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WISHART, ALEXANDER (17?? LIVING 1790)

WISHART, ALEXANDER, businessman and JP; living in 1790.

For the purpose of engaging in trade, Alexander Wishart and a brother of his settled in 1775 where the town of Newcastle was later located. In 1778, as Revolutionary War activity intensified in the Gulf of St Lawrence, their stores were plundered by privateers. After they were also ransacked by the Indians in 1779 they abandoned their situation and sailed for Quebec with Capt. Lord John Augustus Hervey of HMS Viper. For the duration of the war they were in military service on the Great Lakes.

After their discharge the Wisharts, together with Andrew Cheap, Robert Reid, John Schank, and a Mr Hutchison entered into partnership as Wishart & Co., to engage in farming, fishing, and merchandising on the Miramichi. Cheap, who had also gone to Quebec in 1789, was a ship captain who helped carry Wishart & Co.'s products to market, and he was an early pilot and harbormaster of the Miramichi.

Alexander Wishart was one of three county magistrates commissioned in 1785 and one of seven justices present at the initial session of the Northumberland County Court of Quarter Sessions in 1789, but his name disappears from county records in 1790. There is nothing to show that Wishart & Co. was in operation beyond that date, and of the five principals in the firm, only Robert Reid became a permanent settler on the Miramichi.

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