The eldest child of Capt. Joshua Pitman Trefry and Mary (Allin) Trefry, Joshua was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts just before July 31, 1763, when he was baptized. By the time he turned 10, his parents and siblings had relocated to the unsettled, rocky shores of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as so many did at the time.
(Many New Englanders were loyal to England and wanted little to do with a revolution and so when England offered land in Nova Scotia for settlement (since the Crown had evicted the French there), the Trefry family and others jumped at the chance.)
At the age of 18 he married Elizabeth Kenney, whose parents (Nathan and Shera (Nickerson) Kinney) had moved their family to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from Massachusetts.
He was probably the Joshua Trefry who was referred to as the pilot of a ship for a group of Nova Scotia settlers in 1784. Between 1787 and 1826, he owned six schooners comprising 178 tons.
Joshua Pitman Trefry and his wife had 11 children -- Elizabeth, Mary, Joshua Pitman, James, Lydia, Sarah, Thomasine, George, Benjamin, Matilda, and William Allen Trefry -- all of whom were born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
(Many New Englanders were loyal to England and wanted little to do with a revolution and so when England offered land in Nova Scotia for settlement (since the Crown had evicted the French there), the Trefry family and others jumped at the chance.)
At the age of 18 he married Elizabeth Kenney, whose parents (Nathan and Shera (Nickerson) Kinney) had moved their family to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from Massachusetts.
He was probably the Joshua Trefry who was referred to as the pilot of a ship for a group of Nova Scotia settlers in 1784. Between 1787 and 1826, he owned six schooners comprising 178 tons.
Joshua Pitman Trefry and his wife had 11 children -- Elizabeth, Mary, Joshua Pitman, James, Lydia, Sarah, Thomasine, George, Benjamin, Matilda, and William Allen Trefry -- all of whom were born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
The eldest child of Capt. Joshua Pitman Trefry and Mary (Allin) Trefry, Joshua was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts just before July 31, 1763, when he was baptized. By the time he turned 10, his parents and siblings had relocated to the unsettled, rocky shores of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, as so many did at the time.
(Many New Englanders were loyal to England and wanted little to do with a revolution and so when England offered land in Nova Scotia for settlement (since the Crown had evicted the French there), the Trefry family and others jumped at the chance.)
At the age of 18 he married Elizabeth Kenney, whose parents (Nathan and Shera (Nickerson) Kinney) had moved their family to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from Massachusetts.
He was probably the Joshua Trefry who was referred to as the pilot of a ship for a group of Nova Scotia settlers in 1784. Between 1787 and 1826, he owned six schooners comprising 178 tons.
Joshua Pitman Trefry and his wife had 11 children -- Elizabeth, Mary, Joshua Pitman, James, Lydia, Sarah, Thomasine, George, Benjamin, Matilda, and William Allen Trefry -- all of whom were born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
(Many New Englanders were loyal to England and wanted little to do with a revolution and so when England offered land in Nova Scotia for settlement (since the Crown had evicted the French there), the Trefry family and others jumped at the chance.)
At the age of 18 he married Elizabeth Kenney, whose parents (Nathan and Shera (Nickerson) Kinney) had moved their family to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from Massachusetts.
He was probably the Joshua Trefry who was referred to as the pilot of a ship for a group of Nova Scotia settlers in 1784. Between 1787 and 1826, he owned six schooners comprising 178 tons.
Joshua Pitman Trefry and his wife had 11 children -- Elizabeth, Mary, Joshua Pitman, James, Lydia, Sarah, Thomasine, George, Benjamin, Matilda, and William Allen Trefry -- all of whom were born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
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