{"id":24,"date":"2012-02-23T00:33:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T00:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsgenealogy.wordpress.com\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2017-03-28T20:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T20:06:57","slug":"the-diary-of-simeon-perkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nsgenealogy.ca\/en\/the-diary-of-simeon-perkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Simeon Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE DIARY OF SIMEON PERKINS<\/span>
\n(Extracts)<\/p>\n

By<\/em> Muriel M. Farquhar Davidson<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 The following “Extracts” are a\u00a0 combination of\u00a0 research by Lt.Col. Robert Ford Kirkpatrick, USAF (Ret’d)\u00a0 with\u00a0 1992\u00a0 research\u00a0 by\u00a0 above writer. The original entries will be marked by\u00a0 **\u00a0 preceding the date and form of writing has been matched to the diary and original copy. \u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0 genealogical\u00a0 data\u00a0 in\u00a0 THE DIARY OF SIMEON\u00a0 PERKINS\u00a0 is\u00a0 very valuable, contains much of the history of the\u00a0 Proprietors who founded the\u00a0 Township of\u00a0 Liverpool,\u00a0 Nova\u00a0 Scotia in 1759.\u00a0 Readers\u00a0 will\u00a0 be familiar with many of the surnames listed in the\u00a0 entries, descendants of the first\u00a0 families\u00a0 of the Township of Liverpool\u00a0 and nearby areas still reside there, but often the surname spelling has changed. <\/em><\/span>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 The original books,\u00a0 contained in\u00a0 Volumes I (1766-1780<\/a>),\u00a0II (1780-1789<\/a>),\u00a0III (1790-1796<\/a>),\u00a0IV (1797-1803<\/a>) and\u00a0V (1804-1812<\/a>), list many of the schooners and other forms of shipping\u00a0 plus extensive data of weather, tides, encountered hardships and a verbal\u00a0 picture of life in the early days as found\u00a0 by the Proprietors of the Township of Liverpool. Readers are grateful these records were kept.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

You can find the full volumes online through the links above, or search for these and other historical documents at <\/span>The Champlain Society’s Digital Collection<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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THE DIARY OF SIMEON PERKINS (Extracts) By Muriel M. Farquhar Davidson\u00a0\u00a0 The following “Extracts” are a\u00a0 combination of\u00a0 research by Lt.Col. Robert Ford Kirkpatrick, USAF (Ret’d)\u00a0 with\u00a0 1992\u00a0 research\u00a0 by\u00a0 above writer. The original entries will be marked by\u00a0 **\u00a0 preceding the date and form of writing has been matched \u2026<\/p>\n

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