They Planted Well v THEY PLANTED WELL NEW ENGLAND PLANTERS IN MARITIME CANADA Edited by Margaret Conrad TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 INTRODUCTION 9 IMMIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT R.S. Longley, The Coming of the New England Planters to the Annapolis Valley 14 D. Murray Young, Planter Settlements in the St. John Valley 29 Esther Clark Wright, Cumberland Township: A Focal Point of Early Settlement on the Bay of Fundy 36 Ernest A. Clarke, Cumberland Planters and the Aftermath of the Attack on Fort Cumberland 42 HISTORIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT Jack Greene, Recent Developments in the Historiography of Colonial New England 61 George Rawlyk, J.B. Brebner and Some Recent Trends in Eighteenth-Century Maritime Historiography 97 Barry Cahill, New England Planters at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia 120 Terrence Punch, Genealogy, Migration and the Study of the Past 132 CULTURE AND SOCIETY Graeme Wynn, The Geography of the Maritime Provinces in 1800: Patterns and Questions 138 Debra McNabb, The Role of the Land in Settling Horton Township, Nova Scotia, 1766-1830 151 Elizabeth Mancke, Corporate Structure and Private Interest: The Mid-Eighteenth Century Expansion of New England 161 Allen Robertson, Methodism Among Nova Scotia's Yankee Planters 178 Daniel Goodwin, From Disunity to Integration: Evangelical Religion and Society in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1761-1830 190 Thomas Vincent, Henry Alline: Problems of Approach and Reading the Hymns as Poetry 201 Gwendolyn Davies, Persona in Planter Journals 211 MATERIAL CULTURE Allen Penney, A Planter House: The Simeon Perkins House, Liverpool, Nova Scotia 218 Daniel Norris, An Examination of the Stephen Loomer House, Habitant, Kings County, Nova Scotia 236 Heather Davidson, Private Lives from Public Artifacts: The Architectural Heritage of Kings County Planters 249 M.A. MacDonald (with Robert Elliot), New Brunswick's 'Early Comers': Lifestyles Through Authenticated Artifacts, a Research Project 262 Deborah Trask, 'Remember Me As You Pass By': Material Evidence of the Planters in the Graveyards of Nova Scotia 298 FUTURE DIRECTIONS Phillip Buckner 307 Brian Cuthbertson 310 Marie Elwood 313 James Morrison 315 William Naftel 318 Esther Clark Wright 320 They Planted Well New England Planters in Maritime Canada Edited by Margaret Conrad Acadiensis Press Fredericton, New Brunswick 1988 © Acadiensis Press 1988 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data They Planted Well Includes bibliographical references. Proceedings of the Planter Studies Conference sponsored by the Planters Studies Committee, and held in Wolfville, N.S., October 1987. ISBN 0-919107-20-6 1. Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration — History. 2. New England — Emigration and immigration — History. 3. Land Settlement — Maritime Provinces. 4. Farmers — Maritime Provinces. 5. Maritime Provinces — History — to 1867.* I. Conrad, Margaret. II. Planters Study Conference (1987: Acadia University). III. Acadia University. Planter Studies Committee. FC2032.T53 1988 971.500413 C88-098642-5 Acadiensis Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Publishers Assistance Programme of the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Recreation and Heritage and of Acadia University. COVER: William Morrison, engraved by J. Clark for Letters from Nova Scotia, published by Colburn & Bentley, London, 1830. .