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c 1862-1839
HOVEY, AARON: born Topsfield, MA and baptised on 14 March 1762, the only son on Stephen and Abigail (Hood) Hovey. He arrived on the St. John River aboard the schooner “Eunice” on 26 April 1767.
He married Dorothy Price around 1782 and was listed in the Studholm Report of 1783 as “claiming a lot in consequence of a lease to his father-in-law Edmund Price from Wm. Spry Esq., dated 12 July 1770 for 200 acres of land.”
Aaron filed land petitions in NB around 1785 and in 1811 settled in Ludlow Parish. He was a weaver by trade and hotelkeeper. In “Over the Portage” by William R. MacKinnon, Jr., Aaron Hovey is listed as one of the original 59 settlers to Ludlow.
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Stephen, born 1783, Gagetown, NB, died after 1861, Stanley, NB. Married Harriet Sayre of Maugerville on 30 October 1807. They had 5 children.
Mary, born c 1785, died after 1861. Married Captain John Price on 4 March 1806.
Aaron, Jr., born 1788, died after 1862. He married Helen (Eleanor) McLaggan in 1812. They had 5 children.
Susanna, born c 1790, died after 1861. Married 1st Robert McLeod, 2nd Captain Abel Pond.
Edmund, born 1795, died 1887, Houlton, ME. Married Mary Jane Pennington in 1820.
James, born 1797, died 13 Apr 1865. Married Jane Donald in 1828. They had 5 children.
Jacob Barker, born 1 Jan 1800, died 1888. He married Jane Murphy Carroll in 1824 and had 11 children with her. He remarried after 1865 and had 2 children with his new wife.
Moses, born c 1800, died after 1851. Married Marie Pond in 1823. They had 8 children.
Jane, born 1802. Married Dexter H. Woodcock in 1822.
Allen, born c 1805, died young.
Aseneth, born 19 November 1808, died 25 February 1889 in Columbia, CA. Married Japheth Foster in 1823.
Abigail married Richard Price.
Dorothy married Nathaniel Letchmere Price.
** There may have been 2 daughters who died young.
Date of Arrival: From Massachusetts in 1767, finally settling in Ludlow Parish in 1811.
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