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Free farms ticket and free pass ticket issued to James Findlater, one of the New Kincardineshire colonists. – 1873. – 1 p. of textual records. The tickets were signed at Stonehaven, Scotland, by Thomas Potts, special emigration agent for Canada, and David Taylor, a promoter of the New Kincardineshire Colony. The free farms ticket entitled Findlater to 200 acres of land; the free pass ticket entitled James and his family, consisting of his wife, Mary Jane, and three young sons, James, William, and George, to free passage from Saint John up the St. John River to New Stonehaven (Kincardine). The Findlaters settled at Upper Kincardine in Perth Parish where James farmed. He received a land grant of 185 acres in October 1885. Tragedy struck the family in January 1888 when James, then aged 44, was killed accidentally at Whitney Ridge, Maine, while working on the railway. At that time, he and Mary Jane were raising no fewer than 12 children. MC42-MS21-3 B. R. Stevenson fonds. Courtesy of Charlotte County Archives. Additional sources: RS686 New Brunswick land grants and RS141c1 County death registers, 1888, PANB; Census of Canada, 1881, Perth Parish, Victoria County, New Brunswick; and Daniel F. Johnson’s
Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers, Volume 69, No. 1401.
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