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Title: First History of New Brunswick

Author: Peter Fisher

Commentator: William Fisher

Release Date: October 31, 2008 [EBook #27111]

Language: English

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HISTORY

OF

NEW BRUNSWICK

_By_ Peter Fisher

AS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1825
(With a few additional Explanatory Notes)

NOW RE-PRINTED JOINTLY BY

THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW BRUNSWICK
AND
WILLIAM SHIVES FISHER
(Grandson of the Author)

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE NEW BRUNSWICK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ST. JOHN, N. B.
1921

Publisher's Notice.

_The tale of the Loyalists; their loyalty to high ideals of national
duty--to fulfil which they underwent untold losses, privations and
sufferings when they abandoned their homes and their all, and sought
new homes and commenced a new life in a northern wilderness--is a story
that appeals wherever patriotism is an honor and self-sacrifice a
virtue. In this Province of New-Brunswick, settled mainly by families
torn and rent by the American revolution and whose descendants are
reaping the reward of their sacrifice, it is of peculiar interest._

_In 1825, when Peter Fisher published the first Historical work, the
Province of New-Brunswick had received the loyalist immigration
forty-three years before, at which date it was constituted a separate
Province. The progress of the country during a period when its
political institutions and industrial life were in a formative
condition is of deep interest. The account given of it in Mr. Fisher's
work is of sufficient value in the opinion of the New Brunswick
Historical Society to warrant its being reprinted. In addition to the
original work, there has been embodied with it, notes and observations
prepared by the Venerable Archdeacon Raymond and published in Vol. X of
the records of the Society. A copy of the hist