Moorfield, Richard

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

  • CORPORAL RICHARD MOORFIELD, a disbanded and discharged soldier of the 17th Light Dragoons, accompanied by his wife and one child under ten years of age, arrived in Charlotte Town with the Bedeque Harbour Company of Loyalists and Disbanded and Discharged Soldiers after spending the winter in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Moorfield had been granted provisions from May 24th to July 24th. Two days later the family arrived on the Island of Saint John.
  • As a corporal, Moorfield was eligible for a two hundred acre grant, which he drew at Lot 25, forty acres of it were on the Bedeque or Dunk River, and one hundred and sixty acres were inland. Richard and Mary Moorfield were not satisfied with their Bedeque grant, and they sold the parcel to Malcolm Shaw of Covehead for the sum of ten pounds on April 7, 1789, and moved to Park Corner.