Emerson, Thomas

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Roslyn Rosenfeld, “EMERSON (Emmerson), THOMAS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/emerson_thomas_7E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Doctor and army and militia officer; b. c. 1762; d. 14 Oct. 1843 in Fredericton.
    • Thomas Emerson arrived in New Brunswick in 1784 as a bachelor in his early twenties, having served in Nova Scotia with the Royal Fencible Americans during the period of the American revolution. He was granted lands along the Digdeguash and Magaguadavic rivers, but soon sold them; he settled in St Andrews, where he practised medicine.
    • Emerson returned to military life in 1793 when, on the outbreak of war between Britain and France, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Carleton raised the King’s New Brunswick Regiment for service within the province. Emerson became surgeon’s mate, a title that was changed in 1796 for the more impressive one of assistant surgeon. 
    • Dr Emerson’s extensive practice, noting that he was “for many years the best known man in Fredericton.” He belonged to the provincial faculty of physicians and surgeons and in 1832 was one of a three-man board to license new practitioners. He must have prospered since he acquired more land. In 1833 he leased a ten-acre lot from King’s College and in 1837 he bought a farm in New Maryland.
  • Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory –https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=2602
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61059109/thomas-emerson