Yelland / Henderson Ancestors

Notes


800. Samuel PURDY

Samuel is the third generation of Francis1 Purdy.

Received land in Rye and Budd's Neck

Samuel Purdy died at White Plains, N.Y. probably at the home of his eldest son Samuel. This house was still in White Plains in 1980. It was moved from its former site about 1975 to Park Avenue just west of Broadway, which is route 22.

The will of Charlotte Streing (Strang) as originally recorded makes Samuel Purdy my son-in-law an Executor. This will is dated Oct. 22, 1722 and proved January 31, 1723/24. This will names two sons "eldest son Daniel" and "youngest son Henry". It also names "my three daughters, Clorinda, wife of Samuel Purdy, Charlotte, wife of Roger Park and Mary Prudence, wife of John Budd". Many records call "Clorinda" by the name "Penelope" but it is "Clorinda" in her mother's will. Samuel inherited 1/2 of his farm in Rye and land on Budd's Neck. N.Y. by his father's will of 1709.

Samuel was a teacher in Rye from 1733-1749 when he moved to White Plains, N.Y. In 1739 he taught 41 pupils.

In 1733, Samuel Purdy, Robert Bloomer, Daniel Purdy were appointed a committee to "regulate and renew the bound marks of lots in Wills Purchase to the eastward of the colony line, beginning at Thomas Sutton's land and going northward along said line".

Samuel's house lot of five acres, which he conveyed in 1753 to his two sons Samuel and Caleb, comprised of the present rectory grounds.

Discussing burying grounds and Blind Brook Cemetery at the turn of the road above Milton. The earliest mention of this burying ground in our Town Records (Rye) occurs in a deed dated 1753. It speaks of "ye boring (burying)place in Rye Neck opposite a certain tract of land on thw west side of the mill creek, Samuel Purdy conveyed to his sons Samuel and Caleb.

Samuel appears throughout the years 1744-53 as a Judge and the words, "Proved before Samuel Purdy, esq." appear over and over. Samuel was sometimes called, "Justice Purdy".

He (Samuel), became one of the most prominent citizens of the town of Rye, N.Y. In 1720, he made his first appearance in public office when he was appointed Justice of the Peace. This position he held until his death. From 1723-1739 he served as Town Supervisor. His duties were so faithfully discharged that he was re-elected from 1744-46 and chosen again in 1749. He also acted as the last town trustee or overseer in 1729 and as a former of the excise in 1743 and in 1744. He served as one of the Judges of the Court of Pleas of the County of Westchester from 1734-1737 and ag ain from 1740-1752. The Rev. James Wetmore, minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Rye, was seeking a new schoolmaster in 1732. At the request of sundry inhabitants that Samuel Purdy esq. might be appointed, he wrote the following recommendation to the secretary of the "Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel". He is a gentleman, very well respected in the town, a constant communicant of the church, a man of good abilities and sober exemploary life and conversation; he is the foremost Justice of the Peace in the Parish: and one of a Quorum as well as Chaplain of the Militia, but these being places that require, rather than make a fortune, he has private reasons to make him accept a mission from the Honourable Society and the greater his interest in the people's esteem and affections, by the honourable character he sustains, he will be under the greater advantage to promote religion and the interests of the church for which he has always had a good affection. The gentleman is well qualified to teach and instruct children in the principles of religion, and such learning as is fit for the country and I doubt not he will be very faithful and industrious, if the Honourable Society be pleased to employ him". Needless to add Justice Purdy was employed and continued as schoolmaster until his death.

When he died in 1753, the Rev. James Wetmore gives an excellent account of the funeral.

"The Church hath suffered a loss by the death of Mr. Purdy, who was a friend of religion and did many kind offices to the poor, as far as he was able. His corpse was attended to the church on Ash Wednesday by a great concourse of people of all persuasions to whom the pastor preached a sermon adopted to that day and to the melancholy occasion.


804. Lewis (Louis) ANGEVINE

He was born in 1702, likely in New Rochelle, NY. He is buried on his farm in Scarsdale, NY.


896. Joseph (dit Fluzan) LEGER I

Port Royale, Acadia became Annapolis Royal, NS

In the 1752 Census, he had 2 boys, 2 girls, and he lived at Peticodiac. He was deported to South Carolina 17 Nov 1755 to Jan 1756 on the sloop, Endeaver. He moved to Minudie, NS after the depression.

He was imprisoned in Fort Edwards in 1761 and, seven years later, he had settled at Menoudie along with other compatriots.

On July 11, 1764 the king of England himself, at the request of the Lords of Commerce, granted permission to the Acadian's to become settlers of the government of His Majesty, by giving their oath of allegiance. Many Acadian prisoners chose nonetheless to leave for Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Islands while others headed for the Menoudie area where they would actually become slaves of the Desbarres who would exploit them to no end. Meanwhile, yet others remained at Amherst and Windsor, working on the lands that once were theirs but now belonged to their conquerors. On March 22nd, 1764, there were 388 Acadian's employed on farms on the Fort Cumberland (formerly Pointe Beauséjour) ridge working for wages. Henry Hind in his book entitled Old Parish Burying Ground, speaks of the following with regard to the Acadian's in the region: "Those who (the Acadian's) still remained in these parts continued to draw rations till about the years 1766 to the amount of 1,600 including imposters, etc. . At length a scrutiny was ordered, and they could produce only 1,200 Acadian's on parade; when the commanding officer demanding of their angents an account of the 400 which were wanting, the reply was “they died last night”. Other Acadian's who numbered among the prisoners at Fort Beauséjour and who had gone to Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Islands did return to the Maritime's.


897. Claire LeBLANC

Memramcook was in Westmorland County, NB