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 *[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/214854?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''New Brunswick Loyalists: A Bicentennial Tribute'''] Sharon M. Dubeau.
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-Most Loyalists were educated, and while they did not have much time in the early years to write down their experiences, often in old age they did. One such account,''Kingston and the Loyalists of the “Spring Fleet” of A.D. 1783 with Reminiscences of Early Days in Connecticut: a Narrative by Walter Bates, Esq., Sometimes High Sheriff of the County of Kings, To Which is Appended a Diary Written by Sarah Frost on Her Voyage to St. John, New Brunswick. With the Loyalists of 1783''. ed., with notes by W.O. Raymond, A.B., Rector of St. Mary’s Church, Saint John, New Brunswick was published by Barnes and Company, Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1889. It has been reprinted in facsimile by New Ireland Press, 1980 &amp; 1999. The 32 page booklet is as packed with information as the title page, and even then the editor was lamenting the destruction of other records of early history by those who were part of it.
-''Up Country Memories and More Up Country Memories'', by Linda Aiton and Diane Bormke (privately published, c.2000) contains accounts of early loyalist settlements and life along the St. John River. To judge from two excerpts printed in ''Generations,'' Spring 2001, page 13, the hard family data is sparse, the anecdotal and family myth information quite amusing.
-Charlotte Gourlay Robinson, ''Pioneer Profiles of New Brunswick Settlers'' (Belleville, Ontario: Mika Publishing, 1980), contains 20 biographies of women, mostly Loyalists but a few from other early families. Well written, imaginative and easy to read, with many family tales and legends, and a bit of documentation, these accounts give a picture of life in early New Brunswick settlements. It is the sort of book I would recommend to a client whose family turned out to have “connections” to one or more of the subjects. Unindexed.
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