June 20, 2008 - I just received the following message: "Our cottage/house is a moments walk from the Wallace museum and can be available from Thursday-Sunday. There are three bedrooms- six beds but could sleep a few more as two of the beds are doubles. We would rent it for $300 for the week-end.
Cooking facilities available, and it is on the ocean, swimming is good at high tide. Call (902) 254-3454. Lisa Kierstead"

June 17, 2008 Well, eleven days till many of us meet at Wallace! You can still register by calling the Wallace and Area Museum and indicating the meals and souveniers you want.


Due to the small quantity of stamps ordered, we have decided not to purchase them for the Reunion. However, they can still be obtained through the Shelburne 2008 Loyalist Society. We've added the link to our home page.

Are you bringing your family tree information with you? What a great opportunity to meet relatives and to share family history!

If you have a genealogy web site, please let us know so we can add a link to it.

See you in Wallace!

June 2, 2008 We're getting closer to meeting in Wallace, Nova Scotia. For our American cousins, we've decided to accept payment in American dollars given the value of it and ours are so close and being advised of the difficulty of obtaining money orders in Canadian dollars. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. See you soon!

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May 26, 2008 You still have a few days to mail your Registration Form and save $10. Do you know of others who may want to come? Please continue to spread the word!
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New today - a Loyalist Stamp is available. Check it out on the Home Page. We're still looking for family trees and individuals willing to share genealogy - please send us a message at remsheg225@yahoo.ca.
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Follow up from May 12, I contacted Gerald R. Vincent, author of The Civil Sword: James Delancey’s Westchester Refugees, 1777 –1785 about obtaining copies of his book. Click on his name to find out where you can order it.
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May 12, 2008 Beware of messages saying they are from remsheg225@yahoo.ca concerning Interact transactions - we do not have Interact, money transfer, or PayPal capability.
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For those interested in "The Civil Sword" by Gerald Vincent, I have asked the North Cumberland Society whether they will have copies available at the Reunion. In the meantime, I have posted information on another source of the book in Books and Authors.
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If you are unable to attend the reunion, but want to have relatives contact you, we can add your mini tree(s) to your family page(s) and add your name and E-mail address on the Seekers page(s) for your family/families. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at remsheg225@yaoo.ca.
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May 4, 2008 We've already heard back from people who are sending in their registration form for the reunion. Please don't put off completing and sending yours - it will be $10 cheaper to do so before the end of May. As you no doubt are aware, we need to provide numbers in advance to those who are providing meals, including Meadbrook Farm (http://www.meadowbrookmeatmarket.com/) who are doing the Saturday Pig Roast for us.. Have you arranged for a place to stay? See Accommodations for places in the local area. Have a question or want something added to the site - send us a message at remsheg225@yahhoo.ca.

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April 2008 Less than two months till we meet in Wallace for the Reunion. The Registration Form is ready for you to print and complete at http://remsheg225.wetpaint.com/page/Registration. Please note that you will save $10 by sending your payment before the end of May. We've tried to keep costs to a bare minimum, but, like most things in life there are expenses to be paid. .
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Hopefully you have found accommodation locally. If not, we have a page with information on some of the places available in the area at Accommodations. .
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Have you submitted a mini family tree? Check some of the families to see what they look like. Who knows what connections you might make if only others knew how you fit into your family tree! I've "met" a few distant cousins in the process of adding them to the web site. No trees for a family means no one has submitted one. If it's your family, I invite you to send it to me and I'll post it. .
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Please feel free to contact me at remsheg225@yahoo.ca with any questions , trees or other items to add to the site, or your comments.
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I hope that you are continuing to spread the word about the Reunion. If you did not receive an E-mail from me send April 30, 2008, please let me know and I'll add you to the distribution list.
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Looking forward to meeting you soon. .
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March 2008
Time is flying by - before we know it, the reunion will be taking place. The link to the draft agenda is http://remsheg225.wetpaint.com/page/Agenda. If you can help with entertainment, please let us know.

To make the most of sharing information on your family tree and finding more to add to it, we have left lots of time for you to do research and to meet with other family members. I'll be bringing my tree with me and hope that others do the same.

Do you have old photos or documents to share? We will be able to scan them at the reunion and add them to the web site so distant cousins can also see them. If you have them in digital format already, we could add them now - just attach them and send a note about who are in the photo or relationship to the document (i.e., their mini tree - see http://remsheg225.wetpaint.com/page/Brown+Family+Trees where you'll find mine) and a brief story about them to me by E-mail, and I will add them to the site and provide you with the link. Why wait!

There will be costs related to the reunion. To date, no long-distance telephone charges or costs for mailing - we are doing everything we can to keep costs low, but not everything in life is free, so there will be a registration fee. We are still finalizing costs and looking for more attendees to spread the costs over. I will send everyone a note when the registration form is posted.

Recently I've been asked whether there was a list of individuals buried in the Angevine Cemetery - I haven't found one. If you know of an electronic list of people buried there or in other area cemeteries or a link to a site which has the names, please let me know so I can share it on the Reunion web site.

The Purdy family are holding a reunion in Truro the first weekend in July. According to Elizabeth (Purdy) MacArthur: "We have a Purdy Reunion blog but details of the event and the registration are under development. We have an email account for the reunion as well should anyone wish a personal response. Email purdyreunion@gmail.com; blog purdyreunion.wordpress.com." Is your Remsheg Loyalist family planning a reunion this year other than the Remsheg one? Please let us know so we can add it to the Reunion web site to help spread the word.
February 2008
In a little over six months, the reunion will be in full swing. To date, we have "family" coming from 8 provinces (we're missing Manitoba and Newfoundland), the Yukon, 14 States, and England. Have you spread the word around your family?

The draft agenda has been added to this site at:
http://remsheg225.wetpaint.com/page/Agenda

We are working on the registration form. The Committee is endeavouring to keep costs as low as possible.

If you have any family information you would like to have added to this web site, please let me know. An example of something you might want to share is your family tree. See Brown Family Tree

Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you at the reunion.

All the best,

Ellen
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Christmas 2007
Merry Christmas to all. My apologies for the lack of changes to the web site.

"The Valley of the Remsheg" is at the printers. Check out how to order your copy at the North Cumberland Historical Society web site http://nchsociety.wetpaint.com/page/VALLEY+OF+THE+REMSHEG%2C+THE. This 3rd addition, a major update of the 2nd edition of 1979, has increased from 265 to 567 pages, including extended information on families and a revised index. The book is hard-covered, 9" x 5 1/2". Our thanks to all those who submitted family information for the update. Talk is already underway for a new book, so if you have family information to share, watch for news on how to submit it.

In reading "Loyalist Trails" UELAC Newsletter 2007-48 Dec. 9, 2007, an E-mail newsletter of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, I noted that a William Foster (is this the same man listed in the Remsheg Grant, I wonder) was recently the focus of an "Ancestors in the Attic" program. If you are interested in receiving "Loyalist Trails", contact: Douglas Warner Grant UE Loyalist Trails Editor, United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada (www.uelac.org) at loyalist.trails@uelac.org.

Plans continue for the 225th Anniversary the end of June 2008. Please let us know you are planning to attend by sending us an E-mail at mailto:remsheg225@yahoo.ca with your Remsheg Loyalist ancestor's name, the names of those coming, and the province or state or country if outside North American that you are coming from.

All the best for 2008.
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August 2007 News
Hopefully everyone has had a great summer and had the opportunity to meet some relatives and to discuss plans for coming to the reunion. If you think you might be coming and haven't told us yet, please do so.

If you have visited the Cemeteries section before the end of August, you may want to go back for another visit again as we have put new pictures on the Pioneer Cemetery page. We'll happily add photos from other cemeteries in the area if you send them to us as a jpeg file to remsheg225@yahoo.ca.

Our thanks to all those who donated to and came out to buy at our table at the Wallace and Area Museum's Flea Market earlier this month.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

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June News

The Committee has booked a table at the craft sale and flea market being held by the Wallace and Area Museum on August 4, 2007. For more information on this and other Museum activities, visit http://wallaceandareamuseum.wetpaint.com/page/Events+and+Projects. If you live in the Wallace area or even farther away, but within driving distance, and can donate items to sell at our table, please let us know by E-mail (remsheg225@yahoo.ca). Read the July News here to find out where to leave the items for sale.

There are now over 120 people on the list of individuals planning to come to the 225th Anniversary celebrations in Wallace in 2008. Please let your Loyalist descendant family members know about it. Also if you belong to a genealogy list or your local newspaper has a free announcements section, please feel free to spread the word.

Have a great summer.



May News

The meeting on May 14th at the Wallace and Area Museum was a success. Debby Warren gave a slide presentation of reunion activities to date and we had a chance to discuss ideas for the reunionwith members of the Wallace and area communities and from further afield. While in the Wallace area, Debby and I took the opportunity to meet with the Administrator of the local Council, Secretary of the newly formed area Chamber of Commerce, and some business people. On behalf of the Committee, a warm thank you.

Charles Weeks from The Oxford Journal joined us at the Wallace and Area Museum while Debby, Linda, and I looked at the original land survey done by Charles Baker. It is in very rough state and badly in need of restoration, so we were indeed priviledged to be able to look at it. I'm sure that any donations to the Wallace and Area Museum towards its restoration would be greatly appreciated. You can visit their new web site at http://wallaceandareamuseum.wetpaint.com/ for contact details.

On the map, the name often transcribed as "Veal" is actually "Neal", so I have chaged the name in the list on the right under "Loyalist Families Granted Land at Remsheg".

In the coming weeks, I will be adding links to area accommodations. If anyone is interested in tenting or parking a trailer or sleeping in a Scout Camp bunk (four bunks to a room with standing room between), we may be able to rent the local Boy Scout Camp with shower and bathrooms and kitchen facilities for a very reasonable rate (between $5 and $10 per person). Please send me an E-mail (remsheg225@yahoo.ca) and if there are sufficient numbers, I will book it.
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April News

We're planning an essay-writing contest for students in Wallace, Tatamagouche, and Pugwash schools in the fall. As a first step, we've applied for a grant from the Hbc Foundation - wish us luck. Prizes will be given out during the reunion in 2008 and the winning essays will be published.

On the topic of funding for reunion activities, if you belong to an organization who gives grants or makes donations to charitable organizations such as the Wallace and Area Museum, please contact us with the details. Donations towards the reunion will offset the expenses for the event and reduce the registration fees.

Some new links have been added to the Cemeteries page and more people have been added to the lists of those planning to attend. We are close to 100 names already. Let's make it a real reunion and spread the word to relatives wherever they may live!

For those living in the Wallace, NS, area or farther afield who can come to Wallace for a 7 p.m. meeting, I look forward to meeting you May 14, 2007, at the Wallace and Area Museum to hear your ideas for the reunion - and, yes, we are looking for volunteers!

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March News

The Province of Nova Scotia has a new web site providing access to vital statistics

Births 1864-1877,

Marriages 1864-1930, and

Deaths 1864-1877 and 1908-1955

https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/with links to original documents.
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We have our first volunteer family coordinator - Alan Huestis of Wentworth, NS. Thank you Alan for becoming the contact point for your family.

The most noteworthy news for this month is that the Wallace and Area Museum has taken the reunion on as a project. For the organizing committee, this was great news! It means that charitable receipts (Canadian) can be issued for donations to the project and that they will handle the accounting for revenue and expenses. We look forward to their wise counsel and know we will benefit from the experience of their members in hosting large reunions and other events and their expertise.

To those who submitted information for the web site, thank you so much. In sharing our family stories and information, we all benefit. I expect that there are many of us who are descended from several of the Loyalists who settled at Remsheg.

Thank you to those who submitted information for updating The Valley of the Remsheg. The deadline for submitting information was extended to the end of February 2007 for us. Will you want a copy of the new revised version of The Valley of the Remsheg? The price of the book will depend on the number printed. Send a message with your name and telephone number or mailing address (in case your E-mail changes and the North Cumberland Historical Society, which is publishing the book, want to contact you) to valley_of_the_remsheg@yahoo.ca. (There is an underscore between each word, i.e., valley_of_the_remsheg.)
NOTE: This address is only for indicating your interest in ordering a copy of The Valley of the Remsheg.


February News

A number of new names have been added to the list of Loyalist families thanks to Barbara Northan who provided the text for the land grant for "The West Chester Loyalists" Check it out: Remsheg Grant transcription. Some of these are: Edget/Edjet, Halstead, Seeves/Leeves, Goolding/Gooding, Bryant, Holmes, Dunn, Hatch/Katch. Do you have any information on these families? If so, please contact us at remsheg225@yahoo.ca.

Do you have documents related to the transfer of land by the original grantees? Please let us know.

It's February 18, 2007, and we now have a list of 60 individuals who have expressed an interest in coming to the reunion. The families represented are: Angevine, Baxter, Brown, Lefurgey, Peers, Purdy, Robblee, Stevens, Teed, Tuttle, Vincent, and Wynn, with the farthest away from England. Please keep passing the word to your relatives. Click here for contact information.

The Committee is looking for documents and photos to add to the family pages - check out the Brown pages to see what has been provided. Submit your file to Ellen (Brown) Muise by E-mail to remsheg225@yahoo.ca.

Also, if you have a web page related to your family, please send us the link like Bob Robblee did (http://remsheg225.wetpaint.com/page/Roblee+Web+Links) and we'll add it on your family's "Links" page. If you wish to have your name and E-mail address included in the Seekers page, we are writing E-mail addresses in the format "remsheg225 at yahoo dot ca" to keep the spammers at bay.
We look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions and meeting you at the reunion.

Ellen (Brown) Muise



January News

It's January 28, 2007, about 17 months from the reunion and not even two months since the idea for the reunion was raised. Spread the word and let us know (remsheg225@yahoo.ca) if you are interested in attending. We need your name(s), the family name of the Remsheg Loyalist grantee you are descended from and the name of the child of the Loyalist grantee you are descended from, and where you live.

Let's all work to gather our "cousins" who have spread across North America and beyond. What a gathering it will be! Already we have 38 people planning to come representing the Baxter, Brown, Lefurgey, Purdy, Stevens, Vincent, and Wynn familes. Descendants who are planning to attend the celebration are coming from: Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; New Brunswick; Quebec; Alberta; British Columbia; Washington State; California; Colorado; Iowa; Deleware; New York: and Yorkshire, England.

Some of the things being planned for the reunion - a Loyalist military reenactment, a barn dance, games of the 1700s. Do you know of a typical 18th century game or activity our forefathers may have participated in - please let us know.

Do you have a story handed down from your forefathers that you are willing to share? Please let us know and a story page will be added for your family. If you copy from a web site or book, please provide the details for referencing the material. We can also add photos to your family's page. Visit http://remsheg225.wetpaint.com/page/Brown+Family+Photos+and+Digital+Copies+of+Documentsto see what we can do.

Check back soon for more news.

Ellen (Brown) Muise
remsheg225@yhaoo.ca