New Brunswick -- Description and travel; New Brunswick -- History
The next and most numerous class of inhabitants are the descendants of
the Loyalists who came to the Province at the conclusion of the
American revolution, and whose sufferings I have already slightly
noticed.--These are the descendants of those genuine patriots who
sacrificed their property and comfort in the United States for their
attachment to that Government under which they drew their first breath;
and came to this Province (at that period a wilderness) to transmit
those blessings to their posterity. For although many of them belonged
to the army and were sent here to be disbanded, they had formerly been
comfortably settled in the States; and when it came to the trying point
whether they should forsake their homes or abandon their King, the
former was preferred without hesitation, although many of them had
young families and the choice was made at the risk of life, and also
with the change of habit from the peaceful yeoman to the bustle of a
camp.--As however the choice was made with promptness so it was
persevered in with constancy.
The other inhabitants are emigrants from different parts of Europe. In
some parts they have obtained allotments of land and are settled a
number of families together, in other places again they are intermixed
with the other settlers and by intermarriages, &c. are assimilating as
one people: proving themselves in many instances, good subjects, and
valuable members of society.
The last class that I shall notice are the people of Colour, or
Negroes.--These are found in considerable numbers in different parts of
the Province. In some parts a number of families are settled together
as farmers; but they do not make good settlers, being of a volatile
disposition, much addicted to dissipation; they are impatient of
labour, and in general fitter for performing menial offices about
houses as domestics, than the more important, but laborious duties of
farmers.--In their persons, the inhabitants of New-Brunswick are well
made, tall and athletic. There are but few of those born in the
country, but what have attained to a larger growth than their parents.
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