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Note: The Family of Amelia Flewwelling and Richard Bartlett Taylor, son of James 488. Amelia5 Flewwelling was born 29 September 1788, either in her father's cabin on the St. John River, or in the town of Saint John. At the time, her siblings were Clarissa, just over 2, John, just over 5, Sarah 8, Samuel 14, and Elizabeth 16. Her oldest sister Charlotte had returned to New York State over a year before, and had her own first child, a nephew for Amelia, six months older than she. There is an artifact still in existence today that was made by the hands of Amelia Flewwelling: a sampler, pictured here, made evidently in their little house on the St. John River, completed by her in 1794 when she was but six years old. It has been passed down through the daughters of the family, from Amelia's daughter Amelia Jane Taylor, to her daughter Margaret Amelia Sprague, to her daughter Letta Amelia Miller, to her daughter Verna Curtis, and today is in the possession of Margaret Martin, Amelia's 4th great granddaughter, of Milford, Ohio, associated with the Greater Milford Area Historical Society. Amelia's family moved up river to Maugerville about the time she was 10, and her life there was considerably different than it had been on the lower Long Reach, the spring flooding of the St. John being primary, but the families, and the other children, in an older and more established community, would have been exciting for Amelia. The was the opportunity for the children to go to a school, which they had not had on their part of the Peninsula in the first ten years of settlement. It is probable that she accompanied her mother to the Congregational Church, and if not regularly on a Sunday, they attended social gatherings with that congregation. It was in one of these settings that Amelia was courted, and it was at Maugerville that she married, about 1811 or before, Richard Bartlett Taylor, born perhaps about 1794 or earlier, son of James Taylor and Margaret Bartlett. These families, like those of Eunice (Palmer) Flewwelling, above, were the "old inhabitants" of Maugerville, and Richard's father, James Taylor, Sr., was a notable character of his time. He was the second son of Captain Matthew Taylor and Elizabeth Archibald, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, who were Grantees of Truro Township, Nova Scotia, in 1762, where they settled with the Archibald brothers, and others, and raised a large family. Several of their children remained in the area of Truro, while others removed to the Ohio frontier soon after the Revolution. The second son, James Taylor born in New Hampshire in 1754 and brought to Truro at age 8, married Rebecca, also called Margaret, Bartlett, daughter of Richard Bartlett and Mary Robinson, originally of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second son, James Taylor born in New Hampshire in 1754 and brought to Truro at age 8, married Rebecca, also called Margaret, Bartlett, daughter of Richard Bartlett and Mary Robinson, originally of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Bartletts removed to Maugerville on the St. John River, followed by their daughter and son-in-law, James Taylor. James' sister Elizabeth Taylor, second daughter of Captain Matthew and Elizabeth (Archibald) Taylor, born at Truro in 1769, married Margaret Bartlett's only brother, Gain Bartlett, born at Truro in 1764. He died by accident under the runners of a sleigh, leaving his wife with two small children. The following is taken from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online about Richard Bartlett Taylor's father, Amelia's father-in-law: Loyalists Abel and Abigail Flewwelling � The Next Generation 21 "James Taylor went to the Saint John valley some time in the 1780s to join the Bartletts, who, having arrived from Truro around 1779, had settled in Burton, Sunbury County. He set himself up as a lumber merchant in the parish of Maugerville, a few miles below Fredericton. In 1811, in addition to lumbering operations, he was farming 105 acres of meadow and plough land with 4 horses, 4 oxen, 28 cows, and 40 sheep; two of his sons, James and Richard, were farming independently. Taylor's assessed valuation was more than twice that of any other person in the parish and he was rivaled in worth by only four or five other landowners in the county. He also accumulated a large number of mortgages on properties of his neighbours. His sons became known in the countryside for their rough, intimidating ways; each of them appeared before the magistrates one or more times on charges of assault. Although the Sheffield [Congregational] church in 1816 was no longer associated with radical politics, in earlier years it had been a rallying point for dissenters in their opposition to Anglican domination of the institutions of government. Dissenters provided most of the votes to send the radical James Glenie to the House of Assembly from 1789 until he left the province in the winter of 1804� 5. Hostility between supporters and opponents of the government reached a climax following the election of 1802. A series of court cases ensued between members of the contending parties, ranging from petty lawsuits, through charges of intimidation, to allegations of criminal behaviour. Party rancour continued for several years and in 1805 two yokes of Taylor's oxen were seized by the county authorities, who threatened Richard Bartlett Taylor married Amelia Flewwelling, dau of Abel and Abigail (Fowler) Flewwelling of Maugerville. Information on the Loyalists Family Genealogy for Loyalist Abel Flewwelling "The Genealogy of the Flewelling Family of New Brunswick", collected and compiled by Allan H. Wetmore, abt. 1945, at the New Brunswick Museum. "Oak Leaves, Version 2, Volume 1, Number 1", by Thomas A. Murray, at http://members.tripod.com/thomasamurray1/ancestors.htm The children of Abel Flewwelling and Abigail Fowler: Charlotte Flewwelling m. Samuel Purdy and remained in New York; Elizabeth Flewwelling m. Wm. Harding Jr. of Westfield Parish, Kings County; Samuel Flewwelling m. Julia Elvira Canfield of New York, and followed a banking and investment career in New York City, no descendents; Abigail (1) Flewwelling, died young; Sarah Flewwelling m. John Day of Sunbury County; John Flewwelling m. Eunice Palmer of Sunbury County; Clarissa Flewwelling m. John Fowler of Springfield Parish, Kings County; Amelia Flewwelling m. Richard Bartlett Taylor of Sunbury County; Abigail (2) Flewwelling m. Thomas Fowler of Westfield Parish, Kings County; Abel Gilford Flewwelling m. Leah Ann Harding of Springfield Parish, Kings County; Jane Flewwelling m. Wm. Harding of Springfield Parish, Kings County.
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