Hello, This morning there was a query on the LEWIS List about a LEWIS family in early Nova Scotia ! I immediately remembered about a man I found out about about 5 years ago when researching my great-grandparents.* His name was Waitstill LEWIS, and he moved from RI to N.S. in the mid-1700's. I did a Google search and found this web site which describes this family-tree: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nanc/lewis/aqwg04.htm And, I remembered that the name came down for several generations. About half-way down this page, you will see a death-notice of a Capt. Waitstill LEWIS, dying in 1912. http://www.municipalities.com/digby/articlecourier1910.htm If you do a Google search for "Waitstill LEWIS" (using quotes), you will find a few other sites which mention him. There used to be annual "family reunions" in Nova Scotia ! Because I corresponded (slow-mail) with a lady 4-5 years ago, they used to send me their annual Newsletter. But, I haven't received one in a couple of years. I got the impression that the ladies who were in charge of the "annual reunion" had gotten older and could no longer plan such an event ! I'm just offering this as an FYI for you ! The first web site shows that there were RI people heading to Nova Scotia in the 1750's, which, I think, is right around the time N.S. became a Province. (KIDDER is my main research of 11 years, and I have posted queries on the NS List about a James KIDDER from Cambridge, MA, who also went up to Halifax in the 1750's ! James married there, I believe, and they had several children. But, the parents died and left their young children as orphans. I have no idea who would have taken the children in ! And, there is only minimal information on the children as adults !) Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) * My great-grandparents were two of the "British Home Children." "Stanley" LEWIS and Mary CORKILL were born in Liverpool, England, ~1860, and went to the Liverpool Sheltering Homes in 1873. They were "shipped to Canada" in 1874, and, along with other children on the ship, were each sent to different homes in N.S. "Stanley" and Mary married in Truro, NS, in 1879, and migrated to Boston, MA, in 1881. They raised 13 children in Stoneham, MA. Mary had 4 younger siblings also come over, and 3 of them remained in N.S. One sister went to her husband's home in Nantucket, MA. (There were 3 LEWIS girls on the ship with my great-grandfather, but I have not been able to find out if they were somehow related to him.)