Titus Knapp represented the county for some time in the Legislature of New Brunswick, and for many years did a large trading business at Westmoreland Point.
HARPER.
Christopher Harper was born in a small village near Hull, in Yorkshire.
He emigrated to Nova Scotia in 1774, bringing his family and his nephew, Thomas King, with him.He arrived at Fort Cumberland on a fine day in May, and his surprise was great the next morning to see the ground covered with snow.Mr.Harper bought a property to the south-east of the garrison lands, and moved his family into a house said to have been built by the Acadians; but this is very doubtful, as these people chose to burn their dwellings rather than let them fall into the hands of the English.Tradition says Mr.Harper brought stock, both horses and cattle, with him from Yorkshire.
In 1777 Mr.Harper's house and barn were burned by the Eddy rebels, and soon after the Loyalists came to Nova Scota he sold his property at the fort to his son-in-law, Gideon Palmer, and moved to Sackville, having purchased land near Morris's Mills.It is said he came into possession of this property through prosecuting one Ayer and others for setting fire to his buildings at Fort Cumberland.In 1809 he obtained a grant from the Government at Fredericton of the mill-pond, and some two hundred or three hundred acres of wilderness land in Sackville, including about forty acres of marsh on the east side of the Tantramar River, above Coles's Island.
Mr.Harper had three sons and four daughters.His son Christopher, who was a captain in the army in early life, left for Quebec, via Richibucto and Miramichi, and was not heard from after leaving Miramichi.John married Miss Thornton (whose father was a Loyalist), and after living at the mill for a time moved to Dorchester.William married Phoebe Haliday, from Cobequid, and built on the place where I.C.Harper, of Sackville, now lives; Catherine married Gideon Palmer;Annie married Major Richard Wilson, a north of Ireland man; Fannie married Thomas King, and Charlotte married Bedford Boultonhouse.