|
|
Article: Come home to your loyalist roots.
- Article from:
- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 United Empire Loyalists' Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
It's 1783 and the brig Thetis and the i ship Nicholas and Jane have landed weary Loyalists at Fort Cumberland. Their homes and possessions in the new United States of America have been confiscated because they were loyal to their British King. It's time to start all over again!
Some of these Loyalists walked through the woods in the fall of 1783
and later others followed by boat to Fox Harbour to what would be their land at the Remsheg Grant. Their names can be found on a copy of the original grant at the Nova Scotia Provincial Crown Lands Record Centre in the Old Grant Book 17, page 32. Thanks to Barbara Northan, a transcription of this document can also ...