John Fawcett (first), Lower Sackville, had four children--two sons, Robert and John, and two daughters, Mary and Nancy.Of these, Robert married ----- Seaman; John married Jane Black; Mary married Henry Ripley, and Nancy married John Ogden.Robert, a son of the second Robert, married Jane Trueman, daughter of William Trueman.
In 1817 (March 22nd) Thomas Fawcett, of Stockton Forest, Yorkshire, sailed from Hull on the ship VALIANT, bound for Charlottetown, P.E.
Island.The voyage lasted seventy-three days.About the middle of the voyage the VALIANT came across a Scotch brig in a sinking condition and took on board her sixty passengers and crew.There were one hundred and ninety-three immigrants on the ship when she arrived at her destination.
Thomas Fawcett settled first at Cove Head, P.E.I.He afterward moved to Sackville, and finally located at Salisbury.He had three sons, one now living in Carleton County, N.B., one in Salisbury, and John is one of the solid men to Tidnish.
Other passengers on the VALIANT were: John Milner, settled in Sackville; John Towse, settled in Dorchester; Robert Morrison, settled in Sussex; Robert Mitten and family, settled in Coverdale.
EVANS.
Isaac Evans came to this country, probably from the United States, shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war.The family was originally from Wales.He was married to Miss Lydia Jenks, and settled within a few rods of the old Botsford place at Westcock.They had seven children, all born in this country--James, Isaac, William, Lydia, Mary, Ann and Beriah.James married Miss Barnes, and Mr.Isaac N.Evans, the only man of the name now living in the parish, is a son of theirs.His name and his brother William's are to be found in the list of students attending Mount Allison Academy in 1843.Isaac drowned off Grindstone Island when twenty-four years old, in 1819.William married a Miss Estabrooks, and they had ten children--James Isaac, who died recently at Shediac, where his family still live; Evander Valentine, who lived in Sackville and was well known as Captain Evans; Jane, who married Marcus Trueman, and now lives in California; William Murray Stuart, who at one time had charge of the Westmoreland Bank in Moncton;George Edwin, a mechanic, who moved early in life to the United States;Henry, who served on the side of the North in the War of Secession;Charles, who married a daughter of the late John Fawcett, but died young.Lydia married Lewis Jenks; Mary never married, but lived to be old, and was known by her friends as "Aunt Polly"; Ann married John Boultonhouse, and Beriah married John Stuart.Isaac Evans, the original settler, was drowned off Partridge Island, St.John, June, 1798, aged thirty-four.Lydia, his wife, died November 11th, 1842, in her seventy-fourth year.