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 *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/214854?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''New Brunswick Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute'''] Sharon M. Dubeau.
-=== Passamaquoddy  ===
+However, in 1783 the country’s first “boat people” arrived on the shores of Nova Scotia. British officials had been making some preparations for this influx, though not enough. There was unsettled land north of the Bay of Fundy and so, the so-called “Spring Fleet” of twenty transports sailed from New York, arriving at the mouth of the St. John River in early May.
-Saint John, which used to call itself “the Loyalist City” has overshadowed the Passamaquoddy Bay region, but around St. Andrews and St. Stephen on the St. Croix River, a large group of Loyalists arrived and founded these towns. Most, however, came from the coastal areas of New England, having moved north to avoid the rebellion and moved again as disputed borders also moved.
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/199321?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''The Loyalists of New Brunswick'''] Esther Clark Wright.
-Grace Helen Mowat, ''The Diverting History of St. Andrews'', recounts the whole saga and how the Loyalist town just across the Penobscot River, at Fort George, was dismantled piece by piece, the framework, lumber and hardware, and shipped off to the British side of the new border, the St. Croix. It is a diverting tale, contains quite a lot of family information and, used in conjunction with ''The Loyalists of New Brunswick'', and Charlotte County records, can enrich a family history.
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/214854?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''New Brunswick Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute'''] Sharon M. Dubeau.
-Martha Ford Barto’s ''Passamaquoddy: genealogies of West Isles Families'' (Saint John, New Brunswick: Lingley Print Co., 1975) also offers extensive genealogies of Loyalist settlers in this region.
-A genealogical guide to “Charlotte Co. Archives, St. Andrews, New Brunswick.” by Shirley O’Neil, published in ''Generations'', Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 1998, lists the various types of records available at the old Charlotte County Gaol. Preserved and organized by the Friends of the Charlotte County Historical Society, the list of holdings and microfilms is impressive. The two-page list of publications in itself is a most useful Charlotte County bibliography, and informs me than an ''Index to The Diverting History,'' has been published.
-Theodore C. Holmes,''Loyalists to Canada: The 1783 Settlement of Quakers and Others at Passamaquoddy'' (Camden ME: Picton Press, 1992), has been described as “a combined biographical dictionary, collection of manuscripts and group portrait.”<ref>''Nova Scotia Historical Review,'' Vol. 13, No. 1, 1993, reviewed by Allen B. Robertson, page 164.</ref> It centres particularly on the Pennfield settlement, contains considerable information on the Quakers, and has an excellent index of names.
 === Saint John County  ===