory of the cooperage valued at £21, filed 20 December 1830, by Nehemiah VAIL and William McAULEY, the appraisers.

William married Mabel Thomas on 3 Dec 1804 in Saint John, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. Mabel (daughter of Thomas Cope Thomas and Mary) was born about 1781 in New Brunswick, Canada; died on 5 May 1866 in Saint John, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: 6 May 1866; d. 5th inst., Mabel relict of Wm WHELPLEY, age 85. She died as she lived peaceful and quiet, requesting all to leave the room but one and asked that one not to speak, adding that she was about going home and thus she died without a groan or a struggle. Funeral Sunday one o'clock from her son's residence Pond St. (St. John) Her remains will be interred at Mispec.

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They were married by Rev. Dr. Byles.

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• Military: 1759; He was a corporal in the Connecticut Third Regiment, Captain and Colonel David Wooster, 4th Company, Captain Thomas Hobby.
• Military: 1776; He was a sergeant in Mead's Regiment of the Connecticut Militia.
• History: 1779; Darling fought on the British side of the Revolutionary War. He fought at Lloyd?s Neck on Long Island, NY and was defeated by the American Revolutionaries. Darling and the other British soldiers made a raid on Greenwich where he burnt buildings including the church, likely the same church where the family?s records were held. After losing the war, he was sentenced to death by the victorious revolutionaries . Before he could be executed, however, it was decided that he would be exchanged for an American prisoner . The family did, however, lose all their land and property, which was given over to the American side. How would have been for his wife, Abigail Peck and their ten children..... the horror and anxiety of having your husband and father sentenced to death, and then the relief of having him returned, but losing all your property and land and being forced to leave to a new country. The following entry the minute book kept by Peter Mead, "1779 - October Session of the General Assembly. Darling Whelpley, Solomon Perris, William Peck, and David Washburn under sentience of death for the crime of high treason, sentence was suspended until the first Wednesday of March 1780. They were finally exchanged." After he was exchanged, his estate was forfeited and confiscated.
• Moved To: 1783, New Brunswick, Canada; Darling Whelpley left the United States and sailed for New Brunswick on board the ship called "Hope" in 1783, along with his wife and nine of their children, according to the passenger lists. They settled in Upper Saint John and Kingston area with many other British loyalists. Another son, Jonathan, probably came later. They came to Canada on the ship"Hope." After surviving the war, losing all their property and most of their possessions, forsaking a land they had worked hard to build, and narrowly escaping execution, they came to Canada, their new promised land.

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Darling married Abigail Peck about 1758 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of Jeremiah Peck and Mary Johnson) was born in 1738 in Connecticut; died on 24 Apr 1813 in Saint John, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Last Full Review: 5 Jun 2020

Thomas married Mary about 1766. Mary was born in 1750 in Connecticut; died on 2 Feb 1823 in Saint John, Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Martha Pennoyer in 1727. Martha (daughter of Thomas Pennoyer and Linda Knapp) was born in 1706 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; died in 1739 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: say 1725, Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut; He was a farmer.

Jeremiah married Mary Johnson in 1723 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Deacon Samuel Johnson and Mary Sage) was born on 8 Mar 1699 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut; died in 31 Aug1779 in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Lydia Augur on 22 Mar 1741 in East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. Lydia (daughter of John Augur and Elizabeth Bradley) was born in 1726 in East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 12 Dec 1803 in West Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]