Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick

Beaver Harbour
Unincorporated community
Beaver Harbour

Location within New Brunswick.

Coordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°WCoordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°W
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Charlotte
Parish Pennfield
Electoral Districts
Federal
New Brunswick Southwest
Provincial Charlotte-The Isles
Government
 • Type Local service district
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
 • Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)
Postal code(s) E5H
Area code(s) 506
Highways Route 778

Beaver Harbour is an unincorporated fishing village in the Parish of Pennfield, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.

It is located east of Blacks Harbour and south of Pennfield.

History

Beaver Harbour was settled in September 1783, by the "Quaker Company" the (spokesmen) agents for which were Joshua Knight, Samuel Fairlamb and John Rankin. The "Quaker Company" was composed almost entirely of members and former members of the Society of Friends from Pennsylvania and New Jersey [1] who being Loyalists left the City of New York upon its evacuation by the British Army at the end of the American Revolution. A number of the men had served as military loyalists, thus the company was in some ways a United Empire Loyalist counterpart to the “Patriot” “Free Friends” [2]

In 1790 this settlement Bellevu or Bellveue was largely destroyed by a forest fire and most of the members of the "Quaker Company" dispersed.

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References

  1. ↑ Among these were the family of John and Susanna Jackson from Chester County, Pennsylvania. One of their children, Thomas, was born there in 1788. They had all returned to Baltimore County, Maryland and to Chester County, Pennsylvania by 1795. John died in Baltimore in 1795. Also Gideon and Phoebe Vernon and their children, of Neither Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
  2. ↑ John and Betsy Ross (of the U.S. flag story), were members of the "Free Friends".