EIGHTH GENERATION

128. * William Mitton was born on JUN 1 1733 in Otley, Yorkshire Co., England. ⁽⁷²⁰⁾ He is my 5th great grandfather. 5th great grandfather He was married to * Ann Harper on APR 9 1751 in North Newbold, Yorkshire Co., England. ⁽⁷²¹⁾

129. * Ann Harper⁽⁷²²⁾ is my 5th great grandmother. 5th great grandmother

Her parents are not given. Children were:

i. Ann Mitton⁽⁷²³⁾ was born on AUG 19 1754 in Badsworth, Yorkshire Co., England.⁽⁷²⁴⁾ She is my 4th great grandaunt. 4th great grandaunt

No husband given.
ii. Susy Mitton was born on OCT 2 1757.⁽⁷²⁵⁾ She is my 4th great grandaunt. 4th great grandaunt

No husband given.
64 iii. * William Mitton.
iv. John Mitton^{(120) (726)(727) (728)} emigrated between 1783 and 1786 from Yorkshire Co., England. ⁽¹²⁰⁾ He immigrated between 1783 and 1786 to New Brunswick, Canada.⁽¹²⁰⁾ see general notes He is my 4th great granduncle. 4th great granduncle

*Pioneers on Little River : "John Mitton came from Yorkshire between the years 1783 and 1786. In the latter year he joined with others in signing a Memorial to the Governor. He settled on the Little River, a few miles above its mouth and received a grant to the land in 1809. It was a long time to wait for a title to the land on which he settled, but other settlers on that river, and on the Pollet River, experienced about the same delay."

*E-Mail [Jim]: Robert's uncle "John Mitton came to Canada previously and settled near Scinton, Albert county, New Brunswick. John married Elizabeth Blakeley, widow of ____ Lancaster and adopted her son Ralph.

*Note: I have nothing that gives John's parents, but if he was an uncle of Robert, then he must have been a brother of Robert's father and probably also a son of William and Ann [Harper] Mitton.

*E-Mail [Marilyn]: "John Mitton sailed from Scarborough, England on a ship of uncertain name and captain. My ship list, compiled by Michael Cooney of Yorkshire called the ship the WILLIAM AND MARY but it is called different names by different people. It sailed in April of 1774. The list shows John as travelling alone with no wife or family. The 1783 census shows John as living with a wife and one child. The wife would be Eliza and the child would be her son Ralph who was born about 1774. In his will, John leaves the furniture to his wife, Eliza, and names his sole executor as "his step-son, Ralph Johnson, known as Ralph Johnson Mitton". I am descended from Ralph Johnson Mitton so I guess I am not really a Mitton at all although I was brought up with the name.

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick has Probate files of early settlers, and R. Wallace Hale has compiled some of them in EARLY NEW BRUNSWICK PROBATE RECORDS 1785-1835, Heritage Books Inc. 1989. There is a copy at the Mt. A Library at Sackville and I transcribed what he had on John Mitton. "To my brother Robert Mitten, 5 shillings; to nephews William Mitten, Richard Mitten, Robert Mitton, and James Mitten each 5 shillings."

*E-mail [Hollis]: Esther Clark Wright in Samphire Greens, lists settlers who were living in Hillsboro in 1775, amongst whom was John Mitton who arrived on Albion in 1774. Gray also lists John Mitton as living in Hillsboro in 1775. It is also listed that he married the widow of a Blakesly (her name listed variantly as Eliza and Elizabeth)"


v. Mary Mitton was born on MAY 31 1763.⁽⁷²⁹⁾ She is my 4th great grandaunt. 4th great grandaunt

No husband given.