Sentner, Philip

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

  • Among those loyal to the British Crown, at the close of the American Revolution was a man by the name of Philip Sentner. Where his roots were previous to coming to the new world or indeed what his involvement was during the conflict remains unknown. Family tradition gives him a German- Dutch origin. Philip, first appears at Shelbourne, Nova Scotia where he was granted a warehouse lot as a United Empire Loyalist. Probably attracted by the generous offers being made to Loyalists by the Island of St. John’s Governor, Walter Patterson, Sentner brought his family to the colony to live. On September 13, 1785 a warrant was issued by Patterson to Thomas Wright, the Surveyor General of Lands:
  • “To admeasure and lay out unto Philip Sentner two hundred acres and Caleb Sentner two hundred acres of land on that part of Lot number 32 which has been laid out for refugees”.
  • From this time all mention of Philip Sentner ceases and we discover a Godlip Sentner living on Montgomery’s Lot 34. We assume that they are the same person.