Quaker-Loyalist Settlers in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

26 BULLETIN OF FRIENDS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION non-Quaker readers as Nora Wain. Her topic was "The Trials and Tribulations of Writing a Book about Quakers." She spoke of the gratification of having her two earlier books, House of Exile and Reaching for the Stars, chosen for circulation in the British armed services during the war and expressed the hope that her forthcoming book, which will carry a definite Quaker message, will not only have an equally wide circulation among English-speaking readers but will be translated into as many languages as possible, including Russian. She reported having found everywhere on her recent American lecture tour a tremendous desire to learn what motivates Friends. Her new book, This Is My Home, will be an attempt to satisfy that desire. She spoke movingly of the loss and recovery of her own faith during and after the war. No one who heard Nora Wain could fail to be deeply impressed by the sincerity of her attachment to the Quaker faith which she regards as her spiritual home. QUAKER-LOYALIST SETTLERS IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA Edited by Arthur J. Mekeel* IN AN earlier issue of the Bulletin (vol. 32 [1943], pp. 65-75) an article appeared entitled "The Quaker-Loyalist Migration to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1783." The population statistics and some other facts cited in the article were based on material contained in three lists of names of those who moved from the United States to the new settlements. Two of these lists, actually two parts of the same list, designated as I and II, are in the records vault of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Arch Street) at 302 Arch Street, Philadelphia, where they are in Philadelphia Meeting for Sufferings, Miscellaneous Papers, box 19. They constitute the report given by Joseph Moore to the Philadelphia Meeting for Sufferings in March, 1787, on a visit which he and several other Friends made to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the summer of 1786 to investigate the condition of the Friends who had settled there. Another list of emigrants, designated as III, is contained in "Gathered Leaves," vol. 1, p. 59, a two-volume collection of papers in the records vault of the two New York Yearly Meetings at the Friends Seminary, 16th Street and Rutherford Place, New York City. * Arthur Mekeel is Dean of William Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Vol. 36, Spring 1947 QUAKER-LOYALIST SETTLERS27 A supplementary list of names, designated as IV, is also given. This list is contained in an article entitled "A Book of Records of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society of People Called Quakers, who have agreed to settle themselves on the River St. Johns in Novascotia" by J. Vroom in the New Brunswick Historical Society Collections, vol. 2 (1899), pp. 73-80. The lists are as follows: Agreeable to the desire of the Meeting for Sufferings we herewith produce the Names of most of the Members of our religious Society who went from within the limits of our Yearly Meeting of Pennsylvania & New Jersey to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Abigail Rankin, wife of John Rankin & her three Children (Warrington or New York doubtful which) (I)* Hester Lippincott, wife of Richard Lippincott & their Child . . ., reside at Pennfield Beaver Harbour in the Province of New Brunswick, & are Members of the Monthly Meeting of Shrewsbury Joshua Knight, Sarah his Wife & their Son Joshua at Beaver Harbour are Members of Abington Monthly Meeting (2) Joshua Knight, son of Joshua Knight—his Wife Euphreme (daughter of John Loughborough) & their Child Margaret (3) Parneal Mead, wife of Richard Mead a Member of Salem New Jersey, with her Children, Benjamin Parneal and Margaret are at Beaver Harbour in the Province of New Brunswick Joel Daniel from near Salem, was a Member when he left home but says he has not been treated with for his outgoing in Marriage & does not know that he is disown'd. he lives in or near Frederickton in New Brunswick & was thought to be a reputable Man— Phebe Vernon, wife of Gideon Vernon, & their five Children, . . . members of Providence Monthly Meeting in Chester County (2)—are at Mackadavy near Beaver Harbour (4) Hannah Fairlamb Wife of Samuel Fairlamb from Chester—with their Children...