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Emigrant Recruitment by the New Brunswick Land
Company: The Pioneer Settlers of Stanley and Harvey*

Prof. Bruce Elliott, Ph.D. e-mail: bruce_elliott@carleton.ca	Dept. of History, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, CANADA

* Originally published in four parts in Generations: The Journal of the New Brunswick Genealogical Society. Winter 2004, v. 26, no. 4, p. 50-54; 2005, Spring, v. 27, no. 1, p. 34-41; 2005, Summer, v. 27, no. 2; 2005, Fall, v. 27, p. 34-41.

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Table of Contents	Page
Introduction	2
Overseas Recruitment	4
Juvenile Emigration to Stanley (1835-1836)	7
The Berwick Settlers in Stanley (1836)	11
The Skye Settlers in Stanley (1836)	22
The Harvey Settlers (1837)	24
Chain Migration into Stanley and Harvey	30

Figures	in Text	Direct Link	Page
Figure 1.	Map no. 1 New Brunswick & Nova Scotia Land Company Tract, 1834.	Figure 1. Pop-Up	2
Figure 2.	Chart of relative distances between British American colonies & United Kingdom.	Figure 2. Pop-Up	3
Figure 3.	Clearing the Town Plot at Stanley, October 1834. Land Company Promotion.	Figure 3. Pop-Up	3
Figure 4.	1832 NBLC advertisement in Suffolk.	Figure 4. Pop-Up	4
Figure 5.	1835 view of Stanley from the Road.	Figure 5. Pop-Up	9
Figure 6.	Stanley, York Co., NB, 2002.	Figure 6. Pop-Up	10
Figure 7.	Title page of the NBLC's 1834 Brochure: Practical information respecting NB.	Figure 7. Pop-Up	12
Figure 8.	Outbuildings at the substantial farm called Trows near Roxburgh.	Figure 8. Pop-Up	16
Figure 9.	Village square in Swinton, Berwickshire.	Figure 9. Pop-Up	16
Figure 10.	Fowberry Mains, Chatton parish, east of Wooler, Norhumberland.	Figure 10. Pop-Up	17
Figure 11.	Row of former hinds' cottages near Fowberry Bridge.	Figure 11. Pop-Up	17
Figure 12.	The Quayside at Berwick-Upon-Tweed whence sailed the 1836 D'Arcy and 1837 Cornelius parties.	Figure 12. Pop-Up	18
Figure 13.	Robert Waugh, "Sketch Plan with the Names of the Occupiers of Houses in the Town of Stanley", 11 October 1837.	Figure 13. Pop-Up	19
Figure 14.	"Welcome to Harvey Station" sign at village limits.	Figure 14. Pop-Up	24
Figure 15.	The Black Bull Inn, Wooler, Northumberland.	Figure 15. Pop-Up	24
Figure 16.	Gravestone in Wooler churchyard erected by Harvey settler Thomas Kay.	Figure 16. Pop-Up	27
Figure 17.	The cottages in Reedsford Farm, Kirk Newton, Northumberland.	Figure 17. Pop-Up	27
Figure 18.	Monument to the first settlers in Harvey.	Figure 18. Pop-Up	28
Figure 19.	Close-up of plaque on monument to the first settlers in Harvey.	Figure 19. Pop-Up	28
Figure 20.	Harvey Station in summer 2002.	Figure 20. Pop-Up	29
Figure 21.	Harvey land mark WWE Smith store Harvey Station, 2004.	Figure 21. Pop-Up	29
Figure 22.	Gravestone of John Nesbitt, native of Northumberland, died Apr. 11, 1850, Harvey Settlement Cemetery.	Figure 22. Pop-Up	29
Figure 23.	New Brunswick's largest fiddle stands as a monument to Tweedside native, Don Messer.	Figure 23. Pop-Up	34
Figure 24.	Gravestone to Presbyterian elder Thomas Craigs, who came to Harvey in 1841.	Figure 24. Pop-Up	35

Tables	in Text	Page
Table 1.	Origins of the Berwick Settlers	18
Table 2.	XXXXXXX	XX
Table 3.	Signers of Petition of the Scottish Settlers at Stanley, 1838.	22
Table 4.	Highland Scots remaining in Stanley, 1838 and 1851.	23
Table 5.	List of "Emigrants who ask for land on the New St Andrews Road".	26
Table 6.	List of persons who ballott[ed] for land in the Harvey Settlement.	28