Brymer, Alexander

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: J. B. Cahill, “BRYMER, ALEXANDER,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brymer_alexander_6E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Agent, merchant, office holder, politician, jp, and militia officer; b. c. 1745 in Scotland, possibly in Dundee; m. 11 Jan. 1796 Harriet Dobson, née Parr, in Preston, Lancashire, England, and they had three sons; d. 27 Aug. 1822 in Ramsgate, England.
    • The pre-Halifax career of Alexander Brymer remains a little obscure. He emigrated to North America probably as a young man, and entered business as a merchant in Boston. From at least 1772 he was the agent, first in Boston, then in Halifax, for the London merchants Robert Grant and William Brymer, who held the navy victualling contract for North America. Grant had been a member of the Nova Scotia Council.
    • On 2 Dec. 1775 Alexander was nominated agent to Grant and Brymer. He had been doing business in Halifax as early as 1771, but did not finally leave Boston until shortly before its evacuation by British forces in March 1776. He could not have delayed his departure much longer: he was being mentioned by name in rebel newspapers and had signed a loyal address in October 1775.
    • Brymer not only represented naval officers and privateersmen in court; he also owned at least one privateer himself. Alexander Brymer was already a councillor by the time the influx of his fellow loyalists into Nova Scotia began in 1783. He became one of the inner circle of Governor John Parr, whose widowed daughter he married, and his relations with Parr’s successor, the quixotic Wentworth, were those of mutual respect and loyalty if not friendship.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=11439
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