Waugh, James

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

  • JAMES WHARF, as his name was written on the Muster Roll dated July 26, 1784 in Charlotte Town, arrived on the Island of Saint John from the Loyalist town of Shelburne in Nova Scotia along with other Loyal Refugees and disbanded soldiers bound for Bedeque Harbour. One account says that James was of Scottish descent, another that he was a Yorkshireman. Yorkshire borders the Lowlands so perhaps he was both. No information is available to tell how long he lived in the Thirteen Colonies before sailing from New York to Shelburne.
  • James’ land grant of 300 acres was dated August 4, 1784, fifty acres were in Lot 19 on Wilmot Creek and near the boundary line between Lots 19 and 25. He settled there before he moved to what is now Read’s Corner. The Wilmot Creek property is presently owned by the Simmons family. The remainder of the grant, 250 acres, was inland between Lots 19 and 25 on the Blueshank Road in Wilmot Valley where a descendant, Brian Waugh, and his mother, Mrs. Audrey Waugh, live.
  • James Warf (sic) was head of a household of seven in 1798: he and his wife Rachel, three males under 16 years and two females under 16; possibly John, Samuel, Alexander, Margaret and Elizabeth (Eliza) and they had at least four more children. James’ wife, Rachel Townshend, was the daughter of James Townshend and his wife Elizabeth, who settled at Park Corner in 1775. They were passengers on the ill-fated vessel, Elizabeth which was wrecked in 1775 in Richmond Bay.