Strickland, John

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

  • JOHN STRICKLAND was listed as a Captain on the Muster Roll of the Royal Refugees. He was married and sought a grant of land on the Island of Saint John when he arrived in June, 1785. On the 1st. of January, 1789 a conveyance of 500 acres of land was granted from Stephen Sulivan/Sullivan, Proprietor, to John Strickland, a mariner, who had come from Marble Head in the Province or State of Massachusetts, but now of Lot 16 on the Island of Saint John. He was “to pay five shilling of lawful money to Stephen Sullivan for the parcel of land, lying and being in the Parish of Richmond, in Prince County and fronting on the Ellis or Grand River, called Sullivan Township, bounded on the east by Proprietors land, on the west by lands laid out for Refugees and Loyalists, on the north by Ellis River, in front of river twenty chains and running therefore back due south by parallel line to the southern boundary line of Lot 16, and which said piece of land is marked on a certain plan or draft of Lot 16 now kept in the Surveyor General’s Office.