Wayne, Start here and work your way down: http://www.genealogylinks.net/canada/nb.htm Was your Captain Robertson's first name Duncan or Daniel or John? http://www.rootsweb.com/~cannb/NB_Military_1783Blackwatch.htm BLACK WATCH (42ND REGIMENT VETERANS TO NEW BRUNSWICK IN 1783 by Roy Leverett Hales (who donated it to The Chignect Project 03/08/98 at 06:50 PM / old call #cwa-NB18-4) Used by the New Brunswick GenWeb Project with permission of The Chignecto Project. All of the Blackwatch vets who stayed in Canada were disbanded in Halifax in 1783. I have traced only three to date - Duncan Robertson, Donald Robertson and John Menzies - but all of these were disbanded at Halifax on 24 October 1783. We can't be certain at this point that the whole bunch were disbanded that day, but they were undoubtedly disbanded close to then. The bulk of the regiment, however, sailed on to Newfoundland, and then back to Scotland, probably by 1789. What follows in a list of these disbanded 42nd vets who went to New Brunswick. Esther Clark Wright lists many of the veterans from the 42nd who settled on the Nashwaak in her LOYALISTS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. During my 1997 trip to Tabusintac, John Robertson told me that most of the Nashwaak records burned in a fire. However a great number of the 42nd vets are recorded as receiving lots. Several 42nd vets, associated with Duncan - John Menzies (25, below); Donald Murdoch (28, below); Jon McLeod (70, below) - are not in Wright's text. I suspect that they left Nashwaak within a year, and never petitioned the government for their lands. To get a fuller picture of the regiments vets in NB I have compiled a muster. The muster shows 107 veterans from the 42nd in NB (108 if #95 Robert Stewart is correct). At this point I believe that: at least 80 of these settled on the Nashwaak river for a time I'm betting that at least 27 veterans made their way to the Miramichi, though many probably left there too. To give you a breakdown: (a) 22 are known to have settled in the Miramichi (b) 3 more are thought to have done so, (c) we do not yet know where Donald Murdoch and John McLeod were after they left Nashwaak, I suspect the Miramichi (d) a number of veterans from Nashwaak "disappear". (I stopped at Marysville -- where Duncan is said to have had his claim -- in 1997 and tried to find out something about the "loyalists" who settled there. They are mostly forgotten, the local histories I saw start with "Boss" Gibson who arrived in 1862. I could have found better histories in the University, but I think it is obvious that the Nashwaak settlement didn't have a lasting effect on the area -- 6 went on to the Tabusintac river (e) of the 27 vets who didn't settle at Nashwaak: 3 went to St John, 2 went to Sussex, 2 went to York county, 2 went to Kent , the greatest number are given lot numbers whose location I know nothing about. Something extra: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/archives/nb/kingsnb.txt THE KING'S NEW BRUNSWICK REGIMENT 1793-1802 COLLECTIONS OF THE NEW BRUNSWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Volume I, Saint John, N.B., The Daily Telegraph Steam Book and Job Print, 1894. -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Keene [mailto:wkeene1@netzero.net] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:44 PM To: AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [A-REV] Captain Robertson; Black Watch Searching for Captain Robertson of the Black Watch; the 42nd Highlanders Regiment. Captain Robertson, a United Empire Loyalist, was sent to India on military duty before 1783 and was never heard from again. It is presumed that he was killed in battle. His daughter Mary Ann, born in Long Island, NY in 1783, and his wife, name unknown, moved to the Nashwaak in New Brunswick, Canada, and settled there with other families of the 42nd Highlanders. Wayne wkeene1@netzero.net --------------------------------------------------------------- NetZero Platinum Only $9.95 per month! Sign up in September to win one of 30 Hawaiian Vacations for 2! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2