Samuel Creelman

1728 - 1810  (82 years)

• Name	Samuel Creelman
  Birth	1728	Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Death	1810	Colchester Co, NS
  Person ID	I6661	Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Woodbury Creelman
  Mother	Caroline Archibald
  Notes	Woodbury and Caroline (Archibald) Creelman are widely reported to be parents of Samuel Creelman. However, no sources have been found to verify this claim.
  Family ID	F2174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From "Historical and genealogical record of the first settlers of Colchester ... by Thomas Miller Samuel Creelman was born in Ireland, about the year 1728. He was married to Isabell Flemming, about the year 1748. He was a cooper by trade. He removed with his wife and family to Nova Scotia, and arrived in Halifax in the fall of the year 1761. They went to Lunenburg that fall, where they spent a hard winter, subsisting mostly on the eels they caught In the spring of the year 1762, they returned to Halifax, and he worked that summer at his trade; and, in the fall, he removed to Cumberland. When he was leaving Halifax, he raised his hands and voice exclaiming against the town, as the most wicked place that he ever beheld. He remained in Cumberland until the fall of the year 1771, or the spring of 1772, when he removed and settled at the Black Rock, on the west end of the Township of Truro. When he was removing with his family from Cumberland, he took passage in a vessel with Captain Lockard. When they arrived, they were landed on the point, on the east side of Shubenacadie River. This point is known by the name of Lockard's point ever since. He purchased a lot of land that was laid off for David Archibald, Esq., as five hundred acres, extending from the point before mentioned four miles up the Subenacadie, and fronting on the River. Also another lot, the same size, adjoining the first lot, and on the east side of it. On these lots he continued to reside the remainder of his days. He died at his son Matthew's house, which place is now called Princeport, about the year 1810. His wife died several years before. They were buried near the house of Mr. James Davis, about one mile from the Black Rock. It may here be observed that his forefathers names were Ashmore, and that some of them had a large contract for carrying provisions to a number of convicts, which they did in Creels carried across the horse's back, and by this the name was changed from Ashmore to Creelman. The name of Ashmore is still kept as a second name by some of the Creelmans.