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From: Anne Wiegle <>
Subject: RE: LOYALISTS
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 11:16:06 -0500


For anyone interested in Loyalists, there are quite a few on-line
resources.
There is a Loyallists-in-Canada maillist and some United Empire Loyalist
websites.
Search Cyndi's list for more info.

I know of one Chester Co Family- John BAKER b abt 1742 Goshen (Twp.
(descended from the Bakers of Edgmont) who went to Prince Edward Island
after the Rev. War. He married Hannah LEWIS of Phiadelphia. John was s.o.
Joseph BAKER III & Mary CHAMBERLAIN. John sister Lettice BAKER who m.
Richard BARNARD in Concord also went to PEI.

Nova Scotia has some really beautiful farmland, but it is limited in
quantity. The rest of the land is woods and scrub suitable for moose
grazing. Nova Scotia was settled early, despite its short growing season
because there were a lot of salt marshes which made for good grazing. The
land was diked by the Acadians (the original settlers from France) to keep
out the salt water, but they did not need to clear the land. The land at
higher elevations was wooded and would require considerable effort to make
it arable.

The British got NS after the French and Indian War. (1754) After a few
years of squabbling, instigated by (accd to the Brits) the French Catholic
Priests, they decided to expell all the Acadians and get rid of their
problems. So they rounded them up, loaded them on ships and took them away,
without giving them time to pack their belongings, and separated family
members, and just dumped them in cities like Boston, Phila, NY, New
Orleans. etc. They just put them off. Dumped them homeless into the cities.
Of course some of the Acadians hid in the woods with the Indians and
avoided expulsion, and many of them painfully made their way back, but
nevertheless, this was a pretty miserable chapter in American history. Old
people, separated from their families, died destitute. Many families were
never reunited. Read the story of Evangeline.

So this Nova Scotia land sat empty for a few years, and then Americans were
encouraged to settle there, starting in 1766. These were called Planters or
Pre-Loyalists. After The Rev. War, more British Sympathizers (United Empire
Loyalists) went to Canada, when they had their posessions confiscated in
the new USA. So this document refers to this second wave of American
emigrants to Canada. I think the document reflects the fact that these 55
politicians were going to grab all the good stuff, leaving the peons with
moose scrub.

Anne Broomall Wiegle

-----Original Message-----
From:Mark & Jana Rooke [SMTP:]
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Subject:LOYALISTS

My husband and I came across this document when we were in NY a couple
of summers ago. My memory was jogged by the Family Tree Maker CD with
Amos Rooke on it, so I went looking for this document.

We don't understand it!

Would anyone like to take a stab at it? I typed in all the names
thinking someone might find a long lost relative.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Jana Rooke
*******
The New York Genealogical and Biographial Record
Vol. XIX, 1888
pg. 180-185

MEMORIAL OF NEW YORK LOYALISTS.

The following Loyalist memorial I have lately found in the Nova Scotia
archives. So far as I know, it has never hitherto been printed. I am
sorry to say that I can find no date for it, but I presume it was
offered some time in 1782. Benjamin Rand

To his Excellency Sir Guy Carleton, Knight of the most honorable Order
of Bath, General and Commander in Chief, &c., &c., &c.

The Memorial of The Subscribers Humbly Sheweith

That your memorialists having been deprived of very valuable Landed
Estates and considerable Personal Propertys without the Lines and being
Loyalty to their Sovereign and Attachment to the British Constitution
and seeing no prospect of their being reinstated had determined to
remove with their Families and settle in His Majesty's Province of Nova
Scotia on the Terms which they understood were held out equally to all
his Majesty's persecuted Subjects.

That your Memorialists are much alarmed at an application which they
are informed Fifty Five Persons have joined in to your Excellency
solliciting a recommendation for Tracts of Land in that Province
amounting together to Two Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand Acres and
that they have dispatched forward Agents to survey the unlocated lands
and select the most fertile Spots and desirable situations.

That chagrined as your Memorialists are at the manner in which the late
Contest has been terminated and disappointed as they find themselves in
being left to the lenity of their Enemys on the dubious recommendation
of their Leaders they yet hoped to find an Asylum under British
Protection little suspecting there could be found among their Fellow
sufferers Persons ungenerous enough to attempt ingrossing to themselves
so disproportionate a Share of what Government has allotted for their
common benefit and so different from the original proposals.
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