in the Carolinas, where he nearly died of
yellow fever, and was severely wounded in the battle of Camden. He
arrived at St. Ann's in a row-boat in October, 1783, and built a small
log house in the woods into which he moved on the 6th of November, at
which time there was six inches of snow on the ground.

The story now continues:

When the Loyalists arrived there were only three houses standing on
the old St. Ann's plain. Two of them were old frame houses, the
other a log house (which stood near the old Fisher place). There
were said to have been two bodies of people murdered here. It could
not have been long before the arrival of the Loyalists that this
happened.

Many of the Loyalists who came in the spring had gone further up
the river, but they were little better off for provisions than we
were at St. Ann's. Supplies expected before the close of navigation
did not come, and at one time starvation stared us in the face. It
was a dreary contrast to our former conditions. Some of our men had
to go down the river with hand-sleds or toboggans to get food for
their famishing families. A full supply of provisions was looked
for in the Spring, but the people were betrayed by those they
depended upon to supply them. All the settlers were reduced to
great straits and had to live after the Indian fashion. A party of
Loyalists who came before us late in the spring, had gone up the
river further, but they were no better off than those at St. Ann's.
The men caught fish and hunted moose when they could. In the spring
we made maple sugar. We ate fiddle heads, grapes and even the
leaves of trees to allay the pangs of hunger. On one occasion some
poisonous weeds were eaten along with the fiddle heads; one or two
died, and Dr. Earle had all he could do to save my life.

As soon as the snow was off the ground we began to build log
houses, but were obliged to desist for want of food. Your
grandfather went up the river to Captain McKay's for provisions,
and found no one at home but an old colored slave woman, who said
her master and his man had gone out to see if they could obtain
some potatoes or meal, having in the house only half a box of
biscuits. Some of the people at St. Ann's, who had planted a few
potatoes, were obliged to dig them up and eat them.

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