Peter Berton (1729 - 1791)

Descendants

Died 17 Nov 1791 at age 62 in Oak Point, St. John, New Brunswick

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Peter Berton was a United Empire Loyalist.
UEL Status:
Date: June 1783 on ship Littledale

Biography

Peter Berton was born on 24 Aug 1729 in Province of New York, and he passed away on 17 Nov 1791 in Oak Point, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.^[1]

Peter married Ann Duncan on 7 Sep 1758 in Trinity Church Parish,New York, Province of New York^[2]

Loyalist Claims

• AmericanMigrations1765-1799-0866 [3]

Page 197 or Page 181 Transcription by Joe Patterson Berton, Peter. Memorial 1786. For many years he was Capt. of a ship trading between London and NY. In 1769 he settled as a merchant in NY and on 14 February 1776 was obliged to seek refuge in LI with his wife and eight children. At the peace, he retired from asylum to St. John at the head of a group of refugees and now resides there with his family. Claim for a small farm at Newton claimed by Francis Lewis, one of the Congress, and part-owner with him of the Dolphin; 5/8 of a schooner Commerce seized by HMS Kingfisher at Sandy Hook on her return from Charleston, SC, where she had takes the corp(s) of Edward Fenwick and his family, of the sloop Ranger taken and sunk by HM ships at Sandy Hook in March 1776; 1/8 part of the sloop Dolphin, Master Joseph Jenkins, with spermaceti on board taken by the Argo and condemned in Dominica; articles taken from his store; goods plundered on LI. (12./25/233 109/92; 13/11/B2),

1st Family - PANB

BERTON: Peter Berton born 1729, died 15 Nov 1791, m. 1773 Ann Duncan b. 1741, died 11 Jan 1790, d/o James Duncan: family came from Long Island in NY to NB in 1783 as Loyalists and settled at Oak Point, Greenwich Parish, Kings County:

Children:

1. ) George Duncan Berton b. 1774, d. 18 Dec 1828, married 3 Jan 1805 Ann Frances Street born 1774 d/o Samuel Denny Street, d. 6 Aug 1832: had one daughter and four sons:
2. ) William B. Berton b. 1777:
3. ) James Duncan Berton b. 1779, died 1848, married Lanah Stillwell Jouett born 1786, d. 19 Nov 1830, d/o Xenophon Jouett and Gertrude Garrison of Saint Marys, York County: settled in Fredericton, York County and had issue:
4. ) Frances Berton b. c1780, d. 1875, m. Mr. McAlpine:
5. ) Anna Maria Berton b. c1781, d. 1852, m. Peter Fraser:
6. ) Peter Berton Jr. d. young:
7. ) Fernny Berton d. young:
8. ) James Berton d. young.

Sources: MC1156 Graves Papers: Berton family notes, 1 page: see MC80/132 Lillian M.B. Maxwell’s The old grave-yard, page 69: see MC80/644 Isabel L. Hill’s The old burying ground Fredericton, NB, Vol. I, pages 93-94, 302-310: see also MC2657 NBGS Generations Vol. 22, No. 3, Fall 2000, Joan Pierce’s Oak Point church yard, page 52: see also MC80/2902 Sharon Dubeau’s New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial tribute, 1 paragraph.

Sources

1. ↑ Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835 [1]
2. ↑ New York City, Marriages, 1600s-1800s [2]

• Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835 [4]
• UK, American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835 [5]