Rebecca Lombard was born in Truro, Massachusetts, New England in 1747 to Lewis Lombard and Sarah Parker. Her parents were both had English origins.
Rebecca's mother died when she was only 3 yrs old, and her father would go on to marry two more times. Rebecca had a sister named Sarah, 1 half-brother and 2 half-sisters.
She married to Captain David Smith when she was 19 years old. He was a local whaler. They went on to have six children in Truro. All during the years of the American Revolution. They were on the side of the United Empire Loyalists, and at the end of the war, in 1784, they chose to move to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Their oldest daughter did not accompany them. Then in 1786, they moved onto Port Hood Island.
After death of her spouse, she raised her growing family alone under harsh conditions. Water was the only transportation. The nearest merchant was at Arichat, NS. On 25 Aug 1792 she obtained a land grant of 500 acres for herself, sons and daughter. They paid 2 shillings per 100 acres annually at the Feast of St. Michael for use of this land, commencing 2 years after date of the grant. For every 50 acres of plantable land they had to clear 3 acres of land or drain 3 acres of swamp - within 3 years of the grant. They had to raise 3 veal cattle for every 50 acres of barren land and erect a good dwelling of 20 by 16 feet in floor size. All of this they must have done since the land was not forfeited.
Rebecca’s will, dated October 8, 1821 was recorded at Arichat – the site of the nearest Court House at the time. Her will is the earliest for a woman in Inverness County and one of the oldest surviving wills in all of Cape Breton.
SOURCES:
-"Vital Records of Truro Massachusetts to 1849" (includes Rebecca's birth, fathers marriages, Rebecca's marriage, and the birth registrations of her children Sarah, Isaac, David, Harding, Rebecca and John (actually states Chestico, which is Port Hood for these two)
-The last will and testament of Rebecca Smith
-Nova Scotia Crown Land Grant Maps #108
-"The Lumbert or Lombard Family", By Amos Otis, 1914
-"The Smiths of Cape Breton" by Perley Watts Smith, 1967, Chapter 5
-“The History of Inverness County”, by J.L. MacDougall, 1921, pg.250
-"Mabou Pioneers", A.D. MacDonald, 1977 -pg 654
-"Coady Remembered", by Malcolm Maclellan, 1985, pg 18-19
-"Sidney Earle Smith", by Edward Annand Corbett, 1961
-"History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton", By Rev John Murray, 1921, p 81-82
-"Cape Breton and the Jackson Kith and Kin", by Elva Ethel Jackson, 1971, pg. 121
Rebecca's mother died when she was only 3 yrs old, and her father would go on to marry two more times. Rebecca had a sister named Sarah, 1 half-brother and 2 half-sisters.
She married to Captain David Smith when she was 19 years old. He was a local whaler. They went on to have six children in Truro. All during the years of the American Revolution. They were on the side of the United Empire Loyalists, and at the end of the war, in 1784, they chose to move to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Their oldest daughter did not accompany them. Then in 1786, they moved onto Port Hood Island.
After death of her spouse, she raised her growing family alone under harsh conditions. Water was the only transportation. The nearest merchant was at Arichat, NS. On 25 Aug 1792 she obtained a land grant of 500 acres for herself, sons and daughter. They paid 2 shillings per 100 acres annually at the Feast of St. Michael for use of this land, commencing 2 years after date of the grant. For every 50 acres of plantable land they had to clear 3 acres of land or drain 3 acres of swamp - within 3 years of the grant. They had to raise 3 veal cattle for every 50 acres of barren land and erect a good dwelling of 20 by 16 feet in floor size. All of this they must have done since the land was not forfeited.
Rebecca’s will, dated October 8, 1821 was recorded at Arichat – the site of the nearest Court House at the time. Her will is the earliest for a woman in Inverness County and one of the oldest surviving wills in all of Cape Breton.
SOURCES:
-"Vital Records of Truro Massachusetts to 1849" (includes Rebecca's birth, fathers marriages, Rebecca's marriage, and the birth registrations of her children Sarah, Isaac, David, Harding, Rebecca and John (actually states Chestico, which is Port Hood for these two)
-The last will and testament of Rebecca Smith
-Nova Scotia Crown Land Grant Maps #108
-"The Lumbert or Lombard Family", By Amos Otis, 1914
-"The Smiths of Cape Breton" by Perley Watts Smith, 1967, Chapter 5
-“The History of Inverness County”, by J.L. MacDougall, 1921, pg.250
-"Mabou Pioneers", A.D. MacDonald, 1977 -pg 654
-"Coady Remembered", by Malcolm Maclellan, 1985, pg 18-19
-"Sidney Earle Smith", by Edward Annand Corbett, 1961
-"History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton", By Rev John Murray, 1921, p 81-82
-"Cape Breton and the Jackson Kith and Kin", by Elva Ethel Jackson, 1971, pg. 121
Rebecca Lombard was born in Truro, Massachusetts, New England in 1747 to Lewis Lombard and Sarah Parker. Her parents were both had English origins.
Rebecca's mother died when she was only 3 yrs old, and her father would go on to marry two more times. Rebecca had a sister named Sarah, 1 half-brother and 2 half-sisters.
She married to Captain David Smith when she was 19 years old. He was a local whaler. They went on to have six children in Truro. All during the years of the American Revolution. They were on the side of the United Empire Loyalists, and at the end of the war, in 1784, they chose to move to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Their oldest daughter did not accompany them. Then in 1786, they moved onto Port Hood Island.
After death of her spouse, she raised her growing family alone under harsh conditions. Water was the only transportation. The nearest merchant was at Arichat, NS. On 25 Aug 1792 she obtained a land grant of 500 acres for herself, sons and daughter. They paid 2 shillings per 100 acres annually at the Feast of St. Michael for use of this land, commencing 2 years after date of the grant. For every 50 acres of plantable land they had to clear 3 acres of land or drain 3 acres of swamp - within 3 years of the grant. They had to raise 3 veal cattle for every 50 acres of barren land and erect a good dwelling of 20 by 16 feet in floor size. All of this they must have done since the land was not forfeited.
Rebecca’s will, dated October 8, 1821 was recorded at Arichat – the site of the nearest Court House at the time. Her will is the earliest for a woman in Inverness County and one of the oldest surviving wills in all of Cape Breton.
SOURCES:
-"Vital Records of Truro Massachusetts to 1849" (includes Rebecca's birth, fathers marriages, Rebecca's marriage, and the birth registrations of her children Sarah, Isaac, David, Harding, Rebecca and John (actually states Chestico, which is Port Hood for these two)
-The last will and testament of Rebecca Smith
-Nova Scotia Crown Land Grant Maps #108
-"The Lumbert or Lombard Family", By Amos Otis, 1914
-"The Smiths of Cape Breton" by Perley Watts Smith, 1967, Chapter 5
-“The History of Inverness County”, by J.L. MacDougall, 1921, pg.250
-"Mabou Pioneers", A.D. MacDonald, 1977 -pg 654
-"Coady Remembered", by Malcolm Maclellan, 1985, pg 18-19
-"Sidney Earle Smith", by Edward Annand Corbett, 1961
-"History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton", By Rev John Murray, 1921, p 81-82
-"Cape Breton and the Jackson Kith and Kin", by Elva Ethel Jackson, 1971, pg. 121
Rebecca's mother died when she was only 3 yrs old, and her father would go on to marry two more times. Rebecca had a sister named Sarah, 1 half-brother and 2 half-sisters.
She married to Captain David Smith when she was 19 years old. He was a local whaler. They went on to have six children in Truro. All during the years of the American Revolution. They were on the side of the United Empire Loyalists, and at the end of the war, in 1784, they chose to move to Guysborough, Nova Scotia. Their oldest daughter did not accompany them. Then in 1786, they moved onto Port Hood Island.
After death of her spouse, she raised her growing family alone under harsh conditions. Water was the only transportation. The nearest merchant was at Arichat, NS. On 25 Aug 1792 she obtained a land grant of 500 acres for herself, sons and daughter. They paid 2 shillings per 100 acres annually at the Feast of St. Michael for use of this land, commencing 2 years after date of the grant. For every 50 acres of plantable land they had to clear 3 acres of land or drain 3 acres of swamp - within 3 years of the grant. They had to raise 3 veal cattle for every 50 acres of barren land and erect a good dwelling of 20 by 16 feet in floor size. All of this they must have done since the land was not forfeited.
Rebecca’s will, dated October 8, 1821 was recorded at Arichat – the site of the nearest Court House at the time. Her will is the earliest for a woman in Inverness County and one of the oldest surviving wills in all of Cape Breton.
SOURCES:
-"Vital Records of Truro Massachusetts to 1849" (includes Rebecca's birth, fathers marriages, Rebecca's marriage, and the birth registrations of her children Sarah, Isaac, David, Harding, Rebecca and John (actually states Chestico, which is Port Hood for these two)
-The last will and testament of Rebecca Smith
-Nova Scotia Crown Land Grant Maps #108
-"The Lumbert or Lombard Family", By Amos Otis, 1914
-"The Smiths of Cape Breton" by Perley Watts Smith, 1967, Chapter 5
-“The History of Inverness County”, by J.L. MacDougall, 1921, pg.250
-"Mabou Pioneers", A.D. MacDonald, 1977 -pg 654
-"Coady Remembered", by Malcolm Maclellan, 1985, pg 18-19
-"Sidney Earle Smith", by Edward Annand Corbett, 1961
-"History of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton", By Rev John Murray, 1921, p 81-82
-"Cape Breton and the Jackson Kith and Kin", by Elva Ethel Jackson, 1971, pg. 121
Inscription
Here lies
the remains of
Rebecca Smith who was
born in Truro NEW ENG-
LAND with her husband
CAPTAIN DAVID SMITH
who was lost on the ice
back on Port Hood in the
year 1789. Who died on the
30th November A.D. 1821
in the 76th year of her age.
This stone was erected
to her memory by her sons
Lewis L.
Parker SMITH
David
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Please note that there are two additional children for Rebecca that are not yet connected on Find-a-Grave. They are Sarah Smith b. 1769, who did not accompany her family to Nova Scotia, and Harding Smith b.1783 who returned to Provincetown Mass
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