He was twice married, and was the father of fourteen children.Thomas, Christopher, Elizabeth, Sallie, Joseph, Robert, William, John and Stephen were the names of the first family.Several of the sons settled in Sackville.Christopher, after selling his property in Sackville, purchased a farm in Point de Bute, and moved to that place.He had a large family of boys.Robert (second) moved to Shediac.One brother went to the United States and joined the Latter-Day Saints.Joseph married Ann Campbell, the daughter of Lieutenant Campbell, a Waterloo soldier, and settled at Wood Point.They had ten children, six sons and four daughters.Isaac, Nelson, Hance, William and Joseph all became master mariners, and were fine navigators.Woe be to the sailor who fell into their hands and did not know his duty or refused to perform it!
The family still have in their possession their ancestor Campbell's sword and some other relics belonging to the old soldier.
The Atkinsons have always been a strong, vigorous and self-reliant family, and have made a good record in this new country.
LOWERISON.
The following information regarding the Lowerisons was secured chiefly from Robert Lowerison, of Sackville, a great-grandson of the first Richard Lowerison.
Richard Lowerison, the first to come to America, was born in Yorkshire, England, in the year 1741, and married Mary Grey in 1762.Ten years later Mr.Lowerison sailed from Liverpool, Eng., bound for Halifax, where he landed on the 1st of May.He settled on the Petitcodiac River, in Westmoreland County, N.B., but the frequent raids made by the Eddy rebels in that district caused him to purchase and remove to a farm adjoining the western bounds of the Garrison lands of Fort Cumberland.
The buildings first erected by him have long since disappeared.The farm has been occupied by his son Thomas, by his grandson James, and at present by William Miner.
Six children survived Richard and Mary Grey Lowerison--Elizabeth, who married William Doncaster, and settled at Amherst Point; Anne, who married John Carter, and settled east of Fort Cumberland; Thomas, who married Hannah Carter, and occupied the homestead; Richard, who married Abigail Merrill, and after spending twelve years between the old home, Amherst Point, and Mapleton, moved to Frosty Hollow, Sackville, on September 18th, 1817, on the farm now occupied by his son, Thomas Lowerison, and his grandson, Bradford Carter; Joseph, the third son of Richard, married Mary Siddall and settled near Mount Whatley, about two miles from the homestead.Mary married James Carter, who for a time kept a public house in Dorchester, but afterwards moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia.