Soldier, JP, surveyor, preacher, and office holder.
As the British occupation of New York drew to a close during American Revolution, Chamberlain accepted a captain’s commission in the city militia from Sir Guy Carleton* with responsibility for arranging the transfer to Halifax of a group of refugees. With his family and friends he reached there in the early fall of 1783. Almost at once he was commissioned a justice of the peace, named a deputy surveyor, appointed to lay out a new township east of Dartmouth, and made agent to distribute land within the area, which at that time boasted only a handful of stragglers from the Dartmouth settlement. The actual grant in December 1784 gave Chamberlain and 143 others, including loyalists, blacks, disbanded soldiers, and Germans, a “plantation” of 32,000 acres in Preston, his name for the new township. Chamberlain himself received one of two grants of 1,000 acres. In April 1785, 194 refugees arrived from St Augustine (Fla), and fresh grants in 1785 and 1786 accommodated them and other newcomers. An additional 35 settlers received 4,700 acres in December 1787.
Before he died, he asked to be buried in the small cemetery near the church built for the maroons atop a high hill in Preston.
See: Gertrude Tratt, “CHAMBERLAIN, THEOPHILUS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 5, 2016, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chamberlain_theophilus_6E.html.
Theophilus Chamberlain obit
Early American Newspapers
from NEHGS site
Salem Gazette
Nov.12, 1824
vol.II issue 90 page 3
"Died
.....
In Preston, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 20th July last, Rev.
Theophilus Chamberlain in the 89th year of his age - a native of
Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College. He was full 60 years a
preacher of the Gospel of Christ. Of all his family and offspring,
amounting to upwards of 40, a first wife, one son quite a youth, and
two infants are all that have departed this life before him."
As the British occupation of New York drew to a close during American Revolution, Chamberlain accepted a captain’s commission in the city militia from Sir Guy Carleton* with responsibility for arranging the transfer to Halifax of a group of refugees. With his family and friends he reached there in the early fall of 1783. Almost at once he was commissioned a justice of the peace, named a deputy surveyor, appointed to lay out a new township east of Dartmouth, and made agent to distribute land within the area, which at that time boasted only a handful of stragglers from the Dartmouth settlement. The actual grant in December 1784 gave Chamberlain and 143 others, including loyalists, blacks, disbanded soldiers, and Germans, a “plantation” of 32,000 acres in Preston, his name for the new township. Chamberlain himself received one of two grants of 1,000 acres. In April 1785, 194 refugees arrived from St Augustine (Fla), and fresh grants in 1785 and 1786 accommodated them and other newcomers. An additional 35 settlers received 4,700 acres in December 1787.
Before he died, he asked to be buried in the small cemetery near the church built for the maroons atop a high hill in Preston.
See: Gertrude Tratt, “CHAMBERLAIN, THEOPHILUS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 5, 2016, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chamberlain_theophilus_6E.html.
Theophilus Chamberlain obit
Early American Newspapers
from NEHGS site
Salem Gazette
Nov.12, 1824
vol.II issue 90 page 3
"Died
.....
In Preston, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 20th July last, Rev.
Theophilus Chamberlain in the 89th year of his age - a native of
Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College. He was full 60 years a
preacher of the Gospel of Christ. Of all his family and offspring,
amounting to upwards of 40, a first wife, one son quite a youth, and
two infants are all that have departed this life before him."
Soldier, JP, surveyor, preacher, and office holder.
As the British occupation of New York drew to a close during American Revolution, Chamberlain accepted a captain’s commission in the city militia from Sir Guy Carleton* with responsibility for arranging the transfer to Halifax of a group of refugees. With his family and friends he reached there in the early fall of 1783. Almost at once he was commissioned a justice of the peace, named a deputy surveyor, appointed to lay out a new township east of Dartmouth, and made agent to distribute land within the area, which at that time boasted only a handful of stragglers from the Dartmouth settlement. The actual grant in December 1784 gave Chamberlain and 143 others, including loyalists, blacks, disbanded soldiers, and Germans, a “plantation” of 32,000 acres in Preston, his name for the new township. Chamberlain himself received one of two grants of 1,000 acres. In April 1785, 194 refugees arrived from St Augustine (Fla), and fresh grants in 1785 and 1786 accommodated them and other newcomers. An additional 35 settlers received 4,700 acres in December 1787.
Before he died, he asked to be buried in the small cemetery near the church built for the maroons atop a high hill in Preston.
See: Gertrude Tratt, “CHAMBERLAIN, THEOPHILUS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 5, 2016, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chamberlain_theophilus_6E.html.
Theophilus Chamberlain obit
Early American Newspapers
from NEHGS site
Salem Gazette
Nov.12, 1824
vol.II issue 90 page 3
"Died
.....
In Preston, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 20th July last, Rev.
Theophilus Chamberlain in the 89th year of his age - a native of
Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College. He was full 60 years a
preacher of the Gospel of Christ. Of all his family and offspring,
amounting to upwards of 40, a first wife, one son quite a youth, and
two infants are all that have departed this life before him."
As the British occupation of New York drew to a close during American Revolution, Chamberlain accepted a captain’s commission in the city militia from Sir Guy Carleton* with responsibility for arranging the transfer to Halifax of a group of refugees. With his family and friends he reached there in the early fall of 1783. Almost at once he was commissioned a justice of the peace, named a deputy surveyor, appointed to lay out a new township east of Dartmouth, and made agent to distribute land within the area, which at that time boasted only a handful of stragglers from the Dartmouth settlement. The actual grant in December 1784 gave Chamberlain and 143 others, including loyalists, blacks, disbanded soldiers, and Germans, a “plantation” of 32,000 acres in Preston, his name for the new township. Chamberlain himself received one of two grants of 1,000 acres. In April 1785, 194 refugees arrived from St Augustine (Fla), and fresh grants in 1785 and 1786 accommodated them and other newcomers. An additional 35 settlers received 4,700 acres in December 1787.
Before he died, he asked to be buried in the small cemetery near the church built for the maroons atop a high hill in Preston.
See: Gertrude Tratt, “CHAMBERLAIN, THEOPHILUS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 5, 2016, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/chamberlain_theophilus_6E.html.
Theophilus Chamberlain obit
Early American Newspapers
from NEHGS site
Salem Gazette
Nov.12, 1824
vol.II issue 90 page 3
"Died
.....
In Preston, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 20th July last, Rev.
Theophilus Chamberlain in the 89th year of his age - a native of
Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College. He was full 60 years a
preacher of the Gospel of Christ. Of all his family and offspring,
amounting to upwards of 40, a first wife, one son quite a youth, and
two infants are all that have departed this life before him."
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