John Soper

brief biography

John Soper was a wheelwright by trade and lived in Saint John, becoming a freeman of the city on April 25, 1855. He was also a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Society. John was given a Crown grant No. 14 in the Parish of Brunswick, County of Queens. This land adjoined that of Samuel Gamblin. He sold his land, but in 1865 borrowed 100 pounds from William Johnson, who later married his daughter Joanna, and bought land on Snider Mountain. In later years, after his wife died, he gave this land to his son John Alexander McCurdy Soper, to care for him in his old age. Son, John moved to Saint John, later to Lower Coverdale, where his father died. The property on Snider Mountain was sold to James Robert Soper for $1600. ( ?16.00) He later sold it and moved to Moncton

links

• http://www.gamblinfamily.org/caroline_gamblin.html