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The New York Packet
New York, New York County, New York
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Four refugees from Nova Scotia, formerly of Cape May, passed through Woodbridge, N. Jersey on Tuesday last, exhausted after a 700-mile journey. They report a severe August frost destroyed crops, leading to petitions for supplies and potential abandonment by poorer settlers.
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On Tuesday last passed through this neighbourhood four persons, including one woman, formerly of Cape May, but lately from the interior parts of Nova-Scotia by land. They were mounted on 3 small horses, without saddles, and say they left that province in November last, (the navigation being then shut up) with a view of returning to the above-mentioned county, which they left in 1781 to follow the fortunes of the Royalists. More dismal objects I do not remember to have seen in a long time; the fatigue of a journey of near seven hundred miles, at this rigorous season of the year, having almost worn them down to skeletons. They mention a severe frost having happened in Scotia the beginning of last August, which entirely destroyed the Indian corn, potatoes and other ground provisions. That the refugees have petitioned the government for another year's supplies, which it was expected would be granted. When these supplies cease, and it is certain these will be the last, it is their opinion the province will be totally abandoned by all such of the poorer sort as do not live convenient to the fisheries, thousands of that class being at present settled upon a soil wretchedly thin and cold, producing nothing but moss, and absolutely unfit for tillage. Vast numbers of such as have spirit enough not to become citizens of the United States, have already removed into Canada.
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Woodbridge, (N. Jersey)
Event Date
Jan. 29.
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the four persons were almost worn down to skeletons from the fatigue of a near seven hundred mile journey at this rigorous season.
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On Tuesday last passed through this neighbourhood four persons, including one woman, formerly of Cape May, but lately from the interior parts of Nova-Scotia by land. They were mounted on 3 small horses, without saddles, and say they left that province in November last, (the navigation being then shut up) with a view of returning to the above-mentioned county, which they left in 1781 to follow the fortunes of the Royalists. They mention a severe frost having happened in Scotia the beginning of last August, which entirely destroyed the Indian corn, potatoes and other ground provisions. That the refugees have petitioned the government for another year's supplies, which it was expected would be granted. When these supplies cease, and it is certain these will be the last, it is their opinion the province will be totally abandoned by all such of the poorer sort as do not live convenient to the fisheries, thousands of that class being at present settled upon a soil wretchedly thin and cold, producing nothing but moss, and absolutely unfit for tillage. Vast numbers of such as have spirit enough not to become citizens of the United States, have already removed into Canada.