Jeremiah Pote

Originally from Marblehead, Massachusetts,[1] Jeremiah Pote was a leading merchant[2] of Falmouth, Massachusetts (present-day Eastport, Maine) who owned a "hugely profitable shipyard"[3] and several mills[4] rising to prominence during the American Revolution where he was jailed multiple times.[5]

Organising the Penobscot Loyalist evacuation with a handful of other prominent figures, Pote fled with the large group to settle in New Brunswick, Canada where he became a central planner for the development of Charlotte County.[6]

In 1774, John Adams wrote to Abigail Adams that he had learned of a dispute between Captain Pote and William Gardiner, during which Pote refused to sign an agreement boycotting British goods and "rail'd away at Boston Mobs, drowning tea and tarring Malcolm".[7] In May 1777, Captain Pote fled to British North America in an open boat.[8]

In the 1780s, Pote offered a supporting affidavit to his son-in-law Robert Pagan noting that as owner of 9/16ths of the Favourite schooner, he could confirm considerable financial loss.[9] He built his home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.[10]

Jeremiah Pote had two daughters, Miriam was engaged to an unknown suitor but broke it off to marry Robert Pagan, and her sister Joanna was the first wife of Thomas Wyer.[9]

He died November 23 1796.[11][12] Upon his death, he was not buried in a churchyard but on a lot he'd sold which became a graveyard for himself, his wife Elizabeth,[13] their children, and three families he called friends, Thomas Wyer and wife Mary, Robert Pagan and wife Miriam, and Samuel Andrews and wife Hannah.[14]

References

  1. ^ Anette Ruppel Rodrigues. "1779 to 1783: Looking at Fort George through Loyal Eyes" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-08.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, Chaim M. (24 December 2015). Yankee Colonies across America: Cities upon the Hills. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 978-1-4985-1984-7.
  3. ^ Charles P.M. Outwin (2000-01-06). "The "Pointer Draft" of Falmouth in October 1775". Archived from the original on 2021-08-12.
  4. ^ Anette Ruppel Rodrigues. "1779 to 1783: Looking at Fort George through Loyal Eyes" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-08.
  5. ^ Rosenberg, Chaim M. (24 December 2015). Yankee Colonies across America: Cities upon the Hills. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 978-1-4985-1984-7.
  6. ^ "Gallop, William".
  7. ^ "Adams Papers Digital Edition - Massachusetts Historical Society".
  8. ^ "Loyalist Trails 2022-02". 10 January 2022.
  9. ^ a b s:Acadiensis/Volume 2/Number 4/Robert and Miriam Pagan
  10. ^ "Provincial Archives of New Brunswick".
  11. ^ https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06939_13/51
  12. ^ "Old St. Andrews".
  13. ^ https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06939_13/51
  14. ^ "Loyalist Trails 2022-02". 10 January 2022.
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