- Name: Philip Crouse
- Birth: 1760 in: Zeeland, Netherlands
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Notes: Philip Crouse came to New Brunswick from North Carolina in 1789. Philip immigrated from Rotterdam to Philadelphia around 1763 to 1768. As a teenager Phillip was living in Salisbury, North Carolina on a family farm on Beaverdam Creek just a few mil es from present-day Crouse, North Carolina. In 1782 the area of NC which Philip called home was controlled by the Whigs. He openly opposed the rebels that promoted the independence of the American Colonies from Britian and was recognized as a Loya list sympathizer. Philip and many others were asked to leave NC because of their views. Philip saved his money and in 1789 traveled downriver to Charleston, South Carolina where he booked passage on a ship and headed from British controlled Sain t John, NB. Upon arrival he immediately traveled up the St. John River looking for land that he could homestead, attracted by the possibility of obtaining a land grant from the British Crown. He traveled continued up the river till he reahed th e Keswick Rivere, where in early November 1789 where he applied in a formal petition to the British Crown for approximately 200 acres of unlocated lands on the Madam Keswick. Sarah Burtt was the fourth child of a Connecticut Loyalist family. Sara h and Philip had 18 children. All the children were born on the family's 400 acre York Co., New Brunswick land grant farmstead, in an area known as New Zealand, York Co., New Brunswick.
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Notes: Mary and Philip had no children.
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