Capt. Caleb Lake

Wife: Patience Lake (born Gifford)

Wife: Sarah Lake (born Westcott)

Children:

Susanna Smith (born Lake), Lucy Susannah Smith (born Lake), Sarah Laurilliard (born Lake), Caleb Lake, Mary Skaling (born Lake), Nathan Lake, Isaac Lake

In May 1760 Captain Caleb Lake traveled along with 7 family members from Newport, Rhode Island to Newport, Nova Scotia. Caleb was one of the first land grantees to receive a land grant from the Crown after the Acadian deportation. Caleb and his descendants have lived for many generations in Hants County, Nova Scotia.

Caleb Lake died in 1806 in Newport, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. "Caleb Lake, also a Newport yeoman, died aged 90 in 1812, was able to leave his widow £10 a year, paid quarterly, together with two bushels of wheat per year." from Julian Gwyn's Planter Nova Scotia.

Caleb was born about 1722. He passed away in 1812. [5]

Sources ↑ genealogy of the Ward and related families of Hants County Nova Scotia & Yorkshire, England ↑ Pane-Joyce Genealogy--Family of Joel Lake & Sarah Bailey ↑ Ancestry.Com--Caleb Lake (1722 - 1806)] ↑ Entered by Doug Coldwell, Sep 22, 2011 ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Dante Fish. Rhode Island Town Births Index, 1639-1932; Event Type: Marriage; Event Date: 20 April 1745; Name: Caleb Lake; Spouse's Name: Patience Gifford; Marriage Place: Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8KD-LJJ

Source: "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XL5H-6NX : 5 December 2014), Caleb Lake and Sarah Weastcoat, 30 Jul 1795; citing Falmouth,Hants,Nova Scotia; FHL microfilm 928,972.

"Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8KD-LJV : 8 December 2017), Caleb Lake and Patience Gifford, 1745.