In July 1783, Joseph, Hester and their three children left New York on the ship "Thetis", destined for Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, along with 85 other Loyalist families, for a total of 246 men, women and children (including Hester's father, James, and siblings and their families). Two years later, in 1785, Joseph was granted 500 acres of land.[3] He was later granted land in Sackville, New Brunswick.[4] Joseph and Hester raised a family of 13 children in Sackville.
Hester died about 1846 in Sackville, New Brunswick.
Thanks to Heather Babcock Chevalier of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada for her research on Joseph Sears and Hester Wheaton.
Through the Y-DNA testing of a Wheaton male descendent, we know that Hester's father, James Wheaton, descends from Robert Wheaton of Rehoboth, MA. From which son is uncertain, but Ephraim Wheaton has been ruled out.
Descendants of John Trerice. genealogy.com
John Trerice, the earliest known ancestor of the Canadian Trerice family, was born in England probably in December 1759 or January 1760.His exact birthplace or parentage is not known.At just a few weeks of age he was left at an orphanage in Shrewsbury, England, run by the Thomas Coram Foundation For Children.The records of Shrewsbury Foundling Hospital state that on January 29, 1760 "a child about a month old...a boy not christened..." was received into the orphanage.This child was assigned the number 15314, which identifies him in all later records, but no name was recorded on this intake record.It is through other orphanage records that this child can be identified as John Trerice.In general it was customary for orphanage children to be kept in a nursery until five or six years of age, and then they were transferred to the main orphanage or "foundling hospital".This seems to have been young John's fate, for he was to spend all of his earliest years in the orphanage.The records also state that while he was at the orphanage, he suffered from a case of small pox.The last record of John at the orphanage is his apprenticeship to Thomas Coates of Yorkshire.This record is dated December 4, 1769 and indicates that John left for Yorkshire on December 13, 1769.He was to be apprenticed to Coates till 21 years old, and to learn the trade of husbandry.
Lt. Gov. Michael Francklin was sent to England to promote settlement.He recruited a large number of Yorkshiremen, among which were Thomas Coates and John Trerice.It is very possible that Coates and Trerice came to Nova Scotia on the ship Duke of York which sailed from Liverpool on March 16, 1772 and landed at Halifax on May 1st.