PROSPECT FARM.
Thompson Trueman, the youngest member of the family, was married in March, 1823, to Mary Freeze.He was only twenty-two years old, and young looking for that age.He used to say in later life that he married at just the right time.His wife was a daughter of Samuel Freeze, of Upper Sussex, King's County.Her mother was Margaret Wells, daughter of Williams Wells, of Point de Bute.
The Freezes came from Yorkshire to Cumberland in the DUKE OF YORK, the first vessel that landed Yorkshire emigrants at Halifax.Charles Dixon, the founder of the Dixon name in Sackville, with his family, came out at this time.The Freeze family, when they arrived in Nova Scotia, consisted of William Freeze, sen., his son William, with his wife and two children.Wm.Freeze, sen., remained in this country only a short time.It was supposed the vessel in which he took passage for England was lost, as his family never heard of him again.
The son, William, was a mason by trade, but settled on a farm in Amherst Point, now occupied by the Keillor brothers.He remained in Cumberland until the first of the present century, and then removed to Sussex, King's Country, N.B.He had become rather discouraged in his efforts to reclaim the salt marsh, and came to the conclusion that it would never be of much value.
It is said that Mr.Freeze and his two sons started in a small boat for Kentucky.When they got as far as the mouth of the Petitcodiac River, they turned their boat up the stream, going with the tide to the head of the river.Leaving the boat, they plunged into the forest and tramped for some distance.At last they concluded they had lost their way and were not likely to reach Kentucky on that route.After some consultation, the father climbed to the top of a tall tree, and from this altitude the rich interval lands of the Upper Kennebecasis were full in view.