Mary McCarter Black & family from New Brunswick to USA and then Ontario, Canada
Just found something amazing today- a passenger ship's list from year 1825 with "my" entire Black family on it....the Schooner Henrietta left the port of St. John's New Brunswick, "Burthen # 154" bound for the Port of New York, Master of the ship was Thomas Merry who signed the passenger manifest swearing the list of passengers names to be a true account...the date was August 17th 1825....the Country to which they all "belonged" was written as "St. Johns, N.B"....and the Country in which they intended to become inhabitants was the United States.
There were 35 other people on board and Rhoda Rebekah Black's family, total of 46 passengers. Her father Dr. Daniel Black had drowned the year before, the same year that Rhoda was born (1824) so he may never have seen her......We only know he was buried in June 1824 at Gagetown, New Brunswick.
I wonder where the family went after they arrived in New York- how long were they there? How did they end up in Ontario after that? Did they know someone in New York that they were going to see or stay with?
One of the things that this list of names does for me is to confirm what I and Anne Stewart, and Gary Standfield and other researchers suspected many years ago..that there was a daughter Mary in this family born about 1808-1809; she was married to a Mr. Calvert in Ontario, probably to one of the sons of the same George Calvert that Mary McCarter Black re-married to once she was in Halton County, Ontario. The only two children on this list of Rhoda's siblings that I have no idea what happened to them were son Hugh Black and daughter Abigail Black. Mary and Eliza died in Ontario, Rhoda of course at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba; son Daniel also died in Ontario as a young man, he was also a doctor like their father; Alexander, Gilles, Margaret and Phebe died in the USA. Dr. Daniel Black and Mary McCarter had one other son who was buried at Gagetown, New Brunswick on Aug. 4, 1815, we do not know his age, I speculate anywhere from 2 to 11 years of age.
On the passenger list for the Schooner Henrietta, August 17, 1825:
Mary Black age 16
Daniel Black age 17 or 19 cannot tell
Mary Black age 35Seamstress(this is Rhoda's mother; she died only 6 years later in Halton County, Ontario)
Alex. Black age 14
Abigail Black age 12
Giles Black age 10(female)
Margaret Black age 9
Hugh Black age 8
Phebe Black age 5
Eliza Black age 2
Rebecca R. Black age 1(hard to read her name, looks as if the page was folded right where her name is recorded)
Marriages:
Mother Mary nee McCarter re-married to George Calvert senior about 1828-1831 in Halton County, Ontario
Dr. Daniel McDougall Black married Orpha Smith May 10, 1832 at Nelson Township in Halton County, Ont.No children.
After Dr. Daniel died in August 1832 of cholera his brother Alexander Black married his widow Orpha Smith. Alexander's wife Hannah Van Norman had died in June 1831. Alexander and Orpha had seven children that I know of.Lived and died at Rockford, Illinois.
Daughter Mary Black married one of George Calvert's sons, I am not sure which one. No children that I know of.
Daughter Gilles Black married Hannah Van Norman's brother William Van Norman in 1831. Died at Berea, Ohio. Ten known children.
No info at all on Abigail Black- what happened to her?
Ditto for son Hugh Black, no info.
Margaret and Phebe Ann Black lived at Keokuk, Iowa, Margaret married James W. Cox, and when she died in 1860, he re-married to Phebe Ann. James had 5 children that I know of with Margaret, two more sons with Phebe.
Eliza married Hiram Fifield, lived and died in Ontario, Canada. Thirteen known children.
Rhoda Rebecca Black married John McLean (born 1815 Scotland) at Puslinch, Ontario, had 9 children, moved to Portage la Prarie, Manitoba.
I have more details on names of children, dates and places of marriage and deaths, etc.
Nora