Christopher Pearson [37841]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

Christopher married Marie Secord [38295] [MRIN: 551604695], daughter of Daniel Secord Jr. [39302] and Catherine Mabie [39305], in 1781 in Trois Rivers. (Marie Secord [38295] was born on 21 Feb 1735/36 in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York,¹⁰⁵²⁹ died in 1839 in New Carlisle, , Quebec, Canada and was buried in New Carlisle, , Quebec, Canada.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Anecdote. After Joshua died Mary and her six children moved to the
Yamachiche refugee camp near Trois Rivers, Quebec for the
balance of the war. While in camp, she met Christopher
Pearson, the rations officer, a widower with two girls, and she
married for the third time. With the signing of the peace
treaty in Paris, provision was made for reparations,
Christopher Pearson and his wife and new family were among the
five hundred settlers who sailed from St. Lawrence around the
Gaspe Peninsula, Paspebiac Beach, on the Bay of Chaleur in June
of 1783. Lots were drawn and land distributed to these
transplanted Americans. Mary or Grandma Pearson as she was
later know, lived to the age of 103.