250th anniversary

Question

This summer is the 250th anniversaries of some important migrations of interest to those of us from Atlantic Canada.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Duke_of_York%2C_sailed_1772

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Alexander%2C_sailed_May%2C_1772

In both cases there are festivals of some sort at their respective settlement locations going on right now.

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Thanks, Stu!  I love that your Category pages have a My Connections button!  I am mostly 9 - 12 degrees from nearly everyone on  the Duke of York.

Cheers

Shirlea

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The "My Connection" thing is automatic now. It's nothing I did bit I think it's a great addition.  William Freeze and his wife Martha Bulmer were my ancestors.  Most people on that boat were related to Charles Dixon who organized it.  His descendants are related to almost everybody in the area.

What are your connections like to the Lovey?  https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:MyConnections&u=18950780&c=Lovey,_sailed_April,_1766

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I am s little confused. Why is there a link to New Brunswich?  According to the link the ship DUKE OF YORK arrived Halifax Nova Scotia - so shouldn't there be a link be a link for Nova Scotia?  Seems to be more to the story!

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The Lovey! Thanks for doing that space as well!  Yes, 19 ancestors and 15 cousins, ranging from 7 generations to 9 generations.

Fifteen of the other passengers (Lutz, Ricker, and Wortman families) are connected at either 8 or 9 degrees. John Ackey has no connection to me or anyone else in the tree. 

Of course, if i can ever find out who  the mother of Solomon Melvin Trites was, I might find that all the rest of the Lovey passengers are ancestors and cousins as well!

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Elgin's question brings up an interesting angle.  The quick and easy answer, Elgin, is that Nova Scotia in those days included what is now New Brunswick.  The division into two provinces happened around 1785, partly in response to the 1783 influx of Loyalists especially onto the coastline of the Bay of Fundy that is now in New Brunswick. The new home of these passengers of the Duke of York was called Nova Scotia when they got there in 1772-ish, but within a dozen years or so, it was New Brunswick.

But the arrival of the Duke of York in Halifax is interesting. Thanks, Elgin, for bringing it up. Did the ship then carry on around the south-western tip of Nova Scotia, current day Yarmouth, and bring its passengers into the Bay of Fundy to drop them off near their land grants?  If not, how did they get from Halifax to their eventual settlement? Stu, I'm assuming you will know this, so i'm not even googling it.

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I believe they landed in Halifax first, stretched their legs, picked up provisions, tend to the ill, etc, and then proceeded to Cumberland by sailing around Yarmouth.  That would be a typical pattern since Halifax is the 1st landfall and the colony government is there.  They might even put in at Annapolis Royal or Windsor (Fort Edward), although there's no indication that The Duke of York did that.

Cumberland served as a port for Sackville, Cumberland and Amherst townships and was defended by the fort in Aulac on the New Brunswick side of the border.

The real reason I put it in New Brunswick, was that the reunion thing was in Sackville and I didn't think about Nova Scotia.  I'll add Nova Scotia to the locations.