He married Alice Lillian Tucker and after three children, they emmigrated to America and lived in the Malden/Everett area before finally settling in Haverhill, Ma. They ultimately had nine children.

John WIER, box 122, pack 3603: will dated Feb. 13,1849 Abbeville, prov
Feb. 24, 1849. Exrs: Son, John Alexander. WIER, Thos.. C. PERRIN. Wit:
Saml. A. WILSOn, Joseph AIKEN, Joseph LYON. Chn: John Alex, Margaret
Isabella WIER. Gr chn: Wm. WIER Martin, Reallura Martin, chn of my dec'd
dtr Ann. Seet made Mar 27, 1850. Men that John Wier died abut Feb. 17,
1849.

Samuel Weir, came to Canada, Toronto, and joined the 60th Battalion, C.E.F., was wounded in France, retuned to Toronto and married Lilliam Parks from Union Settlement. He is interred in the Military Cemetryh at Pine Hill in Scarboro, Ontario. Lilliam (Parks) Weir is interred in the Lower Waterboro Baptist Cemetry, Queens Co., NB. A monument marks both their graves.

An adopted daughter of William Bissett's mother (Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald). Both of Waterbury, Queens Co. She is listed as widow age 62 in 1851 census.

ELIZABETH WELDON BISSETT

Elizabeth Weldon Bissett is age 61, a widow, in the 1851 census. J. Smith also notes in a footnote with the census information - Betsy Eliz. Weldon (Irish?), an adopted daughter of his mother (Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald). Both of Waterbury (Waterborough?), Queens Co. ** bhb - I assume that the BOTH is Elizabeth Weldon and her adopted mother. No mention of Mr. Fitzgerald.

P.M. Toner's "An Index to Irish Immigrants in the 1851 New
Brunswick Census" has the following entry:
Bisset-Elizabeth, date of entry (blank), age 62, religion Bapt, N.B.
location is Kingston.

This would make Elizabeth Weldon Bissett born in 1790. J. Smith lists Elizabeth Weldon marriage date to William Bissett as March 29, 1804. This would make her 14/15/16. Her last recorded child is in 1837 when she would have been 46/47/48.

Elizabeth Weldon Bissett lived in Waterbury (Waterborough), Queens Co. New Brunswick with Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald. She later moved to Chapel Grove, Kings Co., New Brunswick. Chapel Grove is also known as Whitehead.

Elizabeth Weldon born 1790 and subsequent adopted by Mrs. Bissett/Fitzgerald. Both lived in Waterborough, Queens, Co., NB on the east side of Grand Lake.
No further mention of Mr. Fitzgerald.
Marries William Bissett in 1804 (assume at Waterborough).
Thomas Bissett born 1805 - marries Mary Ann Russell in 1832 - died 1878
William Harding Bissett born 1808 - marries and lives in Dorchester, N.B. by 1838.
Elizabeth Weldon Bissett moves to Chapel Grove, Kings. Co., NB by 1837.
Elizabeth Weldon Bissett a widow by 1851 age 61.

Thomas Bissett born 1805 had a number of children among them Thomas Vickery Bissett born in 1835 and Mary Ann Bissett Barbour born 1839. Thomas Vickery Bissett had a son Edward - born 1864 and died 1938. Edward was the last Bissett to live on the Chapel Grove property. Mary Ann Bissett Barbour also had a home on the Chapel Grove land. So the Chapel Grove property falls into Thomas Bissett's line. Mary Ann is the source of one of the family histories.

Our other source is Alberta May Bissett born 1862 in Dorchester, NB. She is the daughter of William Harding Bissett who moves to Dorchester in 1838. Elizabeth Weldon Bissett would have been 48 years old. You will note that Alberta May was born 11 years AFTER the census of 1851 and lived her early life in Dorchester, NB. She has no first hand information like Mary Ann who was 12 in 1851 when Elizabeth Weldon was still alive. In fact it would be almost 25 years after the census of 1851, before Mary Ann at age 13 or 14 would have begun to know the family history. Being the youngest child, her father would be around age 70. William Harding Bissett died at age 82 when Alberta May was 28. By the very nature of these facts, Alberta May's account cannot be taken as the truth. However, I'm sure that it contains a grain of truth.

The two independent genealogies both knew this generation and both list a Benjamin and 2nd Benjamin. The first drowned on the Kennebecasis River while skating. The second drowned on a fishing trip out of Gloucester, MA. (With the first dying on the Kennebecasis River - this puts them at Chapel Grove not Grand Lake at the time of Benjamin I death.)

The 1851 Census of Kings County lists Elizabeth Bissett living there with her daughter Harriett and son Benjamin. She is listed as a Loyalist, 62 years old and British from birth. Her occupation is Prop.

Property owned by James Weldon

June 27, 1805 James is left a farm in Westfield, Kings Co. by Jonathan Sherwood. Jonathan Sherwood purchased the property from William Perry and James Weldon now lives on the property. This is lots 0 and 1 near Sand Point.

Lot 20 at Chapel Grove, Kingston, Kings that he inherited from his father, Patrick.

Lots 14 and 15 in Westfield, Kings Co. previously owned by Amous Titus and Arnold Brown lot 15. Joseph Barlow and John Flewelling, Jr. lot 14.

Lots 9 and 10 in Greenwich at Cheyne Settlement and Lot 19 in Greenwich near Days Corner. Lots 9 and 10 were granted to James per his partition. Lot 19 was previously owned by Isaac Haviland Sr.

In September of 1812, William Bissett bought 200 acres from James and Jane Weldon, 100 acres each of the lots 14 and 15 at Carter Point, Westfield Parish on the Kingston Peninsula of Kings County.

Sometime between 1817 and 1832, James Weldon transfers lot 20 at Chapel Grove to William and Elizabeth Weldon.

Lots 9 and 10 at Greenwich are left to James Weldon's sons William and Robert.

James Weldon, Jr. is left the 100 acre half lot 19 at Greenwich.

In April 1842, James is bequeathed the 100 acre one half lot 19, Greenwich Parish north of lots 9 and 10.

By July of 1842, James and his wife Mary Maria have sold lot 19. In 1860. James sells another 100 acres of land in Greenwich Parish claiming it also to the the 100 acres bequeathed to him by his father's estate. The deed is not clear as to the exact lot location.

Enlisted sometime between April and June of 1779 in the 9th (later Captain Charles Hasting's) Company of the Volunteers of Ireland. His is not on the rolls in April, but does appear in August. He serves through the summer of 1782 with the regiment, first in Captain Charles Vallency's(or Delancey's) Company, and later in Captain James King's Company. In the fall of 1782, the Volunteers of Ireland were 'drafted' into the other Provincial Corps serving in Charleston, S.C. It was at this time he was placed in Captain John Bowen's Company of the Prince of Wales American Regiment. He served in this company through the end of the war.

The Volunteers of Ireland was a Provincial Regiment, like the PWAV, but it was supposed to consist entirely of natives of Ireland. Before we jump to conclusions, the regiment admitted almost anyone into it, including many Rebel deserters and people from other countries. At the time of Patrick's enlistment, the Volunteers of Ireland were encamped around Phillipsburg Manor in Westchester County, New York.

Here are all the muster rolls he appears in:

Volunteers of Ireland.
9th Company, 25th August 1779, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series, Volume 1886
Page 43
9th Company 20th September 1779, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 63

Capt. Hasting's Company, 24 February 1780, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series, Volume 1887
Page 5

Capt. Vallancy's Company, 23 February 1781, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 14
Capt. Vallancy's Company, 24 April 1781, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 27

Capt. King's Company, 24 October 1781, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 39
Capt. King's Company, 24 April 1782, NCA, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 47

Prince of Wales American Regiment.
Capt. Bowens Company, January 1783, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series, Vol. 1897
Page 4
Capt. Bowen's Company, March 1783, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 13
Capt. Bowen's Company, May 1783, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 27
Capt. Bowen's Company, June 1783, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 40
Capt. Bowen's Company, August 1783, NAC, RG 8, "C" Series
Page 46

March 4, 1756
The Pennsylvania Gazette

RUN away on the 13th of last month, from the subscriber, living in Bordentown, in the county of Burlington, and western division of New Jersey, A likely servant lad, named Patrick Weldon, he is a native of Ireland, and has something of the brogue on his tongue, about 19 years of age, of a fair complexion, somewhat down looking. Had on, and took with him, A felt hat, an old brown vest, and an under one, the fore parts black broad cloth, and the back brown camblet, the skirts rounded before, and an old bearskin one, made sailor fashion, patched on the elbows, new ozenbrigs shirt, and an old check one, leather breeches, that has been died black, but are much faded, with metal buttons, yarn stockings, old shoes, newly soaled, with steel buckles in them. Whoever will secure him so that his master may have him again shall have Three Pounds reward, and reasonable charges, paid by me.

On the death of his father James Weldon, Robert is left 300 acres on lots 9 and 10 , Greenwich, Kings Co. with his brother William. Robert and William Weldon of Greenwich Parish are changed with murder on July of 1846. This is the murder of John McKeel. Robert is found guilty and served on year.

John McKeel is the person that William and Elizabeth Weldon Bissett sold the land they had purchased from James Weldon in 1812. This is lots 14 and 15 at Carter Point, Westfield Parish on the Kingston Peninsular of Kings Co.