Hello, This month many researchers on the GREENLAW Board are discussing the name. William GREENLAW and 6-7 sons arrived from Scotland and went to "Maine" in 1753. Around 1784, 4-5 of the sons became Loyalists and moved to New Brunswick. Most of the families which stayed for a while settled in St. Andrews, NB. I just went to see the early history of that town and found this: St. Andrews was founded in 1783 by United Empire Loyalists and named in honour of St Andrews, Scotland. The town is well preserved, with many original buildings still in place (some of which were floated to the town on barges from Castine, Maine at the end of the Revolutionary War). There are many layers of history visible starting from the late 1700s, including the town's well-known formal grid street layout and many historic buildings. Many of the commercial buildings on Water Street date from the 1800s. Between 1820 and 1860, the port of St. Andrews was used extensively during the Irish Migration. The Irish were first quarantined at Hospital Island, situated a few kilometers in Passamaquoddy Bay. By the 1851 Census, over 50% of the town were born in Ireland. [1] The Algonquin, a resort situated on a hill overlooking the town, was built in 1889, making St. Andrews Canada's first seaside resort community. The hotel burned down in 1914 and was rebuilt one year later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Andrews,_New_Brunswick FYI: I've been thinking about my brick-wall ancestor, Mercy GREENLAW, b~1775-1780 "Maine," this month. And, I'm beginning to think more seriously that she was probably part of one of the families which had left "Maine" and moved to New Brunswick. So, she would have been part of a Loyalist family. It was July 1798 when she married Calvin KIDDER in New Brunswick. It was said they married in what was then Schoodic (NB) (later St. Stephen), but they also could have been married in St. Andrews. It was late Jan. 1799, when Mercy gave birth to a son. One week later, Calvin was in a mailboat which was on its way from the (then) Schoodic River and going to St. Andrews. But in the Bay, the mailboat overturned and all 5 men in the boat drowned. As I'm thinking about this this morning, I'm now wondering whether Calvin was on his way to St. Andrews to "tell" his "in-laws" about the birth !! ?? And, there was an announcement in a local newspaper (?) about the "Melancholy Accident." But, I now wonder whether the "birth" was announced in the papers; it would have been Feb. 1799. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) FYI: Calvin was never reported to have been a Loyalist or a Sympathizer. But, when he left New Hampshire as an 18-year-old, he traveled with other families from NH who were Loyalists. One was HITCHINGS. And no one really knows how he spent ~1784 to ~1797 in New Brunswick. Perhaps he left the St. David area and went to the St. Andrews area - and that's how he met Mercy. (guesses) Reading above, it seems most of the families Calvin would have lived with, or met, would have been Loyalists.