"During renovation of the house in 1986, the Stewarts found a leather-bound manuscript between the interior partitions.  A comparison of hand-writing reveals  that it was written by the Rev. Jacob Bailey, rector of St. Luke's Anglican Church in Annapolis Royal.  The manuscript is a fictionalized account of his suffering at the hands of the "rebels" at Pownalborough, Massachusetts  (now in the state of Maine)."

     "Bailey's daughter Elizabeth Ann, born 1792, married James Whitman, son of John II, on 14 Jan, 1816.  Bailey had died in 1808 so one can speculate that the "novel" was perhaps part of a larger body of her father's papers that Elizabeth brought to Round Hill upon her marriage  eight years later.  It would appear that only this one has survived, and that merely by chance."

     "Jacob Bailey wrote a great deal of satirical verse and left several novels (like this one, incomplete) in manuscript  form.  He is considered one of the most important  of the Loyalist writers."

     "(For further information on the Whitman Family, see W.A.Calnek and

A.W.Savary, History of Annapolis County (Toronto, 1897).  Quite a bit has been written about Jacob Bailey.  W.S.Bartlet (ed.), The Frontier Missionary: a Memoir of the Life of the Rev. Jacob Bailey, A.M., Missionary at Pownalborough, Maine; Cornwallis and Annapolis, N.S. (Boston, 1853)

and Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. V (Toronto, 1983) pp.47-48 are the best biographical sources.)"

Note: This was sent to Charles and Debbie Stewart by:
                                                                                              Barry M. Moody

                                                                           Port Royal, N.S.

                                                                           August, 1987
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