http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~neil/new-englander.htm Many were from CT -- perhaps some from Middx. County. Some of you may not know of the uprisings in St. John and the Chignecto Isthmus (it links NS to NB) by Patriot sympathizers from New England. My Yorkshire planters, newly arrived in 1774, must have got caught in the middle of that one. Yrs aye, Warren Wetmore