DCHP-3

New England Planter

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a pre-Loyalist immigrant to Nova Scotia from the New England colonies.

See: Planter

Quotations

1931
Some settlers came from Plymouth, the landing place of the Pilgrim Fathers and their arrival . . . was done more quietly and with less pomp than that which attended the settlement of the New England planters "up the valley " . . . .
1952
Four years later the area was granted to the "New England Planters" whose descendants still make up a large part of the population.