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Subject: New Brunswick Grimmers
Date: 11 Oct 2005 15:00:41 -0600

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Surnames: Grimmer
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Hello Mary - it's nice to know someone else out there has an interest in Thomas & Lydia Grimmer. The little knowledge I have after all this time is that Thomas Grimmer (born c. 1759)belonged to one of the corps disbanded in New York at the time of the evacuation. He was of Irish parentage, and probably was born in Ireland; though the family name is said to be of Dutch or German origin. He resided in Philadelphia before the Revolution. At the close of the war he married Lydia Way (also spelled Wey) of Brooklyn, L. I.; who was of Dutch descent, and who, like many of the Dutch folk of Long Island, had sought protection within the British lines. He was a member of Captain Mark's party of loyalists that went from NY to Port Matoon, Nova Scotia in 1783. They settled in St. Stephen, NB in 1785. Their eldest son, Thomas, was born in Port Matoon; and there were ten children b. between 1784 and 1808 and forty-four grandchildren before there was a death in the family. Thomas Grimm!
er died in 1828, at the age of 69; and his wife at the same age in 1834. Their graves are side by side in the old Loyalist churchyard where so many of the founders of St. Stephen are buried.

I have a considerable amount of information on the 10 children (Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Katherine, Martha, Lydia, James, William, Amy and Jesse) but too much to post here so will be sending you a note privately to your e-mail addresses. I look forward to hearing from other descendents of this Grimmer line.

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