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SHADDICK, MARY (HILL) (1786-1874)

SHADDICK, MARY (HILL), Methodist churchwoman; b. Devonshire, England, c1786; m. John Shaddick; d. Trout Brook, 5 Apr 1874.

Mary (Hill) Shaddick arrived on the Miramichi as an immigrant from Devonshire with her husband and two sons in the summer of 1830. The family was one of the first to settle at what was then known as English Settlement on the Northwest.

Shaddick had belonged to the Primitive Methodist church in England, and after arriving at her new home, she made a practice of going into the woods on Sunday morning with her Bible and hymnbook to read, sing, and pray. After two years of private worship, she decided to organize regular religious services on Sunday mornings for all who cared to join her. She conducted these meetings for five years before a Methodist minister visited the settlement. The first to do so was Samuel D. Rice, a probationer and assistant to the Rev. William Temple, superintendent of the Miramichi Methodist circuit in the late 1830s.

The ministers who followed Rice and Temple all came to know and admire 'Dame' Shaddick, whose hospitality was "almost as legendary as her piety." Arthur D. Morton, who was a probationer on the circuit in the 1860s, stated that she deserved a place of honor in Methodist tradition beside such women as Susanna Wesley and Barbara Heck. She has been honored, however, only in memory.

Shaddick was predeceased in 1853 by her husband. Through her sons, John and William Shaddick, who made their homes at Trout Brook, she is the ancestor of a large number of persons of Miramichi origin.

Sources

[d] Advocate 8 Apr 1874 / Advocate 2 Oct 1935; Arbuckle; Hamilton (NE)


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