LUFBERRY, JONATHAN (17??-1812)

LUFBERRY, JONATHAN, businessman, JP, and coroner; d. c1812.

Jonathan Lufberry was a Quaker who claimed Loyalist status. He was settled on the Northwest as a single man by John Cort in 1784. In 1788, he had a property at Chatham Head. In 1792, he was the owner of a mill for which the stonecutter John Biggs reported making millstones. He was a trader in Newcastle, with commercial interests throughout the county. He was constantly in financial trouble but always managed to keep his creditors at bay.

Lufberry was appointed a justice of the peace in 1804 and a captain in the 1st Battalion of militia in 1809. He was also a coroner. He died before 9 March 1812, when a notice concerning his estate was published in The Royal Gazette. A petition filed by his executors in 1815 shows the names of more than a hundred persons who were indebted to him, and about eighty to whom he was indebted, at the time of his death.