The Nebraska Advertiser

SETTLED IN NOVA SCOTIA.

Colonial Americans Who Early Made Their Homes in Canada.

Many loyalists, particularly from New England, had fled to Nova Scotia before the close of the war, and settled on the spot where the city of St. John now stands. This gave one objective point, at any rate, says Macmillan's Magazine, to the much larger band of exiles who at the peace were forced to seek new homes at short notice: and in a single year the new settlements grew to some 13,000 souls. Men of all classes flocked there, officers and soldiers, clergymen and lawyers, farmers, mechanics and merchants. They were naturally much above the average of ordinary emigrants, both in character, education and intelligence: but all, or nearly all, were equally destitute and forced to begin the battle of life afresh. A year later New Brunswick was separated from Nova Scotia, endowed with a council and home assembly, and the capitol moved to the present site at Fredericton.

The first council included many well-known New England names, such as Putnam, Winslow, Allen and Willard. It included, also, a late judge of the supreme court of New York, another distinguished lawyer of that colony, and several officers of the loyal regiments. Both the New York and the Virginia branch of the Robinsons, one of the wealthiest and most influential families in colonial America, were here represented, and to this day are conspicuous in upper Canada.