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12 Leone Road Toms River, N.J. 08753 23 November,

1986

Peter Whitlock 3804 Kilarney

Street

Port Coquitlam, Canada V3B

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Dear Mr. Whitlock, Thank you for your prompt and informative In reviewing

my records

answer.

I feel that you are probably

in saying that Solomon Whitlock

was a Loyalist.

correct

I had based

my assumption

that he had come from England or Ireland to

New Brunswick

on the fact that I have a petition

Nelson

in which he is aSking to purchase

Marysville)

and states

"I am a British

As he was named last in Solomon's youngest

son.

land in Penniac

subject,

(near

born in Ireland".

will he probably

was the

If he was born in Ireland I assumed that Solomon

had come from there directly petition

from his son

after the war.

However

in Solomon's

of 1788, he says that he came "to this country(NB)

with the late Prince of Wales American

Regiment

in the fall

"-

of 1783, in which corps your memorialist ",,-

seven yea'rs as a non-commissioned Was this Regiment olution?

served His Majesty

officer."

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one that served in the U.S. during the Rev-

I am not familiar

with the British Regiments.

Could

he have gone back to Ireland before coming to N.B. and after serving

in the present U.S.?

The petition

of son Elijah,

Solomon

signed his name.

1813 shows him to be single, agee:.

23, thus born ca 1790. "Born in the province'~-his signature. petition

of son Jacob,

New Brunswick,

has resided

aged 38 years, married 1789.Jacob Petition

in 1827, " a British

subject,born

in

all his years in the province,

and has seven children."

Thus born ca

made his mark.

of son Israel,1815

"married,

aged 23 years, born in

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". He made his mark. Thus born ca 1792.

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A third)

petition

by Smith Elijah Whitlock

of st. Mary, a native of New Brunswick a single man of age 30 years. ---" From Conveyances was Rachel-----;

in 1827, "of Parish

and a British

subject;

his signature.

of land I learned that the wife of Jacob

the wife of Israel was Eliza A.----;

the wife

of Nelson was Margaret----; From Newspaper

Notices

of Solomon Whitlock From Solomon's

I learned that Priscilla,

married Mr. John F. Horton

the third dau.

on 25 Dec. 1819.

will I learned that Idau. Nancy married

----Fisher.

I

The will does not name Priscilla, had died before 30 Oct. 1829.

~ don't know why, unless

she

Lorenzo Sabine lists in his Bioqra~hical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution Vol. II a Thomas Whitlock who settled at st. John, N.B. and a John whitlock in N.B. I found:a Thomas whitlock "Maryland Loyalist". of St. Andrews, Whitlock

@ St.

John in 1788 who is called a

(Land petitions);

County of Charlotte,

with a wife Jane buried

St. AAdrews,

a Samuel H. Whitlock

Esquire

Jane died 3 Feb. 1838 aged 68, William C. Whitlock

a tree to her great grandfather,

who died at st. John Souvenir).

in 1831; a William

in the Old Burying Ground,

susseJ in 1821 aged 55; a Jessies dedicated

who also settled

1792.(this

I mention

of st. Stephen

Thomas Whitlock

from Loyalist's

these people

@

died

Centennial

just in case you don't have

them in your files. I would like very much to have the information from The Whitlocks I also found a note Harvard

of Conn. I enclose

@ Fredricton

Ave. ,Salt Lake City,utah ! ..

cequesting

on Solomon

stamps.

of a Lynda Whitlock

of 144

84111 who wrote to the Archives

a birth record for a Andrew Welby

Whitlock who is noted to be of York, st. Mary'S Parish Thank you for your help. ~ Sincerely,

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