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The Loyalists of St. Andrews

Beacon
Feb 25/1904
The Loyalists of SA
\R. E. Armstrong, Pres. of Canadian Literary Club of SA, reads paper on Loyalist forebears. "Looking about us today, noting our well laid-out town with its broad streets and magnificent shade trees, we can see reflected in them the character of the Loyalists of 1783. Everything indicates cultured minds, aesthetic tastes and sturdy manhood. What they did they did well. If there is any room for regret in this connection at all, it is that their descendants have made such little progress along the lines marked out by them and that the beautiful town which they fashioned in this little corner of the empire has not as yet realized the fond hopes that its founders entertained for it."

“Two Loyalist refugees, Ephraim Young and John Hanson, were living at St. Andrews when the Castine people came, the former probably on St. Andrews Island the latter on Minister’s Island. It is not known that there were any houses on the town site; and certainly no one but the Indians claimed it by occupation.”

Biographical details on certain loyalists such as Robert Pagan and Thomas Wyer.

***[list of original settlers in above article, also mention of “Cato, and six other negro men whose names are given, who had probably been slaves before the war.” [so Mr. Armstrong’s documents give the name of the six blacks—writing of Mr. James Vroom, Prof. Ganong and r. G. U. Hay; the ?Session Records of Charlotte county, the minute books of the Friendly Society of St. Andrews and the of St. Andrews and Quebec Railroad Association and also from the Educational Report of NB
NB: there is a Charles Stewart and William Stewart mentioned among the original settlers, and they were probably white.