Cyrus Black says, in his "History of the Blacks," that Mrs.Embree once distinguished herself on a trip from Eastport to the Isthmus.The captain was incapable of managing the boat through drink, and there was no man to take his place.Mrs.Embree took the helm and brought the schooner safe to Aulac."Thomas and Israel, Mr.Embree's sons, remained on the homestead at Amherst.Elisha, a third son, settled at Amherst Head, now called Warren.A daughter married Luther Lusby.A grand-daughter of Israel married William L.Trueman.
RIPLEY.
Six brothers came to America from Yorkshire.Henry, John and William Ripley came in 1774; Joseph, Robert, and Thomas, later.Henry settled in Nappan, and his wife was Mary Fawcett, daughter of John Fawcett, of Lower Sackville, N.B.Henry and Mary Ripley had a family of sixteen children.Henry Ripley occupied a rented farm the first years in this country, but later purchased a farm from the DeBarres estate, 600 acres of marsh and upland, for L 600, and became a very prosperous farmer.
The name is pretty well scattered, but there are Ripleys still in Nappan who, like their ancestors, are men of integrity.
PUGSLEY.
The Pugsleys were Loyalists.David Pugsley came from White Plains, New York, to Nova Scotia, when a young man, and settled in Amherst.The one hundred acres of land given him by the Government was at Wallace.He was twice married.His first wife, by whom he had one son, was a Miss Horton.His second wife was a Miss Ripley, and had twelve children, seven daughters and five sons.
Mrs.Pugsley had a brother John, who was a half-pay officer in the British army.This brother lived a short time at Fort Lawrence, and had one son, named Daniel.John Pugsley and his wife left this son with friends in Petitcodiac, and returned either to the States or to Great Britain.They were not heard from afterward.The Pugsleys of King's County and St.John are descendants of this Daniel.Those in Cumberland are descended from David.The Pugsleys are good citizens, and generally have the means and the disposition to help a neighbor in need.
FINLAY--MITCHELL--PATTERSON--DOYLE.
The Finlays came from the north of Ireland about the year 1820.Jane Finlay, who married John Trueman, was born on the banks of Newfoundland, on the voyage out, and only just escaped being called Nancy, after the ship.David and Margaret Mitchell came from the neighborhood of Londonderry, in Ireland to Nova Scotia, in 1829.David Patterson came from Maghera, Culnady County Antrim, Ireland, in June, 1839.These families all settled in Cumberland County, bordering on the Straits of Northumberland.The Doyles emigrated to Nova Scotia, about 1790, and settled at Five Islands, Parrsboro.
It is said David Patterson studied for the church, and perhaps that, in part, accounts for the fact that four of his children are, or have been, teachers.A daughter has just offered and been accepted for the foreign missions.Mrs.Patterson writes: "Daisy has offered herself as a medical missionary and been accepted.She will leave for China next September, via San Francisco.It is something I can hardly talk about, yet I would rather she would go there than marry the richest man in the United States, for it is a grand thing to work for the Lord Jesus.Iremember," she goes on to say, "of being told that grandmother Trueman had faith to believe God would save all her children and grandchildren down to the fourth generation, and don't you think we are reaping the fruit of grandmother's faith and prayers to the present day?"Two sons of Thomas Mitchell are in the Presbyterian ministry.
Of this Scotch-Irish stock Hon.Charles Bell says: "The Scotch-Irish were people of Scottish lineage who dwelt upon Irish soil.They stuck together and kept aloof from the native Celtic race." Macaulay says:
"They sprang from different stocks.They spoke different languages.
They had different national characteristics as strongly opposed as any two national characters in Europe.Between two such populations there could be little sympathy, and centuries of calamities and wrongs had generated a strong antipathy.The Scotch planted upon Irish soil were Scotch still, and the Irish were Irish still." One of their own writers says: "If we be not the very peculiar people, we Scotch-Irish are a most peculiar people, who have ever left our own broad distinct mark wherever we have come, and have it in us still to do the same, even our critics being the judges.These racial marks are birth-marks, and birth-marks are indelible.They are principles.The principles are the same everywhere, and these principles are of four classes:
religious, moral, intellectual and political."I have been led to make these quotations referring to the Scotch-Irish because I have found so many of them among the early settlers of this country, and wherever they are found they have proved true to their lineage.
Others embraced in this emigration are: Clark, Moffat, Logan, Dickey, McElmon, McClennen, Allison, and Dickson or Dixon.
FAWCETT.
Three brothers name Fawcett--William, John and Robert--came to Nova Scotia from Hovingham, Yorkshire, in the spring of 1774.William, with his and three children, settled in Upper Sackville, on the farm now owned by Charles George.John settled in Lower Sackville, near present Mount Allison Academy, and built a mill on the brook that runs through the farm.The Fawcett foundry stands on what was the bed of the old mill-pond.Robert was a sea captain.He removed his family to the United States and was afterwards lost at sea.One of his sons lost his life in the same way.
William's children were: John, William and Polly.John married Mrs.Eleanor Colpitts, nee Eleanor Forster, of Amherst, and had four children, George, Ann, William and Eleanor.
William (second) married Sarah Holmes.Their children were Rufus and Betsy.
Polly married John Dobson, who afterwards moved to Sussex.The Dobsons of Sussex and Upper Dorchester belong to this family.
