Mainwaring, Edward

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

  • EDWARD MAINWARING was a Captain in the first Battalion of the King’s American Rangers.¹ On July 7, 1775, Edward Mainwaring of Chester, Cheshire, England, age twenty-one, married Jane Hester Kinsley, age nineteen, at Saint Andrews Wardrobe.²
  • After the American Revolution, Edward arrived at Charlottetown with his wife and three servants.¹ Two of the servants were Martha Potts, housekeeper, and Peter Rose. Edward received a grant of one hundred acres in Lot 47 at the eastern end of the Island on May 31, 1784, and a Town and Pasture Lots at Georgetown on November 24, 1784.³ On June 16, 1784, a son, Edward, was born in Charlottetown.²
  • On August 18, 1787, Edward petitioned the Government for seven hundred acres in Lot 47, and stated in that petition that he was the first settler in Lot 47 who made considerable improvements in building a house, outhouses and clearing a large tract of land. He also requested that he exchange Lot 22 for Lot 1 which was adjoining his original Lot.³ On August 29, 1787, at St. Paul’s Church in Charlottetown, Edward was married for the second time to Elizabeth Juliet Reeves.
  • Edward was a member of the House of Assembly in 1787, and on January 29, 1788, resigned his seat along with a Mr. Smith, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Fox because of Election irregularities. On April 11, 1788, Edward purchased Lots 4 and 5 in Charlottetown from John Cambridge. Some time after that date it appears that Edward and his family moved away from the Island.
  • On April 9, 1803, Captain Mainwaring, late of the 66th Regiment, husband of Elizabeth M., age fifty-nine, was buried in Greenwick Church Cemetery, Kent, England. His tombstone was erected by his surviving sons, Edward, Benjamin, Frederick and George, Officers in H.M. Army and Navy.