Daniel Morehouse, (probable s/o Joseph Morehouse and Hannah Banks) was b. 26 Nov 1758, Fairfield, CT. He was said to have been adopted by his Uncle Daniel, whom he was named after, and made his heir. At the age of 17 he was just entering Yale when the Revolutionary War broke out.On 1 Dec he left for NY to enlist. Arriving 24 Dec 1776, with a distant relative, [___] Lockwood, who got a commission in the Prince of Wales Regt and was soon killed in battle. Daniel joined the Queens Rangers as a Sergent, later Sgt Major, and still later Quartermaster of a troop of Dragoons attached to the Queens Rangers.
He came to New Brunswick with the Loyalist, receiving lots in what is now Saint John but did not settle there. They went first to Grimross, on the Saint John River above Gagetown, afterwards of Upper Queensbury, York Co, NB, where he settled.
He received 1/2 pay from his post in the Queens Rangers, and was a Major in the Malitia and a magistrate in York County, NB. He died 20 Jan 1835, aged 77 years, and was buried in the Dumfries Church Yard, on the West side of the Saint John River, just opposite from his home. This cemetery has since been relocated to the Southampton Cemetery, due to the flooding caused by the Mactaquac Dam Project.
Daniel m. 30 Apr 1783, at Lancaster, [PA], to Jane Gill, who was born ca. 1757. She was christened in the Maugerville Anglican Church, as an adult, on 4 Aug 1789. She died 29 Aug 1829, aged 72 years, and was buried as her husband and her stone was also moved.
Daniel erected both a Grist and a Saw Mill, and he acquires a lot of land, and was very into the events of his day. He was a Justice of the Peace in York County. Daniel left an issue of six sons and one daughter. In his will he left his property equally divided between his living children, with a cash settlement to be made to the heirs of his deceased son, William.
His home has been moved to the Kings Landing Historical Settlement, as part of their living museum, thus I designate this Daniel and the Kings Landing Daniel, to identify him from the Daniel who settled in Keswick.
Children:
F i Mary Morehouse, b. 1 Apr 1784 - d. unmarried 27 Apr 1854, at aged 70 years, in Queensbury, York County, NB, and was apparently buried near her parents. She applied for a pension in her older years, on the basis of her Father's service with the Queens' Rangers. She was aged 66 years on the 1851 census of Queensbury, York Co, NB. M ii William Morehouse, b. ca. 1786 M iii Henry Morehouse, b. ca. 1787/8 M iv George Morehouse, b. 9/19 Nov 1790 M
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Frederick, b. 27 Jan 1792, and chr. 22 Jun 1793 in the Woodstock Anglican Church. He was active in the Militia, and was accidentally shot. He died 21 Jun 1842, at Woodstock, Carleton Co, NB, and was buried originally at Meductic Anglican Cemetery on the 23rd. His body was later moved and placed in the Lower Woodstock Cemetery. He died intestate, and his widow petitioned the courts for administration rights, 29 Jul 1842, and later papers 19 Feb 1844. In these papers there is a listing of his sister, brothers, and the heirs of his late brother, William. William married a widow Smith, Judith Jenkins, on 5 Apr 1837, in Carleton County, NB. Judith was the d/o John Hatch Jenkins, and his wife, Sarah Turner (widow of Richard Bradley). She had m.(1) to Richard Smith, 18 Sep 1813. Judith was b. ca. 1787, and died 7 Dec 1857, aged 68 years at Woodstock, and buried on the 9th, at Lower Woodstock Anglican Cemetery. (Age on burial records give 70 yrs, stone give 68.) She and Frederick had no issue. M
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John Morehouse was born 19 Aug 1796, and was chr. 20 Feb 1798 at Woodstock Anglican Church. He was a farmer and millwright, and lived on the homestead. He died unmarried 6 Sep 1867 aged 71 years. He was listed as aged 55 years on the 1851 census of Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB. M vii Charles Morehouse, b. 28 Aug 1799
(2) William Morehouse, b. ca. 1786, chr. 4 Aug 1789, in the Maugerville Anglican Church, on the same day as his mother. He died pre 1830 in Woodstock, York (now Carleton) County. He had lived at what is now Andover, Victoria County. On 11 Mar 1814, in York County, he married Mary Ross, b. ca.1792, in NB. She m.2) Thomas Finn, aged 57 years in the Perth, Victoria County Census. Thomas was a merchant who entered NB in 1827, and was Irish. Mary was aged 59 years in this same census record. (There was a second Daniel, aged 13 yrs living with the family in 1851. Was this a grandson?)
Children:
M i Daniel Morehouse, (aged 35 years in 1851) F ii [A.] Mary Morehouse, (aged 34 years in 1851) M iii William Morehouse, (aged 32 years in 1851) He was not listed by his Aunt, Judith Morehouse, in the probate papers she filed at the time of her husband's death (1842/4). M iv George F. Morehouse, (aged 27 years in 1851) He was b. in Jan 1824, and died 29 Jun 1902, aged 78 yrs 6 mos, and is buried in the Killburn Cemetery, Victoria County. George m. 2 Aug 1849, in Carleton County, to Mary Ann Cox, who was aged 23 in that same census. {witnesses to their marriage were: William H. Morehouse and Abraham Cox.} At the census they had a daughter, Georgeann, aged 6 mos. She m. 9 Jun 1869, in Carleton County, to John A. Bishop, of Perth. M v Augustus A. Morehouse, (aged 26 years in 1851) 16 May 1825 - 28 Jul 1904, bur in the Kilburn Cemetery, Victoria County. Augustus m. Frances J. [---]. F vi Frances Jane Morehouse F vii Elizabeth Morehouse M viii Charles Morehouse
(3) Henry Morehouse, b. ca. 1787/8, and chr. 4 Aug 1789, in the Maugerville Anglican Church, on the same day as his mother. He died in Woodstock, Carleton County, and was buried on the 25 Feb 1870, aged 82 years. He was aged 62 years on the 1851 census of Wakefield Parish, Carleton Co, NB, and was a tenant, and infirm.
He m. 1) 13/30 Jun 1821, in York County, to Elizabeth Ann Clements. She was b. 1789, the d/o Peter Clements and his wife Abigail Julia Palmer. Elizabeth d. 7 Dec 1845, aged 56 years, in Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB. They had an issue of 1 son, 1 dau.Children:
M i William Morehouse, b, ca. 1824 William m. Emeline [...] ii Caroline Morehouse Caroline m. 17 Oct 1845, York Co, NB, to Asa I. Manuel. Henry moved to Woodstock about 1844/5 and m.2) [on New Years day?] Maria Tompkins, 1813-1851, daughter of Elijah Tompkins, of the Parish of Peel, and his wife Frances Woodward. She was aged 38 years on the 1851 census of Wakefield Parish, Carleton County.
Children:
F i Frances Elizabeth Morehouse (3-1851), b. 28 Feb 1848, in Woodstock, NB M ii George Alexander Morehouse (1-1851), b. 6 Oct 1849, chr. 15 Sep 1850 in the Fredericton Anglican Church, York County.
(4) George Morehouse, b. 9/19 Nov 1790, and chr. 22 Jun 1793, in the Woodstock Anglican Church. He died intestate, on 22 Jul 1866, in his 76th year, and was buried in St Thomas' Church Yard, Upper Queensbury. The administration of his estate was assigned to Charles Frederick Morehouse and Sydney S. Ingraham.
He was active in the NB Fencibles (An Ensign on 25 Oct 1813). This was the forerunner of the famed 104th Regt. of Foot. He served until its disbandment in 1816, and then went on half-pay. He was a surveyor at Perth, Victoria Co, and settled at Kilburn Station, where three children were born. He was a Justice of the Peace and played a prominent role in the Maine-New Brunswick boarder dispute of ca. 1827. He later moved back to the homestead, and was a warden at St Thomas' Church, Upper Queensbury. There is a stone in the Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredericton, that lists the entire family. Presumably it was placed there when some of his children died and were buried there.
He m. Mamre, d/o John Ingraham of Bear Island, Queensbury, 22 Jul 1812, in York County. She was aged 50 years on the 1851 census of Queensbury, York Co, NB. She d. 4 Jul 1866, ae 66 yrs.Children:
F i Georgiana Morehouse, b. 19 Apr 1833 - d. 17 Dec 1916, in Fredericton, NB. She died unmarried. She was listed as aged 17 years on the 1851 census of Queensbury, York Co, NB. She was living at Marysville in 1912. M
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Charles Frederick Morehouse, b. 25 Dec 1835. He was listed as aged 15 years on the 1851 census of Queensbury, York Co, NB. He was living at Marysville in 1912, and the stone at Forest Hill Cemetery gives a death date of 1915. M iii John Henry Morehouse, b. 18 Dec 1838, and chr. 19 Sep 1841, in
Dumfries Anglican Church, York Co, NB. He was listed as aged 12 years on the 1851 census of Queensbury, York Co, NB. He died unmarried 14 Nov 1869 in New York. The stone at Forest Hill Cemetery give death year as 1868.
(7) Charles Morehouse, b. 28 Aug 1799, and was chr. 13 Mar 1799 at Woodstock Anglican Church. He d. 20 Dec 1897, and was buried on the 22nd, at Bear Island, Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB.* He was aged 37 years in the 1851 census of Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB. He was a farmer and miller of both Saw and Grist Mills, and served as a Lieut in the Militia. He lived on the homestead until he married, then moved to a house on the same farm. He moved to Dunphries when that house burned down.
Charles m. 28 Mar 1849, At St Thomas' Anglican Church, Queensbury, to Frances Jemima, eldest d/o Capt. Thos. Earle (late of H.M. Enniskellen Regt.) She was born 19 May 1823, and died 5 Oct 1902 in her 80th years. She was aged 27 years in the 1851 census of Queensbury Parish, York Co, NB, and
was listed as Irish, having entered NB in the year 1835. {Their children were listed as being between the ages of 21 and 5 years in 1871, on father's probate papers.} *{Probate papers gives death as 9 Jul 1870}Children:
F i Frances Jane Morehouse, b. 1 Apr 1850, chr. 9 May 1850 Frances m. Richard Hodgson, of Edmunton, Madawaska Co, NB, farmer. M ii Richard Joseph Elwell Morehouse, b. 1 Dec 1851, chr. 11 Jan 1852, unmarried and d. about 1875. F iii Cecelia Rachael Morehouse Cecelia m. 17 Jul 1873, Christ Church, Fredericton, York Co, Alexander Rainsford Bullock, of Grand Falls, and Kingsclear, NB. She was of Fredericton in 1916. M iv Thomas Fairfax Morehouse m. & lives at Island Falls, Maine. He was a machinist in 1916. M Charles Dudley, unmarried F Margaret Jemima Morehouse, b. 25 Dec 1865, chr. 25 Feb 1866 F Margaret m. W. Carden Cousins, MD, of Ottawa, ON
(8) William Morehouse, b, ca. 1824, m. Emeline [...]Children:
M i Henry Morehouse, born 1846 M ii Charles Truman Morehouse, b born 7 Aug 1847, chr. 13 Nov 1848, Queensbury Anglican Church F iii Fanny Jane Morehouse, born 9 Jan 1849, chr. 13 Nov 1848, Queensbury Anglican Church
(9) Frances Elizabeth Morehouse (3-1851), b. 28 Feb 1848, in Woodstock, NB,
and chr. 15 Sep 1850 in the Fredericton Anglican Church, York County. She died in 1938, in Vancouver, BC. On 20 Mar 1878, in Saint John, NB, she married Edward Plummer Leonard, s/o Charles Mitchell Leonard and his wife, Harriet Sophia Baldwin. Edward was born 6 Oct 1850, in Saint John, NB. He died there on 20 Jun 1906.Children:
F i Hattie Leonard, died at aged 16 years M ii Harry Leonard Harry married Mabel Andrews F iii Daisy E. Leonard Daisy m. F.E. Reid F iv Dolly Leonard, died aged 4 yrs.
NOTE: There was a report prepared by Darrell Butler, of the Kings Landing Staff, shortly after I collected the majority of the items for this report. Much of our research covered the same ground, but his report goes into more detail about the life of Daniel, especially his military and civil careers. A copy of his report is at PANB. I have a number of items that I have not included here, but these items seem to give a good outline of the family. As can be noted from the above, this family did not inter-marry with that of the other Daniel Morehouse, of Keswick.
Bell Collection, PANB MC filesMy dear Son: Morehouse Papers. Set I. = G. MOREHOUSE. For E.W. Bell; to file (D.J. Bell, M.D.2/I8/34.)
(A letter from George Morehouse, son of Daniel & Jane (Gill) Morehouse, to his son, J.H. Morehouse.)
Queensbury, Saturday,
Dec. 22, 1862 or 1863.In my last letter which I hope you have received before this I promised a Memories of our family which I now sit down to draw up from what I learnt from my late dear father and I have no doubt if I had had the thoughtful and inquiring mind that you are blest with I might have been in possession of much more. Our forefathers are originally from England, from the Shire of York. My father's grandfather emigrated from England to the State of Connecticut and there settled in the County of Fairfield about 75 years before the Revolutionary War. I have forgot the name of the parish but I believe that it was Norwalk as I have more than once heard him say that the family always attended Divine Worship at the Norwalk Church. They were Episcopalians from the first. My Great Grandfather had two sons to whom at his death he left each a good farm. The eldest Joseph Morehouse was my Grandfather and had a family of four sons and two daughters, the daughters married respectably both of them Doctors of high standing as members of society practitioners in medicine. These Doctors both moved into the State of New York on the North River somewhere near or at the City of Albany the capital of that state. The name of one was Galatia, the other Sturgess. I have never heard how Sturgess succeeded in life but about a year before I was married old Valentine Harding went to see his relations near Albany. On his return he told me that he had found out near Albany some of our relations, that he was introduced to a pretty and well educated young lady a Miss Galatia and finding that he was from New Brunswick she directly asked him if he knew a family of Morehouses, he said that he did, that he knew them. This young lady had a fortune left her by her father of $14,000, so I see the old Doctor succeeded in his craft. She was an only child. Harding pressed me hard to go and see her and marry her. I have entered pretty fully into the history of Miss Galatia as the day may come when you might make some inquiries about her and probably see her.
I have before said that my Grandfather Joseph had one brother, his name was Daniel married but without children. My father was the oldest son of his father and the childless uncle when he was born requested him to be called Daniel after him and told his father he would adopt him as his child, educate him and make him heir to his property. He sent him to a good common school until he was nearly eighteen years old and then entered him as a student at Kings College (this was its name before the Revolutionary War broke out but the Yankees in hatred of everything that bore the name of kings since changed it to Yale College). He had only been there six months when the war broke out - when that happened the country all rose in sedition against the King's Authority. What they called Minute Men was elected in each parish, their duty was to go through the parish and command the inhabitants to turn out under the penalty of ten pounds and do the duty of soldiers for three months; well my father and all his family were loyal. His uncle paid the fine ten pounds for him and to his astonishment at the end of three months another order was issued by the parish authorities to him again for three months. This he thought too much proud and overbearing imposition and refused to serve or pay and his uncle had given him a fine young horse for his own particular use. Well what do these rebellious thieves do but seize the horse, saddle and bridle, and sold it for the ten pounds fine and costs - this was beyond bearing, he told his friends he would not stay but would join the British Army at New York. This was the first of December (I believe) in 1774 that is the fall after the breaking out of the war which happened on the 19th day of April, 74. It must have been in 1774 as I have heard my father say that the first battle he was in was the Battle of Bunkers Hill near Boston. Well he had a distant relation by the name of Lockwood whom the rebels both robbed and oppressed; he determined to flee to the British Army. They made up their plot first of December and set out by night but dare not travel on any of the roads, every mile of the roads were watched by their Minute Men. They had to travel by night and through forests and fields and although you will see by looking at any atlas that they only went a short distance from New York but took them until Christmas Eve before they arrived almost starved to death and very narrowly escaped being taken by approaching the road to ascertain where they were.
Thus was he cut off from all his hopes of a college or liberal education and all his hopes in this world on that score destroyed. My poor father was then a few weeks over 18 years of age. Him and Lockwood both applied to Colonel John Greaves Simcoe who then commanded the Queen's Rangers for commissions but he told them there was nothing then in his power as all of the commissions of his regiment was filled up, but said if they would enter as volunteers he would give them the first .......... that fell. My father accepted the offer, Lockwood having money to support himself declined and got a commission in the Prince of Wales's Regiment and soon after was killed in battle. My poor father having but little money found he could not clothe himself as a volunteer (they have to wear the same cloth as an officer), he was enforced to enlist. The Colonel immediately made him Sergeant and in about six weeks after made him Sergeant Major of the Queen's Rangers. He served the seven years war in that capacity or until about a year before the termination of it when there were six companies of Dragoons raised and attached to the Rangers and the Colonel having the appointment of the Quarter Masters of each Troop of Dragoons made him one of these Quarter Masters. This gave him the same pay and allowance as any other of that rank of Quarter Master in the army and the same half pay forty pounds sterling per year. The Rangers was with Lord Cornwallis in the south and were taken prisoners with his whole army at Yorktown in the State of Virginia 19th October 1781 - this ended the war, peace was made and in October 18th 1783 my dear Father and Mother landed at ST. JOHN (then a complete wilderness), they came up to ...... stayed there a year and then moved to this place - they seen much suffering and privation in their struggle to settle but far less than many others.
I have had a bad cough a few days but it don't affect my breathing but think it will be better shortly. Uncle John is very poorly, can't speak, has not spoken for 5 days. H. is to be married New Year's Day, I wish you could be here, they go off after lunch the same day. I wish you many happy returns of the Season.Adieu my dear son, J.H. Morehouse
I remain your affec father
"G. Morehouse"
L-106 (old film number PANB), p. 59
ENSIGN GEORGE MOREHOUSE
Ensign Morehouse was born on his father's farm at Queensbury, York County, NB, on 19 Nov 1790. His Morehouse great grandfather came from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut, about 1700. This great-grandfather had sons, Joseph and Daniel Morehouse, the former had 4 sons and 3 daughters, the latter, none. Daniel became a resident of Westchester Co, NY. Joseph named one of his sons after the Westchester Co. brother; the latter adopted his namesake, and made him heir. Daniel Morehouse, son of Joseph was born in 1758, and when 10 years of age went to live with his Uncle in Westchester Co. The younger Daniel had been a student at Yale College only 6 months when the Revolutionary War broke out. He and a relative named Lockwood journeyed to New York to offer their services to the British. Lockwood purchased a commission in the armed forces, but Morehouse being unprovided with money, enlisted as a private. The latter eventually became sergeant, sergeant-major and quartermaster in the renowned Queen's Rangers from which at the close of the war he was retired on half-pay of the last rank, amounting to forty pounds sterling per annum. He came to New Brunswick and settled with other disbanded members of his regiment in the parish of Queensbury, York County, and there became the father of a large family, one of whom was the subject of this notice. He died at Queensbury in 1835, at the age of seventy-seven years. In York County he was a magistrate and in the militia, a Lieutenant-Colonel.
On October 25, 1813, George Morehouse was gazetted Ensign in the New Brunswick Fencibles, and served until its disbandment in 1816. He entered it with the intention of making the army his profession. Though he successfully recruited for a temporary Lieutenancy, he, on March 12, 1814 memorialized Sir George Prevost, that he be given a permeant Ensigncy in preference to a temporary Lieutenancy, the request was granted. On leaving the regiment in 1816 he was given two lots of land at Kilburn, in the Parish of Kent, Carleton Co. On July 24, 1820 he married Mawore, daughter of John Ingraham, of Bear Island, parish of Queensbury, York County, and two years later moved up river to his Kilburn farm, where his two sons and one daughter were born.
He was made a Justice of the Peace in the parish of Kent and as such played a prominent part in the international Maine-New Brunswick boundary dispute. The territory assigned to him as J.P. extended north to the boundary of Quebec. When in 1827, John Barker, aided by a body of fifteen men, planted a United States flag at Baker Lake in the present Madawaska County, Morehouse led an armed posse of fifteen men thence and removed it. He endeavored to arrest baker, but the latter escaped to the woods. The flag flown by Baker was not the regulation Stars and Stripes, but a white flag bearing an American Eagle and a semi-circle of stars. Morehouse pointed to the flag and asked what it was. Baker replied "The American flag, Mr. Morehouse; did you never see it before? If not you can see it now." Morehouse required him, in the King's name, to pull it down, and to this Baker replied, "No, I will not. We have placed it there and we are determined we will support it, and nothing but a superior force to our self shall take it down. We are on American territory; Great Brittain has no jurisdiction here. What we are doing we will be supported in. We Have a right to be protected and will be protected in what we are doing by our Government." Baker eventually yielded, but the immediate cause of his sudden change of mind is not recorded. Down came the flag, carried off by Morehouse and his men. Following the departure of the New Brunswick posse, Baker's wife, Sophia, daughter of Dr. Rice of Woodstock, NB, got out another flag and hoisted it. In the following year, Sheriff Miller, carrying a warrant from Morehouse, led a posse to Baker's abode and arrested him. These incidents proved to be the beginning of a series of incidents that eventually brought Great Brittain and the United States to the brink of a third war. The Ashburton Treaty put John Baker and his Baker Lake land within the confines of New Brunswick, and Baker proved himself a loyal and model citizen of that province.
It is interesting to note that Morehouse and Baker were married by the same clergyman, Rev. Frederick Dibble of Woodstock, the former in 1820, the latter in 1822. When Carleton County was created in 1831, Morehouse and J. M. Connell were its first representatives in the provincial legislature. Mr. & Mrs. Morehouse died within 18 days of each other in 1866. Mrs Morehouse's death occurring on July 4th, at the age of 66 and that of Mr. Morehouse on July 22, in his 76th year.
His name was continued on the half-pay list nine years longer. His children were Georgianna, born in 1833; Charles Frederick, in 1835 and John Henry in 1838; the first two were living in Marysville, NB in 1912, and John d. unmarried in New York in 1869. William Morehouse, living in Victoria County, NB in 1849, was probably another son of his.
Journal of the House of Assembly / Appendix XCVIII
(and corresponding files)
Old Soldiers of the Revolutionary War and Their Widows Pension ListsPetition for Pension from Mary, daughter of Daniel Morehouse, and his wife, Jane.
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
May it please your Majesty
The humble Petition of Mary Morehouse of the Parish of Queensbury in the County of York and Province of New Brunswick.
Most Humbly Sheweth
That Petitioner is the only Daughter of the late Daniel Morehouse (late a Quartermaster on the half pay of the Queen's American Rangers) and of Jane his wife, who were lawfully married as by the accompanying Certificate of Marriage will appear.
That petitioners Father came to your Majesty's Province of New Brunswick in the Year 1783, having previously served in the cause of his King, a period of Seven Years in the Revolutionary War in North America and that he was in the receipt of a Quartermaster's halfpay from the time of his arrival in this Province until his decease in 1835. That the Queens American Rangers was one of Four Regiments raised during the Revolutionary War in America, who were put on the same footing with regard to pay, Pension, &c as Regiments of the Line raised in Great Britain. That Petitioners Father has not preferred any claim, neither has received any compensation other than his halfpay and military Location of lands, for Losses sustained by reason of leaving his native place on account of Loyalty to your Majesty's Predecessors, and attachment to the British Constitution.
That Petitioner's Mother died in 1830, and previous to the decease of Petitioners Father, and consequently did not receive any Pension from Government, and Petitioner being born 1st. April 1784 is now nearly 59 years of age, and being unmarried, is since the decease of her Father dependent on her Brothers for support and maintenance. Petitioner's age precluding her from much exertion in supporting herself.
Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays Your Majesty to grant her in consideration of her Father's Services and Loyalty to Your Gracious Majesty's predecessors, such an allowance towards your Petitioners relief, as to your majesty may seem meet.
And Your Majesty's Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.
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These are to Certify, That Daniel Morehouse and Jane Gill, of Lancaster, by Authority of a License dated the same day were lawfully joined in Matrimony the thirtieth Day of April in the Year of our LORD One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty three per me. Witness my Hand, Henry Mechlenberg, [V.]D.M.
{NOTE: Henry Mechlenberg was of Lancaster, PA}