Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Recollections of a Georgia LoyalistWe have, for example, the name of the second Mather Byles, rector of Christ Church, Bos ton, who with his family ¿ed to Halifax, and was proscribed and banished in 1778. We have-jacob Bailey, the Frontier Mission ary, whose extraordinary sufferings from the patriots in Maine, and whose final settlement in the rectorship of St. Luke's Church, An napolis, Nova Scotia, are well-known facts. We have Daniel, John Murray, and Jonathan Bliss, of Massachusetts, who long occupied distinguished positions in the judiciary of New Brunswick. We have Gen. Timothy Ruggles, of Hardwick, President of the Con gress of Nine Colonies at New York, in 1765, Dr. John Halliburton, of Rhode Island (father of Sir Brenton Halliburton, eighth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia) the Hon. Rev. Jonathan Odell, of New Jersey, one of the poets of the Revolution, the Hon. Thomas Barclay of New York, who in 1799 succeeded Sir John Temple, Bart, as England's Consul General to the United States, and among other prominent public men, Sir John Went worth, Governor of New Hampshire, who in 1792 became Governor of Nova Scotia and in 1795 was created a baronet, and Dr.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.