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| Account of Captain McMillan, ca. 1840s |
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The onset of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 temporarily stemmed the flow of immigration to British North America. By the ending of hostilities in 1783, however, a new influx of migration was beginning with Loyalist settlers and disbanded troops arriving from the newly-formed United States. As Captain McMillan's account demonstrates, loyal to the British Crown, many of these refugees fled their homes, leaving behind them much of their wealth and property, to begin a new life in the remaining colonies of British North America. A small number of this group found their way to the Island of St. John, where they settled in areas as far apart as Bedeque and East Point.
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