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About Robert Pagan
- Robert Pagan (November 16, 1750 – November 23, 1821) was a Scottish-born merchant, judge and political figure in New Brunswick.
- He represented Charlotte County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1786 to 1819. He was born in Glasgow, the son of William Pagan and Margaret Maxwell.
- In 1768 or 1769, he went to Falmouth Neck, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine), where he became involved in the timber trade and ship building.
- He married Miriam Pote.
- His brother Thomas joined him in 1775.
- In October 1775, his premises were destroyed by American forces who were reacting to rebel activity in the area.
- The two brothers departed to the West Indies.
- They returned in 1777, joining their brother William in New York City.
- Pagan was named in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778.
- In 1780, Pagan settled at the mouth of the Penobscot River, believing that this would become a loyalist settlement, and established sawmills, stores and engaged in ship building.
- In 1783, learning that the border would be established further east, he relocated to Passamaquoddy Bay.
- He was named a justice of the peace for the area and was later named a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the county.
- The community there was named St.
- Andrews in 1786.
- Pagan was involved in the timber trade, operating mills, shipbuilding and the fish trade and was a wholesale and retail merchant.
- He assisted in research and surveys which helped establish the St.
- Croix River as the international boundary with Maine.
- Pagan helped found the Bank of New Brunswick in 1820.
- He died in St Andrews the following year at the age of 71.
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