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Considerable information has already been given in the preceding chapters of this history concerning the first English settlers on the River St. John, and the names of such men as Francis Peabody, Israel Perley, James Simonds, James White, William Hazen, Jonathan and Daniel Leavitt, Beamsley P. and Benjamin Glasier, Benjamin Atherton, William Davidson, Gilfred Studholme and others will be familiar to the majority of our readers. Some further information concerning the early settlers may prove of equal interest. BECKWITH. Nehemiah Beckwith was an active and well known man on the St. John river in his day and generation. He. | Pioneers on the St. John River in Pre-loyalist Days Considerable information has already been given in the preceding chapters of this history concerning the first English settlers on the River St. John and the names of such men as Francis Peabody Israel Perley James Simonds James White William Hazen Jonathan and Daniel Leavitt Beamsley P. and Benjamin Glasier Benjamin Atherton William Davidson Gilfred Studholme and others will be familiar to the majority of our readers. Some further information concerning the early settlers may prove of equal interest. BECKWITH. Nehemiah Beckwith was an active and well known man on the St. John river in his day and generation. He was a descendant of Mathew Beckwith who came to America from Yorkshire England in 1635. The branch of the family to which Nehemiah Beckwith belonged lived chiefly at Lyme in Connecticut. Two brothers Samuel and John emigrated from that place to Nova Scotia in 1760 in consequence of the inducements offered by Governor Lawrence to New Englanders to occupy the lands vacated by the Acadians. A fleet of 22 vessels from Connecticut carrying a considerable colony entered Minas Basin on the 4th day of June and the settlers landed near the town plot of Cornwallis. Nehemiah Beckwith was born at Lyme February 29 1756 and was the seventh and youngest child of Samuel Beckwith by his wife Miriam who was a daughter of Capt. Reynold Marvin. At the time of his arrival in bluenose land he was little more than four years old. The exact date of his arrival at Maugerville is uncertain but it was probably not long before the 16th December 1780 when as we learn from old Sunbury County records he purchased half of lot No. 78 in Upper Maugerville from Joseph Dunphy for 100. Nehemiah Beckwith is described in the deed of conveyance as late of Cornwallis but now of Maugerville Trader. Mr. Beckwith was quite an enterprising man in the early days of New Brunswick. He was the first to attempt the establishment of regular communication .
