Dibblee, Rev. Frederick

  • Wiki Biography:
    • Frederick Dibblee (9 December 1753 – 17 May 1826) was a Canadian Church of England clergyman who also was an educator and diarist.
    • He was born in Stamford, Connecticut. A Tory sympathiser during the American Revolutionary War, he was mistreated by the rebels and so decided to leave the United States. In 1784, he moved to what would become the new province of New Brunswick and finally settled in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1788.
    • In 1791, Frederick Dibblee travelled to Halifax to be ordained a deacon, and the next year, he was raised to the priesthood in Saint John. He was given the four large parishes of Prince William, Queensbury, Northampton, and Woodstock, where he lived. He also visited the military settlements north of Woodstock, the first clergyman, he said, to do so
    • Frederick Dibblee kept diaries from 1803 to his death in 1826, which survived, and are stored in the archives of the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John. They give a rich commentary on the agricultural and social conditions of the central Saint John River valley during the loyalist era. They include an account of the weather conditions of 1816, and the effect it had on farms and crops on the area. This was the year known as the year without a summer which caused major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=2224
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77646106/frederick-dibblee