Killcash, Augustus

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

  • PRIVATE AUGUSTUS C. KILLCASH, a Loyalist soldier in the First Battalion of the King’s Rangers, is listed in the Muster Roll dated June 12, 1784 as being granted one hundred acres on Pownal Bay, Lot 50. The date of Warrant was 18 May, 1784. But in a Return of the Loyal Refugees and Disbanded Troops to whom lands had been given by the Governor and Council it is stated that Private Augustus Killcash was given land on Lot 57, which is a lot adjoining Lot 50.
  • Apparently Augustus preferred to live as a tenant farmer in the Tryon area, because, in a deed dated May 1, 1789, we learn that Phillips Callback agreed to sell “William Clark one hundred acres upon the west side of Tryon River lying and being on the south of land occupied by Peter Rubere, on the north by a vacant lot of one hundred acres which last mentioned lot adjoins to lands in tenancy of Augustus Killcash.”