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- Ephraim Jr. is the son of Ephraim Tisdale (1707-1754) & May Martha Hodges Evans, (d.1795); both are buried at the Tisdale Burying Ground, Freetown, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
The children of Ephriam Tisdale Jr. are:
Ephraim Tisdale, (1768 - 1853)
Lot Tisdale (1776 - 1865) [Lot 15 & 17, Con 2 Charlotteville]
Joseph Tisdale (1778 - 1864)
Walker Tisdale (1783 - 1857)
Matthew H. Tisdale (1787 - 1875)
. New Brunswick Land Petition, 1785, Saint John, Ephraim Tisdale;
NBLP, 1786, Kings Co., Ephraim Tisdale;
NBLP, 1792, York Co., Dissenters of Gagetown, Ephraim & John Tisdale;
NBLP, 1817, Kings Co., Ephraim Tisdale.
NBLGrant #70, 1785 Jan 2, Parrstown, Sunbury Co., Comment Reregistered NS Grant of 1784 Aug 14. Ephraim Tisdale.
NBLG #17, Kennebecasis River, Sunbury Co., 200 Acres. Reregistered NS Grant of 1784 Jul 15, Ephraim Tisdale.
NBLG #46, Saint John River, Queens Co., 1786 Jun 10, 150 Acres to Ephraim Tisdale.
. 1786 April: Account of the Settlers, Improvements & Stock on Colonel Spray's Land on the River St. John.
On the Tongue of Interval: Ephraim Tisdale, Lot 2.
. 1802 Jul 13 - UCLPetition 5,T6, C2833. Petition of Lot Tisdale, Twp. of Charlottesville, yeoman.
Your petitioner joined his majesties Standard with his father in the late American war who fled from his County into the British lines for his loyalty & went to New Brunswick at the conclusion of the war. But chose this country for his further residence. Prays for consideration & grant him some vacant Crown land. Signed, Lot Tisdale.
Petition of Ephraim Tisdale, Twp. of Charlottesville, yeoman. Petition as above, signed, Ephraim Tisdale. Granted 200 Acres.
. Quarter Sessions of Peace, at Charlotteville, District of London.
. 1802 Jun 8. Grand Inquest, Ephraim Tis-dell, Foreman
. 1803 Jun 14. Grand Jury, E Tisdale, King VS Alex Hutchinson, Good Behaviour. Jun 16th. E Tisdale, High Constable for District, sworn.
. 1803 Dec 14. AnnStone, wife of John Stone, relinquishes all her right to Dower, to Ephraim Tisdale, Lot 8, Con 1, Charlotteville to E Tisdale.
. 1805 JUNE 13 - Grand Jury having presented Alexander Hutchison, Henry Bostwick, Ephraim Tisdale & Lot Tisdale for ROIT. Recognizance to next Assizes Ephraim & Lot Tisdale £200 each. Ordered that than an Indictment form now made out , but the presentment laid one to the next Gaol delivery: [No further information - PJA]
War of 1812 Muster:
. 1812 Jul 9, Day 1, pd. 6p. Private Ephraim Tisdale, 1st Regiment of Norfolk Militia Must Roll, Commanded by Capt. James Mitchell.
. 1814 Jun 25 - Jul 24, Ephraim Tisdale & Henry Tisdale Days 30 pd. 15s. 6th Norfolk Militia, Capt. J Mitchell's Co.
. 1825 Jul 25 - Aug 24, Ephraim & Henry Tisdale, Days 8, pd. 4s. 7th NM.
PIONEER SKETCHED OF LONG POINT SETTLEMENT.
None is more strongly suggestive of old Charlotteville than that of Ephraim Tisdale. From the beginning of the century down to the present time, there has been one or more Ephraim every generation of the Tisdale family, & those of the first 3 are entitled to the honor of being classed as pioneers.
There are 7 Canadian branches of the Tisdale family, & the genealogy of each except that of Ephraim is given in another sketch entitled, The Tisdale Brothers.
The Tisdales, of Norfolk, are the descendants of an old Welsh family that settled in the County of Lancaster, England, where they rose to eminence through their acknowledged head, Sir John Tisdale, who was raised to the peerage. The Tisdale arms is minutely described in an old paper brought from New Brunswick. John Tisdale - the family crest being a peacock's head in natural colors on an azure field. Some time in the first half of the seventeenth century, the great-grandfather of our own Col. David Tisdale's great-grandfather, came to America & settled in old Mass. Bay Colony, receiving a grant of land which was described as the town of Freetown. Walker Tisdale, the only son of the first Ephraim, who remained in New Brunswick, visited Freetown early in the present century & saw there, in the old Tisdale burying ground, the trouble? of his great grandparents, being married by 2 large granite slabs. During Cromwell's time!, one John Paul, a Scotch Loyalist, fled from England & came to America, & his daughter - was the grandmother of father xx of this sketch. Ephraim father owned a shipyard in the vicinity of Boston. He conducted an extensive business, & was a leading influential man.
Ephraim Tisdale, the father of the Norfolk Tisdale family, was a sea captain. He owned a sailing vessel, & was employed in the West India trade; & it is said that during the early part of the war of the Revolution he was engaged in government service in the distribution of army supplies. During the war he fought for old King George, & when the end came, with its independence for the Americans bitter persecution first Loyalists, the Tisdale estates were confiscated & the Captain & his family subjected to ignominious treatment. Turning their backs upon the old home, they fled into New Brunswick. Here, on the St. John River, between St. John & Fredericton, & near a place called Waterbury, they settled on lands allotted to U. E. Loyalist. Although very much reduced in circumstances & surrounded with less favorably conditions, the Old Flag which they loved & for which they had sacrificed so much, still waved over their heads, inspiring them with renewed courage & increased energy, & they were soon on the road to prosperity again. Captain Tisdale reassumed his seafaring life, as shown by an old document, which reads as follows:
By this Public Act, or Instrument of Protest, be it made known & manifest unto all men that on the day of the date hereof before me, Valentine Jones, jun. Deputy Secretary & sole Notary Public of this Island, personally came & appeared Ephraim Tisdale, Master or Commander of the schooner Polly, now riding at anchor in Carlisle Bay in this Island, & George Furser, Mate, belonging to the said Vessel, who being duly sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, registered by me, the said Notary, to make or draw a Protest for the reasons following, viz: For that these Appearances? sailed from the Port of Parr, in the Province of New Brunswick, on the 13th day of December last past bound for the Island, & proceeding on they sailed Voyage on the nineteenth day of the same month, in the Latitude 40.00 North, & Longitude 60.80, met with a very hard Gale of Wind, which obliged them for the preservation of their lives to through overboard 80,000 shingles. Wherefore I, the said Notary, at the Instance & xx aforesaid, did even as I do by the presents publicly & solemnly Protest as well against the hard Gale of Wind aforesaid as against the Insurers & owners of the said schooner Polly & the shippers of her cargo, & all Persons with them concerned, for all Costs, Losses, Damages, Hurts, Detriments. Prejudices & Inconvenience whatsoever arising to these Appearers, or any others with them concerned, for or by reason or means of the Accidents & Misfortunes hereinbefore mentioned & set forth.
In Faith & Testimony whereof I, the said Notary, have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this Twelfth day of January, 1785 Valentine Jones, vs., (Seal). D. Secxx. The city of St. John, N.B., was at this time called the town of Parr, & it was at this place, on the 18th day of Majesty, where the first settlement in Canada of U. E. Loyalists was, erected.
We also learn that in 1786 Captain Tisdale had made a change from the Port? to some other vessel. His sons did' not all come to Long Point the same year. Lot came first. He came in 1798, & from that year down to 1808, when the old Captain & his remaining so-s? -night up the rear, much correspondence of a highly-interesting character passed to & between the Town of Charlotteville, Upper Canada, & Waterbury, New Brunswick.This correspondence has been preserved, &, if published, would throw much light on the life & times of a hundred years ago. Lot, writing to his sister Hannah in 1800, states that peach's are plentiful, & that he will secure a supply, as a young widow has an xx so heavily laden that the trees have to be propped up. Who the young Widow was who had such an orchard in Charlotteville in 1800, he did not say. It is supposed, however, that 17 she was Mrs. John Stone, nee Nancy Mabee, & that the peach orchard was located a little west of The Glen, on the lot purchased & settled on in the following year by Ephraim son of the Captain.
. 1807 - Father Ephraim wrote to Lot, describing an overflow of the St. John River. The water rose until it was 27 inches deep on the floor of his house, & the fences on his farm were nearly all washed away. He states that he can sell his farm for £800, & that he expects to be able to come to Long Point in the following spring. In 1808 he came, & settled near Vittoria. He died, in 1815, in his 71 year.
Ephraim Tisdale, son of the Captain, first came to notice as a cabin-boy on board his father's vessel, a few years before the war of the Revolution broke out. It is said he was also a captain of a trading vessel for some years previous to his coming to Upper Canada. In 1801 he was a married man, with 2 or 3 children. xx had been in Long Point settlement for two or three years, & had written back many glowing descriptions of the country, leading other members of the family to a determination to come also. Accordingly, in 1801, Ephraim & his family, William, & their widowed sister, Hannah, who had married Israel Perley, & her 3 children, started for Long Point. They came in small boats, taking advantage of the numerous water-stretches that intervened. At night the boats were drawn ashore & made to serve as a covering & protection for their sleeping berths. They came up along the shore & landed at the mouth of the ravine where now is located "The Glen." Ephraim settled on Lot 18, on the lake front, formerly taken up by John Stone, & here Ephraim, the grandson was born. Joseph Tisdale came to the settlement in 1802, & purchased a portion of Ephraim land, including the notorious hollow, where he built his pioneer cabin. Ephraim did not possess that speculative spirit that his brothers were imbued with, & he took no part in their contented? business adventures. He stuck to his farm & was content with agricultural pursuits. He was appointed High Constable for the District of London, June 14th, 1803, & served 1 year. He had 5 sons - Henry, Lot, Ephraim, James & Benjamin; & 5 (daughters - Elizabeth, Ruth, Philena, Matilda & Mary Ann.
Henry Tisdale, eldest son of Ej) Ephraim, married Phoebe Teeple, & settled in Malahide. He had one son. Walker; & 2 daughters - Tryphena & Sulnnit?. Lot Tisdale, second son of Ephraim, married Margaret .Shoemaker, & became a pioneer, settling near Courtland. He had 4 sons -Lot, George, Nicholas & William F.: & 3 daughters - Hannah?, Matilda & Sarah.
Ephraim Tisdale, third son of Ephraim, was twice married. By his first wife, Mary Monroe, he had 3 sons - Ephraim, James & William L.; & 1 daughter, Mary; & Ity? his second wife, Hannah Price, he had 5 sons - Thomas P. Alonzo, David, Charles & Edward: 2 daughters - Margaret Ann & Mary Francis. James married Maria Coltman, settled on the homestead & had 3 sons - Walker, Allen McNabb & John C.: & his daughters - Mary, Nancy, Camilla, Caroline, Susan & Harriet. Benjamin married Caroline Williams, settled near the homestead, x had 2 sons - Albert & Eli: & 3 daughter.s - Elizabeth, Heli'ii? and another who xx into the Oak's family. Elizabeth & Ruth married, respectively, James Spoi'e? & Rev. Horace Dean. Philenia married Ephraim T. Perley, & settled in Middleton, near Courtland x x married a Txx, & settled in Ohio: & Math, xx single.
Ephraim Tisdale, the father of this family, settled on Lot S, .xth?lot concession of Charlotteville, remaining there until he died. He served his native township in the Municipal Council,
leaving a creditable record behind him. He served as a sergeant in a troop of cavalry during the War of 1812 & ever after held an official position in the Norfolk Militia, It is not necessarily to tell the people of Norfolk that Ephraim Tisdale was a staunch Loyalist. This would be a waste of words. He was notoriously loyal. He was fearless & outspoken in giving expression to his sentiments, politically, religiously or socially. He was upright & honorable in business transactions, & sympathetic & generous in social intercourse; but it was x hardest thing in his life to exercise charity in dealing with a man who scooted at the Old Flag while claiming its protection. His grandson, George, son of Alonzo, occupies the old homestead at present, being the great-great-grandson of the original Ephraim Tisdale, who followed his sons to Long Point so many years ago. Ephraim Tisdale died in 1883, in his 83rd year.
Tisdale Remembered, Obituary
. 1846 Oct 16 - d. Trafalgar, Canada West, 3rd inst., William TISDALE,
formerly (St. John) N.B., among first settlers of Trafalgar in which he has remained nearly 40 years, age 65.
Ref: New Brunswick Courier, Saint John, NB, Canada.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank You. - - - [1, 2, 3]
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1745 - 1815 (70 years)