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- From: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbpast/KI/ki-gorham7.html#3:
“David Brown Wetmore:
A native of New York state and Loyalist settler in NB. He was for many years a member of the House of Assembly for Kings County and a Judge of Common Pleas. He died at Norton in 1845, aged eighty-two having many descendants.
David Brown Wetmore. The notes of R.W. Wetmore on Clifton families published in 1912 add the information that David Brown Wetmore was the s/o Rev. James Wetmore, of English descent, and that he was 19 years of age when he came from New York in 1783. He lived first at Hammond River and was later granted lots 3 & 4 at Clifton, and later acquired Lots no. 1 & 2, 5, 6, &7. He lived at Clifton until 1820 when he moved to Norton. He was twice married. 1st, Ruth Sherwood, and 2nd Elizabeth Witney, and had fifteen children. Once moving to Norton he disposed of the farm lots as follows:
Lot No. 1 to his daughter, Elizabeth (Mrs. Wm. Jewell Flewelling)
Lot No. 2 to his son James Wetmore
Lots No. 3,4,5 to his son Justus G. Wetmore, who was also grantee of lot no. 8
Lot No. 6 to his son David Wetmore
Lot no. 7 to the family of [Wm/Mrs?] Puddington for the benefit of their mother, his sister Esther.”
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