Valentine Troop

Valentine was born in 1713, Billerica, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts and passed away in 1776, Upper Granville, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Valentine married Catherine "Cattee" Church (1728-1777) before 1756, in Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Will of Valentine Troop

Children

1. Jacob Troop (1749 - 1805)
2. John Troop (1757 - 1808)
3. Maria Christina Troop (1759 - 1761)
4. Jane Troop Barnes (1760 - ____)
5. George Troop (1762 - 1842)
6. Charles Troop (1763 - 1763)
7. Elizabeth Troop Wade (1765 - 1851)
8. Henry Troop (1768 - 1827)
9. Joseph Troop (1770 - 1821)
10. Catherine Caroline Troop Fellows (1772 - 1855)

Burial:

Troop Cemetery • Belleisle, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Note: Valentine's [1] son Joseph Troop married Sarah Rice, which is recorded in the Edmund Rice Genealogy [2]

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GEDCOM Note

He was a Trader and Merchant in Boston, MA, a soldier; enlisted age 46, pre-United Empire Loyalist pioneer, and founder of the Canadian Branch of the family in Nova Scotia.
He married Catherine Church in 1756 in MA, presumably of the family of Colonol Benjamin Church, referred in many early Colonial historical records as the "Indian Fighter". Took wife and children to Granville, Annapolis Co in 1673. There are 10 offspring, second child was Jacob, b.1758, m. 1774 to Anna b.11/30/1758. She was the 9th child and the daughter of Abner Morse. One grandson was the Honorable Jacob Valentine Troop, M.P.P., N.B. b. 1808 to 1809 in Upper Granville who married Catherine Fellows in 1838.