Beaver Harbour, New Brunswick

Beaver Harbour
Unincorporated community
Beaver Harbour Location within New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°WCoordinates: 45°04′23″N 66°44′34″W / 45.07306°N 66.74278°W
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Charlotte
Parish	Pennfield
Electoral Districts Federal	New Brunswick Southwest
Provincial	Charlotte-The Isles
Government
• Type	Local service district
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-3)
Postal code(s)	E5H
Area code(s)	506
Highways	Route 778

Beaver Harbour is an unincorporated fishing village in the Parish of Pennfield, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.

It is located east of Blacks Harbour and south of Pennfield.

History

Beaver Harbour was settled in September 1783, by the "Quaker Company" the (spokesmen) agents for which were Joshua Knight, Samuel Fairlamb and John Rankin. The "Quaker Company" was composed almost entirely of members and former members of the Society of Friends from Pennsylvania and New Jersey ^[1] who being Loyalists left the City of New York upon its evacuation by the British Army at the end of the American Revolution. A number of the men had served as military loyalists, thus the company was in some ways a United Empire Loyalist counterpart to the “Patriot” “Free Friends” ^[2]see also http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-community-first-in-british-north-america-to-forbid-slavery-1.2255471#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=Facebook&_gsc=6NUHqGG

out Beaver being the first North American settlement to abolish slaveryb

In 1790 this settlement Bellevu or Bellveue was largely destroyed by a forest fire and most of the members of the "Quaker Company" dispersed.

Notable people

See also

• List of communities in New Brunswick

References

1. Among these were the family of John and Susanna Jackson from Chester County, Pennsylvania. One of their children, Thomas, was born there in 1788. They had all returned to Baltimore County, Maryland and to Chester County, Pennsylvania by 1795. John died in Baltimore in 1795. Also Gideon and Phoebe Vernon and their children, of Neither Providence Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania
2. John and Betsy Ross (of the U.S. flag story), were members of the "Free Friends".

• Beaver Harbour Community Venture web site