Ralph Sydney Ward
Family Genealogy Site
Notes for Nicholas MOSHER
Nicholas and Polly lived on a farm owned by their Father James, bounded East by the Township line between Newport and Douglas, North by the Kennetcook River, over a mile from Township line west, thence Southerly to base line, so called, over a mile, thence to Township line, making over a mile square, and a river running from Rawdon down through centre of farm, emptying into the Kennetcook River. The said Nicholas was a carpenter and a very persevering mechanic. He took a contract to build a vessel which was constructed a quarter of a mile up from the mouth of the little river, and was superintended by John Corney, and launched into said river about 1807. Was sloop-rigged, carried a square topsail, and was sailed for a time by a stranger, afterward by Captain Barzillai Mosher (of the above Barzillai), of the sixth generation. this vessel carried plaster from Newport to Philadelphia, with a capacity of about 60 tons. After a time was sold. She was the first vessel built in Newport, Hants County, N.S. The above farm was willed to Nicholas and Joseph Mosher, sons of James. They died, and were buried a few rods from the little river opposite where the sloop was built, with others. The farm was sold to strangers, not any of the name living on it now, (but near by). (quote from 'The Mosher Family, From the Seventeenth Century to the present date.' Compiled by William Mosher of Mosherville, Hants Co.
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