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> Hi Pat.
> I have not found any Dunbars in Cumberland Co. before approx. 1850.
> I have been looking for this Dunbar connection with the Sharpes before and could not find it.However, the document I sent to you shows where Margaret(Sharpe)Frazer,dau. of Matthew Sharpe,late of Amherst Point,deceased died intestate,made Matthew Sharpe of Maccan her power of attorney.I thought this Matthew Sharpe would be a sister of the above mentioned Margaret Sharpe but she refers to him as a cousin.
> Matthew Sharpe received a land grant in the Saunders grant in Amherst Point.I am assuming that this Matthew Sharpe is the Matthew Sharpe that Margaret (Sharpe)Frazer refers to as her father.She also mentions that her late mother was Margaret Sharpe otherwise Smith.It indicates that her parents were from Mayargit,Parish of Ramaon,Barony of Cory and County of Antrim.,Northern Ireland.
> So what happened here to make Matthew a cousin of Margaret and not a brother.I am thinking that maybe there was a Dunbar involved.
> The Smith connection is very interesting to me.Robert Scott is in the 1770 Amherst census.He is also in the 1785 census,list of men over the age of 21.He is listed next to John Scott who I believe was his son from the Royal Fencible Americans.Robert Scott received his Crown Grant in 1773 on the Kennetcook River in Stanley in Hants Co.,N.S. next to John Smith.John Smith was the founder of the Hants Co. Irish Smiths and John's grand-father was Joshua Smith and he married Jane SCOTT.This Jane Scott appears to be of the same extended family of the Robert Scott in Amherst Point and ties into Margaret(Sharpe)Frazer's mother Margaret(Smith)Sharpe.
> Robert Scott stayed in Amherst Point after he received his Grant in 1773 and he appears to have sold his grant land to the Cochranes in the Saunders grant.
> I found a deed for East River,Pictou Co.,in 1805 where Floyd Dunbar sold land to Donald Fraser.This was an interesting combination of the Dunbar and Fraser names.They were prob. from the "HECTOR" settlers but I dont know where they came from.
> I saw somewhere that someone said these Scots-Irish from the Saunders Grant were from the McNutt expedition but I see nothing to confirm this.
> I also have the ancestor Mark Patton Jr. from the Saunders grant and he was from the Faughan Valley in Londonderry Co. next to Antrim County.
> Margaret(Sharpe)Fraser indicates she was from Coleraine when she made this document around 1811.
> Enough for now,Frank
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> Subject: [nscumber] Dunbar
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> Does anyone know if there were Dunbars in the Amherst area in 1775?
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