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I love Canada because . . .31 May 2008
Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Courtesy of Amy, Triangle 4-H Club
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Samuel Leonard Tilley was born 8 May 1818, the son of Thomas Morgan Tilley and Susan Ann Hunt Peters. On both sides of his family, young Samuel Leonard was descended from Loyalists. The small house in which he was born was purchased from Dr. Frederick Stickles in 1805 by his great-grandparents, Samuel and Elizabeth Tilley.3
Photograph: Tilley House, Gagetown, New Brunswickc. 1880
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:From Hannay, James. The Life and Times of Sir Leonard Tilley Being a Political History of New Brunswick for the Past Seventy Years. St. John, N.B., 1897.
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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This silver spoon was found under floorboards of the Tilley House in the 1960s. It belonged to Samuel Leonard Tilley's Loyalist great-grandmother, Elizabeth Tilley, and was made by Saint John silversmith Alexander Munro between 1800 and 1810. The stem is engraved in script with the initials, ET.5
Silver spoon belonging to Elizabeth Tilley1800-1810
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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This cup and saucer belonged to Samuel Leonard Tilley's grandmother, Mary Chase Tilley, wife of James Tilley.7
Cup and saucer belonging to Mary ChaseTilley, wife of James Tilleyc. 1825
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Gift of Arthur Hetherington, 1994
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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This sampler was made by Elizabeth Tilley, a great-aunt of Samuel Leonard Tilley, about 1795. Elizabeth was the daughter of Loyalists Samuel and Elizabeth Tilley and the only one of their children born after their arrival in New Brunswick.9
Sampler by Elizabeth Tilley, great-aunt of Samuel Leonard Tilleyc. 1795
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Gift of Lizzie J. McIntyre, 1924
New Brunswick Museum
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This cup and saucer belonged to Sarah Briggs Tilley, wife of James Tilley, Jr., an uncle of Samuel Leonard Tilley.11
Cup and saucer belonging to Sarah Briggs Tilley1825-1835
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Gift of Arthur Hetherington, 1995
Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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Samuel Leonard Tilley's father, Thomas Morgan Tilley, was a storekeeper and carpenter in the Village of Gagetown. He and his wife came to the little house in Gagetown as newlyweds in 1817. They quickly expanded the house to include a spacious hallway and stair to the second floor, a large formal parlour and bedroom, and two bedrooms and a hallway on the second floor.13
Thomas Morgan Tilley, father of Samuel Leonard Tilleyc. 1860
Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada
Credits:Queens County Historical Society & Museum Inc.
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These sugar tongs belonged to Susan Peters Tilley, mother of Samuel Leonard Tilley. The tongs were made by John Hersey, Newcastle, New Brunswick, between 1823 and 1830, and are engraved with the initials, ST. |
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