Maugerville grantees

Between the year 1759 and 1783 ( the year of the arrival of the Loyalists) many English settlers came to the River St John, they were the true pioneers. There were some traders, they settled in Maugerville, retired officers who settled inland and refugees driven inland by privateers In 1759, Governor Lawrence offered land to the English making them all kind of other nice promises. The first man to take advantage of it was James Simonds of Woburn, Massachusetts. James or a member of his family lived on this 10,000 acre estate bought from Charles Morris, it began at Mill Creek, below present Fredericton. A Grandson Colonel Edward Simonds moved to the old house in 1843 and remodeled it. James Simonds and his cousins James White and William Hazen formed a trading company with headquarters at Newburyport with Hazen and another cousin by name of Blodget in charge. In 1764 Simonds and White took a party of thirty people to the Saint John River and established an English settlement.

Among those 30 people were

MOSES TRUE MOSES KIMBALL BENJAMIN DOW BATHELDER KING	EDMUND BUTLER WILLIAM PICET JOHN NASON JOHN HUNT	GEORGE BERRY SIMON HILYARD EBENEZER FOWLER EZEKIEL CARR	BENJAMIN WIGGINS BENJAMIN WINTER THOMAS JENKINS ETC...

Hazen , Simonds and White, exported annually to England from their trading post, at the mouth of the St John river, 4000 beaver skins , musquash, otter, mink, fisher, marten, fox, racoon, wolverine, bear, lynx, deer, moose, feathers etc... In the summer of 1761, a large number of families under leadership of Francis Peabody arrived at the present Maugerville , having embarked on two schooners from Newburyport. The township was for a time called Township of Peabody. In 1762 Peabody built the first frame house of New Brunswick and later sold it to James Simonds.. Two daughters of Peabody married the cousins James White and James Simonds. The following list is the first Maugerville grantees and many of these settlers and descendants later moved to Fredericton..

Granted in 1761

PETER MOORE SAMUEL NEVERS JOSEPH GARRISON	RICHARD KEMBELL DANIEL PALMER JOHN WASON	THOMAS BARKER JOHATHAN SMITH ISAAC STICKNEY	JACOB BARKER JR. HUMPHREY PICKARD JEREMIAH BURPEE
EZ. SAUNDERS DAN JEWITT JACOB BARKER	JOHN BURPEE JEREMIAH BURPEE SAMUEL TAPLEY	NATHANIAL NEWMAN SAMUEL WHITNEY MATHEW WASON	EDWARD COYE RICHARD ESTY JOHN ESTY
ZEBULON ESTY SAMUEL UPTON JOHN RUSSEL	NEH. HOWARD JOSHUA MAUGER CAPT. FRANCIS PEABODY	AMMI HEWLET HUGH SHIRLEY DAVID BURBANK	BENJAMIN BRAWN JOSEPH BUBER JAMES SIMONDS ESQ.
GEORGE MUMS EVAN MUMS OLIVER PEABODY	NATHAN EAMES OLIVER PEABODY SAMUEL PEABODY	AMMI HOWLET JOHN HALL WILLIAM HARRIS	SAMUEL McKEEN JOS DUMPHEY PHINEAS NEVERS
JOHN SMITH RICHARD PEABODY NATHANIEL RIDOUT	JOHN WHIPPLE BEAMSLEY PERKINS GLASER ISRAEL PERLEY	WILLIAM McKEEN HUGH SHIRLEY JEDEDIAH STICKNEY	ELIAS NEVERS THOMAS CHRISTY HUGH QUINTON
ENOCH DOW	MOSES DAVID	RICHARD ESTY	WIDOW CLARK

Voted in Council to be granted between 1767 and 1783

Gilles Tidmarsh Jr. Moses Pritchard	William Saunders Gilles Tidmarsh	Gervas or Jarvis Say John Whipple
Elisha Nevers Richard Barlow	James Vibart Thomas Rous	Johathan Parker Jr. Benjamin Atherton
Jeremiah Howland Dan and Moses Palmer	Jacob Barker Moses Pickard	Joseph Clark Jacques Fred. W. Desbarres
Georges Hayward Asa Perley	Samuel Hart Charles Morris Jr.