I have written a little on Joshua, my 5x grandfather, the son of George Vincent & Mary Higgins. The only one who could read & write in the family so he became the family's business representative, and the dispute with his dead son's wife Matilda Swallow, but unlike the rest of his family, he did not venture into shoemaking or farming.
Joshua was skilled with his
hands and knowledgeable in the ways of wooden mill machinery - a millwright - a
specialized carpenter who built watermills used in agriculture, food processing
& even the lumber industry. Given his business acumen, he contracted for the
design and erection of many mills on the North
Shore of Nova Scotia. He was born about 1802 in New Annan and married Hannah Treen at Wallace in 1833. Hannah was the daughter of Henry Treen & Lillian Seaman, another Loyalist family and together they had 12 children.
Based on local history for Wentworth, an epidemic swept through the county in the early 1860s and Joshua & Hannah lost several of their children - George who married Matilda Swallow, James of 1841, Charles of 1842 and possibly Mary Jane of 1849 & Henry of 1851 may have suffered before it became an epidemic.
Joshusa himself died in 1880
Presbyterian Witness Vital Statistics
VINCENT Joshua D 20 Jan at Pictou, aged 78yrs
Based on the GR's book, his will only provided for Hannah and his oldest boy, Benjamin, who received his chest of tools (Benj was the shoemaker of shoemakers in Washington).
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