Person:Oliver Newcomb (1)

Name^[1]	Oliver Newcomb
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt 1750	Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States (probably)
Marriage	15 Dec 1773	Cornwallis, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canadato Mary Anne Mahegan
Death^[1]	Abt 1821	Popes Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 44 Oliver Newcomb⁵, in Newcomb, John Bearse. Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family: containing records of nearly every person of the name in America from 1635 to 1874 : also the first generation of children descended from females who have lost the name Newcomb by marriage : with notices of the family in England during the past seven hundred years. (Elgin, Ill.: Printed for the author by Knight & Leonard, 1874)
83-84.

"44 Oliver Newcomb⁵ (Benjamin,⁴ Simon,³ Andrew,² Andrew¹), b. about 1750 in Kent or Lebanon, Ct, cooper; removed with his parents to Cornwallis, N. S., 1760, where he m. Dec. 15, 1773, Mary Anne Mahegan, dau. of William and Eleanor. He was a pay sergt. in the British army in the Revolutionary War; in 1782 he left the service, and removed same year from Cornwallis to Shoal Bay, Ship Harbor, Halifax Co., eastern shore of N. S. His last years were spent with his son, William B. He d. about 1821 at Pope's Harbor, ae. 80. Most of his descendants have been, or are at present, engaged in the fisheries, and live in the vicinity at places known as Ship Harbor, Shoal Bay, Popes Harbor, Taylors head, Spry Bay, Sheet Harbor, Gedore and Tangier."