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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Extract of a letter from a principal gentleman in Nova Scotia, dated Halifax November 16, promoting the province's land around Bay of Fundy for 10,000 families, agricultural potential, fishing wealth, and overall advantages over New England states, New York, and the Jerseys, published in New York December 24.
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Extract of a letter from one of the principal gentlemen in Nova-Scotia to his friend here, dated Halifax, November 16.
"Should you or any of your friends come this way, I will render you or them every service in my power; and from my own knowledge of this country, I can inform you, that the land round the Bay of Fundy, is far preferable to any between Portsmouth and Philadelphia, and a sufficient quantity for 10,000 families, which might on an average winter eight cows the first year, and raise their bread and corn the next. This country has been ruined by large grants without settlers, which are now and will soon be escheated. This province is surrounded by a fishing bank that will prove an inexhaustible source of wealth to the inhabitants. Ten thousand people might be fully employed in catching and curing fish, and never go out of sight of land. In short, was this province as well peopled as Connecticut, I should rather have it for a principality than the four New-England States, together with New York and the Jerseys: they have indeed the melons and the peaches, that we have not, but we have real substantial advantages that they can never enjoy."
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Nova Scotia
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November 16
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Letter offers services to potential settlers and praises land around Bay of Fundy as superior to areas between Portsmouth and Philadelphia, sufficient for 10,000 families to winter eight cows first year and raise bread and corn next; notes ruin from large unsettled grants soon to be escheated; highlights surrounding fishing bank as inexhaustible wealth source employing 10,000 in catching and curing fish within sight of land; claims province, if peopled like Connecticut, preferable as principality to four New-England States, New York, and Jerseys, despite lacking melons and peaches but offering substantial advantages.