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- . Beggs [Boggs], Thomas & Bulkeley, Daniel
Memorialists have for some time past been residents in the township of Preston. Thomas Boggs drew a lot of land there but the wood on it is entirely exhausted. Bulkeley never drew any land in the province. Request a grant of unallocated land further back in the country, near the new road leading from Preston to 'Muscodobit.'
The memorialists are permitted to occupy until further orders, one hundred acres each, first reporting the situation to Mr. Morris.
Memorial. Wentworth. Land Petition 1794, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia.
. 1798 May 22, We have been favored with the following List of Subscribers, up to this morning, in Halifax to a Voluntary contribution from Nova Scotia fo the Support of Government in bring on the present Just & necessary War agains His Majesty's Enemies: (Wars 1798-1802) 180 names, including,
Thomas Bogg, £50. Charles Boggs, £5.
Lawrence Hartshorne, Esq., annually, £100.
Ref: Royal Gazette & Nova Scotia Advertiser, Halifax, published in Report on Canadian Archives - 1940
. THOMAS BOGGS was born Shrewsbury, NJ at 12:30 A.M., May 22, 1771 & died in Halifax, NS Oct 24, 1859, aged 89.
Thomas Boggs was a merchant of Halifax, of the firm of Boggs & Hartshorn, hardware merchants of George and Granville Streets.
Mr. Boggs married Friday evening, Sept 5, 180 to Sarah DeBlois, the 2nd daughter & fourth child of Geo. Debris, Esq., merchant of Halifax, NS & Sarah DeBlois The grandfather of Geo. Debris, Louis DeBlois, left France & came to England in 1688, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, & settled probably in Shropshire. He was with the forces of William III at the Battle of the Bovine in 1690. His son removed with his family to America & settled in Boston, Mass, but when the American Revolution broke out, he with part of his family came to Halifax, NS. The family was of Huguenot origin, Geo. Debris died in Newport, RI, June 18, 1799 & his wife Sarah, at Halifax Dec 25, 1827.
Sarah DeBlois Boggs was born in Salem, Mass, Aug. 18, 1774 - died Halifax Feb 2nd, 1833, aged 58 years. A letter dated NY, Feb 14, 1833, from James Boggs Jr. to J S Blauvelt, says
"I have a letter from Halifax this morning of the 2nd inst., but it is not from one of the immediate family & it communicates ill tidings. My poor brother, Thomas, has lost his wife & very suddenly & unexpectedly, though her general health was not good. The letter is from Mr. Stephen DeBlois; my brother & Mrs B had dined with him on the 1st of the month, the preceding day, by themselves & returned home about 10 o'clock - Mrs. B in good spirits. He was attacked that nigh with violet spasms & died between 2 & 3 in the morning of 2nd. Mr. DeBlois says Miss Boggs, meaning I presume my sister, behaved exceeding well & seemed the comfort & support of all; & that my poor brother bears it as a Christian man ought. She was a most excellent woman, wife & mother & I feel most sensibly the loss of my bereaved brother & the children." She was buried in the Pleasant St, Old St. Paul's Cemetery.
Thomas & Sarah Deblois Boggs issue:
James Ge., 1801, m. Isabella Pryor; 2nd, Helen Johnstone.
. 1798 Dec 3 - Thomas Boggs, writing from Halifax to his brother Robert in New Jersey, indicates that he is still living with his parents & has recently purchased a large house which they occupy & "to which they invite their New Brunswick, NJ, relatives for a visit. In 1824 Dr. Boggs purchased from Lawrence Hartshorne, a small house & lot in Halifax situated next to the north east corner of Granville & Sackville Streets, for his own residence, for which he paid £500.
Anne Boggs, Halifax Mar 7, 1803, Died Upper Norwood, near London SE, Aug 13, 1884, after a shot illness, aged 81years.
Anne Boggs spent her vacation with cows Mary, d/o James, a Chevilly, NY & cemented an affection which always existed between the 2 coins.
Jul 24, 1828, Anne married Augustus Francis Ansell, Lieut, Adjutant 7th Highlandsrs.
Issue Francis T Ansell, b Bermude, Jul 25, 1929, buried Carrickfergus, Ireland Jul 1834;
Sarah Eliz. Ansell, Mar 2,1831 in Limerick, aged 75 y, d Dec 6, 1906, unmarried, bu. beside parents at Brompton Cemetery, London.
Henry Augustus Ansell, b Tipperary, Ireland June 14, 1832 . 1904, Sterlingshire;
Anne Francies Madelaine Ansell, 1841 Dec 26, Montreal, Res. Assaye Lodge, Fountain Rd, Upper Norwood, London SEE.
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