Wetherell, Nathan

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

  • Loyalist NATHAN WETHERELL, with his wife and young daughter, arrived on the Island of Saint John on July 26, 1784, following a winter and spring spent in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. After a delay of several days the schooner, which had brought the Bedeque Harbour group to Charlotte Town, carried them on to their new destination. As he sailed up Bedeque Bay, Nathan saw, on his right several abandoned Acadian cabins. One of these close to the shore on his one hundred acre grant was to provide rude shelter. This was their first home in the wilderness of Lower Bedeque. The rest of his grant was situated in Wilmot, Lot 19.
  • In the return of the inhabitants on the Island of Saint John taken in April, 1798 we find that Nathan’s family has increased by one, a son. But we do not have any other reference to either a son or a daughter.