Grosvenor, Benjamin

From: An Island Refuge- Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on The Island of Saint John, The Abegweit Branch of UELAC, 1983

  • BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, said to be the youngest son of the Duke of Grosvenor, was born in England and went to the Thirteen Colonies prior to, or during the American Rebellion. We have no information on his sojourn there. When petitioning Governor Paterson for a land grant he testified that he was a Loyalist who had come with his family from New York and had arrived on the Island of Saint John in the month of June, 1785. His application for land on Lot 65 was refused. However, his request for Town and Pasture Lot #28 for the support of himself and family was granted on June 5, 1787. Three months later he petitioned again, this time for land on Lot 16 which was taken by absent Thomas Dalton, two years previously. This petition was refused.
  • On June 3, 1788 Benjamin Grosvenor was licensed as a schoolteacher, the first teachers’ license recorded on the Island of St. John. In 1802 he was granted two Town lots as well as some wilderness land. His vocation was again given as a schoolmaster. Benjamin Grosvenor and his wife (name unknown) had one son and two daughters.