AVON RIVER HERITAGE CENTRE
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Chambers

John Chambers was born circa 1733 and lived until 21 May 1814. John arrived upon the Sloop Sally at Pisiquid (Fort Edward) from Newport, Rhode Island in 1760. John was one of the original grantees of Newport, N.S. in the Crown grant of 21 July 1761. On 26 August 1761 Chambers and James Mosher made a proposal at the Newport Township Meeting to build a grist mill at their expense for the inhabitants of Newport if they received 400 acres surrounding the mill and the river the mill is located on. Additionally, Chambers and Mosher requested that in return for the mill they wanted no more than 1/16 part of English grain or 3 quart of Indian corn. John was also an active member in the Newport Township Committee where he had been a surveyor for broken and unprofitable land and in 1798 the Chairman. 

John and his wife Helen had five children (four sons and one daughter). 

William (c. 1764 - 21 October 1838). William and his wife Lydia (marriage date unknown) had six children: 
William (c. 1820 - 14 October 1891)

John (birth date unknown - 21 October 1872)

Sarah Jennet (married shipbuilder Nicholas Mosher)

Hugh Dalford (c. 1819 - 17 July 1900)

Mary Elizabeth ( married shipbuilder William Mounce of Avondale)

Edward Nelson (father to Capt. Nelson of Windsor N.S.)

Robert (birthdate unknown - died c. 1814). Married Nancy Archibald (marriage date unknown) and had two children:

Sylvestor (born 14 June 1854) first marriage was to Clara M. Gridley in November 1877. Second marriage was to Henrietta Congdon (marriage date unknown)

Robert Ernest (1857-1929) married Helen Louis Chambers (date unknown)

Alexander is the third oldest and it is unknown if he had children or not. It is believed that he was not a resident of Newport at the time of his father’s estate settlement.

John (born c. 1770 - 2 September 1850) and his wife Mary Miller had eight children:

John’s (born c. 1800 - 5 January 1890) first marriage was to Elizabeth Church on 19     September 1817. Second marriage was to Margaret Salter on 11 February 1834.

Elizabeth (birth date unknown) married Charles David Hunter on 1 March 1825

James (born c. 1797 - c. 1882) married Elizabth Darby (1825 - 21 June 1888) on 28 October 1848 and had one son (John born 1861).

Mary married Thomas Adam Caldwell (born 21 December 1795) on 25 January 1831.

Jane married Robert Salter on 8 November 1839.

Martha (died 28 May 1849) married Thomas William F. Weir on 14 December 1837 (Weir may be a descendant of loyalists from South Caroline although it is not certain).

Samuel (born c. 1814 - died 20 October 1886) married Frances Salter (c. January 1815 - 15 October 1901) but the date is unknown.

William inherited his father’s home.

Jane was the only daughter of John and Mary Chambers. She married John Ryan in 1806 and had five children under the surname Ryan:

    Alexander (born c. 1810 - 20 July 1890)

    Robert (birth and death dates unknown)

    William (born c. 1817 - 11 March 1829) 

    James S. (birth and death dates unknown) 

    Mary (birth and death dates unknown)

Information accessed from John Victor Duncanson's Newport, Nova Scotia: A Rhode Island Township. 

On Map - Green=Original Plot 
                  Blue= Later Acquired Plot(s)

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Avon River Heritage Centre, 17 Belmont Road, Avondale/Newport Landing, West Hants, Nova Scotia, B0N 2A0
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Telephone us, May through October, at (902) 757-1718

The Avon River Heritage Society would like to thank the Municipality of West Hants and the Province of Nova Scotia for their generous support.

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