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James Graham was born circa 1710 at Ireland.2
He married Rosanna MacLaughlin.2
Little is known about the ancestry of James Graham or Rosanna MacLaughlin. In fact, one author has his name as Joseph Graham and wife Rose. According to Mrs Grace L (Graham) Medinus: "James Graham Born 1710 ... was in Halifax for the first drawing of Lotts (sic). In the Crown Land Grants and also the Recorder's office his Lott is J18 in the South Suburbs. The clerk of the time entered the name phonetically James Grimes which is corrected in the Memorial #58 page 335 second book of Halifax Recorders office, when at 4 o'clock the afternoon April 12-1754 he gave 7 pounds sterling, his interest in a boat, his Lott J18 on Windmill St (Ft. Massey) to John Walker for Walker's Lot E4 in the South Suburbs facing on Halifax Harbour. This Lott of Walker's E4 is in the First Book of Halifax IN: (unreadable) South Suburbs, page 57 Recorders office and also Crown Land Grants, Provincial Bldg., The E4 water front lott (the Harbout (sic) of Halifax) was held by James Graham until he sold it to Thos. Bridge a merchant of Halifax for 10 pounds sterling on 13 November 1770. It is in the Recorder's Book Noll (sic. No. 11) page 25 and witnessed by Turner Harwood and Susanna Bridge, and the release bears the name James Graham of 3Fathom (sic) Harbour and his wife Rosanna Graham. James and Rosanna Graham and their son John were on their Grant at 3Fathom Harbour for some years. The Grant is in the Crown Land Books Provincial Bldg., and when granted was 250 acres and of the Township of Lawrencetown, which had been surveyed by Charles Morris and granted to 20 Proprietors in the first division of Lawrencetown (ed note: 10 June 1754). "In Book 17 page 339, the 22 August 1781 on oath of Robert Collins Benjamin Green to James Graham, 1387 acres 3 Fathom Harbour the northwestern-most part of 3Fathom Harbour the second and last division of Lawrencetown, in the 21st., year of his Majesty's Reign and signed by Benjamin Green and Sarah Green." According to Mrs Medinus, James' grandfather was "the renowned Captain Graham". However, we have no record of James birth or of the births of Captain Graham's sons. Family tradition also says that James and Rosanna sailed from Ireland in their own ship and landed at Three Fathom Harbour in 1741. It is much more likely that they first arrived at Halifax, NS about 1749 as we have a record of James receiving a grant of land at Halifax in 1749. Given the hostility between the English-speaking settlers and the French-speaking settlers at the time, your author considers it extremely unlikely that English-speaking settlers could have survived at unprotected Three Fathom Harbour before the founding of Halifax in 1749.3 James Graham and Rosanna MacLaughlin resided circa 1754 at Halifax, Halifax Co, Nova Scotia. It appears that James and Rosanna owned land in both Halifax and Three Fathom Harbour although they probably lived at Three Fathom Harbour sometime after 1754 when the Crown Grant Land was first surveyed.3 According to Douglas William Trider in his 1999 History of Dartmouth and Halifax Harbour 1418 to 1800, Vol 1: Benjamin Greene sold 1387 acres of land to James Graham, yeoman, for £40. This was also part of the grant, part 13, of the Three Fathom Harbour grant called the second and last division of Lawrencetown granted in 1781. |
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