NameCaptain William Warren - DDirect Ancestor (Family North American Pioneer) 
Birth1740, Darlington, England
Death13 Jun 1798, Tryon, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Spouses
Birth1743, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Death18 Dec 1824, Tryon, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Marriage1771, Tryon, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Notes for Captain William Warren - DDirect Ancestor (Family North American Pioneer)
-Captain William Warren was born in Darlington, England in 1740. He likely emigrated to Prince Edward Island around 1763, the end of the war. William Warren married Jane, the widow of John Gouldrup, in 1771 at Tyron, Prince Edward Island. She was from Quebec City. William was a Mariner and, Shipbuilder and Farmer. He was a Captain in the British Forces that fought in the Seven Years War and a member of the first Legislative Assembly held on 4 July 1773. Samuel Holland was trying to interest some of the former soldiers in Quebec to settle in Prince Edward Island. “Captain Samuel Holland Surveyor General for his Majesty’s Northern District of North American on the one part and William Warren, Jacob Stagman, Henry Gouldrup, Daniel McCann, and Thomas Shatforth on the other part” dated 25 April 1768 conveyed land on the Tryon River to these men.
Was the owner of a schooner called Tryon that was constructed in 1789 and registered in Prince Edward Island. His occupation ‘Mariner’.
William and Jane’s daughter Mary Warren married John Foy at Tyron, Prince Edward Island in 1788.