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A BRIEF IIISTOKY
OK THK

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA SCOTIA,


AM)
TIIEIK

First Organization

as Churches,
ALSO

A. D.

1832.

An

OifTLiNK FROM Dk. Bili.'s Baptist History, of thk Organization OF A Church at Shklucrnk, by David GKORtiK, slave, lH>rn in Vir('inia about 174a, came to Nov;i Scotia in ij^fo, as
ctintaiil'.il

is

in

Riptm's Koffistcr,

Vol.

i,

pa>f:;s

473-48^

And a
Sir

brief miMition of

Edward Jordan, ok

Kingston, Jamaica,

This Mook is Jcsi^iicJ to explain and render intelligently to our readers from whence the ori(;-in of our Churches spniny, and by what
authority they were established.

Fully Delineatino Rev. Richard Preston's Mission to Kncjland, and his Ordination by the West London Baptist Association,

May

8th, 183a,
all

g-ivinj?

him

full

authority to preach and


offi<Jc,

exercise

the functions appertaining to his


relative

in ort^anizing'

Churches throughout the Province,


to
his

and g.iining information


that
it

enslaved hrctnren wheresoever located,

may

tend to their enlightenment to the honour anc glory of a Triune God,

BY
P.

E.

MacKERROW.
did

With few additions of distinguished coloured men, and tried friends whi> good ncrvicc to their despist!d and respected brethren in bonds.

HALIFAX.
,.''
1895.
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N. S.

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SEcnETAHY-TitEAsunEit.

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CONTKNTS.
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David George's Church and TrialH


Halifax (Miurch OrKanized

in Shelhnrno. N.

8-14
15-16
17
!-')

Father Burton, brief mention

Father

i'reston's Ministry

and Ordination

Halifax Church History, and Marriages, by Father I'roston

21-3<)

Father Thomas' Pastorate

31-35
36-37
37-4<

Uov. A. Bailey, and Rev. Wilton R. Boone


Rev. H. H. Johnson, A.
Original

W.

Jordan, D.I)

Members

of Halifax

Church

41-42

Marriages by Rev. James Thomas


Oixlination at
Ist
St.

43-47

Hammond

Plains

48

Preston Organized, Deacon Barrett

49-53 54-58

Thomas, Preston, E. Dixon, I^ike Loon and Cherry Brook


Ijtingfurd
Hill,

Father Carvory, Dartmouth Church, Rev. F. R.

59-62

Beech

Campbell Road,

Hammond

Plains

63-60
7(>-71

M. R. Freeman North Mountain, Annapolis, Windsor Plains, Inglowood


Fall River, Liverpool, Rev.

72-74

Marriages by Rev. Henry, and James E. Jackson


Greenville Church,

75-76
77-79

Yarmouth County
;

Cornwallis Church

Bear River

Digby

Rev.

J.

W. Johnson

80-84 85-87
88-85)

Weymouth

Falls

Granville Ferry, Horton, and Falmouth Churchex

Marriages by Rev. F.

It.

Langford

90-91

Musquodoboit Church

92-93

Rufus
Sir

L. Perry, D. D., Ph.


;

D
Rev. John Hamilton

94-95

Obituaries and Marriages

96-98
98-99
100 101-102

Edward Jordan Diary of Rev. James Thomas


Bishop Holly, in Westminster Abbey
Late Wendell Phillips on Daniel O'Connell Late Fred. Douglaa in England
" Thoughts on "

103-104

105-106
107

Heaven "

My

Mother "

108

Ad vcrtisementH
'i
\

109-116

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THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY.


HPHIS
.

little

messenger, presented to the public,

is

a col-

lection of information

gained from

many

of the oldest

members

of the Churches in the Association, where records


in

were imperfectly kept, and,


ever.
I

many

instances,

none what-

am aware
kind
is

that

every person
for public

who attempts

a work of

this

left

open

comment

or criticism.

And

as
I

make

not the faintest attempt to literary

attainments,

must claim your sympathy.

My
if

simple aim

is

to place in the

hands of every coloured


little

Baptist in

Nova

Scotia

a copy of this
of

book,
it

in

order

possible to

give th6m some idea

how

came about
from the

that there should be


shortly

Church

built

by one who had so


fled

escaped

from the ranks of slavery,


attract so

house of bondage, and could

much

attention

and
little

sympathy from a

British

public, as the subject of our


in

book Rev. Richard Preston born


The mental
recollection

Virginia, a slave.

history

of a

man,

who

without an

early

education could effect so


of a
life

much

as he did, heaps up a varied of

worthy

greater

record than

my

pen
It

will

afford.

would seem impossible


to

for

a son of

toil,

acquainted

and accustomed
setting
his
feet

the

whims of American

prejudice,

when

on the shores of old England, and there

WW

r^

'

Mw

TIIBl

AUTHOU'h apology.
while
the dark

clasping the warm, open hand of welcome,

hand of

fate

is

coursing the track of mortal vicissitude by


the

a certain class
the
city

keen eye of Deity points the way to


the
fiendish

of

refuge from

grasp

of the man-

slayer.
I

trust
in

that

this

hook

will

create no

ill

feeling

to our

brother
the

white, but rather kindle

a flame of love towards

memory
to

of

many
it

of

the

names
to

mentioned
all,

therein,

thereby
ticularly

making
our

commendable
brethren

but

more

parI

Baptist

whose kind patronage

humblv

crave.

,;V^

X3:iSTOI^^2-.
Ah
far

back

as

1785,

onn

liuiulrcd

and

niiu;ty-f()ur

coloured persons arrived hern from

St. Anguptiiie,

who were

joined by another arrival of over four hundred, pcvon years


later
;

and about the same time

simihir

nund)er were
desirable for

landed at Shelburne.

The climate being not

the prosperity of these people, the Government, in co-operation with the Imperial authorities, decided to send a portion
to Sierra

Leone

to

colonize that country.

Many

of these

people embraced religion in the United States, under adverse


circumstances, and were glad to
in the Saviour's sufl'erings,

know

that they had a part

which

assisted

them

to endure

their

own.

They were given

grants of land by the Govern-

ment

a few miles from the city to cultivate for their support.


trades, such as carpenters,

Those who had


remuneration.
provinces

blacksmiths, and
in the city at lair

coopers, remained,

and readily got work

These were troublesome times between the


as loyalists

and the United States, and

were

arriving constantly the coloured people

would correspondhad established


a

ingly increase.

Mr. Burton, who was better known by the


as

coloured

brethren

Father

Burton,

Baptist church in the city, wherein they found a home, on

Barrington Street, just were the present Aberdeen building

now

stand.

They were

spiritually cared for

by

this servant
;

of God.

As time

increased so did these people

and

little

settlements were formed at Preston, Dartmouth, Cherry brook.

Loon Lake, Beech

Hill,

Campbell Road,
Plains.

Musquodoboit

Road, Fall River, and at

Hammond

At

all

of these

places Father Burton preached, baptized, married, and buried

A HUIKK IIFHTOKY OK TlIK

liiH

Hock, us

Iiu

called Ilium.

Having proved himself

8o wise

an

admiiiititrntor of jtisticu

that the civil authorities gave

him

entire control of these people whilst he remained their

pastor.

DAVID GEORGE AND HIS WORK.


(Taken
fr<mi

Dr.

BiWs Baptut

IltHfon/.)

nniRP SKET0UE8.
*'

At the

close

of the

American war David George, a

coloured man, with

many

other people of colour, and a largo

came from the Southern States and settled at Shelburne, N. S. He was born a slave in Virginia about liy the severity of his master, when he had grown 1742.
of whites,

number

to

manhood, he made good

his escape.

He

fled

some 800

miles from his pursuers.


son, having fled into

He

was captured by
;

his master's

Indian Territory

ho again made his

escape,

and lived with King Jack, chief of the


to a religious

Natchez
life

Indians.

After some four or five years of harrassing

he

was awakened
distressing,

concern by conversing with one

of his converted brethren.

His convictions were deep and

but his deliverance was clear and joyful.

" Soon after his conversion he began to pray and exhort

among his people. He received ment from preachers of his own


got a spelling book,

instruction
race.

and encourageilliterate,

Being

he

and by

his

unwearied

exertions,

and

aided by the
the Bible.
'

little

white children, he

finally learned

to read
'

This was before the American War, during the while

he

preached in different places with

related

by himself

*
:

He

said that

going to evacuate Charleston, S.

much success. As when the English were C, they advised me to go

COLOUIIKI) HAITIHTH OF

NOVA
l)luc,k
all,

HCOTIA.

lo Halifax, N. 8.,

and ^mvo the few


people us 500 in

pooplr, and

it

may

he aa

many white

n free passage.

We
ill

were twenty-six ilayn on the pasnage, on board.

anl

wore used very

When wo arrived, I got leave to go on shore. On showin*} my papers to General Patterson ho sent orders, hy a sergeant, for my wife and children to follow mo. This
was before Christma.s, and we stayed thcro
no way was open for me
bers of
to preach to
till

June

but as

my own

people, I got

leave to go to Shelburne, leaving

my

family behind.

Num-

my own

race wen- there, but I found


I

much

opposition

from the whites.

began to sing at

first

in the woods, at a

camp, for there weio no houses then

built.

clearing and preparing to erect a town.

They were just The coloured people


I

came from
first

far

and near,

it

was so new
between
an'

to them.
a

kept on
for the

so every night in the week,

and appointe'^
t'
,

meeting
close

Lord's

Day

in a valley

hills,

by the

river,

and a great number of white

coloured people came;

and I was so overjoyed with having an opportunity once more of preaching the Word of C?od, that after I had given
out the

hymn

I could not

speak for
place,

tears.

In the afternoon

wo met
"

again, in the

same

and

had great liberty

from the Lord.'

We held now
;

nightly meetings, and those poor creatures

who never
attention

heard the Gospel before, listened with marked

but the white people, the justices of the peace,


8ail

were in an uproar, and


not stay there.

might go into the woods but

Excepting one white man who knew


I

mo
I

in

Savannah, and who said


as long as I would,

should have his


if

lot to live

upon
then

and build a house

I pleased.

cut

down

poles, stripped bark,

and made a smart hut, and


evening for

the people
ii

came flocking

to the preaching every

month

as they

had come

for their supper.

Then Governor

Parr came from Halifax, brought

my

wife and children with

10

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE

him, gave
({uarter of It

me

six

months provisions

for

ray family, and a

an acre of land to cultivate for our subsistence.


I

was a spot where there was plenty of water, and which


secretly

know it would be convenient for baptizing at any time. The weather being severe, the ground covered with snow, we raised a platform of poles for
had
wished
for, as

the hearerr to stand upon, but there was nothing over their
heads.

Continuing
built.
;

to attend, they desired to

have a meeting

house

We
T

had then

day

of hearing

what the Lord


time
I

had done

and
of

received four

my my my

wife heard their experiences, and I


race for baptism.
little
lot.

The

first

baptized here was a

before Christmas, in the creek


I preached to

which ran through

a great

of people on the occasion,

who behaved
aix,
it

very well.

number I now

formed the church with us

and administered the Lord's

Supper

in the

meeting-house before

was

finished.

They

went on with the building, and we appointed

a time every

week

to hear experiences.

few months

after, I

baptized

nine more, and the congregation very


the while
increasing,
friendly.

much

increased.

All

God was working

in ray behalf.

My

friends were

God's cause enlarging, and sinners becoming

" About this time


Baptists from

Mr.

Taylor and

his

wife,

two

London, came here, and heard me preach.

Mrs. Taylor came to

my

house and gave

me money

to

buy

potatoes for seed, of which one bushel produced thirty-hve


bushels.
bers.

At

The church was now grown this time a Mr. Holmes and
had

to about fifty

mem-

his wife,

by reading

the

Scriptures,

been converted, they lived at Jones*


I

Harbour, about twenty miles distant.

went down

in his

schooner to his home, from thence to a place called Liverpool, inhabited

by white

people.

Many had

been baptized

by Mr. Chipman

of Annapolis.

Mr. Jesse Dexter preached

COLOURED BAPTISTS OP NOVA


to them, but

SCOTIA.

11

It was a niixetl comwas not their pastor. munion church. I j)reach'd there. We tlien returned with Mr. Holmes, when he and his wife went with me to Shel-

burne, and gave their experiences to the churcli on Thursday,


)

and were baptized on next Lord's Day.

Their relations,

who

lived in the town, were very angry, raised a mob,


to

and

endeavoured

hinder their

being baptized.

Her

sister

especially, she laid hold of her hair to

keep her from going


peace,
it.

down
they

into the water, but the justices

commanded
this

and

said that she should be baptized, as she desired

Then

were

all

quiet.

Soon

after
it

the

persecution

increased and became so great that


to preach,

did not seem possible

and I thought I must leave Shelburnc.

" Several of the coloured people had houses on

my

lot

but forty or

fifty

disbanded soldiers were employed,

who
all

came with the

tackle of ships,

and turned

my

house, and

the other houses of

my

people over,

and the meeting house

they would have burned down had not the ringleader of the

mob
till

himself prevented

it.

But

continued preaching in

it

they came one night and

-tood before the pulpit and


if I
;

swore

how

they would treat

me

preached again.

But

stayed and preached just the same

the next day they came

and beat

rae with sticks,

and drove

me

into a

swamp.

returned in the evening, took


river to Birchtown,

my

wife and children over the

where some coloured people were settled, which seemed a greater prospect for doing good than at
Shelburne.
I

preached at Birchtown from the

fall till

about

and was frequently hearing experiences, and baptized about twenty there. Those who
the middle
of

December,

desired to hear the

Word
me

of

God

invited

me from house
with

to

house, and so I preached.

little

before Christmas, as
oflF

my
was

own

people persecuted
;

there, I set

my

family to

return to Shelburne

in

coming down the

river the boat

12

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE

frozen, but

we

took whip-saws and cut away the ice

till

wo

came

to Shelburne.

In

my

absence, the meeting-house

occupied by a sort of tavern-keeper,

who

said

negro wanted to
a hell of
it.'

make a heaven Then I preached


and
in the
I

of this place,
in
it

was The old but I'll make


:

as before, and as

my

house was pulled down, lived in


to attend again,

it also.

The people began

revival
called

of religion.

Ragged

Island,

summer there was a considerable went down from there to a place among some white persons, who

desired to hear the word preached.

there while I was preaching


left all

One sister was converted concerning the disciples, who

and followed

Christ.

her experience to our

churc'.;,

She came up afterwards, gave and was baptized, and two


other sister gave in her
to

coloured sisters with her.

Then her

experience and joined us without baptism,

which she

would have submitted, had not her family cruelly hindered


her,

and she was the only one in our society who was not
"

baptized.

By

this time the

Christians of

New

Brunswick had
them.
After
of,

heard of

me and

wished that I should

visit

hearing the experiences of many, four were approved

whom

I baptized in the river

they had been converted in

Virginia before leaving.

sent Brother Colbart, one of

On my return to Shelburne, I my elders, to remain at St. John.


'

He was
great

a loving brother,

and the

Lord endowed him with

gifts.'

When

the experiences of some nine or ten


for

were heard they sent

me

to baptize them.

When

wa

landing at St. John, some of the people,

who intended

to be

baptized, were so full of joy that they ran out from waiting
at table on their masters, with the knives

and forks in their


I

handp. to meet

me

at the water side.

From thence
left

went
was

to Fi dericton in a boat,
laboLiiing,

where I had

one of our brethren


religion I

and as some others had experienced

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA

SCOTIA.

18

sent for to baptize them, three in number.

great

many

came and witnessed the


that he

sight,

and the Governor sent word


also prevented
I returned to

regretted

that

he could not conveniently come,


;

having much company that day

one of his

servants from the sacred right.


St.

Shclburne via

John.

Then
which

was sent
did,

for to go to Preston,

which
I

is

across the river from Halifax.

Five converts there desired


joined
the church.
left

baptism,

who

also

administered the Lord's Supper to them, and

brother

Hector Peters, one of


to Shelburne, with
off the coast.

my

elders,

with them.

In returning

about thirty passengers, we were blown


to cover me,

had no blankets

and got
ill

frost-

bitten in both legs

when I came to land I could not walk. The church met me iit Afterwards, when I the river side and carried me home.
up
to

my

knees, and

was so

that

could walk a
the brethren

little,

wanted

to

speak of the Lord's goodness,

made

wooden

sledge and

drew me

to meeting.
;

In the spring of the year I could walk again


never been strong since.
Sierra Leone (Africa).

but have

The next

fall

the government sent

an agent from Halifax to see about settling a

The white friends we should go, though some had treated us as cruelly as if we were their slaves. Many persuaded us if we went they would make us slaves again, but having confidence in the high officials we did not harbour that thought.
unwilling that

new colony in now were very

"

day was appointed to meet and hear the views of the

people.

We

assembled at Brother Moses' meeting house at


Wesley's men, a blind
preacher.

Birchtown, one of Mr.

The Governor came there and read the proclamation, which contained what was oflered, in case we had a mind willingly to go. And the greater part of us were pleased and agreed. Almost all the Baptists went, there are a few scatThe meeting-house lot and all tered yet in the country.

PH

14

A imiEP HIBTORY OP THE

our land at Shelburno,

it

may

be half an acre, was sold to


(seven pounds).
I preached

merchant
there

TJlack

for

about

7
do

We
a

left

and called in
;

at Liverpool, to
it.

farewell

sermon there

longed

Before

left,

Major

Collins who, with his wife, used to hear

me

at his place,

was

very kind, and give nte some salted herrings, which were

very acceptable

all

the voyage to Sierra Leone.


to Halifax,

On

leaving

Liverpool
wfieks^

we came

where we

tarried three or four

I preached
in

from house to house, and

my

farewell

sermon
"

Marchington's meeting house.


to

Our voyage

Sierra

Leone from Halifax was seven

weeks, the weather stormy, several persons died of a catching


fever,

among whom
Lord's
I

were three of

my
our

elders,

Brothers

Colwcll, Richards, and Williams.

On

arrival, I

preached

the

first

Day under

sail,

and did so for several

weeks.

had an interview with the Governor.


all,

He was
;

very kind to

he used to come and hear

me

preach, and

wouhl sometimes sit down at our prayer meetings and to show his approval of me, he desired I should call my last
child by his name.
I

asked the privilege of visiting England


gift of five guineas.

which was granted, with a


the church, and

On

leaving

that country for England I preached a farewell sermon to

encouraged them to look to the Lord, and

submit one to another, and regard what I said to them by

my

three elders, virho were exhorters."

Dr. Benedict's narrative concludes as follows


'

" Mr.

George was on a

visit

to

London when he gave


far

this account of himself;

he returned to Sierra Leone; not

from that time Messrs.


aries into that country.

Radway and Gregg went

as mission-

What

progress the Baptist cause has


I

made, cr whether he
learn.

is

yet alive,

have not been able to

The church

at

Shelburne was broken up when Mr.

COLOURED BAPTISTS OP NOVA


George and his followers
left

SCOTIA.

15

the

place,

few scattered

members left, who were formed after by Mr. Burton of Halifax.

into a church a few years

"Mr. William Taylor and


mentioned in David

his wife,

who were

respectfully

George's

narrative,

came from

Dr.

Kippon's Church in London, and wera, for many years, the principal members in the church at Shelburne. Mr. Taylor was wealthy and liberal. By his generosity, and, it is said, by some considerable assistance from his mother church in London, these people built a very commodious meetinghousr, which is now in a great measure unoccupied. Mr.

Taylor died a few years ago.

During

his life-time he

was a

deacon of the church, and had the care of the church.

His

widow survived him.

There

is

yet a small church in Shel-

burne, without a pastor."


It is to be regretted that a will could not

man with

such an indomitable
in the country,

have been encouraged to remain

whereby the

fruits of his

ambition might have yielded an

immense harvest
good

for

the Master's

Kingdom, instead

of

burying them in a vast wilderness of solitude.

" Wise and

men

are indeed precious gifts

from God."

THE AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH, CORNWALLIS


Organized April
lltth 18SS,

ST.,

With Branches

at Dartmouth, Preston, Beech Hill,

Hammond

Plains.

COPY OF RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That the said Rev. Richard Preston be

now

received and acknowledged as minister of the said African

Baptist Church

Resolved further,
as follows

That the

officers of said

Church be

: :

10

A nRIEF HISTORY OP

THE
Deacons; John
Elders
:

Halifnx

Pastor:

Rev. Richard Preston.


Foril,

El winds,

Jacob

Prince

Win. Sport.

Thomas
Dartmouth
Jones.

IViyley,

Isaac Fletcher.

Pastor:
Elder:

Rev. R. Preston.

Deacon:

Siiniuel

Jeremiah Page.

Preston

Pastor:

Rev. R. Preston.
:

Deacon:

Meredith

Stanley.
Biicch Hill

Elder
:

John
Rev.

Collins.

Pastor
Elder
Plains

R.

Preston.

Deacon

Jamos

Morris.

John Maxwell.
:

Hammond

Pastor
Wm.

Rev. R. Preston.

Deacon?^

Deal Whiley,

Marsman, Gabriel David.

Elders

Henry Whiley, Thomas Jones.

The above
Hill,

branches,

viz.,

Dartmouth, Preston, Beech

and

Hammond

Plains,

were organized into indepen-

dent churches as soon as their membership increased.

PRESENT OFFICERS OF THE ABOVE CHURCHES


Halifax

1895.

Pastoiless.

Deacons

C.

F.

Biddle,

W.

B.

Thomas,

Jas. Saunders, R. J.

White, Jeremiah Oliver


Flint.

(Licentiate),

Jacob Flint, Joseph


Treasurer Ministers'
:

Treasurer
R. J. White.
sen'r,

T. Johnson.

Fund

Ushers and Collectors


Clerk

Wm

Carter,

James

Saunders, E. Flint, D. Skinner.


:

Sexton
:

C. E. Biddle.

J.

R. Johnston.

Trustees

H. Russell,

W.

Johnson, Jos. Flint, John Turner, R. White, P. E.

McKerrow.

Dartmouth

Pastorless.
J.

Licentiate

Jas. Borden.

Deacons

A. Green,
Tynes.
J. Bauld,

Tynes, C. Smith, D. Lee,


:

W.

Riley, T.

Councillors

R.

Tynes,

sen'r,

A.

Brown,
:

R. Tynes, jun'r,

R. C. Tynes.

Treasurer

D. Lee.

Clerk

F. J.

Bauld.

COLOURED BAITISTS OF NOVA


Predon

SCOTIA.

17

Pastor
:

Rev. E. Dixon.
Wise,

Deacons

T.

Cruwley,

S. Clayton, J.
cillors

J. Cilasgow, P.

Williams.

Coun-

J.
:

Williams,

W.

Diggs,
:

W.

Brooks, D. Johnson.

Sexton
Beech Hill
cillor
:

S. Ross.

Clerk

J.
:

M. Thomas.
Jos.

Pastorless.
R. Hamilton.

Deacon
Clerk
:

Hamilton.

Coun-

G. Hrown.
E.

limtimond Plains

Pastor
Clerk
:

Rev.
(Tiic.)

Dixon.

Deacons
:

D. Anderson, R. David,

W. M. Henry.
S.

James Jones. Sexton Alex. Emmerson, Councillors

Anderson, P. Emmer.son.
find as
far

We

back

as

1832, and not until then were

there any fully organized coloured churches.

In the various

communities in which a number of the brethren lived thev

had meeting-houses, and

as hitherto stated

from the account


loft

given by Mr. David George, he had baptized and

behind

him here

prior to his going to Sierra

Leone

in 1792, Baptist

believers in Christ Jesus.

Hut

as

these poor people had

just fled from the land of bondage, und the Baptist religion

was quite new


in

in the

Colonies, they were not too foremost

showing their

colors.

REV. FATHER BURTON OF DURHAM, ENGLAND,

Coming

to this country

in a laid

most opportune time, took up


George, as

and fostered the work

down by Mr. David

has already been stated.

The

close of the

of coloured people,

men,

American war of 1812 brought scores women and children, from the

United States, and among them many Baptists,


enquired

whom when
tell

how

they

got their religion, would frankly

you, in the forests,

behind the stone

walls,

in

the cane

brakes, in the cotton fields,

and

in the rice

swamps.

Which

18

A imiEF HISTORY OF THE

simply meant that, as

many of them could not road, as this was considered a great crime by the slave-holder, it was necessary for them to approach God in prayer by faith for

their conversion.

Some would keep watching

the approach

of the driver whilst a

yonder and pray.


one for

company of penitents would go up They had to make a two-fold prayer the conversion of their own souls, and the other to

keep their hands from the shedding of blood of the cruel


monsters that were placed in charge over them.

FATHER PRESTON'S BRIEF HISTORY.


They
often sung
:

" Oh, we are of that class who toil and trust Others may, too, but the toiler must God has not gone to some distant star, He's in the fields where the toilers are. "
;

Selected.

Among

those

Father Preston's

who were liberated and cared for was mother, who arrived here several years
him again had passed
she had gone
tell.

before him, as all hopes of ever seeing

from her memory, when at length an opportunity presented


itself

and he made good

his escape.

He knew

to

Canada, but to what place he could not

He

at

length arrived at Halifax, and hearing of her residing at a


district

by

his

own name,

decided to look her up.

Years of
;

separation caused her

recognition of

him somewhat dim

having grown into manhood.

On

his

arrival

at

her home,

being alone, the other

branches of the family were absent, she refused him lodgings

mark which nature had donated him on one was made visible to her, could she believe The embracing of that he was her long loved absent son. each other was long and lasting, and more than all, he was
until a peculiar
aide of the face,

COLOURED
a converted

HArriflTH OF

NOVA

8C!OTIA.

10

man, and an oxhnrter of rightcousneaa of no


Lik(5

mean
and

ordoi.

Kred Douj^las, ho had loarned


"

to read

write,

as his aim was


its

Go

forward."

Ho had

seen

slavery in

worst condition.

Many
to

of tlio slave holders

who had
less

lost their slaves

during the war, wore now penni-

and ruined.

Some had

engage as overseers, and

other menial employments tr which they wore unaccustomed,

which made them exceedingly

cruel.

The
that in

coloured brethren of Preston and Halifax soon saw

him they had

a useful

acquisition

to their

ranks.

He

at

once laid hold of the work, and Father lUirton gave


assistance, that

him much information and


ligious life existed, as

produced groat

success to the cause of Christianity.

great deal of irredays, only


in dif-

docs

now

in those

ferent forms.
rapidly, as he
well,

The Society
was a great

of Christians in the city increased

revivalist.

He knew

his people

and knew just when


pull
it

to

make

a strike for Satan's

kingdom and

down.

He

and his brethren travelled

through the Province, and in each county where there were

an assembly of saints they appointed

elders.

The charge

were then handed over to him from Father Burton, when he

would
tion,

visit all the little villages

in the

county wherein his


for his ordina-

people lived.

At length
it

a request

was made

when

was considered by some that ho had not

acquired sufficient knowledge of theology to be ordained.

The

Baptists at this time had no college of their own, and

fearing any religious friction that might arise, the brethren

determined on the plan of sending him to Kngland to have

him
it

schooled, ordained, and clothed

him with authority

to

solicit aid to

build a church for his brethren from the chains

of sin

and

slavery.

What

an undertaking, from the tobacco

fields of Virgil ia to

preach and lecture before the nobility

of England.

20

A HHIKF IIIHTOUY OP

THE

Having placed himself

in the

hands of the West London

Baptist Association, a powerful body of christian gentlemen

who
and

aided

him

in every

way

possible through his studies,

in his lectures

and

in

his collections,
;

which amounted
over a year
fol-

to over throe

thousand dollars

he spent

a little

in his labours in

England, when he was ordained, as the


:

lowing will show

COPY OP OUDINATION PAPER8.


These are
to certify that

on the fifteenth day of February,

1831, Brother Richard Preston landed at Liverpool in Old

England, and immediately proceeded to the metropolis of


Great Britain, with credentials proving that he was a

mem-

ber and preacher in the African Baptist Church and congregation


in

Halifax,

N.

S.,

chiefly

composed

of coloured

brethren, and authorized to collect


in

money

to build a chapel,

which they may assemble

for the

worship of a Triune God.


his

That the blessing of Almighty God has attended


labours in England, and opened
tiana to contribute liberally to his case
to Halifax with

the hearts of liritish chris*


;

so that he returns

ample means
the 8th,

to erect a

House of God.
Associa-

That on
his efforts,

May

1832, the

West London

tion of Baptist ministers,

who had from the first by forming themselves into a committee


to the

patronized
for the

direction of

and recommendation of Brother Preston, by means

which he had a ready access

Church

in

England,

held

a public meeting in Grafton

Street

Chapel at the

request of the African Baptist


to ordain

Church

in Halifax, solemnly
,'

Brother Preston as the pastor of the aforesaid

church, previous to his return to Halifax.

The Confession

of Faith delivered by him, embracing all the distinguishing

Doctrines of Grace, was perfectly satisfactory.

holy
;

savour was enjoyed by the numerous congregation assembled

COLOURED BAPTIHTS OF NOVA


and whilu with
people said
laying'

HC^OTIA.

21

on of hands tho ministors prayed


all

that ho might ho eminently fitted for his groat work,

tho

Amen.

In witnops hereof, and to express our most cordial approbation of Brother Preston's conduct during his rosidcnco

among

us, as woll as

our christian love to him and our othor

coloured brethren in Halifax,

we

the ministers of thj


this

West
of

London Association May, 1832


:

affix

our names

18th

day

Pastor of tho Baptist Ch., (irafton Street.


'*

Shouldhain Street.

22

A HItlKK lirHTOKY OK THK

was

(IlmmiiciI a(lvisal)li)

to inuku ultcrutions

and

repuirn.

Tlio

funds for
unitedly

that

purpose was provided by the pastor and (Father

liis

childien.

Thomas was then


in the

in charge.)

The sum
gage.
It

of two thousand dollars was then loaned, and

not

a scrap of paper given

hy the trustees

shape of mort-

mittee as

was merely acknowleilged by the Huilding Coman ordinary debt. A thorougii renovation was
editlce

gone through, the


adorned.
his

lengthened

in

front,

paiuxed and

Father Preston labotued with these ])eople after

return

from Knglan<l
to call

in

1832

until

18G1, when

it

pleased

God

him home.
England ho acquired much
in

During

his sojourn in

infor-

mation from his P^nglish brethren

Church

Polity.

He

was of ready
speaker.
I^esides

wit,

humorous, and a good extemporaneous

This
the

fitted

him

for the

groat

work before him.


city,

care

of the

church in the
to

which was
his

becoming an important charge, he had


visitations to the outlying districts,

make

monthly

which were

in charge of

his elders.

Hearing

of other portions of the province that


in

were destitute of proper worship, he made no delay

going

through the various counties, and instituted churches.


places he

Many

met with great opposition, but being a man of great will, and having power from on high, ho went fearlessly along and planted churches in every county between The most judicious Halifax and Yarmouth included. brother would be left in charge, who were counselled by

him
*

to look well to their positions, like Paul to his brethren


;

Preach the word

be instant in season, out of season


all

;
'

reprove, rebuke, exhort, with

long suffering and doctrine."

Tj

this

end many of these brethren became worthy of their

calling.

Father Preston's witticisms were always used pointedly.

On one

occasion being called off to

the country hurriedly,

rOL()f'RKl> HAFTIHTH

OF SOVA RrOTIA.
hninl of him
iniflHioii

he was mot by a j^Hutlonmn who

luul

h^
oiiu

stopped to have a cunvorsatiun, hut an hin


of emerj^'ency,

was

and aH tho
fur

Kiii^''s hiisiiMjHs rtMiuirtMl hawtf,

ho

had no

Hiiid "Mr. man to proacli tlio Oobpeir IIo vory promptly ropliod "Holy Firo and tho Grace of God. Go 'long, Kato." Tho goiitloman was olatod

tiino
\,

parloyinj,'.
it

Tho ^ontloman
a

Preston,

h;u was

tliat

fitti'd

'

'^over

the answer and never failed in


itself.

tolling,'

when an opporwas

tunity ati'orded

In his (hty, for his limited education,


;

he had but few buperiors anywhere


natural,

his gift of oratory


in

and was
a great

as fluent

on the platform as
late

the pulpit.

Ho was

admirer of the

Governor Howe, who

delighted in getting

him

into an argument,

when he wouhl
Having

oppose him

merely for a display of his talents.

been in England at the time when tho abolition of the slave


in British possessions

was discussed, he

luul the pleasure of

hearing the Invincibles of Freedom argue tho matter, which


fired his soul

with zeal that

la!-;ted

hirn his

whole lifetime

such

men

as Wilberforco, Clarkaon,

Buxton, O'Conuel, and

Brougham with those gentlemen he became a familiar figure. Coming as he did not long from tho furnace of
slavery himself, he

was good measure

to

put in their scales

for their lecture platforms.

The
little

history of Slavery

is

written in blood.
to

Like Israel
in

of old, the African

was brought

America

1620, in a

Dutch
than

ship,

and thrown into most cruel bondage

'

less

fifty souls,

when

in a little over

two hundred
liberties

years they had become a formidable host of several millions.

Their manhood being circumscribed


tailed,

their

cur-

and virtues outraged


Heaven, as did the

their

prayer fervently went


;

up
in

to

cries of ancient Israel

when God

due time opened the hearts of British philanthropists


said slavery

who

must go

the

slave

must be

free.

When

24

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE


was
pr'^claiinoil

in 1833, froedoin

throughout the British

Empire, Wilberforce, who for twenty years had pleaded


with

God and

Parliament, just
:

before

his

death,

having

achieved his aim, exclaimed

"

Thank God
is
!"

that I should
willing to give

have lived to witness a day when England

twenty millions for the abolition of slavery


of old,

Like Simeon
thy servant

he could well say

'*
:

Lord now

let

depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen the desire of


heart."
It
is

my

true

that

in

1787, Jeiferson proclaimed, in


all

terms of awful solemnity, that "

men
But
his

are created equal,

and endowed by their creator with indisputable


prominent among them
is

rights

liberty."

this proclamation

was thrown
of
justice,
;

to the ground.

It

is

also true that

from a sense
testa-

ment
said

Washington emancipated while Franklyn wrote against

slaves by

slavery,

and others

"

Amen."

But

fearing

lest

the

bond of freedom

should be broken, none of them insisted on the destruction


of the diabolical
traffic.

In ^794 the Congress of America prohibited the slave


trade,

and in 1814 and 1842

treaties
to

were entered into and

renewed with Great Britain only


glass
this
;

be broken like so

much

America denying the


farce.

right of searching their ships,

ended in a perfect

Father Preston lectured often here and in England on


the

abominations

of

slavery.

He

had

seen

husbands

separated from their wives for the purpose of gratifying a

morbid appetite of

a slave-driving gladiator,

and daughters
'

torn from the loving embrace of an affectionate mother, to

be a prey to the fiendish grasp of an avaricious monster.

He
of

God from emancipation. He had


often prayed

his pulpit to live to see the

day
In

lived
it

to

see

it

in

the British

colonies,

and he longed

to see
its

in

his native country.

1857 slavery had reached

highest peak. George Thompson,

COLOURED BAPTISTS OP NoVA


Garrison,
Phillips,

SCOTIA.

26

Sumner,

Parker,

Wright,

Brown,
fiery

Douglas, and a host of other vangujirds of freedom were

storming the forts of oppression with their blood, and


tongues of eloquence, and said in broad
words,

" Slavery

must be abolished."
arose on both

The prayer

of

Godly men and women

sides of the

Atlantic to Almighty

God

in

behalf of an oppressed race.

The

floors of the

capiiol at

Washington

were

stained

with the

innocent

blood

of

Sumner

but was not shed in vain.

was, " Who shall reign

righteousness or
:

The question now chaos 1" Buchanan


slaves
:

was elected President, he being neither one thing nor the


other, said to the Slave States
"

Keep your
it."

Constitution permits
interfere

it ;"

and

to

the Free States

the " Don't


in the

the Constitution forbids


his

He remained

White House during


shorn of hi- main
;

term of

office like a

cowardly lion

neither did he uphold

the dignity of

the North, nor yet interfere with the cess-pools of slavery


in the South.

In 1861, the year Father Preston died, matters were

drawing to a focus.

T'^e clarion

note for

freedom was
like
till

being sounded by the Republican party

Pharoah

Moses
forced

to

'

Let

my

people go."

And

not

by

arms did they obey the command.

Acts of violence were

most audacious.
the law.

Murders passed unnoticed by the props of


could the all-seeing eye of Deity allow such

How

deeds of wickedness to continue without interference upon

an oppressed people

But God had already determined

to

destroy slavery without any allowance of chattel value

and before he did


said he,
gies are
'*

it,

He

infatuated the slave-holders in the

inconsistencies of their

own

hearts.

"Our yonng men,"


and their manly ener.
;

are brutalized in intellect,

chilled

by the

frosts of slavery

sometimes they

are called to witness the agonies of the mothers

who

bore

20

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIE

them, writhing under the lash


flowing the already
full

and,

as

if

to

fill

to over-

cnp of iniquity, they are sometimes

compelled to apply the lash with their

own

hands."

Chaos
from

alone can match a deed so glaring, and dark injustice shudders as


it

sinks into

its

bosom, and seeks fo hide

itself

the indignant eye of a just God.

Father Preston passed away before emancipation was


proclaimed.

He saw
being for

it

in

the distant.

Ho

kept up a cor

stant communication with the Abolitionists, of Boston anc.

other

cities,

many
sad

yeard President of the one in

Nova
to

Scotia.

He

felt

over the return of


his,

Burns, a
his escape

fugitive and

countryman of

who had made


Slave
laM'

Boston

but for the Fugitive


him back
did.

he would have

been

clear.

" Poor fellow," said he, " should they succeed


to

in getting

Virginia, they will torture him,"


well, a Baptist exhorter in

which they
Virginia.

He knew him
Edmunds,

General

chief

executive

officer

in

Boston at the time, and a co-religionist of the fugitive, had

him sent back to save him from a


religion, if

chains,

and made not one single


Said
he, " even

effort to

lawless mob.

with his

he had any, prejudice had found a hiding place."


in the early part of the

Unlike Judge Harrington of Vermont,


century, a

demand was m^.de on him for the release of a run-away slave. The Judge refused on the ground of
insufficient evidence.
*'

What
reply.

do you regard as a
bill

sufficient

evidence

?"

" Nothing short of a

of sale from slave

Almighty

God," was the iiidignant

The

was

set free.

Father Preston served his brethren in the pulpit and on

He preached, and prayed, and lectured for the overthrow of human slavery, and for the conversion of his fellow-beings generally. He used every means at his
the platform.

command
race.

for

the moral and religious advancement of his

In revivals he was a power.

A host of co-religionists

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA

SCOTIA.

27

who
God.

are yet alive in

Nova

Scotia,

and

ntiany in the

CJnite<l

States,

owes

their

conversion to him as a moans through


since crossed

great

number has

the flood and


its
;

joined him on the other shore.

29 joined the 3hurch at


1857, of 19.

organization in 1832; in 1845, 46 were added by baptism

another addition in 1854 cf 12

in

Others

were baptized, but on account of such broken


are entirely without the

reco''ds

we
left

much

desired information.
ten years,

He

no issue

his wife survived

him some

when

she

joined him on the other shore. organized


the

Previous to his death he

churches into an association, in 1854,

on

September

1st at Granville

Mountain.
:

The churches and


John Edwards,

their representatives were as follows

Halifax
P.

Rev. K. Preston, Pastor; Deacons


Wm.
Sport, A. Dickson.

Preston

Rev.

R.

Preston,
;

Pastor;

Licentiates:
:

Collins, George Carvery

Trustee
;

John John Thomson.


:

DaHmoutk

Rev. R. Preston, Pastor


Plains
Goffican.
:

Deacon
;

John Garry.
:

Hammond
Beech Hill

Rev. John Hamilton


Rev. R. Preston
:

Deacons

Deal

Whiley and N.

Pastor
;

Deacon

Cajsar

Devine
Campbell

Elder

Henry
:

Bailey.
;

Road

Pastor
:

Rev. R. Preston

Deacon

Isaac

Grant.

Bear River

Pastor
;

Rev. Henry Jackson

Licentiate

Joseph Evans

Deacon

Jas. Johnson.
:

Dighy Joggins Licentiate Supply con James Wilmot ; Eiders


:

Charles Jordan

Dea-

J. I'rancis, I. Francis.

Moose River
Granville

Licentiate Isaac Johnson. Mountain Deacon C. Jackson


:

Trustee

J.

Kimbers

Clerk
:

T. Wright.

Weymmith

Elder

Charles Langford.

r
t
28

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE


David Dize, G. Dize.
Richard Crowd,

Elders: Elders at Predon


Yarmouth
David Brown.
Elders at
J.

Jas. Slaughter,

W.

Dare,

Halifax

Wni.

Barrett,

C.

Hill,

T.

Connix,

Cox.
Association was called to order at 2 o'clock, Septem-

The
ber
1st,

1854.
S.

Rev. Henry Jackson elected Moderator


Clarke,

jjro

tern;

Bro.

Secretary;

Bro.

Jolm

Pleasant,

Assistant.

The Introductory
**
:

Sermon
1

was preached

by

Brother S. Clarke, Clerk of the Association, from 13th chap, and 1st verse
of

Ist Cor.,

Though
cymbal."

speak with the tongues

men and
The

of angels,

and have not

charity, I

am become

as

sounding

brass, or tinkling

discourse

was

listened to

by

a large

mass

of people

and with wrapt attention.

The following brethren wore appointed


examine and
Preston,
report

committee

to
tlie

upon

any questions referred by


Shepherd,

churches in their

letters to

the Association, viz.: Revs. R.


J,

H.

Jackson; Bros. S. Clarke,

C.

Jackson, ami T. Jones.


" Resolved^

by

the

Committee

That

the

abundant

success which had attended the labours of our missionaries

during the year, together with the increased demand for the
continuation of their labours, in watering and strengthening
the churcheo in connection with our body scattered over so
large a portion of the African race in

Nova

Scotia

also the

new and
us, as

extensive

fields

opening on every hand,

call

upon
>

with a voice from heaven, to increase our exertions in

sowing the seed of truth, and thus increasing the Redeemer's

Kingdom
'*

Resolved, further

That the warmest thanks be given

to Bro.

Preston and Bro. S. Clarke, for the able, diligent and

COLOURED BAPTISTS OP NOVA


fuithful

SCOTIA.

manner

in

which they have thus


and
for

far fulfilled the

trust conunitted to them,

the admirable report in


to the bene-

which they unfolded plans that gives promise


volent
efforts

of

the

denomination.

The

organization

necessary for drawing from the philanthrophic disposition

and exertions of the African Baptists of Nova Scotia the

permanent
desired
;

effects

and sustained action so much and so long

" Resolved, That the sincere thanks be given members

and friends
greeting
officers of

of Granville

Mountain church

for their cordial

and hospitality during the

sessions,

and

to

the

the Association for the manner in which the busi-

ness

WRS conducted."
closed to

The Session
Kiver in 1856.

meet within the church at Bear

Septimus Clarke, Secretary of the Association.

MARRIAGES PERFORMED BY REV. FATHER PR


Mav
25th, 1834, J.

.5T0N.

Mingo

to

H. Saunders; Sept. 13th,


;

1835, John Cephas to Melinda Reid

Jan.

15th,
;

1837, T.

Anderson to
A.

Ann Brown, Hammond's


Mary Hamilton

Plains

Jan. 15th,

1840, G. Carvary to H. Dines; Preston, Mar. 29th, 1840,


Halifax, Aug. 16th 1844, C. ; Croxon ; Halifax, Aug. 16th, 1844, S. Robson to Susan Gibson ; Halifax, Jan. 11th, 1843, G. Fry to Mary Crabbe ; May 15th, 1843, F. Saunders to E. Stratton ;
to

Young

Engliesh to S.

Mar. 29th, 1843, J. Sheirs to M. A. Pace

Feb. 25th, 1846,

H.
E.

Worth toE. Barrett; May 27th, 1845, James Bates to Munroe July 17th, 1852, C. Francis to M. R Lar.gford,
; ;

Y'armouth

July 2nd, 1847, G. Gibson to Mrs. Woods, Dartto R.

mouth

July 24th, 1847, H. Munroe 2

Peck; Jan.

Ist

HO

A BRIEF HISTORY

(>P

THE
1849, A. Silence to
to E.
;

1848, J. Jones to E.

McDougal

Sept.

Ist,

Mary Downs
to

Nov. 2 Ist, 1849,

Wm.

Baker

Barnes

Mar. 17th, 1845, Wm.

Newman
;

to S.

Symonds

do. J. Allen
;

Jane McLeod

do.

Arch Page

to Sarah

Martin
to

May,

Nov. 1846, W. Dod to L. Lyons Widow Dines; May 26th, 1849,


Willis
;

2nd, 1849, M. Stanley to


F. C.

Smith

Martha
S.

Mar. 9th, 1846, H. Wright to

K
;

Barrett; June 16th,

W. H. Gordan to M. A. Dunn April 30th, 1849, Woods to R. Williams May 1st, 1850, R. J. White, to
1845,
;

E.

Wilcox

C. Hill to R. Gross; Mar. 16th, 1850,


B. to

Jane Young; Eastern PasM. Bibbs to M. A. Barnes Nov. sage, Nov. 2l8t, 1850, 29th, 1850, J. Holden to E. Booth ; M. Mulholland to E. Cook R. Boland to Jane Young June 29th, 1851, J.
; ; ;

toH. Ross; Apiil 15th,1850, Nov. 11th, 1850, R. Bowers

Tompkins

to

Lay ton M. McKiunon;


J.

Joseph

to

Gross

Oct.

:8th,

1851, D. Tobin to
;

M.
to
;

McDonald;
B.

R. Harper to M. Fenton

Dec. 4th, 1851, A.

Peterson to M.

McDonald; May

7th, 1851, J.

Brennan

June 24th, 1851, H. Holmes to M.Williams Mar. 25th, 1850, C.Taylor to J. Taylo: T.York to S.Young Oct. 16th, 1850, M. Latimore to F. Butler; W. Smith to

McDougal

C. Hill

Oct. 4th, 1851, A. Patterson to

Jan. 18th, 1852, N. Mitchell to

M. A. Johnson Mary Hopkins Feb. 9th,


;

1852, M. Morash to M.
to
J.

Lynch

Feb. 16th, 1852, Jas. Holt

H. McCarthy
Muller to R.

Mar. 4th, 1852, D. Morris to

M.A.Young

McLeod
Diggs
to

Mar. 27th, 1852,


;

Wm.

Bain to

C.

Howard

W.

M. A. Saunders

April 25th, 1852,

A. L. Haddington to E. Wellner ; Jan. 4th, 1853, S. Cooper to Jane Allen ; Jas. Hargreaves to S. Hamilton ; Feb. 7th,
1853, J. Butler to M. S. Bailey
to E. Purcel
;
;

Feb. 19th, 1853, J.Thomas

Mar. 9th, 1853, E. Marsman to M. A. Grand;

son

July 12th, 1853, S.Williams to N. Glasgow


to S. Leslie
;

Aug.* 8th,
;

1853, G. White

and J. Moore

to

H, Roland

COLOURED BAtTISTS OP
July 12th, 1853, C. Morse to E. A.
J.

l*OVA SCOTIA.

81

Ham

Nov.

let,

1853,

Bowen

to

M. Robinson

May

2l8t, 1854, E.

Foot to J.
:

Williams; July 26th, 1854, G. Muir to E. Tufts


C. Giggie to M. J. Reid,

Jan.

Ist,

Hammond

Plains;

1860, S. Johnson to Isabella Jackson,

May 12th, Hammond Plains


Windsor, Jan.
1st,
Ist,

Nov.
Tobin

6th, 1856, J.

Lewis
This

to S. Bailey;
;

1857, D. Archibald to R. Keiler


to S. Carter.
list is

July

1857, A.

M.

also incomplete.

FATHER THOMAS' PASTORATE


Succeeded Father Preston's
charges held by him in 1861.
to the pastorate of the

various

He was by

He came

to this country with his father's

Welshman. family when about


birth a

twelve years old.


their fatherland, it

His father and mother being Baptists in

became part of

his nature to be

one

too,

and joined the church when quite young.


comfortable living.

His father was a

hatter and furrier by trade, which combined afforded

him a
to fall

Having made
Baptists,

their residence in Preston,

and being stern Welsh


religion young, a

it

was an easy task

in line with their coloured brethren.

growing desire

Having experienced came upon him to preach

the unspeakable riches of Christ. education,


Spirit,

He

had a good English

with

which he sharpened the Sword of the


it

and did not allow


these people in

to rust in the scabbard.

Having
where

caught a glimpse of Fathers Burton's and Preston's labours

among

various parts of the province


lot

churches had been instituted, and thrown in his


^'

amongst

them, he worked incessantly with them, and was respected

Between 1840 and 1860 Father Preston and him journeyed often together from Halifax to Yarmouth ; on

by them.

wheels the trip would be done intix or seven weeks.


ping at
all

Stop-

their little churches, holding meetings as they

A nillEF

IITflTOIlY

OF THE
Windsor

went

nlonj^.

Leaving Halifax they would

call at

Plains, from thence to llorton,

and Cornwallis,

Inglowood,

Annapolis County, (Jranville Mountain, Generals Hridgo,


]>ear River, Moose Kivcr, Digby Joggins, Weymouth Salmon River, Yarmouth County. To all of these

Falls,

places

they would bo joined with their preaching brethren, and

some gracious manifestations of God's presence would be experienced. Stalwart men, with stubborn hearts, would
bo melted and become as
kindled on their way
little

children.

The

fire

would be
sickle

up,
field,

and on their return the

would bo put
garner.

in the

and sheaves brought into the

In this manner reformation would succeed reformation,


until

glorious
in.

harvest for the Lord's

House would bo

gathered

Oftentimes would these reformations spread

into other churches.


cially in the country,

For

in those

days when people, espelock


it

became converted, they did not


became their daily
food.

up

for a

week, but

it

In

many

cases the conversions of the helps on a farm,

or about the store or house,

have been the means of the

salvation

of their employers.

"God

in

His wisdom haih

chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the


wise
to
;

and God hath chosen the weak things of the world


the

confound

things
in

which
;

are

mighty."

Father

Thomas was ordained


after the death

1857

did evangelistic work until

of Father Preston in

1861,

when he was

elected pastor over all the charges that Father Preston held,

which he
1879.

filled acceptably until the day of his death in During his pastorate several additions to the churches

were made by baptism, particularly at Halifax in 1868,

when

a powerful reformation broke out

among

the people,

and 72 were added by baptism. The baptizing took place at Beech Hill, when he broke the record by immersing 47

COLOUUKI) HAI'TIHTH OK NoVA HCOTIA.

8B

in

twenty

niiiiutos.

The

sight

was most

imposing'.

Tlio

caiKlidatcs wore dressed in aputlusa whito, the

day cloudluss,

The candidates marched from the church to the hike, singing the familiar hymn, ' When John ^Tew a niiin, baptizing began." Hundreds of eager eyes watched
the nir bnlmy.

with intense anxiety.


immersion.

Many

never before saw baptism by

After prayer was offered up the converts wont


water,

down

into the

taking hold of each other's hand,


the lake, which

stretching far out into

made

the scene ono

long to be rei.iemberod.

In 1874 another large addition of

40 were baptized

at

Campbell Koad Settlement,

which

attracted a large concourse of persons from the city.

His prayers at the water side always arrested the attention of the skeptic.
It has often

been said when he prayed


broad, but ho
all.

there was nothing too

high, too low, or too

could find language to meet the case, and admiration of

The

elevation

of thought

and greatness of expression was


;

more than that

of the ordinary scholar

surely
peace,

lie

could say:
for Jeru-

" For Zion's sake will I

not hold

my

and

salem's sake will I not rest, until the righteousness thereof

go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp


that burneth."

His labours were

blest, as it

could be plainly

seen

having besides the charge at Halifax, that of


Plains, one at Preston, Beech Hill

Hamstrife.

mond

and Campbell Road.


impeach

Petty jealousies arose in the ministry, which grew to


Disciplined members
exercised unprincipled means to
failure.

him, but the plans resorted to proved a


churches became disaffected, and
separate Association
;

few

fell

out and organized a

but after

a lapse of a

few years they

again

fell

into line with the original body, of

which he was

moderator elect at the time of his death.


the work of Satan
;

This was simply

having

lost

some

of his best followers,

he solved the evil seed in the hearts of some of the incon-

84

A IIKIEF IIIHTORY OF THE

sistcnt ones,

which caused the disturbance.

Ho

accompanied

Father Preston through the country on most of

\m

mission-

ary tours, and by his singular personal octivity, endeared

him

to the hearts of all his brethren with

whom

he came in

contact.

Ho
in

loved the open lake baptizing.


if

Ho was asked
too

on one occasion
baptize

he did not feel the severity of the cold to


?

winter

Ho

replied,

No,

love the cause

well

and when

I
all

have a cold and go into the baptismal


leaves mo.

waters,

my

cold

In almost every church

throughout the Association he has led followers into the


liquid stream.

His memory remains


it

as

fresh

with the

churches as though

was but yesterday that they parted.


repairs,

In 1864, a few years before he died, the church at Halifax

underwent another stage of

and

built a vestry at

an

expense of some $1500, for which he advanced the money without security, having the fullest confidence in tho integrity of his brethren, that

they would in due course relieve

themselves of the
to mortgage.

liability,

which they did without resorting


was clear in
to impart to

As

a minister of the Gospel he

doctrine,

and was always ready

any that came

within his reach the value of the blessings that accrued from
a christian
life.

He

laboured faithfully with the churches of

his charge with unflinching fidelity.


to
his

So

fully

consecrated

Maker and church


;

that

nothing seemingly could

break asunder that link


that vital spark, and
all is

but death's cold icy hand touched


took
its flight

life

to that region

where
rich

day.

Father Thomas

left

a character, which

is a

and the deeds of charity dispensed by him, while his life, will only be revealed at the Judgment Day.
legacy,

in

His son John, who was ordained to the ministry, and


bade
fair to

I-

be his successor, preceded him in death four years.

His

last

labour in church work was to gather the scattered


of the South Preston church and organize

members

them

COUHTHKI) IIAITIHTH OK NOVA

flC'jn'IA.

35

into a

body on the new

rott<l

sottlcniont, wlu-ro they haCi

in

courBo of construction, at

tliu

time of his death, a now edifice


St.

which they have since named


true friend.
illness

Thomas,

after him.
8(>rvatit,

I)y

his death they lost a faithful leader, a

humhlo

and
U'lf

His wife and six children survived him.


<lid

was of very short duration, hence ho

not sulfur

any
lysis

pain.
;

Ho

contracted a cold which terminated in para-

his family physician

was summoned, when questioned


is

he told him to prepare for the worst, said he, the worst
over doctor.

One of his brother ministers was called in, ho asked him, how was it with him and the Master, seeing him so tranquil. Said he, " For me to live is Christ, but to die
is

gain."

All

is

well.

This gave great satisfaction to the

divine.

When

he passed away after a brief illness of only

ten days.

His funeral was conducted by Rev. Dr. Saunders,


J.

accompanied by Rev.
shore.

M. Manning

Revs. J. F. Avery,

Carvery and Bailey, who have since joined him on the other

A large concourse followed his remains to the cemetery.


;

The church and


the funeral
as

was filled the body was taken


vestry

to overflowing the

day of

to the church in order that

many

as possible could avail themselves of the opportunity

of looking

on

his mortal remains for the last time, as

many

persons had come in from the outlying districts for that


purpose.
baptized,

They wept

bitterly,

some

that he

had married and

whose mothers and fathers ho had buried, and

soothed their sorrows under similar circumstances.


passed

Thus

away one

of the most earnest and efficient pastors

that ever held the charge in the Cornwallis Street Baptist

Church.

The church was supplied by


year.

the Rev.

A. Bailey for a

When

the following year (1880) a call was given to

the Rev. Wilton R. Boone, of Newton, Mass.

A nRIKK IIIHTOItV

4)F

TIIK

Jim. A. lUiLKY whp born of humblo


piircnts, at llalifux.

lift*,

but of gotlly

Altliough not embracing religion until

in

prime manhood, he was always of a disposition verging


After accepting Christ as his Saviour, ho

unto godlincsH.
felt

he had a work to do for his Master.

With

his limited

education, which he found was a barrier to him, yet ho felt


this

burden increasing on him, and his soul in trouble

for

dying sinners around him.


his daily avocations,

He made

it

known

to

Father

Thomas, who gave him much encouragement.


and on the Lord's Day would preach
were heavily freighted with
sin,

and meantime studied Cod's


to
tell

He continued Word

and

some whose souls them that nothing


gifts,

but the blood of Jesus could wash away their guilty stains.

He was
and

of exemplary character,

with good

and com-

manding demeanour.
at the death

He was

ordained evangelist in 1872,


the various

of Father

Thomas took over


viz.:

churches under his charge up to his death,


Plains, St.

Hammond
he

Thomos, Beecb

Hill, to all of these charges

was a

faithful servant.

Ho

kept the injunction " Be faithful

unto death, and I will give thee a Crown uf Life."


public act was to baptize a convert at
his health

His

last

Hammond

Plains,

when

was much impaired, and was advised

to wait

until he
it

a duty to perform,
:

was stronger, or call in some other brother. He felt and esteemed it a great privilege, and
itation

without any h
longer,

he

went.

He

lingered

a while

and

all

that loving relatives and an attentive comavail.

panion could do was of no


the
battle

His work was finished,

fought and victory won, and in 1886 he died

triumphing in the Lord.


him.

His wife and a daughter survived

During
;

his pastorate in

Hammond
;

Plains, in
;

1879 he
in 1885,

baptized nine

in 1883, eight

in

1884, five

and

two.

He

also,

baptized two for the Halifax church.


is still

He

was succeeded by Rev. E. Dixon, who

in charge.

roLOlTKKI) IIAITIHTH OK

NOVA

m'OTlA.

87

Kkv. Wilton K. Boonk was callud

to the pastorate,

and

ordained in 1880, in the Curnwallis Street Churcli.

He
lino

WHS a graduate
Hcliolar

of

and pulpit

Nowton Theologicol Seminary. A orator, one who would tai(e an active


his uliurch

part

in tiie

odvancoment of

and

race.

He

baptized

three during his pastorate.

He remained

but one year with

the church,
I)eople in his

believing he couhl be

of more service to his

own

native land, the customs of the country

being so very dillcrent to what he had experienced in the

He was one of a committee who waited on " Holmes-Thompson Government " for a re-adjustment the
United States.
of

school advantages, in which

he publicly expressed his


in a British

astonishment at such circumscribed privileges


colony

who

boasts so loudly of freedom.

He

took part in the

centenary celebration
Organizations."

of " Robert Raikes' Subbath School

He

resigned

the

following

year

and

removed

to TJoston.
in 1881,

Rev. H. H. Johnson was ongogod


after

immediately

Rev.

W.

R. Boone.

In 1882 a reformation broke out


to the church

when seventeen wore added


resigned in 1884.

by baptism.

Ho
most

Rbv. a.

W.

Jordan,

B. D.,

then took charge.

godly and devout man.


brethren until the
fall

He
;

laboured faithfully with his

of 1891.

In 1884, ten were added


;

by baptism
six were

in 1885, six

in 1886, three

in

1887, twentypastor of the


(Licen.)

baptized by Rev. J.

W. Manning,

north church.

At

this time Brother A. F.

Browne

'

was supplying, as Brother Jordan was pursuing further studies at Morgan Park. In 1888, one, and in 1889, twelve.
His aim was a hankering
after

knowledge.

He

put in five

years of study at Acadia, two at

and a year

at

McMaster Hall in Toronto, Morgan Park, Chicago. The church grew

cs

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE


under him.

spiritually

During

his pastorate the very best

of christian fellowship existed


bers.

between him and his mem-

Having experienced
liis

religion

became

daily companion.
free

when young, the Bible As a pulpit orator he was


city.

good, a clear voice,

from slangs of any kind whatever.

His pulpit he would always occupy when in the

In

the Bible Class, as teacher, he was most lucid and clear, and

much information was gained by

his instructing the class.

Ho

never depended on others to do his work.


the church

In 1887 the
solicit aid to

church sent him to England on a mission to


rebuild
if

possible,

but

was unsuccessful in
of

consequence of almost

all of

the large and influential churches

being closed during the

warm months

summer

season.

He

received a

few small contributions, with one of ten

pounds from Sir Charles Tupper in London.


the International

He met
that

with

Sunday School Convention

had con-

vened in London that year, and on his return gave a very


interesting account of its doings.
last

In 1891 he met for the

time at the Association in Preston with his brethren,


a final farewell.

when he bade us

At

that session assisted

in framing a cablegram of condolence to the late Rev. Mr.

Spurgeon's family.
Before
leaving
his

charge

he instituted a society

of

Christian Endeavor

in his

church, which has since gone

down.
that
if

He

always reminded the young people of the society

they had a desire to qualify themselves for usefulness


;

in the world, learning was well worth their attention


particularly
cerns.
oil

and

must they make

religion
his
it

one of their chief conto

As a pastor he was good,


to say that Pastor

aim was always


of

throw
for a

on the troubled waters, and

was never known


ill

member

Jordan had spoken

any one,

either brother or sister.

It is to be regretted that the church

was not always

so blest.

He

resigned his charge and went

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA


to Indiana,

SCOTIA.

30

where he made friends


to his
;

for himself

and

fau.ilv.

and became endeared

church and associations.


his church increased in

His labours were blest


bers
;

mem-

his early Christian

training

was

a bulwark around

him

having godly parents, they ever reminded him that

salvation

depended

in a life

hid with Christ in God.

He

died in the thirty -fourth year of his age, of a brief illness

attended
friends

by

a loving

wife

surrounded by
prevalent in
loving

affectionate

who

did

all

that

human hands

could do to allay his


that part of

sufferings

a malignant fever, so

the Union, caused his death.

widowed mother

and

sisters,

and a brother survives him

residents of Truro,

his native town.

Brother Jordan

filled

a charge under the

Home

Mission

Board

at Tracadie,

among
blest,

his coloured brethren.


as

There his

labours

were also

he both taught school and

preached.

He was

elected four different times Moderator of

the African Baptist Association, and was one of the ripest


scholars of his race
in

Nova
;

Scotia,

having at his death


In early
life

merited the

title

of Doctor of Divinity.

he

learned the printer's trade

but on coming to the city and


see-

becoming acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Thomas, who,


ing of his excellent the ministry.
gifts,

recommended him

to study for
;

He

cherished a fond hope of going to Africa

but when in Chicago was advised by a physician that his


physical frame was insufficiently strong to withstand the

murky
cans.
to bear

climate,

which has proved so

fatal to

North Ameri-

This was a sad disappointment to him, which seemed

heavy on his mind

' the writer.

this fact

he often disclosed to

His close application to study, with a nervous

constitution, so
set in

undermined

his health that

when

the fever

he became an easy victim.

40

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE


In 1892 Rev. Johnson was called to the Pastorate, and

continued until February,

1895.

This proved the most back over $300,

unfortunate epoch in the Church's history. Dissension arose

among

the

members

the pastor's salary

fell

with a current debt of a similar amount, and an outstanding mortgage of $800, a second mortgage had to be elfectcd
to pay off
bility

and discharge the


to
if

pastor.

Now

the present

lia-

amounts

$1400, secured by mortgage, which need


the proper methods had been adopted in
this

not have been

due time.

Now

burden

to a poor people,

accompanied
legis-

with the current expenses, requires the most prudent


lation of the

members

for,

were we possessed of the most


finest imagination,

comprehensive understanding, the

and

the most capacious ability, and had not unity of acting


desirable to create a oneness of the whole,

so

locking unto
failure

Jesus for guidance in

all

our deliberations

must

be the result of our labours, and the loss of our church


property would follow
ter
;

when

the paving stones in the gut-

would

arise

from their sockets like an army, and shout


Sixty years has she withstood

disgust to our implicit trusts.

the
I
j

scofiFs

of the skeptic, and for sixty more

may

she stand

within the ownership of a once enslaved people whose eyes


are

now turned Zionward.


The
history of this Church, with
large
its

varied vicissitudes,

would make a
its first

volume

in

itself.

Being one of the


termed

oldest in the Association,

many

of the old fugitives were


is

members.

They brought with them what

the old-time religion.

Their preachers, although unlearned,

were men of deep godly piety, whose labours were blest


with lasting members in the church.
Besides

men

of their

own
to

race,

they have had some of the most talented

men

of

the Baptist Maritime Convention, and Presbyterian

Synod

preach to them,

viz.,

the late saintly Dr. Band, the

COLOURED BAPTISTS OP NOVA


fatherly Dr. Pryor, the scholarly

SCOTIA.

41

and eloquent Dr. Saunders,

the brilliant Professor Kierstead the astute talents of Revs.


J.

Chute, with the missionary spirit of late Bro.

McDonald, Kline, Blakeney and Avery, and That once the Pauline expressions of Father Wallace. monument of Godliness, Dr. Burns, whose burning eloquence
Manning,
Hall,

W.

on the privations of Moffatt in Africa, and Gordon in China


and Soudan, cannot
sermons of Prof.
easily be forgotten.

The

often preached

Forrest,

bristling

with eloquence

and

wholesome advice
Rev. R. Murray
;

to the young,

and the calm intonations of

with the missionary addresses of Bros.

Archibald, Churchill and Sandford, and the


voice of dear Dr.

^olyan harp
same old

Boggs
His

with an army of others whose


all

name have

fled

from memory, have


love,

told us the

story of Jesus and

under the roof

of the Cornwallis

Street church.

In 1894, in the pastor's absence, Pastor Hall

baptized nine in the

communion

of the Church.

" Peace be within

this sacred place,

And

joy a constant guest


grace,

With holy gifts and heavenly Be her attendants blest."

ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE HALIFAX CHURCH,

1832,

WITH

REVISIONS.

Rev. R. Preston, John Hamilton, Jacob Ford, Thom.


Bailey, Ben. Jackson, S. Hamilton, E. Cooper, Violet Gray,

Roberts, H. M. Hamilton, E. Travis, Phoe. Lee, M. Lacy, S. Lacy, R. AVilliams, M. A. Wise, A. Luke, Ann Spriggs, S. Campbell, M. Spriggs, Charity Williams, James Thomas, Septimus Clarke.
E. Gulliver,

Har. Etley,

M. Robinson, Ann

Johnson, Charlotte Jackson, Jem. Lacy,

42

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE


Joined afterwards in 1845.

Phoe.

Curry, S. Connix, S.
Hill,

Warren, L. Allen, E. Morris, M. Taylor, C. Marsman, E.

M. Roberts, E. Clayton, J. Bailey, T. Connix, B. Carroll, A. Wyndry, H. Johnson, T. Hill, J. Monroe, Alex. Thomson, G. Brown, W. Jackson, M. A. Wise, C. Williams, E.
Smithers, R. Clarke, A. Loyd,
Stuart,

M. Wyndry,

Bowers, C.

A. Maxwell, L. Williams, L. Baker, A. Seeton, E.


S. Frances,

Redmond,

Tobias Williams, J. Baptiste,

M. A.

Baptisto, E. Fubnloe, R. Spriggs, C.

W.

Sport,

Wm.

Barrett,

M. Gilmore,

T. Stuart, G. Creighton,

Lucy

Carter, G. Bowers.
Is.

Those joined in 1854.

T.

Meade,
J.

Killam, M. E.

Thomas, P. Brown, E. Brown,


Edghill,
II

Cox, R. H. Grant, Jas.

M.

Barnes, S. Grant, Jos. Sye, Eliza Brown.

In 1857. L. Roan, E. White,

Ann Gibson, M.
Effie Roberts, J.

Williams,

l.c

W.

Hinson, R. Grant, A. Williams, M. Dilivy, C. Carter, S.

Hopkins, L. Biddle, M. Crocker,


Tobin, S. Parker, J. R. Thomas,

Dean, M. M. A. Smith, M. Taylor.

Added

revised

list

1870.

Mary Johnson, H. Johnson, E.


Lenard, S. A. Lewis, S. McJ.

Johnson, E.

Jackson, T.

W.

Donald, M. McDonald, A. Martin, E. Morton, H. Nelson,


R. Nelson, L. Provost,
S. Gibson,

W.

Johnson, S. Edgell, M.

Gibson,

A. Gardiner, S

Hamilton, E. Hinsan, F. Fells,


Phoe.

W.
M.
L.

Howell, Annie Barrett, M. Bowen, C. Cooper, J. Tyler,


J.

Davis,

E.

Russell,

Russell,

R.

Anderson,

A. Brown, M. Barrett, M. Doleman, M. Dart, C. J.

Oliver,

M.

Oliver,

C. E. Oliver,

H. Olliver, C.

J. Oliver,

S. Killam, S. A. Killam, Jno. Symonds, R. Syraonds, L.

Symonds,
Smith.

Isa.

Smith,

M. A.

Wellner,

D. Williams, J.
R.

Richardson,

Ann

Richardson, H. Smith, Isaac Smith,

Added

in

1874. Jos.
S.

Flint,

P. E.
J.

McKerrow, R.

J.

White, T. H. White,

Woods,

Thomas, E. A. Thomas,

COLOUAED baptists of nova


G.
Carter,

SCOTIA.

43

Giles Aldridge, E.

Flint,

W. Dishman,

Jno.

Wright, Alex. Munro,

8. Ciirson,

H. Bailey, E. Jacobs, M.

Dismal, M. Cozee, AI. Bailey, M. Marsman, M. Robertson,


R. Thomas, H. Roan, S. Reid,
to be

added

obliterated

M. Fells. 20 other names make it complete, that has been and become illegible, many of whom have crossed
to this list to

the stream in a full hope of a blessed resurrection.

Another revision with names added.


Margt. G. Thomson,

Alfred

Brown,

W.

B.

Thomas, Wra. Joseph, J. Wheeler,

G. Goff, Jesica McDonald, J. Matthews, Bessie Stewart, J. T.

McKerrow, A. D. McKerrow, W. McKerrow, Jos. Kelsie, M. Kelsie, L. Ford, Agnes Flint, J. Lopez, R. Turner, Ad. Bailey, Mrs. Bailey, Annie Meade, E. Whiley, C. Whiley, Miss Golar, H. Phillips, I. M. Jordan, W. English, R Smith, Mrs. Jackson, C. Thomson, D. Skinner, Jas. Mintas, Jas. Doleman, Rac. Smith, S. Diggs, M. Thomas, Isa. Newman, M. McAuliflFe, L. A. Thomas, M. Taylor, J. Johnson, F. Symonds, A, Tyler, I. Symonds, J. Keeling, Jos. Skinner,
D. Skinner,
jr
,

R. Kinney, A. Carr, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs.

Tolliver, F. Provost, E. Lewis.

MARRIAGES BY REV. JAMES THOMAS.


Dec. 15th, 1857, John Collins to
J.

Ann Willams

do.

Wellner to M. A. Miller
;

Jan. 10th, 1858, H. Laughlan

to C. Golar

to Charlotte

do. J. Reynolds to S. Persanto ; do. J. Simons Henry ; do. H. Thomas to Lucinda Golar ; do. H. Jackson to H. Trott Sept. 17th, 1858, M. Toney to H. Killam; Oct. 4th, 1858, J. Parker to P. A. Allisson; Oct. 10th, 1858, T. Conuix to C. Christopher ; Nov. 7th, 1858, J. Harpel to S. Marshall ; Nov. 23rd, 1858, T. Tynes to M. J. Barnes ; Dec. 13th, 1858, W. Gennex to F. Foley j
;

44

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE


Cassidy to M.

Dec. 25th, 1858,


1859,

J.

Woods; Jan.
8th, 1859,

26th,

W.

Carter to S. J. Roberts;
;

May

N. Leo
;

to 8. J.

David

July 19th, 1859,

J.

Frankly ii to C. Tynes
;

May

nth, 1860, J. L.

Lopez

to S. J. Carroll
;

May

13th, 1860,

G. Hartland to M. Slade
Isabel

June 24th, 1860,

J.

Smith

to
;

Wynder

July 29th, 1860, R. Smalley to N. Berry

Oct. 15th, 1860,


J.

A. Berry to C. Coffin; Oct. 19th, 1860,

Hurbett

to S. A.
;

Palmer

Oct. 22nd,

1860, J. Copeg to
to
;

M. Hark ley

Jan. 2l8f, 1861, D.


J.
S.

Dixon

L.

Brown

1/
;

July Slst, 1861,

Keeling to A.

Wakeman

Aug. 25th,
Bell

1861, A. Grant to

Grant; Dec. 5th, 1851, E. Weston to


1862,
to

N. Gordan

Jan.

Feb. 18th, 1862,

S.

H. Primas
Cain
t

to C.

H. Clayton to M. Newson to E. Bailey; Mar. Slst, Woods; April 2nd, 1862, B. Jones
5th, 1862, G.

M.

May
to

11th, 1862, Jas. Williams to

M. Watts

do. L.

M. J. Brown ; June 19th, 1862, H. Dado to L. June 26th, 1862, H. Hamilton to M. E. Johnson ; ; July 30th, 1862, J. Bird to A. Bermont Oct. 6tb, 1862, S. Freeman to E. Henderson ; Oct. 12th, 1 862, W. Hamilton
Bowers
Wilkins
;

to

D. Levine
1st,

Dec. 25th, 1862, J. Johnson to E. Edwards

Jan.
J.

1863, G.

Wynder
;

to R.

Crawley

Jan. 16th, 1863,

Dismall to M. Smith

Feb. 10th, 1863, P. E.

McKerrow

to

M.

E.

Thomas

Feb. 17th, 1863, E. Robinson to J. James;


J.

Aug. 6th, 1863,

Johnson

to

M. Williams; Aug. 12th,

1863, A. Johnson to S. Jenkins; Nov. 12th, 1863,

W. H.
West
Collins

Hopkins
1863, M.
to C.

to

M. C. Townsend
J.

do. J. Perrigan to C.
;

Nov. 17th, 1863,

H. Carter to E. Smith

Nov. 19th,

Ewing
;

to E.

Brown

Feb. 16th, 1864,

W.
;

Pence
15th,

Mar. 10th, 1863, J.


1864, J.

Hammond
Isa'l
;

April

Davis to

M. J. Spence; Thomson May 1st,


to

1864, H.

Smith
to C.

to Isa'l

Mahoney

May

30th, 1864, D.
J.

Johnson
Vergin
;

July 10th, 1864,

Smith; July 10th, 1861, W. Rodgers to

Nelson to E.
Stanley
;

S.

Oct.

(X)LC>URED BAPTISTS OF

NOVA

SCOTIA.

45

17th, 1864, J. Willinnia to L. Black well

Oct. 20tb, 1864,


J.

W. Crawley
E.

to L. Clarke; Oct. 29th, 1864,


;

Johnson

to

Freeman

Nov. 24th, 1864, T.W. Lannnn


;

to A. Mitchell;

Nov. 30th, 1864, H. Cain to E. Smith

Dec. 4th, 1864, J.

Shepherd
Jan.
Ist,

to P.

Joshua

Doc. 20th, 1864,

J.

Lacy

to J.
;

Drake

1865, C. Williams to

Ann
;

Fletcher

Fob. 15th, 1865,

1865, James Skinner to M.

Ford

April 13th,

W.
;

Robinson to E. Johnson
E. Hamilton
;

May

17th, 1865, R. Smithors to

June 20th, 1865, D. Ziebeck to C. Cameron June 26th, 1865, R. Dyson to S. Lowe July 2nd, 1865, July 8th, 1865, W. Muckley to C. J. Woods to L. Taylor
;

Drew

July

18th,

1865,

Jas.
S.

Butler to B.

Fredericks

Sept. 7th, 1865, C.

Killam to
;

Bailey; Dec. 11th, 1865,

R. Saunders to C. Johnson
to

Dec. 23rd, 1865, Jos. Gibson


Jetf.

M. Wynder

Dec. 24th, 1865,


J.

Jones to E. David
;

Dec. 28th, 1865,

Meadows

to E.

Arnold

Jan. 3rd, 1866,

A. Johnson to V. Bailey; Jan. 6th, 1866, H. Ryder to S.

Langell April 3rd, 1866, H. Merry man to B. Carroll ; June 20th, 1866, J. Wise to M. A. Culley July 8lh, 1866, Sam. Young to K. Mill ; July 23rd, 1866, A. James to S. J.
;
;

Brown
E.

July 24th, 1866, R. Hill to R. Bowen

Sept. 6th,

1866, G.

Thomas

to S. Neal

Oct. 22nd, 1866, T. Davis to

McLaughlane; Nov. 18tb, 1866, A. Johnson to M. A. Brander ; Nov. 25th, 1866, B. Bowen to J. Kays ; Dec. 19th, 1866, G. Washington to E. Dean ; Jan. 20th, 1867, R. Jones to Anna David ; Jan. 23rd, 1867, T. Smith to C. Berrigan ; Jan. 29th, 1867, M. Holland to M. Thomson ;
Feb. 5th, 1867,
J.
J.

R.

Thomas

to E. Bailey

Feb. 25th, 1867,

Burns
;

to E.

Reynolds;
4th,

May

26th, 1867, L. Allison to C.


to Isa Finlay
;
;

David

June

1867,Wm. King

Aug.7th,

1867, R. C. Patterson to S. A. Roberts

Sept. 9th, 1867,

W.

R. Henry to C. Johnson; Oct. 14th, 1867, J. H. Smith


;

to S. J. Spriggs

Dec. 31st, 1867, C. P. Williams to L. E.

; ;

\"
I
I

46

IIIIIEK

IIIHTORY OF

THE

Hill; Jan. 8th, 1868, T. B. Whitennig to M. A. Clifford;

April 30th, 1868, J. A. Maxwell to A. Gardner 1868, G. TayU)r to E. Johnson


;

Aug. 24th,
J. A.

Sept. 6th, 1868,W.HolIen8-

worth to S. Morris; Sept. 29th, 1868, T. Anderson to


Taylor; Oct. 9th, 1868, H. T. Pugh to M.
Tolliver
;

Dec.

2nd, 1868, J. Cassidy to A. K. Fairbanks; Dec. 3rd, 1868,


J.

D. Sargent to M. Floyd

Juno

5th, 1869, J. Colon to

M
1/

Fitzgerald;

April Ist, 1869, A.

Brown

to Lav.

Parsons;
10th,

April

14th,

1869, G. Sington to K. Cooper;


to
S.

May

1869,

W. Johnson
to J.
;

Carvery

May

13th, 1869,

W.

Adams
Manigo

Brooks; June 13th, 1869, T.

Jones to M.
;

5th, 1869, J.

June 13th, 1869, Is. Giggle to E. Brown July Hale to M. Robert; July 28th, 1868, James Brown to C. Dixon Aug. 8th, 1869, R. Swan to S. A. Hamilton Aug. 26th, 1869, J. Williams to M. J. Bailey
;
;

Sept. 5th,

1869, Jas. Dixon to M. Fletcher; Sept.


;

19th,

1869, Jno. Allison to J. Manigo

Sept. 22nd, 1869, H. T.

Johnson

to C.

Fells; Sept.

30th, 1869,

W. Lynch

to A.

James; Dec. 26th, 1869,

Jas.

Smith
C.

to

Levina Symonds

May
J.

22nd, 1870,

J. B.

Barron to M. B. Walsh; June 7th,


Allison; July 14th, 1870,

1870,

W.

B.

Thomas
;

to A.
;

Symonds

to A. E.

Gardner

July 24th, 1870, Jos.KItchner

to O. Laroche

July 26th, 1870, B. Smithers to E. Dines


I.

Aug. 3rd, 1870, Richard Symonds to


1870,

David;

Sept. 8th,

Wm
;

Ganderson

to E. Taylor
;

Nov. 10th, 1870, G. H.


Francis to
;

Irwin to M. A. Tolliver

Nov. 24th, 1870, Jeremiah Crawley


1870, A. D.

toG. Gardner; Dec.


Johnson
1871, P. O'Shea
to

7th,

M.

A.

Jan. 24th, 1871, C. Cooper to J. Tyler

Jan. 27th,

M. Garroway
;

July 18th, 1871, G.


1871, C.

Tolliver to A. Davis

Sept.

18th,

Brown
;

to H.

Miller

Oct. 29th, 1871, D. Anderson to C. Goffican

Nov.

2nd, 1871,
J.

W. Sampson

to

C.

Bowen

Nov. 16th, 1871,

Stewart to L. J. White; Dec. 31st, 1871, A. A. Cozier

; ;

COLOUIIED BAITIHTH OF NOVA HCOTIA.

47

Henson; Feb. 4th, 1872, J. B. Thonuis to M. A. Brown Feb. 22nd, 1872, J. T. Brown to Anno Brown June 18th, 1872, W. Valentino to C. Edwards; July 2nd,
to S. J.
;

1872, W. Rodgers to Sua. Bride

July 16th,1872,J. Richard1872, S. Honry to M. E.

son to

E. Spike; July 22nd,


,

Wilson
10th,

Sept. 28th, 1872, R. H.

Power

to

M. Owens
24th,

Oct.

1872, J. Scott to Jane Taylor; Dec.

1872,

J. Allen to C.

Johnson

Jan. 22nd, 1873, A. Cain lo


J.

M.Lee;
Reid
;

Mar. 18th, 1873, G.W. Brown to M.


to T. Allison

Gibson

do. J.

Mar. 27th, 1873,W. Tyler to Anne Harding ; June 10th, 1873, J. Foster to L. Cain ; Aug. 14th, 1873 J. Wright to E. D. Bailey; Aug. 23rd, 1873, H. Bailey to

Carroll ; Aug. 26th, 1873, J. Lomax to S. Ann Lewis Nov. 27th, 1873, J. Downey to E. A. Dixon ; Dec. 7th, 1873, Wni. Lewis to E. Jones ; do. R. Smith to E. A.
;

Goffican

Mar. 17th, 1874,

J.

Williams
;

to

S Green

July
J. R.

21st, 1874, H.

Downey
1st,

to S.

Smith
Ist,

Aug. 23rd, 1874,

Bloxam

to E.

Bowers; Oct.

1874,
t.

G. Diggs to C. A.
E. A. Ross; Oct.

Stewart; Oct.

1874, H. Kellum

2nd, 1874, J. Wilson to L. Thomas*; Dec. 2nd, 1874, C. D.

Marsraan to S E. Jackson
to S.

Mar. 5th, 1875, G.

S.

Thomson
Smith
;

Simmons

Mar. 31st, 1875,

J. G. Gillan to Isa.

May
E.

9th, 1875, T. Jones to E. J.


;

Marsman

Aug. 16th, 1875,


J.

C. Peters to S. A. Vespers

Sept. 29th, 1875, T. Boynes to

Marsman; Nov.

17th, 1875, J.

Lee to M.

Lawrence;
;

Dec. 8th, 1875,


1876,

Wm.

Gordon

to E. A. Tolliver

Feb. 7th,

Wm.

Johnston to E. A. Thomas; Mar. 20th, 1876,

C. Cooper to
Isa.

Emmerson
;

Williams

M. Clike; May 14th, 1876, Josh. Giggie to Sept. 10th, 1876, J. Crawley to S. A. ; Sept. 24th, 1876, E. Johnson to Ann Marsman
S.

Oct. 29th, 1876,

A.

Small to

Ann

Gibson

Nov. 5th,

1876,

W. Samson

to J.
;

Buskins; Nov. 9th, 1876, G. AidJan. 9th, 1877, Rev. A. Bailey to

ridge to

K. Buchannan

48

A IIKIKF HIHTOKY

<tV

TIIK

L. A. IJrown

May

17th,

1877,

J.

Turton

to K. Sprigf^s
;

Juno
1877,

4th,

1877, R. Biiinbridgo

to C.
;

Tsenor

June

7th,

A. Williams to C.

M. Maxwell

June 25th, 1877,

Johnson; June 27th, 1877, W. P.utlor to July 17th, 1877, 1). Anderson to L. Ann J. Windry Johnson Aug. r2th, 187G, G. H. Munroe to M. A.Green
Jap. Piers to F.
; ;
;

Nov. 20th, 1877, T. J, JohnPon to Maria Smith ; Nov. 22nd, 1877, G. Clayton to M. K. T.radley ; Dec. 25th, 1877,
J. II.

Iksden to M. David
;

Dec. 2Gth, 1877, C. Morloy to

A. LaRocho

Jan. 21st, 1878, J. Reid to J. West; Mar.

19th, 1878, J. IJarnard to A.

Smith

April 22nd, 1878, A.


8. Riley to

Wilson

to

A.

Wilson; April 10th, 1878,


13th, 1878, K.

Isa

Munroe; Juno
15th, 1878,

Colly to E. Webster; Aug.


;

a
to

W. Graham to M. A. Roy Sept. 6th, 1878, McArthurtoE. Mitchell; Sept. 28th, 1878, Jas. West S. J. Bundy Sept. 30th, 1878, A. Heisler to E. Cross
;
;

Oct. 4th, 1878, G. A. Spriggs to A. Otta

Oat. 12th, 1878,

C. Ford to E. Crockett; Oct.

Sparks

2l8t, 1878, J. Boyd to A. Evans to Isa. Smithers Dec. 4th, 1878, S. Turner to E. Johnson ; Dec. 18th, 1878, G. A. Lambert to E. Colly; Feb. 5th, 1879, D. Wright to C.
;

Nov. 18th, 1878,

J.

Brown

April

1st,

1879,

J.

Springer to M. A. AjcGrath

May

Ist,

1879, Joseph Saunders to

Mary Evans.

ORDINATION AT HAMMOND PLAINS BY REV. FATHER THOMAS.


September 10th, 1873, Bros. James Wilmot, A. Bailey, Sermon by Rev. Wallace Lucas. After the Digby ordination three willing converts were baptized.
J. R. Thomas.

Joggins had made request of Brother Wilmot

Boech

Hill,

of Brother Bailey, and Halifax of Brother Thomas.

I'OLOUHEU HAITIHTH OF NoVA HCOTIA.

40

1st

PRESTON. (Orgranized
:

Sept.

i2th.

1842.)

Pastor

Ilov.

U. I'roston
;

Doncoii

Mcreditli Stunloy
:

KUlor

John

Collins

Menibers' names

O. Carvary, Lctty

James, Win. Koborison, T. Saunders, H. Taylor, V. Clayton,


Kodgers.
verts.

Win. Dare, Ed. Syo, T. Cox, F. Kelly, D. Brown, J. Those persons are some of Father Burton's conIt

must bo
in

also understood,

previous to this thoy

wore a branch from the ILalifax church for many years.

Those who joined


II.

1843
J.

D. Brooks, T. Jones, G. Moore,


Spriggs,
T. Connix,

Crowd, T. Crawley,

A. Dixon,

F. David, S. Carter,

W. Townsend,
S. Dines,

C. Dines, C. Williams,

H. Carvary, L. Dines,

E. Brown,

M. A.

Colly,
J.

E. Franklyn, N. Johnson,

T. Syo, E. Carter, A.

Weeks,

McClow,
Johnson,

Vj.

Clayton, C. Brooks, E. Brooks, E. Cosey, M. A.

II.

Connix, M. Rodgers, S. Rodgors,

Sye, Thea.

Holmes,

Benson Smitheis, G.

Brown,

E.

Hopkins, T.
Crawley, M.

Gabriel, G. Savage, J. Savage,

J. ('rawloy, S.

Johnson, T. Johnson, M. Brown, A. Williams, D. Hoskins,

M. Smithers, R. Taylor,
S.

J. Fletcher, P.

Williams,
in

II.

Tyler,
:

Waling, T. Galard.
wife.

Those who joined


Mat.

1845

A.

Williams and
Crawley,
J.

Thomas,

S.

Williams,
:

Lewis

Cooper, Violet Smithers.

In lb46

II,

Worth,

R. A. Tripp, A. Lane, M. Blackwell, M. Clarke, J. Taylor,


T. Nelson.

These were the original members in Father

Preston's time, but few of

them

Deacon T. Crawley is an active is upwards of seventy years, and quite


bers considerable of Father Preston's

now living and active. member in the church he


are
;

vigorous,

and remem-

ways and manners.


:

In conversation with the writer, he said

have seen

men

falling as though they were dead, under his preaching.

He
if

said

he delighted to preach to large audiences, especially

60

A BRIBI' HISTORY OF THE

they consisted mainly of the unconvertoil, for then would


reformations break out
;

and from those


list

large reformations
it

many would

be added to the

of

membership, hence

was necessary to or^onizo them into separate or independent


churches, in order that in time thny would become self-sustaining.

The present
J.
;

officers are

Kev. E. Dixon, pastor


J.

T. Crawley, S. Clayton, J. Glasgow, P. Williams,

Wise,

Deacons

Williams,

W.
S.

Brooks,

W.

Diggs, D. Johnson,
J.

Councillors

Sexton,

Ross

Clerk,
life

M. Thomas.

large portion

of Father Preston's

and labors were

spent with this church.


in this district, hence entirely
at
it

His mother having made her home

was quite natural that he would bo


his

home with
field

near relatives.

His

religious

views were entirely in keeping with their own.


it

He found

an easy

to work.

Although his paths were not


^

always strewn with roses by any means, for he found that


Satan bad his emissaries to work as hard as he
already been 8aid, during his absence the

As has
j left

clderi.

in

charge to exhort to their brethren.


well of listening to

The

writer

remembers

some of
;

the old brethren, viz.. Brothers

Saunders and Rowan

these wore

and yet the work that those

men poor men

entirely unlearned,

did the Judgment

Day

alone will reveal.

Their addresses, which wore purely

from experience, they would often give quotations from


Scripture to bear out their points, and the great wonder was

how

it

could be done without inspiration.


there are persons to-day
fifty,

And

churches for forty,


their youth, that

yea, sixty

who have been members of years, who joined in

have never been once disciplined by their

church, which shows to a very large degree the genuineness


of their conversion.

Can we say the same


and pushed
out.

to-day

No.
1869,

They
the

are rushed in,

This church enjoyed


until

pastorate

of Father

Thomas from 1861

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OK NOVA

HC'OTIA.

51

when

the division arose, ami remained out of the Aflsocintion

until 1880.

During that time she was under the pastoral

charge of Father Neule,

who

did what ho could to restore

her to her original standing in the Association.

During her
line,

absence Father Curvary's church came into


her place on the
original position.
roll,

and took

but in process of time she got back hei

Father Neale from that time up to the

day

of his death in 1893,

was her constant


in

pastor,
;

for over

twenty years.

He was born
in

Georgia in 1807
in

baptized

by Father Burton

1815

and ordained

1864.

He

went

in

and out among those people, baptizing, marrying,


thorn.

and burying

He
lifo

served them to the


of usefulness.

last,

and was

honored with a long

Ho was
;

born in the
not having

house of bondage, like

many

of his co-workers

the advantage of an early education, he depended almost


entirely

upon
his

tlic

workings of inspiration.

Being able to
;

read God's word, he meditated on

made
his

it day and night ho meat and drink, and found the Holy Bible to bo Ho knew what it was to travel on foot best companion.
it

from Halifax to Yarmouth, in the days before the cars were


introduced
;

and has often

said, "

Marvellous are thy ways

oh liOrd."

Father Neale's happiest time would be in the


;

midst of a revival

he was always glad to welcome tho

young
fold.

into the

church,

whom

he called the lambs of the


get any record until 1880,
;

We

regret

we could not

when the church

re-entered the Association as Preston third

ihat year he baptized

15 persons;
in

1886, 2 more; 1887, 17 more;

1885,25 more; in 1888, 2 more; 1889, 2


in

more

1891, 6 more

1892, 16 more.

This ended a

life

of

work with God. Two were added in 1893, but on this occasion he was too weak to perform the duties, and Pastor
years old

Dixon was called in for that purpose. Ho was probably 85 when he baptized his last converts. Could he not

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A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE


" I have
rest

with

that

lovely

apostle to

the Gentiles say

finished

with

my course, and am now God my Father, and view

ready to go
Christ

home and

my

Saviour, with

scars of

honour on His brows, and triumphs in His eyes." For many years he was a student of Father Preston, and

caught
prayer.

much of his inspiration. He was most powerful in As was said to the writer by a good brother froni a
:

Central Association church


of

There

is

old Brothers Pelotte


in a reforma-

Windsor
if

Plains,

and Henderson of Halifax,


Often

tion

a sinner can stand their prayers, they can stand any-

thing.

Another brother said

when Father Preston

would be preaching, and the doors would open, the giddy


ones would look around, he would say to them, Are you
looking for Satan, never mind watching for him,
I'll tell
;

you
he

when he
box
;

is

coming

in.

Father Neale was impulsive

guarded the door of his pulpit as a soldier does his sentry

and now be
last

is

gone, the

church

does miss him.

About the
weak.
"
re-wound.

sermon he preached

to his flock

ho was quite

He

felt that

the main spring was too tender to be


:

He
Bo
;

addressed them in the following words


hear

You may never

my

words again

Finally, brethren,

farewell.

perfect, be of

good comfort, be of one mind,


shall

live in peace

and the God of love and peace

be with

In a few days, and he was numbered with those who had " washed their robes in the Blood of the Lamb." Pastor Dixcn succeeds him, who is a much younger man, but very hard worked who must be very careful or his health, or lie
you."
;

will surely break

down.

Brother Richard Cooper, licentiate,

a good man, he supplied

during Father Neale's

illness,

and
less

continued until he died.

He

survived Father Neale

than two years


nearly

he had been a member of the church for

fifty years,

and was ever ready to be at her

service.

Bro. Williams exhorts to the brethren in absence of the pastor.

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63

DEACON BARRETT, OF HALIFAX CHURCH.


Another worthy
(<f

officer of the

church was Deacon Barrett,

loving memory.

love him.

To become acquainted with him, was to stranger coming in church was made by him
home. His scat
for

to feel perfectly at

many
;

years was on

the platform
that his

under the preaching desk


to get as near to
;

it

would appear

aim was

God

as

he possibly could.
nor heat, wet nor

He

loved hia church and people

cold

dust, did

not keep him from his meetings.


often exhorted to the
in

On Sabbath
also

afternoons he

brethren, as services

were held three times


singer,

the day.

He was

a good

and would often entertain the meetings with those

sweet melodies that would take hold of the spiritual emotion


before you were conscious of
it,

and would be
I

fairly envel-

oped in flames of adoration to the Great


towards you.
the news
little

am
"

for

His mercies

One

of his favorite

hymns
news

was, "
;

Run

with

children, rnn with the


"
;

another was,

" Steal away to Jesus

still

another, " I

the chariot early in the morning."


to the ear,

am going up in They may sound quaint


days of slavery. Dea.

but

all

of

them had an import mt meaning, having


in the

most of them been composed


his escape from slavery,

Barrett was converted while a young

man

in Virginia,

made

came

to Halifax in 1820,

where he

nade

his pillows

wet with

tears, in

thanks to Almighty

God

for his deliverance, and bondage which he lived

for the abolition

of his brethren in

to see.

During the war, he could


occurrences, on
battles

relate

many
of

thrilling incidents of slave life

some

the

very plantations where severe


told the writer, of the office lad

were

fought.

He

by the name of

" Robby,"

ments,

who look^wd aftei his master's astronomical instruwho kept an observatory in Richmond. On one
3

64

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE


some Luneral observations,

occasion they compared figures of

and

fo'

id tliat

RobV)y was more accurate than he was.


;

He

decided to promote him


to his

but this elevation was distasteful


a duff head.

son-in hiw,

who was

Old mistress was


to the

informed of the
country seat
served
;

fact,

and poor Robby was sent away


i^'oing

but before

wrote out

my

passport,

which

me

to

New

York.

ST.

THOMAS, 2nd PRESTON,


Re-orgranized 1879.)

(Orgranized 1856.
Original
officers

and members.
:

Licentiate

Benson

Smithers.

Deacons
:

P. Craney,
Jos.

Jo>.

Smith, Chas. Glasgow.

Members

Wm.

Smith,

Smith, Jas. Smith, Susan

Smith, G. Smith, H. Smith, Geo. Smith, S. Smith, Hart. Smith, A. Smith,


S.
Zil.

Smith, Sophia Smith, M. A. Smith,

Williams,

N. Williams,

M. Glasgow, N. Glasgow,

Jos,

Glasgow, S. Glasgow, H. Gross, F. Gross,

L. A. Gross, G.

Lambord, M. Smithers,
H. Taylor,
Roan.
viz.
:

L. Boarded, R. Walker,

M. Walker,
Pillow, C.

S. A. Taylor, G. Colly,

E. Colly, P.

Re-organized in
Pastor
:
:

1879 with present


;

officers'
:

names,
;

Rev. E. Dixon

Licentiate

J.
;

Downey

Deacons

Jos. Smith, Jas. Colly,

W. Bundy
:

Councillors

Wynder, Joseph Saunders, J. Bundy ; Clerk Smith, C, Johnson T. Johnson ; A. Sextons S. This church continued Wise, Sexton Lake Loon District. its name as South Church until the death of Rev. Father Smithers, when the majority of its members living on what is known as the New Road District, built an entire new
D. Smith,
:

G.

edifice,

and re-organized themselves

in

1879 by Rev. Father

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Thomas, which was his
Tlie Association
last

66

deeds of church work on earth.


First

met with the

1879, and at the close


to the

Church at Preston in the ministers and delegates went over


late

New

Road, and dedicated the church to the honour

and glory of God.


the services,

The

Rev. George Carvary performed


of the

who was then moderator

Association.

Father Bailey was elected their pastor, which


till

office

he held
place,
;

his death.

That same year a reformation took


;

when 29 were added by baptism


1888, 12;
in

in 1880,

12 more
in

in

1890,

2;

in

1891,

16;

and

1893,6.

Father Bailey's pastorate ceased in 1886, the year he died.

He was
ability,

ordained in

pastor as well, with

Hammond Plains, whom he laboured

and became their


to the
all

best of his

and was beloved and respected by


succeeded by the Rev. E. Dixon,
Besides
the
three

his churches.

He was
thjBm

who
held

labours with

'

by Father Dixon have had two others added, which keeps him continually on the move. Bro. James Downey of this church renders him valuable assistance in his absence. In connection with the church is a well nurtured Sabbath School. Deacon Smith is the superintendent, with Mrs.^
still

charges

Bailey, Rev.

Downey
of
life

as assistant;

and on the whole too much praise


school,

cannot be given for their constincy amidst the varied scenes


they plod.

Having no day
if

it

makes

it still

more irksome than

a day school

was

in

the settlement,

which they hope


licentiate of this

to

have shortly.

Father Roan,
fifty

who was

church for about

years,

did a large

amount
can

of good.

In his younger da}8 rarely missed attendit is

ing the Associations, for

there that the various speakers

display their notes of oratory and native eloquence.

Said he, "

How

used to clap

my hands

with delight to see

Father Preston leading

of in his

short addresses,

and the

66

A BRIEF" HISTORY OP THE

other brethren catching a glimpse of inspiration, following


closely into his
stirring nature,

wake, with some hearty melody of a soul

when
It

sinners

would
;

rise to

their

feet

and
life

desire prayers for their convercion


to the meeting."

this

would add new

was

in these scenes of revivals Brother

lloan was most pre-eminent in

prayer, that
brass.

won

for

him a

remembrance more enduring than


Another

genial soul, a deacon of this church,


Sr.,

was Deacon

Joseph Smith,

the

father
left

of

this

settlement,

who

reached over eighty years, and

behind him an army of

children, grand, and great grand.

A name

that will not die

out for a century to come.

The

writers' acquaintance with

him was

brief,

but not without forming an opinion which did

not betray his patriarchal disposition.


fine physical form, polite

He was

man

of

manners, and every inch a christian.


spirit in the settlement

During

his life he

was the ruling

disputes of any sort whatever,

when brought
In church

to his notice,

were always amicably arranged.


ablaze

affairs

he took

a lively interest, and always delighted to see


in

the church
in

reformations.

His death

left

a blank
filled.

this

church and settlement that was not easily

His son

Joseph succeeded him to the


familiar figure

office

of deacon.

Another
and a

who was
tall

member

of

this church,

genial old soul, that lived over eighty years, who, ten years

before his death, was

and

stately as the

palm of Lebanon,

who

bore

the very imprint and statute of the Huguenot

family of which he was a lineal descendant height and proportionately otherwise.


I

over
many

six feet in

refer to Brother

Georgb Colly, who had


resides in the

a large family,

of

whom
me
the

United States.

How
He

I loved to converse with

him, so interesting was he.

often pointed out to

spot of land on which the Maroons of Jamaica lived, and

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57

stones that iiinrked the resting place of sonic uf the depurtcd


ones.

Many

an interesting ghost story has been

t<ikl

of the

rough nioccuHined footed Maroon gliding through the spruce,


maple, and birch
ridge in
trees in hot pursuit after the tardy partfleet

autumn and
I,

looted

rabbit in winter, which

formed a goodly portion of their subsistence.


to the race, thought as he conversed with

What a loss me so intellihave

gently, with
filled

that brain

properly cultured he could


in

a professors' chair

college.

For nearly sixty

years he had been a

member

of the church.

He had
;

seen

her bathed in tears and also overflowing in joy, and in his


last

hours did say, "

Happy

art thou,

Israel

who

is

like

unto thee,

people saved by the Lord."

When

visited

by

friends and relatives, he

bade them farewell, weep not for

me
and

all is well.
is

One

of the oldest of the race


is

now

living,

in her ninetieth year,

old Sister Gross, familiarly


a girl,

known

as

Aunt Fanny, she came here when quite


well,

experienced religion under Father Burton's ministry.


intellect

seems to hold

with quite

p.

reliable

Her memory.

She remembers when


with
its colossal

Grajiville Street,

that bristles

now

buildings,

was very

insignificant,

and smiles
wonder-

with admiration to think that she lived to see


ful

s;ich

changes.

ferry, which,

The when

old team ferry boat changed into a steam


first

introduced, created

much amazement
Their age have

and were thought

to be floating palaces.

been excelled by improvement and time, in the

Campania,
in the

Lucania, and Eturia's


the present age.

class,

which

is

now
a

the admiration of

On
streets

her

first

arrival,

few lamps
by
oil
;

most important

and

lanes, lighted

that scene

has been out-classed by electricity, which threatens to rival


the most recent discoveries of science.

She

raised a large

family of children, some of

whom have

grandchildren them-

06

A BRIEF HI8TORY OP THE


and are members
all

selves,

of the church of the living


is

above

for

which she

most thankful.

God, She prayed

earnestly for the abolition of slavery in her native country,

and was glad to think that her cries, with others, were heard. She now patiently awaits the summons from on high she is conscious it will not be long, and often sings, " Swing low, sweet chariot, coming to carry me home."

One of the most serious evils is the growing up of a young generation without an education no day school, with
;

lots of children of schoolable


district, it is

age in both sections of the


that

sad to think of

it

many

of the older people

can both read and write when the younger ones cannot.

Some one
1

is to

blame, here we see an immense

demand

for

compulsory education.

and no positions

for

A country with an army of teachers, We hope the people will them to


fill.

become cognizant of

their

own needs and make an

appeal to

the government for schools.

LAKE LOON AND CHERRY BROOK.


These are two small adjacent settlements about from
six miles

Dartmouth, where once lived a good old man and

Jacob Allen. He preached to these people and to those of what is known as the Musquodoboit He was a m:m of Road settlement and its surroundings.
preacher

Brother

not
the

much
old

learning, but of

marked

piety.

He

belonged to

school

of

Father

Burton,

as

did old Mr. John

Crawley, another licentiate of Father Burton,

who clung

to

the shelter of the wings of the Central Association until the

day of his death.

The

tracks of their foot-prints have been

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ofton marked in the
lieecli Hill,

3k)

enow

tliHt

paved

tlie

roads of Preston,
In their day

Hammond
it

Plains,

and

Fall River.

they thought

not robbery to their strength to walk Hftecn

or sixteen miles to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to their

brethren without

money

or price.

They both died

in close

nearness to each other some ten years ago, and have gone to
their reward.

THE OLD

FIRST,

OR BETTER KNOWN AS THE FULTON CHURCH.


It

Late Pastor Rev. G. Carvery.


bility.

has since lost

its visi-

once fruitful tree, " Glorious things are spoken

of thee,

She has been the scene of many Her eirthly captain's voyage was ended when And although her doors have his Master called him home. been closed, the community in which it is planted has the
house of God."
reformatio;: 8.

promise of a perpetual existence, "


shall not

And

the gates of hell

prevail

against

her."

Father Carvery was a

student of the old school of Father Burton.

most con-

sistent and exemplary Christian, he had several conversions

during his pastorate of nineteen years.


1874, every step he took
for lounging about,
wrere merely
it

He was
;

ordained in

seemed heavenward.

No

time

or funny jestings

he said such things

cntch traps of the devil.

He was

a me.u of

most wonderful imaginations, which was not to bo wondered


at,

as the Bible

to David, " a lantern

was his daily companion. To him, as it was ;" as to Job, ' more than his necessary
whose eating was
;"

food

;"

as to Ezekiel, " a roll


;"

as

honey

for

sweetness
heart
;"

to

Jeremiah,

" the joy and

rejoicing

of his

to Daniel, " as an angel

to St. Paul, " the

power

m
of

A IIRIKF HISTORY OP THE

Gud ;" under such a mind of in)ngination8 one can realize huw 1)0 ripened in the divine art of producing thoughts so
rare, as

he often did, from his rural pulpit.

Ho

was

a strong

advocate of temperance.
the
province,

Ho

travelled considerably through


to Guysboro, and

including

Yarmouth

he

preached in the intermediate counties wherever a door was

thrown open to him

he would

own

hif

Lord and Master.

While on
friends

a mission to Tracadie, the

devout white brethren

were quite pleased with his preaching, as well as his coloured

who bade him welcome wherever he


the Association sermon in
:

went.

He

preached

chosen from Rev. 22


river of water of
life,

Ist verse, "

And

Dartmouth in 1892, he showed me a pure


proceeding out of the

clear as

crystal,

throne of

God and of the Lamb." A lovely subject in the hands and mind of one ripening for eternity for he only
;

lived a few
tion

months

after.

His ago and powers


were

of

imagina-

closely

resembled those

of the early apostles.

His

spiritual

susceptibilities

keen and his whole nature


in the deliverance

seemed enthused with supernatural force


of his last message to his
brethren.
live in peace, to preach Christ

and

He exhorted them to Him crucified. After the

close

of the sessions, in

bidding them adieu, he told them

he never expected to meet with them again.


his brethren, his church,

He

loved
in the

and Association.
fifty

He was

77th year of his age, over


house of the Lord.
bed, and asked

of

which he spent in the


hij

When
if

friends gathered around


1

death

him
I'll

the path was clear

Oh

yes, I can

see the spires of the city, with her gates of pearl,


of pure gold.

and

streets

soon be there.

His wife survived him a

few years.

COLOURED HAPT1RT8 OF NOVA SCtniA.

61

DARTMOUTH CHURCH,
Page,

(Orfiranized in 1844.
;

June
;

9th.)

Rev. R. Preston, Pastor


Elder
;

8.
:

Jones, Deacon
J. J.

Jeremiah
Robinson,

Members names

Gerrow, T.
Johnson,
1).

S. Gibson, G. Gibson, K.

Gordon,

Franklyn,

E. Franklyn, E. IJrown,
J.

E. Bowers,

R. Tynes,

M. Woods,
Those who

Syraonds, M. A. Symonds, M. Thomas, E. Connix, C.

Johnson, T.

Cox, Mrs. Gilmore, Mr.

Page.

joined after the organization, date omitted, but previous to

1850: L. Gross,
Spriggs,
I).

8. Morton, M. Goffigan, R. M. Green, J. Quinn, Mar. Green, Gross, H. Ross, M. A. Brothers, E. Rollins, E. Lee,
L. Williams,

C.

Brown,

P.

Brown, A. Carter, G. Carter, T. Carter,

I.

Peters,

M. A.
Jas.

Butler, T. Parker, J. Graves, J. Cassidy, T. Tynes,

sr.,

Brown, A. Brown, W. Sparks.


sr.,

Present members: R. Tynes,


G. Tynes, H. Tynes, R. E.
sr.,

R. Tynes,

jr.,

T. Tynes,

jr.,

Tynes,
J.

A. Brown, F.

Reilly,

J.

Dean, G. Middleton,
jr.,

Bauld,

A. Willis, M. Jenkins. R. Bauld, F. Reilly,


;

Wm.
ton,

Sparks

Sisters

R. Jenkins, M. Tynes, A. Tynes, M.


J.

Smith, M. Bauld, L. Lee, C, Smith,

Johnson, M. Middle-

M. Bauld,

S.

Lee, T.

Brown,

II.

Brown, A. Brown,

Mar, Tynes, E. Cuff, A. Smith, Sarah Lee, A. Lee, M. Bundy,

M. Bowden, Eva Green, A. Kane, M, Reilly, H. Burns, M. J. Bauld, M. E. Bauld, Mr^. Henderson, E. Reilly,
J.

Johnson.

The church
licentiate, has

at present has

no

settled pastor.

Bro. Borden,

been supplying with much acceptance.


is

The
is

brethren so manages that a unity of spirit


is

kept up, which


a

the grand success of any church.

When
is

good thing

suggested by any of the members, there

a general taking

hold of by

all.

diversities of gifts, and readily give

They agree with the idea that there are way when the superior

82

A BRIEF RISTORT OF THB


itself.

prcgonts

Dr.

Kemptnn, pnstor
is

of

the Dnrtmoiith

church, ottnn preaches to them, ami other city pastors. This


christiin recognition

very stimuluting and highly appreci-

ated by the brethren.


to those people,

Father Hurton in his day preached


pre-^ient

but few of the

generation reinenibcr

him.
for a

Father Prcaton,

who succeeded

him, preached to them

number

of years.

An

aged brother not long ago

informed the writer that he


it

elicited large congregations

when

was made known he was to preach.

On one
him
to

occasion a

large skeptical

crowd had assembled, when several of the


preach, and
his brethren thought best to

respectable ruffians agreed not to allow


for fear of creating a fracas

postpone the meeting.


grace of Go<l gives

Said he
sufficient

we

will go

outside, as the
devils,

me

power over men and


jrk

hence I fear neither.


their

At

first

they thought to have matters


\

own way, but

after he got to

and prayed for the


and
sinners were
in

power of the Holy Spirit, both rejoicing, all was perfect peace.

saint

Tears

were shed
;

abundance from strong men, courage

failed tliem

and many

who

for the first


;

time heard him,


this

felt

themselves in need of

a Saviour

from

broke out a large reformation.

At
for-

the close of the meeting some of those very

men came

ward and acknowledged their


and not long
after

guilt,

and asked

for prayers;

some were baptized, and


life's

lived consistent

members all through


in the church,
love.

journey.

Father Thomas pastored


l)ecn a division
first

these people until 1879.

Although there had


the

he stuck to the few who held to their


church
united,

After his death

and

Father

Smithers became their pastor, which charge he held until his


death
;

who

held the charge until 1892

when he was succeeded by Rev. F. R. Langford, when in 1886, under his


;

ministrations,

20 were baptized

in 1887, 5

in

1888, 6

v^;3T

rOLOURED
in 1891,

nAPTlBTfl

OF

Ni

'A

SCOTIA.

63

luul in 1893, 1. in 1892, 5 Tho Brother's 1 work was nrduous, and covered n conHidornldM nniunt of ground. The Hold is n good one, ns tho people arc nctivo,
;

intelligent

nnd observing.
to the

The
being

greatest diaw-hnck

growth of the church

iw

the distance from tho town, tho travelling in stormy weather


unpleasant.

Another draw-back
tho

is

tht(

continual

drain on tho membership, through

tide of emigration,

which
est

and were it not for tho intertaken by those who remain at home, tho doors would he
is
;

always on the move

nc'f'ssarily closed.

Brother Borden, the present supply,


very acceptable to tho church, and
labours, with

is

a licentiate

who

is

it is

to ho hoped that under his

the assistance of

the Holy Spiiit's power, the church

will increase in

numbers

and influence, and live in delighted expectations of being crowned with spiritual glory by the King of Kings and
Ix>rd of Lord.".

BEECH HILL, (Organized


13y

in 1844).

Father Preston,

who was

tho acknowledged pastor;


;

Jas. Morri.,
P'raser,

Deacon
A.

Jo. Maxwell, Elder


I).

Members
P.

A.

H. Maxwell,

Fraser, Theo. Morris, R. Hamilton,

R.

Maxwell,

Greaser,
(I.
:

D.

Black well,

Rhind,

C.

Hamilton, M. Hamilton,
well.

Blackwell, R. Baxter, J. BlackJas.

Pr3sent members

Hamilton, R. Hamilton, E.

Hamilion, J. Hamilton, C. Gross, Charlotte Gross, C. Brown,


R. Cooper,
R. Edwards, of

Wm.

Hill, E.

Munroe, C. Wright.
are

The brethren

this

settlement

rarely

without

preaching from some source or other.

The brethren from

the city churches lend the helping hand, whose services are

64

A nniKP HISTORY of tiik

nppreciiiluil

by n

gratoftil
inilng,

tiu<1iiic(>.

The
it

dirttniicu

from tho

city

JH

nbniit nix

which

iiiakcH

a ph'aaant drive in

Rtiinmer.

In connection with the church

n thriving' little

H.ihbath School, in which tho childrrn take <leli^ht

day
is
I.

flchoid is

taught by a Miss Williams, of Fall Kivcr,

Tho who
of
is

a hard worker

and good student. and


is

flourinhing lodge of

O. Q. T.

is

also in existence,

visited

by niemljcrs
This

the city lodgo8, both civilians, naval and military.


a good help to the

members,

for

in close
is

proximity to tho

church

is

a hotel

where the ardent

sold,

and

is

an awful

temptation to the young.

This was also one of the brancbes that Father Burton

had planted, and


Fathers
Preston,

was tenderly

watered

and pruned by
Fathers Carvery,

Thomas and

Bailey.

Crawley and Allen often preached to them.


the lawlessness of the country
descend,
it

In the earlier

days of these fathers they met with greater hardships than


;

but when the Holy Fire did


branch.
It

bound both

root and

was

said

to

some
into

of the early pioneers, " liut seek not Bethel, nor enter
Crilgal,

and piss not to lieerahelm

for

Gilgul shall
to hou<^'ht."

surely go inti captivity, and Bethpl shall

come

But wo can truly


have been
gospel.
torrf

ly.

Bethel
;

hm

been

sought,

Gilgal

entered, Bt'or^iheba has been past

and many of
of

their idols

down, and
through

their hearts carried into captivity

by Jesus Christ,

the

preaching

His

blessed

At

this very place the baptismal record

was broken,
by
Father
since.

when 47
Thoma.o.

were
It

baptized

in

twenty minutes

has been the scene of

many baptisms
sister of

The

writer in conversation
:

with an old

over 76

years of age, said to him


to be now, to

"

How
girl,

different everything
;

seems

when

was a

even the ministry

young

men must go

to college

seven and eight years to learn to

rOLOUKRI) IIArriHTH OP NOVA HTOTIA.

(W

preach of Jesug nnd

Hifl lovo.

Why, my

Hihlo tollH inc,

" Ikiliovo on thu Lonl Jchuh Chrint, nml thou Hh.ilt \w mvw\," " Ami ho that holiuvcth not shall be (liimno<l." Poor people,
8iiitl

f)ie,

reqniro the

plain

(iioflpol

tennhiuff of
nn<l
it)

Hiiptist, that

Jbrur wuh tho Son of (rod,


Said
rIio, if it

John tho through him tho


Christ thn
Roli<l

world was to hu Raved.

a miRtake, I intontl

hy God's help to die


rock
[

in

that belief.
is

"

On

Over Hfty yeirs he has boon my friund, and has never done mo an injury the older I get the more }Io seems to love me, and
Htand, all other ground

sinking sand."

patiently wait
eternal

my

approaching end here on eorth, to comin tho land

mence an
nor
grief,

life

where there
Pastor

in

no sorrow

but

all is

joy and peace."

Hall and Dea.

Davies

visits

quite often.

CAMPBELL ROAD, (Organized March,


Rev. R. Preston, Pastor
;

1849).

Licentiate
Grut-.t,
I.

Hro. E.

Carvery
;

Deacons

Allen Dixon, Ixaac

Fletcher,

Elder

Henry

Biiley.

There

is

no record of original
:

membership.

Present members

are, viz
:

Rev. E, Dixon

Deacon

Jas.

Brown

Councillor

VV.

Howe

Marg. Dixon, C. Dixon,

E. Dixon, Jas. Dixon,

A. Dixon,

Anne Brown,
Jas. Cirvery,

Charlotte

Brt)wn, Isabella Alexander,

J. Byers,

Em. Carvery, Eppie


R. Roan,

Carvery, A. Carvery,

R. Cirvory,

M. E. Hamilton,
late

S.

Brown, Phil Roan.

This

little

Zion of
in
in

has been the subject of

much comment, being


day school

such

close proximity to the city, with a fine

which
of.

nearly

all

the children of schoolable age takes advantage


of intelligent

A community
of them.

young

people,

much

is

expected

In former years the pastor of the Halifax church

i>

06

A nRIEF HlflTORY OF THE

divided his time with them, but in the lapse of time things
change, and so has that.

The

District

Committee has now

taken

them under

their care, so they are zealously looked after.

brother from each church in the city, of which there are


goes out consecutively on Sundays, and exhorts

five Baptist,

to the bre thren,

and a very precious time

is

often realised.

lodge of the

I.

O. G. T. has been lately organized, with a

good

staff of officers, the

name
in

selected

is

Golden Key, which


church and
settle-

bids fair to be a groat

acquisition to the

ment

have an aversion

mentioning the names of the

deeds of persons in their lifetime, but I

know

of

no better

than now, for


their chosen

it

must have

a tendency for keeping

them

in

employment.
in his

Deacon Brown can always be found with the keys


hand
to
is

open or close the church, hence

think the right

man

in the right place.


is

few hundred yards from the


Bailey, Carvery,

church

the placid waters of Bedford Basin, beneath whose

surface Fathers Burton, Preston, Thomas,

Dixon and Boone has buried


age here was
actions

in the likeness of Christ

many
and

willing converts in the ordinance of baptism, whose pilgrim-

of short duration,

and by their

lives

are to-day shouting

with the redeemed in

glory,

whose sins have been

forgiven,

whose robes have been

washed

in the

Blood of the Lamb.

We

wish them Godis

speed in both church and temperance work, as one

hand-

maid of the

other.

HAMMOND
W. Marsman,
Members
:

PLAINS, (Orgranized in
;

1845).
:

Rev. Richard Preston, Pastor


G. David
;

Deacons
T.

Deal Whiley,
H. Whiley.

Elders

Jones,

J.

Hamilton, Wra. Days, T.

Brown, F. Brown,

COLOTTRED BAPTieTS OF NOVA 8COTIA.


T. Allison, Cftto Manigo,

m
;

I).

GolFigan,

H. Baily, F. David,
.vL

C.

Young, P. Baily, Fred. Allison,

Ryan, T. Giggio

Sislers:

Giggie,

E.

Parker,

L.

Parker,

Stephens,

C. David, S. Grant, C. VVliiley,

Jane Johnson,

iNf.

Giles, P. Reid, J.

M. Janiea, Mar. Johnson, Manigo, H. Hamilton, R. Johnson, D. Brown, D. Golar, Jane Gisjirie.
:

Present member.^

Rev. E. Dixon, Pastor; (Licen) Jas.


;

Jones

Deacons

D. Ander^son, R. David
;

Councillors

Anderson, P. Emmerson

Sexton, M. E. Henry; Clerk a.

Emmerson.
Present meniber.5
:

T. Jones,

sr.,

,].

Jones, Hez. Goffigan,

Jos. David, Jno. Giggie, S. Goffigan, J. Gigg'.e, J. Goffigan,

N. Lee, A. Wilson, Evan Jones, H. Johnson, W. Jones, Est. Anderson Sisters S. Goffigan, Car. David, Jane
;
:

Anderson,

Isa.

Reid, Jem. Manigo,


S. J. Lee,

Ann Emmerson, M.

J.

H. Allison, D. A. Goffigan, E. A. David, A. Marsjnan, R. David, E. Smith. F. Anderson, Ann Anderson, E. Tyson, E. David, M. J. James,
Ag. Wilson, M. A. Giggie, B.
S.

Giggie, E. Allison,

C. David,

Marsman, L. A. Anderson, A. David, E. Jones, E. A. Brown, Karan Marsman.

and Preston.
five
;

The former members were baptized by Fathers Burton Baptized by Father Thomas in 1863, twentyin

1804, throe; 1869, twenty-four; 1876, fourteen; Baptized by Father Bailey, in 1879, six ; in 1883, eight ; in 1884, five ; in 1885, two. Baptized by

and

in 1877, one.

Rev. Mr. Dixon, the present pastor,

in
is

1888, one
still

in 1890,

two

in 1893, six.

Faster Dixon

labouring

with

this church with apparent success.

The marriages by Rev. Mr. Dixon


as follows
:

in this settlement are

M. J. Johnson to E. A. David, Jan. 4th, 1886 ; J. Robertson to E. A. Anderson, Dec. 9th, 1888 ; A.C. Johnson

68

A BRIEF

HIST.-IRY

OP THE
Patterson to A.

to E. A.

Emmerson, Feb. 18th, 1889;


1886; C. Phillips
1890

S.

Philjips, Jan. lltli,

to

16th, 1886

A. JucicHon to C. Beals, Dec. 26th, 1887


;

M. Gross, Mar. H.
;

Johnson
gan,

to E. Jones, Jan. 12th,


;

J.

Jones

to S. Gofli-

June 30th, 1890


;

A.

Emmerson
David
1882
to J.

to

M.

J.

Doleman,

Dec. 26th, 1892

K. Grant to Lettie Goffigan.


:

At Campbell Road
1881
to
;

J.

Johnson, Dec. 26th,


;

E. Mnntley to E. Caine, Jan. 17th, 1882


11th,
;

J.

Wright

M. A. Howe, July
1st,

Geo. Carvery to F. Ford,

Jan.

1884

Ed. Carvery to S. A. Mantley, July 12th,

1888; Jas. Paris to Dew. Anderson, Sept. 25th, 1890; S. Brown to J. Mantley, Oct. 13th, 1890 T. Brown to E. Howe, May 25th, 1891 F, Byers to M. A. Kellum, June
;

!!t'
;i:
,1

11th, 1891

F. Byers to C. L. Clarke, Dec. 13th,

1894; R.

Brown
Roane
1894.

to C. Slaughter, Jan. 9th, 1895.

Halifax
to J.

: J. Johnson
;

to E. Hall,

May
;

15th,

1889; C.
31st,

Armour, Nov. 13th, 1889


C.

S. J.

Gibson to M.

Oliver, July 1st, 1891

Diggs to C. Carter, Oct.

Guysboro Road : N. Boyd


J.
S.

to

K. West, Oct. 4th, 1891


;

West

to L.

Edwards,

Sept.

24th, 1893

Jas.

West

to

Boyd, Sept. 26th, 1893.

Lake Loon

Jas.

Wise

to

G.

Beal.i,

Jan.

1st,

1892

E. Wilson to E. Grant, Jan. Ist, 1895.

Windsor Road : C. Oliver


Preston

to E.

While, Nov. 24th, 1892.


Mar. 26th, 1884
;

: J. Grant

to

E.

Heals,

S.

Clayton to M. A. Thomas, Oct. 25th, 1894; Wra. Cain to


C. West, Feb. 5th, 1895.

As

will be seen in the original organization, this

church

enjoyed the labours of Father Preston during his lifetime.

Some

of

whom

are living, dates back their conversion to his

.\

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA SCOTIA.

eo

ministry which extended over twenty years, and were blest

with refreshing showers of God's


pastorate
councillor.
fell

love.

At

his death the

to

Father Thomas,

who was

both pastor and

Many

disputes were amicably settled by him to


parties that

the satisfaction of both

would otherwise have

gone into court

bu<; for his interposition.

His

visits to

them

was always hailed with gladness.


built a

During
sixteen

his pastorate they


repair.

new

edifice,

which

is

always kept in good


for

He

served

them
all.

faithfully

years

and died

regretted by

Father Bailey succeeded him, having been

baptized by Father Thomas, and in that settlement he was

Having been Father Thomas' right he became initiated into their customs of church work. Like Father Thomas, snow nor rainstorms did not preveitt him making his pastoral tours his charge lasted for seven years when death put an end to a
no stranger
to

them.

hand man

in his visitation,

life

of usefulness.

Although uneducated, he could

tell

in

plain language, and plead in earnest terms with unconverted

men and women

to accept

Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

He

died in full hope of seeing his Lord and Master sitting in

majestic splendour in glory.

who

is still in

charge.

industrious, nearly all


fishing,

Rev. E. Dixon succeeded him, The people of the settlement are of them are coopers, who supply the
,

potato,

and apple trade with barrels and boxes, &c

who
in

are to be seen in the city with their wares every

week
which

the

year

some of

whom own

their

own

mills

places

them

in close competition with their

white neighbours,

with

whom

they trade on mutual terms.


their organization.

This year marks In connection with

their jubilee since

the church

is

a thriving Sabbath School,

and a day school

is

also kept agoing


It

under the Provincial Government

rules.

was at one time maintained by the Bray Society, but for

70

A BRIKP HISTORY OP

THE
The

some cause or other that fund has been withdrawn.


educated
if in

brethren of this settlement believe in having their children


the most

humble form.
a

Rev.

J.

W.

Skorrett,

at present

in

Bermuda, did

grand work here some few

years

ago in

school matters.

They

h;ivc

also

justice

of the peace, a very intelligent

man

is

Mr. James Allison.

We

cannot close the record of

this

church without com-

mending her for her integrity during the strife and division that was going on in 1869 and 1870 and subsequent years ;
she

stood

firm

as

rock to the support of the original


the
Association four times in ten

Association,
years, viz.:

and

held

1871, 1873, 1877, and 1881.

Too much

praise

cannot be extended to Brother Alexander Emmerson, the


earnest and talented clerk,
of
to

who keeps one of the best records any chuich in the Association, and who is always ready give any desired information when appealed to, if within
Old Father Jones, one
of the first
staff,

the reach of his pen.

pillars of this church, is still

standing, leaning on his

lie is bordering an

a hundred years, and for a long time

He worked faithfully, and now he waits the summons, " Come unto me and I will
held
a
license

from this church.

give you rest."


of

long and pleasant rest of which the saint

God never

tires.

'

,7

FALL RIVER CHURCH, WAVERLEY.


This
little

branch of God's church belongs to the Central


is

Apsociation,

and

one of Father Burton's planting.

Deacon
Several
are well

Williams

is

the temporal mainstay of this church.

of his family connections are

members

also.

They

looked after by the Halifax District Committee,

who

see

COLOURED BAmSTS OF NOVA


tliem supplioil with preachers.

SCOTIA.

71

Thoy have been


as
well.
all in

visited

by

brethren

of

their

own

race

Fathers

Preston,
visiteii

Carvery, Neale, Roan, Allen, Bailey, have

tnrn

them.

Father Thomas and Rev.

Shaw have

also delivered
;

their messages of love

and mercy to them in their day

the

ministering brethren even of to-day always receive a welcome


there,

and are requested

to call again.

LIVERPOOL CHURCH.

Was
officers

organized by Father Preston.


year, but previous

The

records do not

show the exact


were
:

to 1860.
;

We

find the
:

Deacon
Ely.

John

Fells

Councillors

James
off,

Wade, Robert

Since

then the Association having

never visited them, and the older brethren having died

the remaining portions joined other churches, and have lost


their identity in the denomination.

Rev. Merritt R. Freeman, an aged brother wlio died

some years ago, was quite a worker. After doing some missionary work in Nova Scotia, went over into New Brunswick;
in Carleton

he organized a church, remained there a

little

while preaching to the people.


the river to

From
Co.,

thence he

went up
Live men

Hemsted

in

Queens

and there organized a


There never was an
for a

church, and during his stay baptized 16 persons.


are needed for the christian ministry.

age in our churches in

which there was more need

sanctified ministry than now, simply education of the

head

and not of the heart avails but


and
to pay, the labourer is

little.

Cease paying me,


a right

I will cease to preach for you.

The church has


;

worthy of his hire

but to pay for

^J

72

A HBIEF HIHTORY

()P

THE
people.
;

niuio

pay

sak**,
is

ia

not required of any body of

" SanctiHcation
it is

the fruit of union to Christ by faith


belief of the

and
in

in the

knowledge and
that the
of
soul

truth as

it is

Jesus

Christ,

becomes
Spirit."

the

subject of the

sanctifying

influence

the

From

the
'*

inward

sanctification proceetls every

good word and work.

With-

out

me

(Jesus) ye can do nothing."

NORTH MOUNTAIN, ANNAPOLIS,


Pastor
Polders
: :

(Orgranized
:

in 1853).
;

Kev. R.

Preston

Deacon
:

Chas. Jackson

G. Tyler, D.
:

Biown

Trustee

J.

Kimbers

Mem-

Vers, viz.

A. S. IJrown, H. Wright, Sisters G. Jackson, F.

Fowler, S. H. Tyler, A. Kimber, R. l>rown, A. Jackson, M.


IJrown,

M. Wright, A. Sims, S Clements.


subsequently,

Persons
Clements,

who
Is.

joined

no date given

A.

Clements, Jno Clements, Jas. Leslie, Chas. Leslie, E. Leslie,


Lev. Leslie, T. Wrighfr, Jas. Wooder, Isaac Cuff,

W.
;

Henry,
has
at

W.

Peters.

'J'his

was once a flourishing church, the Assosittings after its

ciation held

its first

organization

it

since gone down.

The church

at Ingle wood,

and the one


States.

the Ferry, has been organized from the remaining portions


of the
find

members who did not go


to 1869,
;

to the

United

We

up

on Rev. Father Sniithers' minutes, a return


she had then
left

of 34

members
for

the original Association.

IMie people of this church

and settlement were particularly


Bridgetown (Inglewood)
A. Clements, Deacon
T.
Hill,
;

marked
Hill,

their

liospitality.

church was organized


Councillor
;

in 1874.

F.

Jas.

Jackson,
in

Trustees.

The
and

body of christians worshipped

the School House,

COLOURED MAPTI8TH OP NOVA


continued
edificp

RfOTIA.

73

until

in

1889,
the

wh<!ii

very

aubstnntiiil

littlo

WIS erected by
the

united

ellbrts

of the aistera.

When

Association was held there that year,

and the

cliurch dedicated by Rev. Brother Jordan to the lionour anl

gh)ry of God.

They have had no


In-oke out,

settled pastor

for years.

In 1893 a reformation
baptism.

when 4 were added by


was en<^aged
tru.'^t

Last autumn Pastor Lanj,'ford

to

labour with them for the season,

when we

that

God

has blest his labours, and the church revived.

WINDSOR PLAINS CHURCHES.


About the year 1812 numbers of colored persons came from the United States, and were distributed all over the Some of these were located on what is now Province. Among them were Sargent known as Windsor Plains. Perlote and wife, mother-in-law, and Edward Periote. These
persons

were
here.

beli'^vors in

the

Lord Jesus

Chrivst
all

before

coming

Their faith and zeal survived

the shocks

of adversity.

They

transferred their allegiance to an earthly

sovereign, but the Lord Jesus continued to be the Sovereign

of their hearts.

There were no others of kindred

spirit in

the community, others of similar faith and practice


left at

were

Halifax and distributed around.

Brother Perlote

began holding religious services on week-days as well as upon


the Sabbath.

The Lord

blessed their eflbrts, and

the

num-

bers of disciples increased, that

12 years after (in 1824) a

church of sixteen members was organized by Elder Burton,


of sacred

memory, who had been

for a quarter of a century

pastor of a Baptist church in Halifax.

His labours were

74

A RRIUP HISTORY OP THB


the poor and lowly.
l>y frail

much among
and
Ilia

His

gifts

were moderate,

church despisod
ly

man
to

yet his work was

honored

God, and blessed

succeeding generations.
Perlote, grandfather

One
tized

of the

first

members was Sargent


of Halifax,

of Rev. J.

W.

Johnson, their present pastor,

who was
Bro.

bap-

by Rev. Thomas
in

and ordained by Rev. H.

Foshay

1885, the then pastor of Windsor.

John

Crawley, one of the original members, was licensed by Elder


Burton, and became their lea<ler for

many

years.
;

Brother

David Williams was


license

also

one of the

first

he received

from Polder Burton, and continued their leader until

his death.
records.

Both

of

them did good work, but there

are

no

Rev. D. Shaw, of Falmouth, laboured with them

successfully.

The late Dr. Jordan, during his studies at much time there in 1881-3, during which he baptized five, one of which is Rev. J. W. Skerrett, who is now teaching in a collegiate school in Bermuda. The
Wolfville, gave
its roll

church at one time had on


churches, of some good

of

membership 40, but


all

the tide of emigration has deprived her, like

the other
is

members.

Their present pastor

hard-worked

through his energy and assistance, mainly

through the good friends of Win<l8or, and particularly so

through Deacon A. P. Shan<l of Windsor, they have built

an elegant

little

chapel, which will compare favourably with

any

in the

Province of similar surroundinj^s, and in

many

instances excel others.

The church has been favoured with


of

sermons by some of the best men

the denomination.

They have
dent.

also in connection with the

church a lively Sabis

bath School, Deacon Hamilton of the church

superinten-

Brothers Crandall, Fuller, and Parish, of Windsor,

gives the helping hand in teaching.

rOLOURKD nAFTTSTH OP NOVA

RCOTfA.

7r.

MARRIAGES PERFORMED BY REV. HENRY JACKSON, PASTOR OF THE BEAR RIVER CHURCH.
The
iflterial

record

U very
He

fruf^nuMitary.

TliisoM apostle worked


hi-s

in perfect

Imrniony durinj^ his lifetime with


loved to

other

niiii-

brethren.

work with

Jestjs, so that

he

could

draw strength

from

Him.

He was

not

like the

impulsive Peter, hut m(re like the sweet tempered John.

His theme was, the ministers of Christ shoidd as near as


possihle pattern after
shall bo like

Him.
So
life

The beloved John


it is

said,

"

We
we
his

Him."

said he,

very

e-ssentinl that

should commence our

of happiness below.

During

lifetime ho travelled throughout

the counties of Annapoli."*,

Digby and Yarmouth


and Salmon River,
received
;

visited

the

brethren on the Lay

Shore, Granville Mountain, and the Ferry,


to
all

Weymouth

Falls

of these places ho
are persons

was gladly

and

to this

day there

who remend)er

and esteem his memory

for his genial

cliristian disposition.

His enquiries were always


that

after

your spiritual health, and

always appeared as though he was breathing those fragrant


breezes,
is

inhaled

by the wjary traveler reclining


I

umler the shade of the palms of Elim.


;

have but two

marriages performed

Ijy

him, but none of his baptisms are


at.

on record that can be got

On Dec,
Edith Ross,
all of

IJ.

Bean

to

Jane

Thomson

John Robertson
it

to
in

all

of Yarmouth.

Dates are so much needed


the churches, that
disconnected.

the inner workings of


brief

makes our

little

history quite

Rev. J

E. Jackson,

who succeeded
^^ith

his father, did not


in

remain long with the church, as a great exodus had set


'
.

upon the country, and he


United States.

many

others

went to the
his people

He

returned in

1870, and settled in Yar-

mouth County, and became

a missionary

among

70

A nniRP HISTORY OF TIIR

under the
go ns

Homo

Mission
;

Honrd,

embrncing

Dij^'by

and

Yftrmotith Counties

an<l

when

visiting licnr Rivtr

would

far as fimnvillc

Ferry, Inglewood and


all of

Fundy Section
Rev.

on the Bay Shore.

To

those places the saints of Oo<l


Salvation.

would gladly
Jackson
is a

receive
revivalist

the

Message of
never goes

without a doubt, and his hearers,


tired,

except they are very

to sleep.

In the

pulpit he savours from everything that tinges with flummery or slander, and

may

bo termed a born preacher

without a
in

college education he does his

work

well.

We
Fundy

Hnd

1870
;

ho baptized
1894, in

in

Weymouth

in 1873, in

Section

in

Yarmouth; and Granville Ferry, 1894, there ho baptized husband and wife, which bound them closer for
eternity.

He

nmrried in (Iranville Ferry, on Jan.


E.

20th,

1870, H.
to L.

Simmsto

Wilson
-^

Feb. Uth, 1870, Jos. Simons


I.

Johnson;
;

July

d,
il.

1870,

Chandler

to

H.

Berry

July 14th, 1870,

Brothers to E. Wooder.
Pleasant to J. Keelin;

AtYurujouth Sei)t. 10th,1870.W.


L. Tate

Jan. 4th, 1871, S. Hewston to Annie Smith;

Mar
S.

8th, 1871,

toGeorgina Robertson
;

Mar. 9th, 1871,


I).

II.

Johnson

to S. J. Keelin

Oct. 3rd, 1871,

Dize to

A. Herbert
Sept. 4th,

June

9lh,

1872, Burt. Keelin to P. Matthews;


to

1873, T. Nickerson

R.
;

Herbert;

Jan.

7th,

1894, Jas.

Crawford

to

II.

Wilson

June
p:d.

9th, 1894, T. Welsley to I).


J.

Tobin

Aug. 3rd, 1894,


Liseo

Crawford to L.

Crawford

July 3rd, 1894, G. Forbes


R. Bright to L.
C.
;

to

M. Beales
1893, D.

Nov. 22nd, 1894,


Barnard to
to
;

April

28th, 1893, A.

Matthews;
;

Aug. 22nd,

Thomson

Mary
Sept.

Como

Jan. 8th, 189 J,

17th, 1877, J. Harris

In Lynn, Mass.

W. Wesley to E. Eddison to Emmie Croker. May 4th, 1884, R. Burns to E.


;

Ring-

wood

Feb.

1st,

1886, T. Ackerson to H. Kelly

July 8th,

COLOTTPED HAPTISTA OP NOVA SCOTIA.


J|,n8on to M. Herbert

77

ISSn,

J.

Nov.

tOtl.,

1887

N. H.
to

Foster to S.

Wright;
15th,

Sept.

8th,
\V.

1887,

J.

Allis

A.

Clements;

Oct.

188G,

Carter to

M.
;

niiicis

July 3nl, 1889, Chas. Skinner to A.


1892, J. llutler to

Higgins

May

lOlh,

Knwna

Cobiirn,

t$

GREENVILLE CHURCH, YARMOUTH COUNTY,


(Orgranized
Pastor: Rev,
Killer
:

May
;

16th, 1853).

R.

Pieston

Deact.n;
:

James Crawford;

David Dize.

Lay members

G. Di/o, Jos. Crawford,

Kliza

Crawford, Susan

Crawford, E. McKinney,

W.

Di/e,

S. Dize,

Turner, L. Chandh'r.
recorded subsequently without date
INIel.
:

Names
J.

M. Corbin,

Crawford,

Crawford, K. Crawford, M. Crawfonl, L.


L.

Crawford,
IJerry,
S.

Ann

r)erry,

A.

IJerry, A.
]>.

Herry, C. IJerry,

IJerry,

Jas.

Keelin,

Keelin,
S.

M. M. A. Keolin,
Johnson,
vS.

L. Keelin, L.

Thomson, Jas

Thomson,

A.

Dize,

M. Dize, O. W. Dize, L. JMcKinny, Phe. McKinny, L. A. Black, C. Munroc, Mrs, Jackson, H. Corbin, L. J. Corbin, A. Turner, R. Turner and wife, G. Turner,
L.

Dize,

I.

W.

Turner,

M. Turner, D. Turner,
and members

Jae. E. Turner, C. P.

Turner.

Present

officers
;

in

good standing
8.

F.

R.

Langford, Pastor

Deacons
;

Jas.

Thomas,

Chandler, \V.

Crawford, (Licen.) G. Dize


Harris,

Clerk, VV. Crawford.

Phcebo

Ann Crawford,

S. Tasco,

G. Crawford, E. Crawford,
S.

K.

Thomson, M. Johnson, M. Jordan,

Thomson, E. Milner,

Jane Jones.
Greenville Church, formerly Salmon River, enjoyed for
years the feeble eiibrts of lirother

David Dize,

their elder.

78

A nillKF IIIHTORY OF TIIK

Father l*n?8ton ht'ing their ncknowh'gcd paHtor, who


periodical vi8it8 to the chiirchoa
;

niailo

left
;

each clinruh

in ehai'^^e

of an elder,

who was

really pantor

having

full

power

to

perform

nil

tho functions of his offico except administering


It is

the Lord's Supper, marrying or bnpii/ing.


too

not raying

much when wo
own

say that, notwithstanding their illiteracy,


lt<>8ides

these elders kept these churches in running order.


their

preachers

thesQ

brethren

had tho pleaKure of

listening to

sermons from some of the old vanguards of the


viz.,

Western

Association,

thers Manning,

Dimock, Cogs-

well, ][arding,

Chipman and
save.

others

in

passing through the

country they would not forget that their coh)ured brethren

had souls
visited

to

For several years previous to

their

organization they held meetings

among themselves and were

by Father Prestn and other preaching brethren.

Halifax "in ye olden times" was

much

further

away than
if

now,

it

took sometimes a fortnight to go, especially

tho

weather was stormy.

Now
its

it is

done

in five

hours

aiul less.

We
like

can well say "

What God

hath wrought."
to overcome,

This church,

many
its

others,

had

trials

and had

also

severed

connection with tho original Association, but in


its

duo course saw

unwise move and returned to the


pla^;e, if

fold.

When
God's

journeying from place to

storm-stayo'l, or

detained by accident,

many

of the

refreshing showers of

providence

would be
the
first

held, the religious life enquired into,


life

would then be experienced. Meetings and often for

time the seed of a religious


to

sown

in the heart of

a sinner, to mature

a stately tree, to bear fruit for the

Master's

Kingdom.

Old Father Dize served these brethren for many years as He lived to tho memorable age of one hundred an eWer. and ten years, nearly eighty years of which a follower of
Jesua Christ.

Some twelve

years ago, in conversation with

COLOCRBD nAPTISTS OF NOVA


\\u* writer,

SCOTIA.

19

hn told
Itritish
thiit

liitn,

wlicii

f'.MirttMni
iit

yonrn oM, ho wua


.laiiuiica, Imh

piaciMl

on n

ninn-o'-wiir

Kin^Hlon,
confiusioii

home.
ItiitiHh

At
:;)m!

tinm

ihrm

wiih

hftwiuMi
tin

thu

Fn>ii(;)i, in

which Lord Nfdson \vm


*

activn

li^uic lor tho

promotion of his conntry'.s welfare.


speak of
do, their

Father

Dizu h)ved

to

Nelson

" anl "

I{odney," as most

Wewt
lixlian

Indians
history.

names

heinj; coupled

with

West
Hash

When

the naines ol N Ison,


.j"y

Rodney, or
to

Wellinj,'ton

was nientioni^d a halo of


and

woidd seem

over his conntenance ae thon^di a hurii'd thou'^ht was about


to ileveiop itself,
in

an instant he

hurvst forth,

" wasn't

that a f,Meat victory lor Nelson


in

when he captured tho French


"iiltliou^di

Aboukir

l>iy,"

and contiiund,

he had disobeyed

tho comnjand of his Admiral the victory was most complete,

and iionouis showered

c ".

his

head that he richly deserved."

Said he, "Ilo was smarter than his snpi^riors, for he did the

most work, but the Admiral ^haled the biggest

horiours.'

And

I could

tell

you more, but

it

taxes

my memory
but
little

too

much,
family

"ho
and

did

much
said

for

his country

for his

his TJod."
spirit,"

" Could he have fought with tho


he,

sw

>rd of the

"he wouM not


is still

be long conin darkness,"

verting a great p(rtion of

tlu;

world that
but

Father Dize had no learning,


establish peace
earlier
life,

did
the

all

he could to

and harmony

among

brethren in his

and when old age came on him, so that his


hail

powers of exhortations
of
!

ended, his presence in the house


the respect and esteem of

God was

sufficient to

command

all,

even the most giddy of the congregation.

The

closeness

of the

United Stiles has robbed

this

church of many of her

members.

The

brethren receive the helping hand from the

Temple

Hebron Church, likewise from the first Baptist Church and Good Deacon Gridley, a few of Yarmouth Town.
all

years ago, bore nearly

the expense of the repairs on the

ii;

90

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE


which was commendable on
is

building,

his

part

to

him a
Rev.
with

deep debt of gratitude


Messrs.

due from the brethren.


also laboured

Langforp and Jackson have


assistance given through the

them by

Home

Mi.ssion Board.

In the absence of a minister, Brother George Dize,


licentiate, administers

to

them, as best he can, in humlde


looked after by
is

exhortations, which often conduces favorable results for the

Master's cause.

The church temporarily


;

is

Deacons Thomson and Crawford


very
aged,

Deacon Chandler, who


is

has

ran his course of usefulness, and

now

wafted into the kingdom of eternal

waiting under the twilight of the Master's presence to be " Shall we know bliss.
calls

each other there," when the summons


shall

him home

he

meet Father Preston, Thomas, Smithers. Neale, Dize,

Langford, Carvery, Turner, Wilmot, Keelin, Berry, Francis

and Jackson.
history

The
as

list

is

too

long to

enumerate.
obtained,
of
will

The
be

of each,

far

as

could

be

found under their respective names.

Few

education, but the revelation of scrip ure

them had any was made plain to


life

many
and

of

them through the


one that
is

Spirit, that their interpretations

so vivid have been most profitable " for the


for the

that

now

is

to come."

CORNWALLIS CHURCH,
Previous to 1871,
I find

(Orfiranized 18-.)
list

an old record of a
;

of

officers,
;

with Father Thomas as Pastor


Smith, Councillor.
tism,

D. Taylor, Deaoon

John

In

1874

we

find

added by bapworking

and

in 1875, 15,

which
;

in addition to a steady increase,


this indicated a steady

made

a total of

45 members

of the Holy Spirit's power within the church.

The Asso-

COLOUBED BAPTISTS OF NOVA


elation

SCOTIA.

81

was held with


rciiovjit^'ii,

this church that year


its

whnt with the


auA
her
just

hiiikling

ch-an

appearance,

emerging from a

brilliant reformation, a
S.

most heavenly time


Father
pastor,

was enjoyed.

Rev.

R. Walls was ordained hy


their

Thomas
with

the previous year, and

Bro. J. S.

now chosen Smith, Licentiiite, who was


I).

i)rdained

in

18V8;

Deacons:

Taylor,

J.

Landsay
:

Councillor,
:

T. Powell.

Names

of present

officers are

Denc(ns
;

D.

Taylor, B. C. David, P. Smith, R.


T. Powell, J. Gibson
like
I
i

W. Ford
David.
joys and

Councillors,
Tliis

Clerk

B.

C.

church,

many

(theis,

have had

her

her

share of two-thirds

sorrows, wiiii which she had to struggle nearly


of the time pastorlesf*.
a quiet

Amidst
Spirit,

all

these calamities

we
4;

find

working of the

and the church holding her


in

own.

They added

to their

membership

1879,

in

1886, 25.

This season Rev. James Johnson, of Windsor


with the church, and although in feeble

Plains, laboured

health, yet leaned


'

upon the strong arm of Jehovah, who


Since then there
not hard to work by

always helps them who help themselves.


has been slight additions.

This

field is

>>

all

accounts, as the people are quite intelligent and temperate,


to the cordialty of the

which adds much


the

membership.
praise

To

temperance organization,

too

much
meet

cannot be

given to Deacon B. C. David.


for the

He was
to

foremost ia securing
into,

Iriends

a proper place

and has ever

since manifested his untiring zeal for the spread of the Order
in their niidst.
suffers

The
in the

pastorless church

is

not the one that

most spiritual dearth.


of

We
to

cannot but admire the


gifts to man ! How Holy Spirit, " How as we have seen it in

wisdom

God

arrangements of
subject

varied and yet,

when

the

perfectly harmonious in their


this little church

results,

heretofore."
for the

Then
will

fear not,

land

be

glad and rejoice

Lord

do great things.

'-JB

82

A HRIKF inSTOHY OF

THE

'

BEAR RIVER,
:

(Orgranized 1853).
;

Pastor

Rev. K.

Preston
;

Licentiate;
:

II.

Jackson
;

Deacon
h\
bcrs
S.
:

James Johnson
J.

Councillor

J.

Evans

Metn-

Phil.

Hawkins, G. Ringwcjod, Hawkins.

Plioe. -lackson, F. Ford,

Hawkins,

A. Hawkins, Eu. Evans, M. Ringwood,


J.

D.

Emery, H. Emery,
It

was early in the month of April when Father Preston


usual missionary
staff,

and
at

hifj

left

on his sojourn to the

western part of the province.

After holding special meetings

Windsor

Plains,

and

at

Horton, Cornwallis and

Anna-

polis,

he arrived at Bear River, where friends had assembled

from Digby,
of seeing,
race
;

Weymouth and
is

Granville Ferry, for the purpose


apostle to the Afiican
as fresh almost as

some

for the first time, the

whose presence

remembered yet
at

yesterday, by

the boy of forty years ago.


a
licentiate

Late Rev. H.

Jackson,

who was
a

the

organization,

was

ordained

few years
1865.

after,

who
to

served these brethren until


J.

he died

in

His son. Rev.

E. Jackson, has also

preached and administered


brethren of this church. dear old
eightieth
Cross.

the spiritual

wants of the

among the hrethren was Brother Deacon Hawkins, who had reached his
Faithful
year,

over G.

fifty

of

which was a soldier of the

Brother

Ringwood, who came from

Lynn

to

attend the Association in 1890 at Digby,


tations to his brethren, he told

when
a

in his exhorto

them he never expected


all

meet with them again, but the parting with


oiily for a short season,

few would be
re-united in

when they would be

The names of some of these departed are as sacred to the memory of their relatives and church as any ol the and it is good to bear in mind that in every old fathers position in life, God finds tried and faithful servants, learned and unlearned. The soldier's life on the field of battle is
gloryf
;

COLOURED HAITI8T8 OF NoVA HCOTIA.


one
of

^.
813

stern

disciplnu;,

(.f

continual
ilty.

patience,

of

exact

obedience, and unflinching loy

The

sohlier of the Cross

has a similar one to endure, the

i)erfection of
;

which

is
,

the

only true source of his eternal salvation.

The brethren have no church


ing,

edifice of their cnvn stand'f'hey

but meet

in the

schooMiouse.
aid

are

often visited

by Pastors Langford
savour of God's urace.

Jackson, and experience a holy

DIGBY CHURCH, (Organized


Pastor:
Eliier
:

1853).
:

Rev.

R.

Preston;
;

J)eacon
:

Ja.^.

Wilniot
;

Charles Jordan

Councillor

Jos.

Francis

Mem-

bers

J.

Jordan, G. Hill, M.

Hill, L.

Jordan, H. Jordan, H.

Harris, E. Francis, A. Francis,

Mansfield, F. Birnes,

E.

M. Francis, Wm. Harri., K. Wilmot, M. A. James, G. Jiarton,


Moore, J. Mitchell,
S.

N. Gordon,
Francis

J. Miller, S. A.

Frances,

E. A. Frances.
;

Present officers
:

Deacons
;

P. IJutler, Jos.

Councillor
is

G. Barton

Clerk

P. Dutler.

This

one of the most active


time pastorless.

little

churches in the
Butlei',

Association, half the


is

Deacon

who

as

good as some
his

pastors,

and

far t)etter

than others, works


with such

with

brethren,

and

manages
is

their affairs

amiableness, that scarcely there

room
met

for

any discussion.

When
ling, it

the expenses of a church

are

pron)ptly, great or

much grumbshows good generalship by the officers. We have often said, what will the church do without Deacon Butler
in reply

small, and its various needs supplied without

we can but

say,

God

will provide,

which he always

does.

But often the successor is not so genial, and things become very much mixed, and when by mismanagement
matters become rutfied,
it

takes quite a while to

unravel.

-WIPHP'

m
takes time
variety of

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE

Church government you cannot


and experience
to

learn in a day, or a year

it

become accustomed
of individuals with

to the

minds and dispositions


in contact.

whom
work
;

you come
to

It is roally a pleasure

and a comfort

meet with

this people

and church

in Associational
for

the church, although small,

ample provision
give

Sundays

worship

is

generally arranged by Deacon Butler,

when

the

Hillgrove
building.
large.

brethren

who would

us the use of their

The gatherings on

these occasions are unusually

Fathers Preston, Thomas, Neale, Smithers, Carvery,

Jackson,

Wilmot, Frances and


forded the

Builey

have

all

had the

pleasure of addressing large audiences here.

These brethren

have

all

river,

one by one, and have met many on


rites

the other side to

whom

they administered the sacred

over here.
4'

After the church had been organized in Bear

Eiver in April. Father Preston went directly to Digby, and


organized this church in
.

May

of

same

year.

The

sisters of the

church take a lively interest in the


its

work, and do their part in promoting


also

welfare.

They
Butler

maintain

Sabbath

School,

which

Brother

superintended for
over to Brother
States.

many years, the charge of which he handed W. Miller on his return from the United
generally, although small in

The churches
are located.

member-

ship,

have proved a great blessing to every community in


Vice, intemperance, and immorality
its flight

which they

of every kind takes

when brought
of

into a nearness

with the church.


light
to

The church

God

has ever been a beacon


ship-

the

weary mariner.

few years ago a


to be

wrecked mariner climbing over a scraggy mountain peak in


the South Seas, expecting every
savages,

moment

devoured by

you

see

was asked by his comrade from behind, " What do ahead ?" " Nothing but a church steeple." " Ah

said he,

we

are all right, there are christians here."

And so

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA


will she ever bo

SCOTIA.

85

a placo of safety in the storms of Fathers Wilmot and Fathers Francis both served this

life.

little

church
Glory.

faithfully,

and

are

now

reaping their reward

in

Revs. Langford and Jackson have also done good


brethren, supported by the Homo Mission Like most of the western churches in the Associa-

service to these

Board.
tion,

when

the division took place,

some of the members


right.

stood on neutral ground, others came out boldly, but after a


little talk

with Jesus,
all

He made

it all

What

is

needed
is

to-day throughout

the churches in

the

Association,

more missionary

spirit to

revive the work in the hearts of

the people, there being scores of unconverted persons outside the pale of the churches.
*' Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the fesble knees, say to them that are of a

fearful heart, be strong, fear not

and the ransomed of the

Lord

shall return,

and come

to

Zion with songs, and everthey shall obtain joy and


shall floe

lasting joy

upon their heads;


and sighing

gladness, and sorrow

away."

WEYMOUTH
Pastor
:

FALLS, (Orgfanized
;

1853).
;

Rev. R. Preston

Deacon
:

Elder

Charles
:

Langford

Councillor

John Langford James Langford

Lay members
Pleasant,

Abram

Harris,

E. Harris, H. Jarvis,

John

Rachel Pleasant, H. Wooddor, Jane Robart, E.


Dor'y.

Robart, Jane Smith,

Langford, E.

Langford, Sus.

Langford,

Tamar Langford.

Persons

who

joined afterwards, no date

giver.

Jas.

Smith, Joe Jarvis, S. Robart, A. Robart, R. Robart, S. Robart, K. Robart, Sar. Robart, Joe Robart, Chas. Crurnwell,

Wm.

Crurnwell, Phil Wodder, Jas. Wodder,

M. C. Wodder

I'l

86

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE


Woddor, W. Woodor, N.
P>yii^, S.

ir.

-yn^',

P.

Byiif,',

Mnr.

Jarvis,

Jarvls.

Jno. Chute,
liyd.

H.

FiilKs,

Fulls,

P. Falls,

VV. Jonlnn,
I

M. Jordan,

Harris, Lan<^f(>rd

Harris,

W.

H. Liiii^ford, Jos. Lin<,'ford, Jas.

riimf^ford, Cliaa. Lanj^ford,

M.
M.

A. Lnni,'ford, Mario Lani^'ford, Eliza Lin,L,'ford, Al. Lan,'IJIaok, L. P.lack, T.

ford, S. J.

Kelley, Joa. Kolly, S. Kelly,

Kelly,

T.

J.

Pleasant,

G.

Pleasant,

Jno.

Pleasant,

Secretary.

Present members
ford
;

in

good standing,

Rev.
;
;

F.

LangClerk:
:

Deacons:
;

T.

Lingford, M. IJarnes
:

As.st.

A. Crnmwell

Sec'y-Treas.
El.

T. Lxngford

Lay members
\].

H. Langford,

Langford,

(.'has.

Langfonl,
S.

Langford, E.

Langford, Jane Smith, So. Robart,


S.

Pleasant,
-

IL Smith,

Harmon,

IJetaey Barker.

It is clear to be

seen in

the olden

time, in

the Forty's

and

Fifty's,

when church
elfecting

organizations

and Associations
in a

were taking place, the brethren

were not
for

hurry to

fly

home without

some good

their

Master, while
stop|)(-d
f>f

sojourneying in the country.

On

going they

and
the

set the fire ablazing, left judicious brethren in chaig<>

meetings,

and

on their jeturn
in

would often
of

find converts

awaiting baptism, quite

kiH'pingwith the

New

Tefitanient.

These servants of

Christ's,

many

them unlearned, spake


Spirit with them.

boldly of the dealings of the Holy


their arrival
to these

On

places where branches of the church

were

instituted,

they

would sumtnons their coanciI of


that they

brethniu together, and listen with great eagerness and deep


interest to the account

wouM

give of the
giv*'

generally.
this

On

leaving his
that

brethren
P.tul

he would

work them
at
to

divine comtnand
:

gave to his brethren

Ephesus
ail

"Take

heed, therid'ore, unto yourselves, and

the flock over wliich the

Holy Ohost hath made you


of

overseers, to feed the

Church

God, which he hath pur-

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA SCOTIA.


chased with His

own

blood."

This they did to the best of

their aVjiiity, in sincerity, without

money and without

price.

These elders deemed

it

a great

honour conferred on them


;

Many
large

were brought

to Christ

through their earnestness


tlie.se

the
tell.

amount

of good done by
of

men, none can


to the great

The smallness
continually
labour.

membership

is

duo

drain by

emigration to the United States, where whole families are

moving every

year, induced by higher

wages

for

Besides Father Preston as pastor,

they have also

enjoyed the labours of Revs. Langfurd and Jackson, aided

by the
vain.

Home

Mission Board, whose labours were

not in

In looking over the records, as best we can, we do not


find

many baptisms

in

1869

three were bai'iizcd by Rev.


;

Messrs. Smithers and Francis

in 1870. three,

by Rev. Mr.
Tliere are

Jackson, and 1890, two, by Rev. Mr. Langford.


a great
of

many persons here whose lives represent a hi;j;h state morality, who are generally the hardest ones to convert,
watching with keen eyes tho actiona
iota
lie,
if)

for they are continually

members of the cliurcli, au<l if they divert one from what they consider is not just what it ought to
of the

that action boconies a barrier In th

wa^

Wul so

it

is

almost every church.

In 1883 the writer,


of visiting
that year.
thit?

for

the

firiKt

time, had the pleasure

settlement,

the Association was held there


m.,

We

convened at 3.30 p

on Saturday.

After
;

routine business was gone through,

we adjourned

at 6 o'clock

held a conference meeting, one of those that are not easily


erased from
tlte

memory.

Friends had come from

all

parts of
rela-

county, from Yarmouth, Annapolis


haci also

and Halifax,

tivffls

come from

I)Oston,

Lynn and Cambridge, who


Old Sister

hd

fiot

seen tacb other for over a dozen years.

88

A HRTEP niHTOUY OP

THE
nj^o, iiml

Lrtti^'fonl,

who

liveil to
;

ho

oij,'lity

yours of

hml soon
sonuoti,

her
niul

I'o-.irth

^oiinration

ahn prciu^hod hor


sottiiij,'

own
all

fiiiuiral

was the
yenrs
;

ui<'ans of

the honsi;

ahlazo with h>vo

to Ooil.

When

she

recalled
to

circumataiices that occurred


in

forty

prtviou.s

thnt,

her

youthful
It

christian

experience
if

thnt kept her close to the Cross.


Spirit

seemed as
present,

the

Holy

had entered into

tlie lives

of

all

for

nil,

with one accord,

was

praisinj;
;

God.

Her

stay on

earth afterwards was very short


i'

the Master took her homo,

and many others whose names

do not rememher.
there
in

The Thomas
ahility.

Association
Lanj^'ford,

was
is

held

1893.

Deacon
work,
of
liis

who

well educated in cluirch

looks after the welfare of this

people

to

the boat

iH

GRANVILLE FERRY, ORIGINALLY FUNDY SECTION,


(Orgranized in 1844).

With 47

nicmher.*.
Cr.

I'astor
;

F.

I>.

rian<.'f(trd
:

Deacons
Pt)mp,

Stevenson,

Stevenson
;

Cotincillorri

S.

J.

Brothers, J.

Simmons

Clerk

W.

H. Skanks.
;

In 1888 two were added by baptism

in

1890, one; in

The church, whiah was and in 1894, two situated on the Pny shore, was very inconvenient for persons
1892,

one

to reach other than their

own immediate

friend?, as the high

mountain
very

to cross

from Granville Ferry and Annapolis was


visit

tiyirig,

hence many persons would wish to

tho

bretlircd but the

mountain remained

hairier in the way.

Now

the brethrcjn have

deemed

it

expedient to build for


F'erry, it will

themselves a meeting house at

tiie

be

much

more convenient

for all concerned,

and should be accommo-

COLOURED BAPTISTS OP N<*VA SCOTIA.


dating
to

80

the

frionds

at
is

Aimnpoliii.

Hrothor

Clmrlca
tlie

Stevenson, the sub-deacon,


brethren of this chnpih, and
hitn licdp in his old age to

the Ujading spirit with


(i n\ that

we pray
blest,

He

will
front,

send

push the battle to the

and

that he njight

l)o

abundantly
is

and

see the fnut of his

labour ))efore he

called

home from

earth to glory.

HORTON CHURCH,
Rev.
R.

(Organized

in

1859).
.

Preston, Pastor; Deacons:

Daniel Doleman,

Dennis Dolenian.

Having

a start ol

ten

members

it

was

thought that her career would be one of usefulness to the


settlement and a blessing to the members, which
it

was

while she existed

but the greater portion of the members

being seafaring persons,


in the liesh,

many went away and never


in

returned

some met death

foreign lands,

and others
of the

found

watery grave.

In process of time
to
tlu)

many

leading families

moved away

United States and the


Fathers l*reston and
lIk
r.;

church

edifice has fallen

into disuse.

Tlioiniis

both visited them and held profitable meetings

going to and returning from the Associations in the western


counties.

FALMOUl
cillor

CHURCH, (Organized
;

in 1876).
li.

Rev. Fatlier Tliomas, Pastor


:

Deacon

Gray

Coun-

1).

Green.
that

This

is a little

band of christian workers.


that they have increa.sed

Wo

regret

we cannot say
field

numerically, the

being small.

Father Thomas,

few

years previous to his death, gathered

fond hope of their

them together with a growth and contirjued existence. But

oa

A ItRIKF IIIHTOHY OP TIIK


taken awny, the sheep

Jontli intervenes, the iihepherd

is

scattered.

Not

so

in

this case.

The nhepherd

is

taken

away, but the few


are hedged in

faitlifiil

followers stick close

to},'ether

and

Fletcher

are

by God's protecting caro. Sisters llray and most earnest workers, and manifest a lively and deserve
to bo encouraged.

interest in the cause of Christ,

Rev. John Smith has laboured with them, and found them
earnest christians contending for the " faith."
hero,

as

in

most of the churches, take the

lead.

The women Good


and
told

womon
fault
all

are like the precious stones.


tiio

Our Saviour found no


into the city

with

woman who wont


Priscilia,

things that ever she did.

Dorcas made clothes for the


with her husband, took
perfectly in the

poor of her community.

A polios and
God.

instructed

him more

way

of

Wc

pray for their continual growth in the things


life eternal.

appertaining to

MARRIAGES PERFORMED BY REV


.

F.

R.

LANGFORD,

WEYMOUTH.
I.

^
Lnngt'ord
EaI.
;

Jan. 14th, 1873, H. Harris to


to A. E.

G. R. Jarvis

Langford

Feb. Gth, 1878,


J.

Jarvis to A. Lang-

ford

July 14th, 1885,

T.

Robart to M. A. Langford;
Falls; Dec. 31st,

Dec. 23rd, 1885,

E. Smith to H. A. Pleasant; Sept. 11th,


to
S.
;

1880,

Jas.

Smith

A.

1884, Jos.

Jarvis to Ophe. Langford

July 20th, 1884, F. Falls to M.


J.

Duncan
'

April 8th,

1886,

McNeil
to S.

to A. E.

Langford;
1894, A.

April
\

16th,
Jas.

1886, H. Barton

Pleasant; Feb. 12th,

1894,

Chute
Nov.

to

Ida Langford;
;

May

3rd,

Francis to Gert. Langford


to S.

Tynes

12fch,

June 20th, 1894, H. Langford 1889, St. C. Langford to Addie

COLOURRT) nvPTISTfl OF VOVA HCOTIK,


Kolmil
liohait

01

May
rt)

14tli,

1887,
;

W.
i

T.(iiircj>('

to

M. Hill

J.

M.
;

Liiii<,'fMr(l
r>tli,

Deo. 22iul, 1880,


..

W.
M.
H.
to

Iiiinr'nc

to

E. Jdidaii

Nov.

I81)J,
:

Tlujinsoii to
r)lli,

K. I.iuij^ford.
Laii,'for<l

At yarinontli Comity
K.

Oct.
11.

187.'5,

to
;

Wmuvh;
.'H.Ht,

(.|)t.

lOtli,

1870,

.InhiiHori

C. IlcrlxTl

Auk-

188r), .Ian. A.
I5!rry

Thomson
S.

to U. Francis; Oct.
;

IGlli,

1885, C.

W.

to

M,

Coibin
28tli,

O.t. 22n.l, 18r), T. A.


II.

Pheasant to

K
;

DincM; hoc.
Doc.
Dili,

181^5,

McKiimon

to

A.

P..

Perry
Ihit,

1883,

A.

Connill to A. Clian<llor
;

April

1880, N. Stowart to Plui'lx' .lonoa

L. .lolinsofi to

A. Pauf^'ford.

At Ohio, Yarmouth County:


Connoll
;

G.
1878,

'

t,cvonoM

to

K.

Doc. 24th, 1881, A. .Johns^


,[(>gi,'ins:

m to

C. P. Miliior.

At Di^'hy
Jordan
1879,
;

July

1st,

CJ,

Crawford to
;

P.

May

2r)th, 1871), P. Miller to A.

IVrry

Mar. 2nd,

J.

Francis to M. P. Marah.

Snjitir.s

Cove: Doc.

18th,

1870,

P. J.

Hawkins

to

S.
;

Hawkins; Doc.
\V.

19th, 1880, H. Jordan to Phu'ho Williams


t.,

Oct. 19th, 1884, IP Pons(.i.

S.

IJowon

Nov. 20th, 1882,

Hanison
liear

to K. Jordan.

Kiver: F-h.
Prid<,'o

7th,

1S70,

W. Jordan

to

A.

M.
to

Hawkin.s.

At Conoral's
E.
Ruj^'glo.s.

Juno

mth, 1879,11. Fraiddyn

At Granville Ferry -Juno ir)th, 1879, Homestead; Jan. 14th, 1881, Jas. Brothers
:

T. P^win to K.
to
F^.

Jenkins;

Oct. 6th, 1881, IP

G.

W.

Hill
to

to

Stevenson

Curry to Mary Owens; Dec. 20th, 1888, M. E. Firman; Dec 20th, 1887, J. W. H. Tyler A. McPeod to M. J. Jackson
;

June

11th, 1878, Jas. Brothers to E. Homestead.

Fundy
Johnson
;

Section

: Jan.

13th,

1881, G.

Brothers to M.

Jan. 14th, 1886, C. Rob&on to J. Marsh.

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A BRIEF HISTORT OP THB


Halifax

Sept. 14th, 1887, Jas. Gray to A. Carvary.


:

Dartmouth
F.
J.

Sept. 29th, 1885,


to
;

Jas. IJrowii to
;

M. Tynes;
A.

Nov. 14th, 1893, H. Kane


Bauld to M.
to

Ag. Brown

Aug. 17th, 1887,


;

Lee
;

A. Tynes to L. Berry man


to

Brown

Ruth Wise

T.

Tynes
29th,

M. Medley.

Preston East
Fletcher.

: Aug.

1889,

W.

Stewart

to

M.
C.

Tracadie

: Sept.

15th, 1892,

Angus Borden

to

M.

Borden.

Rev. Brother Langford has done pastoral work in nearly


all

of the above-mentioned churches, and

is

a hard'worker

in

any

field

he enters

his labours are felt through the

Holy

Spirit's power.

Jesus

many
Board

of

He has also baptized a host of believers in whom have crossed the flood. On different
Yui mouth,

occasions has he filled miassions under the direction of the

Home

in

Digby

and

in

Antigonish

Counties.

MUSQUODOBOIT ROAD CHURCH, (Reorganized


Rev.
Treasurer

in 1891).

E.
:

Dixon,
;

Pastor

Deacon
;

Isaac

Johnson
:

N. Boyd

Clerk
J.

G. Smith
S.

Sexton

J.

Boyd.

Members
S.

H. Bodd,
West,

Johnson,

Williams, C. Johnson,

Boyd, E.

L.

Williams,

Ann Boyd,

L.

West,

H. Boyd. This Church was formerly under the

pastorate of Rev.

Jacob Allen, who has long passed away, and was supported by the Central Association. At his death they became
shepherdless and
if

began to

scatter,

which often occurs to


a pastorless
is

churches

with pastors,

much more than

one.

Pastor Dixon has taken hold of them and


to their spiritual
^
-

most attentive
persons.

requirements.

On

his visits he gathers

large congregations, both white

and coloured

The

t
r,

mm

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA


services are
in

SCOTIA.

03

much

enlivened by the singing; of the brethren,


trike great delight.

which the white neighbours

Besii^es

this charge Pastor

Dixon has four others with whon ho most acceptably, and makes a good pastor to his labours
fl(ick.

As

the blessed Master gave the commission to Peter


,

to feed his flock

so does

He

give power to the minister,

that

is

called to the work, to feed his flock to-day.


all this,

But
will.

above

He

imparts gifts according to His


qualifies

own
pray

He
way

takes

up some of His own and

them

in a special

for service in the ministry of the world.

We

God
in

for a long life of usefulness for this

dear brother.

For

case of an accident he

would be much missed by

his churches.
if

Then

shall

we

say, be careful

of yourself Pastor Dixon,

they do not pay you, do not go to baptize them, nor marry

them, nor bury them.

God

forbid that
will give

you should so

say.

What

is

the promise

"I

the nations for thine


(or thy

inheritance, possession."
field.

and the uttermost parts of the earth

You

can

do missionary work on the home

The blessings attendant to your labours have already proved the surety of his promise, " Lo I am with you alway." The people
little

of

this settlement

have their comfortable


hospitality
;

farms and are

much given

to

they look

forward at no distant day when they will invite the Association to hold its annual sessions with

them.

These annual

meetings have a wonderful influence in reviving the churches,

and on many occasions the awakened soul becomes subjects


of divine grace.
It is quite certain that these brethren

had

the pleasure of hearing Fathers Burton, Preston, and others


of the old school of missionary labourers

wth Father Allen.

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE


At LuoASviLLE
is

a small cluirch under the care of the


receive the helping

Central Association,
district

who

hand from the


Pastors Hall,

branch of the Honie Mission Board.

McDonald, Archibald, and others, have preached there with


good
results.

At Tracauib
tion of the

there

is

another church, under the protec-

Eastern Assiciation, with preaching places at

Kirch Town, Guysboro County, and another at Guysboro Hill. These places have .had the services of Rev. Mr.
Langford, under the auspices of the

Home

Mission Board.

The

late

Brother Jordan also did missionary work with these

brethren, whose labours were productive of great good.

DR.
li

RUFUS

L.

PERRY, Ph.D.
Ph.D
,

Gone
and a
writer.

to his rest. Dr. R'lfus L. Perry,

a gentleman

scholar,

and one of the strong


in

pillars of the Baptist

denomination
always had.

New

York, an old acquaintance of the

One from whom any information desired could be He was a well of information in himself and
to

always found time to reply


of slave
parents,

any question asked.

his father escaped to

" Born Canada when Dr.


to a
;

Perry was quite young.


slave trader

He was

subsequently sold

who was planning

to take

him

to Mississippi

but young Perry executed a daring escape and got safely


into Canada.

He

afterwards returned to the United States,

and

in

1861

graduated from a college and a theological

seminary in Michigan.

He

filled

several

pastorates over

Baptist churches in Michigan, St. Thomas, Ontario, Buffalo,

and

New

York.

He

edited and published

and was publisher of the

many newspaperj*, National Monitor when he died,


leader in his pulpit, an acknow-

who championed
H
he loved so well.

the doctrines of his denomination, which

Ho was a

ledged power in the press, an author of renown, whose work,

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NoVA


entitlcMl

SCOTIA.

86

the " Cushitu," will

liiincl

his niiinc

uud fame us a

schular tlowti to generations yet unborn."

T.

McC.

S.

The

Unitel States with her faults, which are ni


race.

my, has
She has Sid and
of here

done much for the elevation of the coloured

given to the race Prof;ssors in Colleges, Senators, Engineers,


Doctors, Lawyers, Mechanics of every desciiption.
sorry are

we

to say that

is

more than we can houst

Nova common
in
ian,

Scotia.

Our young men


must
flee

as soon as they receive a

school education

away

to the

United States

and seek employment,

as did

W. H.

Goler, a

young Haligonreceives a

who

is

now

a Professor of Ancient Languages in Living-

stone College, Salsbury, N. C.


trade

Very few ever


is

from

the large employers, even in the

factoriiis,

on

account of race prejudices,


direct
insult
to

which

a terrible
still

barrier,
of

and

Almighty God.
lazy,
is

And

some

these

judicators of equal rights, after a fashion, will call the

young
is

men

worthless,

and good for nothing, when every


closed

avenue of trade
our city
situation

against

them.

The

writer

aquainted v/ith facts

when young mechanics have from the West Indies, who could not simply on account of color, who had

arrived in

obtain

to accept

something very menial, and subsequently had to leave and


go to the United Stales to prosecute their mechanical
Dr. Perry has been a great friend to the youth of
skill.

New
late

York

city, in

obtainiiig situations for them.


is

Like the

Hon. Fred. Douglas, he

an irreparable

loss to the race.

He was
and

a strong advocate of Prof. Booker T. Washington's

policy of mechanical
colleges.

and industrial education


it

in

the schools

He

contended that
;

was better
to

to give a

boy

a trade than

money

the

money could
ask

be lost or stolen, but


is

the trade was lasting.

What we

give our

young

raea a chance to learn a trade

and keep them


our

in the country,

and build up an industrious

class in

own Dominion.

Illl
I'll

hi.i

IN
Rev. John

MKMORIAM.
Burton
Feb'y. i6th, 1838.
,

Rev. R. Preston

1861. 1865.

Rev. John Hamilton


Rev, Rev.

May
"

Henry Jackson
J.

"
3oih,

R Thomas
Wilmot
Thomas

Dec.

1875
1877. 1879.
,

Rev. Jas.

November,
June
17th,

Rev. Jas.

Rev. H. Fr-aNcis

1885. 1886. 1886. 1893.

Rev. B. Smithers Rev. a. Bailey


Rev. Geo. Rev. G. H.
Jan'y
April

Carvery

Neale
Jordan, D. D..

1894.
1894.

Rev. a.

VV.

" Servants of

God

well done, rest from thy loved

employ.

The

battle fought, the victory won, enter thy


ter's joy."

Mas-

By

Rev. Alex'h Bailey.

HaH/ax .March

14th, 1880, A. Carr to M. P:acl ; July 22ml, 1880, B. Butler to E. Clarke ; July 22n(l, 1880, G. IJrown to Em. Curvery ; Nov. 29tli, 188C, S. Brown
;

to Isa. Williams

F.

Symonds

to L. Foster.

Predon .-Nov. 29th, 1880,

VV. H. Foreiran toM. A. Oillis , July 1880f I). Mansfield to M. A. Tupper 25th, 1880, R. Williams to E. Caine ; Nov. 28th, 1882, C. Taylor to E. Brown ; Nov. 25th, 1884, G. Winder to race Johnson.

May

Tst,

Camphell Road : X\m\ 26th, 1881, W. Byers to R. Mantley ; Dec. 29th, 1881, E. Dixon to E. C. Frances.

Hammond

Johason;

Plains: Jan. 2nd, 1881, W, W^ilson to J. Feb. 6th, 1881, A. Hill to E. Marsnmn Dec. 29th, 1884, S. Goffican to Cass David.

By

Rev. W.

Boone.
;

Nov. 25th, 1880, Jas. Knight to A. E. Joseph 1880, Lew. Smith to Charlotte Bowen.

Dec. 23rd,

By H.
May

H. Johnson.

27th, 1882, W. Thomas to L. A. McAuliffe ; Sept. 27th, 1882, W, S. Garner to R. C. Thomas; H. Phillips to R. Turner; Nov. 9th, 1892, J. Colly to N. Nelson ; Nov. 23rd, 1893, P. Clayton to S. Thomas ; Nov. 30th,

1893, R.

Ewingto A.

Flint.

By

a.

W. Jordan,

D
;

D.

Mov. 20th, 1888, Jno. Taylor to M. A. Johnson ; Nov. 28th, 1888, Jas. Tynes to B. A. Smith Oct. 18th, 1888, J. H. Brown to M. E. Davidson ; Oct. 2l8t, 1888, T. W. Lannon to A. C. Skein.

08
Rbv. John
African

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE


Hamilton, of
lioro

Hammond

Plains,

was an

l)orn, brougiit

with others from Virginia.

Ho
God
of

was a man of constant piety and devotion, and was looked

np

to ns a fervent hsader of righteousness.


to Americrt, fearing

He

tlianked

for his transportation

had he remained
lived he

in his native hind, he miglit never have

known anything

the saving power of Jesu^ Clirist.

While he

was

of great use to the church and community, and was respected

both by his
ii

He

died

own race ant| his neighbours many years ago, no date given.

for his integrity.

In his younger

days he was familiarly acquainted with Father Burton,

who
bind

gave him much information relative to his christian teachings

which ho especially esteemed, and tended greatly


the

to

members

of the church together in the absence of Father

Preston.

<

SIR

EDWARD JORDAN.
Taken from
his note-book

Father Preston loved to hear of the elevation of his


race
ir.

every clime or nation.

" Edward Jordan was born in Jamaica in the year 1798

having finished his education he accepted a clerkship in a dry goods


store.

His deep hatred


bear,

to slavery, the

political

and

social

outrages committed

upon the

free

people,

was

more than he could

to the

extent that in

1826 he

Ml

associated himself with Robert Osborne, in the

publication
to

of a weekly newspaper called

The

Watchman, devoted

the freedom and enfranchisement of the coloured race.

His

paper was conducted with marked ability.

Mr. Jordan soon

began to wield a tremendous influence against the slave


power.
1830, an

During
article

his absence

from the
his

editorial

chair,

in
its

appeared in

paper,

up( a

which

rOLOIJBED BAPTISTfl OF NOVA SCOTIA.

editor

was indicU'd

for treason.

Ho was

at once arrested, H^)

placed in the dock, and arruinged for " not gnilty," and

trial.

pleaded

asked for time to prepare his defence.


to the
for the

The

plea

was allowed, and the case was traversed

next court.

The

trial

came

on, the jury

was packed,
was
riot,

pM-sliivery element had determined to slay this distinguished

advocate

of liherty.

The whole

city

stirred,

antl

sanguine of his conviction.


prepared for the worst.

Fearing a

the authorities

vessd of war was brought up

abreast of the city, with its guns pointing in a direction to

rake the streets.

detachment of soldiers was kept under


the
if

arms, with orders to be ready for action at short notice.

The court
sherifl'

officiuls

entered upon their duties armed


to shoot the

was instructed
be
death.

prisoner in the dock

rescue was attenipted.

If convicted,

Mr. Jordan's penalty


" not guilty "

was

to

But

verdict of

was

returned, which was a sad disappointment to the pro-slavery

element.

The
;

Watchman
while
it

scored

high

mark

for the

emancipationists

gave new

life

to Wilberforce

and was

his friends in England,

which culminated

in the abolition of

slavery
elected

in

1834.
of

The following year Mr.


the Assembly
for the city

.Ionian

member
office

of Kingston,

which

he

tilled

with honour to himself, and credit to


A'as elected

his race.
1

In 1853 he

mayor of the

city,

and

in

860 ho was elevated

to the dignity

of knightho(>d by
a literary

Her
It

Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.

From

stand-

point he was considered one of Jamaica's brightest gems.

was a cheering sign for his race to conceive, one who but a few years previously was tried for his life in his native city, in which he was subsequently made inspector of the prison
in

which he was once ah inmate

for

treason.''

Father

Preston in his lectures often referred to Sir Edward Jordan.

^^

KX)

A BRIEF HISTORY OP THE

TAKEN FROM FATHER THOMAS' COMMUNICATIONS.


Tho
to

persecutions of the Baptists in Jamaica during 1834

1840 were unboarahle.


magistrate,
to

In 1836, when Lord Sligo visited

the United States, he spoke with great respect of a Mr. Hill, a coloured

Elgin Wright, the corresponding

secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society.

Mr. Wright has


:

fur-

nished us with tho following statement


*

Just before his Lordship

left

here for England, he bore


:

test.imony to us substantially as follows

When

went

to

Jamaica, Mr. Hill was a special


case ho refused to

magistrate.

In a certain

comply with

my

directions, differing
I

from

me

in his interpretation of the law.

informed him that his


as to the laW)

continued non-compliance must result in his removal from


office.

He

replied that his

mind was made up


his

and he
Being
I

would

not

violate

reason to save his bread.

Siitisfied

of the correctness of
to

my own
;

interpretation,

was obliged, of course,

remove him

but I
I

was so
applied

forcibly struck with his


to the

government

for

manly independence, that power to employ him as my

secretary,

And having had him as an inmate in my own family for several months, I can most cordially bear my testimony to his trustworthiness, ability, and gentlemanly
which was granted.
deportment.'
I

Lord Sligo, also added, that Mr. Hill 'was


iii

treated in his family


i2.

all

respects as

if

he had not been

coloured, and that with no gentleman

in tlie

West

Indies
"

was

he, in social life,

on terms of more intimate


:

f'reindship.'

Another gentleman writes


Hill
've

" In
He

company with Mr.


Baptist

visited

Rev.

Mr.

Phillips,

missionary,

stationed there thirteen years.

regarded the apprenticeIt


is

ship system a great amelioration of the old.


to the missionaries, as
it

beneficial

gives access to the plantations,

wWle

COLOUBKI) BAin'IHTH OF NOVA . SCOTIA.

101

h(;f(r()

thoy were almost exchidecl.


hcIioo!,

In connection with his

church he had a largn


in

numhcringahout 200 chiMron,


to loarn as in the

which thoy show aa much aptnoaa

white

school ot'sin.ilar

ngc

Mr. Phillips' church escaped destrucHiipii^sts.

tion (hiring the persecution of the

The wives and


taken

connections
refuge in
it
it,

of

many

of

the coloured soldiers had

and imd given out w.)rd that they would defend

even against their

own

hualiands and
that
if

brothers,

who

in
it,

turn informed their

oflicera,

ordered to

clc.stroy

they should refuse at

all perils."

'Such

were the nature of

things in tho^e days, previous to absolute emancipation in the


Hrilish

West

Indies.

"WESTMINSTER ABBEY."
An
Illu8Tkious

Coloured Pref. ate Bishop

T.

Holly.

Among
in

the n)ost distinguished and interesting features


(f

of the gatheiing

the

ni>hops of the Anglican communion

London, was

the

presence of the

Bishop of

ilayti,

an

African, horn in the United States, and consecrated in Grace

Church

in

New York

in 1874.
(for

Bishop James Theodore Holly


present Bishop of Hayti,
is

such

is

his name), the

man of excellent gifts, and of genuine missionary spirit. He received an especially cordial welcome on his appearance in London, among the English and American Bishops at liambeth, and won the respect and While in London, esteem of all who came to know him. Dean Stanley invited him to preach in Westminster Abbey
a

on

St.

James' Day, and his sermon was founded on the

request of the mother of

James that her two sons may

sit

respectively on the right and on the left of Christ in

His

r
A nniEF TTIHTOnV OF TITK
niul

1()2

Kingdom,
prayer
:

ondod with
on

tlus

followitig nobhi

and totndiing

"And now
at leant

tlio fihoros

of

Old England, tho cradle of


whicdi
I

that Anglo-Saxon Christianity,

l>y

have been

in part

illnminatod

standing beneath the vaulted roof of


redolent with

this

monumental

pile,

tho

piety of bygone

generations during so
*

nmny
burii-d

ages,
'

in

the j)resonco of the

storied urn

and animated bust

that hold tho sacred ashes

and commemor ite tho

grandeur of so

personages, I catch a fresh inspiration and

many illustrious new impulse of


;

tho divine missionary spirit of our Christianity


the prosonco of
sacred to
Goil,

and here in
this

of

angels,

and of men, on

day

the

memory

of an apostle's blessed name, wiiich

was

called over

mo

at

baptism, and as I
last

lift

up

my

voice

for the Hrst

and perhaps the

time in England's sainted


to the

shrines, I dedicate myself

anew

work of God, of the

Gospel of Christ, and of tho salvation of


the far distant isle in the

my

fellowmen in

Carribean Sea, that has become the

chosen

field of

Prayer.

my

labours."

'*

thou Saviour Christ,

Son of the living


tlie

God, who, when Thou wast spurned by the Jews of


of Shorn,

race

and who, when delivered up without cause by the


of the race of Japheth, on the ignominious Cruci-

Romans
fixion,

hadst

Thy ponderous

cross

borne

to

Golgotha's

summit on the stalwart shoulders of Simon the Cyrenian of the race of Ham. I pray Thee precious Saviour, remember that forlorn, despised and rejected race, whose son thus
bore

Thy

cross,

when Thou

shalt

come

in

tho power and

majesty of thy eternal kingdom to distribute


everlasting glory.

And
loft,

give me, then, not a place at

Thy crowns of Thy


that I

^
1,'?

right

hand or

at

Thy

but only the place of a gatekeeper


City, the

at the entrance of the

Holy

New Jerusalem,

may behold my redeemed

brethren, the saved of the Lord,

COLOUHKI) lUITIHTH OF NOVA WOTIA.

Uti

eiitciin^

liiuieiii

to

1x3

paitiikorH

with Abruliaiu, Imac aiid


cvi'rhiHting
Kiiig*h)iu.

Jiicob

of

all

Thy

(jloriwUH

ami

Hacntnifnto lin:

THE LATE WENDELL PHILLIPS' BRIEF EULOGY ON


DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Tub
Fiukni) of the Oppuiwskd of any Uacb.
h'af

O'Connell never took a


of

from our American gospel

com promise,

that ho never .sacrificed any race to save even

Ireland,

let

me compare him with Kossuth, whose only


his

merits

were

eloquence

and

his

patriotism.

When
"Hero
!
'

Kossuth was
is a ting

in Faneuil Hali, Boston,


stain,

he exclaimed,

without a

a nation

without a crime

Wo
the

abolitionists

appfalHd

to

aim,
!

'*

eloquent son

of

Magyar, come to break chains

have you no word, no pulse


bcndii g under a yoke ten
1"

beat, for four millions of negroes

times heavier than that of Hungary

He

i.nswered,

**

would forget anybody,


Hungaiy."
like that.

would

praise anything to help

Not

so with O'Connell, he never said anything


in

When

Naples,

asked Mr. Buxton,


"

a tory,

" Is O'Connell an honest

man V

As honest
this story.

n\ as

ever

breathed," said he, and then told

me

came into parliament with only one


him.

Irish

"C 'yonm-U member to support


*

large party of the slave holding element, twentyall,

seven I think in

went to him and

said,
if

I see

you are

here at last with but one supporter, but

you
It

will lend us

your aid and do not support those abolitionists we will be


with you, but
if

not count us agiinst you.'

was

a terrible

temptation in so trying a time.

How many
yielded
!

fo-called statessaid,

men
*

of

to-day

would

have
I

O'Connell

Gentlemen, God knows

speak for the saddest people the

1(H

A BRIBF HISTORY OP THE


but

I
8UI1 sees
;

may my

right

hand

forget

its
if,

cunning, and

my

tongue cleave
Ireland,

to the roof of
I

my

mouth,
*'

to save Ireland,

even
When
the

forget

the

negro

one single

hour
I

!"

From that day, says Mr. Buxton,

Lushington and

never

went into the lobby that O'Connell did not folio *v us. an American was introduced to him in the lobby of

House of Commons, he asked, without putting out


*

his

hand,

Are you from the South V

Yea

sir.'

'

slave-

owner, I presume.'

Yes

sir.'
!"

Then

said the great liberator,

have no hand for you

and stalked away."

Said Wendell Holmes, fn)m a priest of the Catholic Church we might expect superiority to that prejudice
against
color

which

freezes

the

sympathies of our
slave.

own

churches
that

when huminity
lips

points to the

remember
church
I

African

can join

in the chants of
;

the

unrebuked, even under the dome of St. Peters

and

have

seen the coloured man, in the sacred dress, pass with priest

and student beneath the frowning


College at
repulse

portals of the

Propaganda

Rome

with none to sneer at his complexion or


society.

him from

We

thank Goil to-day that every

barrier of learning that once stood in the

way have been


that ever

torn down, and some of the brightest

intellects

stood on a platform

or adorned a

pulpit are of the sable

sons of the race of

Ham.

*T

COLOURED BAPTISTS OF NOVA

SCOTIA.

105

THE LATE FRED. DOUGLASS


Dr. Geo.

IN

ENGLAND.

W.

Pepper, of Cleveland, 0., publishes in the


in the life of the late Fred.
:

Leader a number of incidents


Douglass.
"

Among them
first

are the following

The

time

met Mr. Douglas was

in Ireland in

1847.

He had met

with enthusiastic receptions in London


at Cork.

and throughout England, and had arrived

He was

met

at the landing

by distinguished

citizens,

and rode away

in a carriage seated

between the Lord Mayor of Cork and

the Rev. Father Matthew, the great


of temperance.

Roman

Catholic apostle

He was
Going

dined by the City Council, and was

accorded especial marks of attention by the most prominent


people in Cork.
to

Dublin, he went to
first

call

upon
years.

Daniel O'Connell, who was the

Roman
three

Catholic Lord

Mayor

that city had for moro than

hundred
late

Mr. Douglas had a letter of introduction from the

Hon.

Charles Sumner, but when O'Connell's servant announced


that

there was a colored

man

at

the
'
:

door, and clasping

Douglas in a warm embrace, said

Fred.

Douglass, the

American

slave,

needs no

letter of introduction to me.'

" Probably the grandest


in

moment

in Mr. Douglass' life


I

was

London, near the time of the events which

have just

related.
tion, at

He

attended the world's universal peace conven-

which Lord Shaftesbury, the famous philanthrophist,

presided.

Douglas was introduced

to

the audience, which


'

mainly consisted of Dukes and Lords, as


slave."

the American

At

the conclusion of his address his hearers cheered

for fully five minute^.

occurred, however,

One of the most striking incidents when a prominent New York clergyman
his hand,

went forward with the others and extended


was proudly refused by the black man.
'

which
*

No, said he,

you

106

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THK


this
if

would not do
accept
it

you were

in

America, and I refuse to

here.'

This incident was noted,

and the

New

York clergyman did not have an opportunity London pulpit during his stay."
This great

to preach in a

man was

a natural foe to every form of social

and

political injustice, issuing

from whatever source.


It
till

He

hated negro slavery with a perfect hatred. his humanity, ignored his mind and soul,
within, cursed
it

had desjnsed
he groaned

waged an everlasting war against it. Aided hy men of pluck and courage he worked with pen and tongue, and lived to see its colossal palaces crumbled to the earth, its vicious constitutions torn
fled,

and

and

in turn

to

atoms, and

many

of

its

legislators pass

from

time

to

eternity unnoticed by their survivors.

The

great nations of

the earth had their writers, orators and statesmen

America

produced butr>ne Fred. Douglas.

COLOURED BAPTISTH OF NOVA

SCOTIA.

107

"THOUGHTS ON HEAVEN."
Jesus
I clap

my

wings and
;

fly

Up

to

Thee above the sky


and

I'd leave this world

all

behind

To dwell with Thee


Then would
I see,

forever Thine.

and hear, and know


;

All that I gain and learn below

And meet with those that's gone To sing the praises of Thy love.
Then would
I stand at

above,

God's right hand,

With

all

the blest from sea and land,

Singing praises to Thee our God,

Who

bought us with Thy precious blood.

Thrice happy blessed souls are they.


Souls

who

are from sin set free.

Free from the law of sin and death,

Free to recline on Jesus' breast.

Then come ye mourners, doubt no more,


For God your Lord has love
For
all

in store

to

Him w ho meekly

come.

And

pleads the n.erit8 of his Son.

And you poor sinners, though last not least, Come bow before the mercy seat And pour out there your sad complaints, For God can turn you into saints.

i.

im

IIIHTOIIY

OF THE COLOURED BAPTIST CHURCHES.

"MY I
My
She
dear mother
ia

MOTHER.'

is

growing

old,

feeble but
is

is

very bold.
;

Her heart

large, her spirit free

Bought by the God

of liberty.

Sha toiled and laboured

for

many
;

a year,

Her

little

children for to rear

f'rayed to

God

their lives to spaie,

And

bless their undertakings.

God heard her

cries,

And

of his rich supplies

Sent her a portion every day,

And taught

her in Christ's

name

to pray.

And now
I'll

her hair

is

blossomed white,
things right.

try and do
I

up

all

That

a blessing might receive,


her spirit shall relieve.
the winter past.

When God

She was quite

ill

And And

things did look


iOiTie their

much

overcast

fears did

entertain

That she would noh here long remain.

But ah
I

the blessed

God

above,

He still remembered her in love, And raised her to her feet once more
To go out
of the

open door.
L. A. Bailky.

;s

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iX,

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66

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OTTOM

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IN

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-

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d
-

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TO.

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Ac,

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40 Sackville

O.
-

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-

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197

T.

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*

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9e.,
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