| Name |
Paul Mabey [1] |
| Birth |
1786 |
Bedeque, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Between 1818 and 1831 |
Prince Rdward Island House of Assembly, Charlottetown, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada [3] |
- was a Member of the House of Assembly
abstracts mentioning him:
Tuesday November 03, 1818
Mr. Mabey [Paul for Charlotte Town] supported Mr. Bagnall for Clerk of the House… On the motion, of Mr. Murray, seconded by Mr. Binns, the Solicitor General,
Saturday Nov 07, 1818 Mr. Mabey seconded….Page 10
Tuesday November 10 , 1818 Mr. Mabey's address to the Prince Regent on his nuptials with Princess Adelaide etc. Page 12
Wednesday, November 11, 1818 Bill for the Regulation of gathering Seaweed Mabey against… page 13
Thursday July 27, 1820 On a motion of Mr. Mabey, seconded by Mr. Stewart, Ordered, that a committee be appointed to examine into the expiring Laws and to report thereon: Mr. Mabey, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Chappell, were appointed for that purpose, Page 8
Tuesday August 01,1820 Mr. Mabey, a representative of Charlotte-Town, moved .pg.12
Paul Mabey, for Charlotte-Town – 1925
Mr. Mabey Chairman of the Roads & Bridges Cte.
Friday, April 20, 1827 Mr. Mabey voting in the Legislature
Monday April 26 1830 Ordered, that Mr. Dalrymple, Mr. Mabey and Mr. Cameron to join the Committee of council to wait on his Excellency (John Ready, Lieut. Governor , Prince Edward Island) with same. [praying that he would be graciously pleased to relinquish Quit Rents payable from this Island …]
1931 - P. Mabey …, Commissioner, for building a Jail ….
Charlotte-Town, 30th December, 1833
Sir, We herewith enclose to you the account for extra work done to the new Block of the King's Wharf, and appraised by the Inspectors Messrs, Chappell and Wright, which you will have the goodness to lay before his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor in Council - We have the honour to be. Etc. Paul Mabey, Ralph Brecken, Don. MacDonald, Isaac Smith, commissioners appointed for the superintending the extending of the King's Wharf
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| Census |
1861 |
Charlottetown, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada [4] |
- Paul Maby, one man over 60, one man 21-46, one woman 21-46, one woman 16-21, one girl 5-16, and one girl born in last year; four are members of Church of England
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| Obituary |
- Paul Mabey, merchant and politician; born about 1786 at Bedeque, P.E.I., son of George and Mary Mabey; died. unmarried 21 March 1863 at Pownal Point, P.E.I.
Paul Mabey's parents arrived at Charlottetown, P.E.I., from Shelburne, N.S., in July 1784. Qualifying for a land grant, they settled at Bedeque with other loyalists. About 1800 the family moved to Charlottetown, where Paul became a clerk, along with young Robert Hodgson, for Benjamin Evans, a prominent merchant. By 1811 he was president of the local New Harmonic Society, and trustee for a piece of land held by the local Wesleyan Methodist Society. Soon after he became a partner of Evans and by 1819 had his own business. In 1823 he was referred to as a merchant of considerable property who had rapidly acquired a fortune.
In 1817 he had been elected as one of the two members of the assembly for Charlottetown and Royalty; he held that seat until 1830. When in 1822 acting Receiver General John Edward Carmichael, son-in-law and close associate of Lieutenant Governor Charles Douglas Smith, revived a demand for the payment of quitrents, Mabey joined a group led by John Stewart which sought the dismissal of the governor. Smith's relations with the assembly had been stormy since 1818 and he had governed without an assembly since August 1820. The group petitioned High Sheriff John MacGregor to call meetings in each county to discuss grievances. At the Queens County meeting on 6 March 1823, over 800 householders and freeholders adopted resolutions critical of Smith's administration. A committee composed of Mabey, Stewart, MacGregor, and four others was chosen to embody the resolutions in a petition to the king, which was subsequently circulated around the Island for signatures. After the publication of these proceedings, Stewart escaped to England with the petition, but Mabey and the others were charged with contempt of the Court of Chancery because they had accused Ambrose Lane, master in chancery and also Smith's son-in-law, of levying extraordinary charges in cases brought before him. They appeared before a crowded and noisy court on 27 October with Smith presiding. Uneasy about the disturbed state of the colony, Smith suspended proceedings and placed the accused in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. Mabey told Smith that the committee considered his actions illegal and that they would not remain in custody. On 30 October they were released and the case was dropped. Mabey continued the attack on Lane with several letters to the Register, to which Lane made little attempt to reply.
After Smith's dismissal in 1824, Paul Mabey spent his remaining six years in the house actively attending to its business and involved in most of the important committees. He was defeated in the 1830 elections and never again ran for office. He remained active in the militia and was a well-known Charlottetown figure. About 1856 his mental condition deteriorated and in 1861 he was adjudged to be of unsound mind.
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| Reference Number |
21697 |
| Death |
22 Mar 1863 |
Pownel Point, Prince Edward Island, Canada [1] |
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| Burial |
Old Protestant Burying Ground, Charlottetown, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada [6] |
| Person ID |
I21574 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1786 - 1863 (77 years)
