Timothy Lockhart

Timothy Lockhart 1775-1851

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Timothy Lockhart was born in 1775 in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia one year before the start of the American Revolution. He was raised in Parrsboro. The original settlement of Parrsboro was located on Partridge Island.

Lumber was much needed by the rapidly expanding communities of Nova Scotia. Mills were being built, the ship building industry was flourishing and Parrsboro soon became a busy community. As a young man Timothy and several of his brothers jointly owned a lumber mill and large tracts of woodlands near Crossroads. They were able to harvest trees from their land and process them at their mill. Timothy married Elizabeth Teed on Sept 19, 1793 in Sackville when he was just 18. He and Elizabeth settled in Sackville to raise their family. By this time Timothy had taken up farming and there are several land transactions recorded in 1814 and 1820.

In the ‘History of Sackville’ written by Dr. W.C. Milner, it is recorded that a “Timothy Lockhart representing the artillery branch of the Imperial Service, fired the salute with a brass cannon in front of the house of entertainment kept by Widow Evans”.

Work was being done on the Dorchester Road, money was scarce and everyone had to contribute one day’s work to the project. Upon completion it was written in the Milner book that Timothy Lockhart was the first man to drive a team through the woods on the newly constructed road and he brought a puncheon of rum from Dorchester Island with him. No doubt, in celebration of the completed project all present consumed that puncheon of rum.

Timothy lived a full life and by 1851 was widowed and living with the widow Keziah Cole in a wood dwelling in Sackville. Both of his daughters Jane and Olive had married into the Cole Family and it is likely that Keziah was a relative. Timothy died in 1851 at the age of 76.

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