She was wrecked in a nor'easter on Grand Manan Island in January 1857 en route from Toulon to Saint John, New Brunswick.

The treaty, signed in 1842, had resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies, including New Brunswick.

[5] She reached Cape Sable Island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia on 25 December and entered the Bay of Fundy, but bad weather impeded her progress toward Saint John.

However the ship was driven back down the Bay of Fundy by a violent nor'easter and in the early morning of 19 January she struck a rocky headland at the north end of Grand Manan Island.

The grave site was marked by a wooden plaque until a stone monument was erected in 1910, bearing the inscription "In memory of 21 seamen drowned on the northern head of Grand Manan Jan. 19th 1857 belonging to the ship Lord Ashburton.

He became a shoemaker and returned to Grand Manan, where he spent the rest of his life living and working in the village of North Head.