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L..U-.,. -■^■'^-T ii - i in; || *- | f | ^ ^ , ■♦I National Library BibHolheque nationale ol Canada cIli Canada ^/ Canada RECORDS OF THB CHURCH or ENGLAND L\ RAWDON. Most of the townships, into which the Coun- ties of Nova Scotia are subdivided, were originally tracts of land granted to Companies or Associa- tions for the purpose of settlement. Rawdon, which is situated in Hants, and lies between Douglas and Newport, was laid out on the 3rd of August, 1783. The first inhabitants were Loyal- ists from the Carolinas, who had served under Lord Rawdon in the Southern colonies, and who called it by its present name in honor of their General. The land is good and capable of pro- ducing excellent crops, but the want of marsh and intervale in any quantity forms a serious draw- back to the agricultural prosperity of the District. Without navigable rivers, and lacking the rich alluvial deposits of the waters connected with the Basin of Minas, the settlers can scarcely compete with their more favoured neighbours of Windsor, I Newport and Douglas. Notwithstanding these disadvantages many have succeeded in obtaining a comfortable support from the products of the soil, and some have even accumulated wealth. The first notice of Kawdon as a mission of the Church of England was on the occasion of its being united with Douglas and Newport in the year 1794. The latter place had for some time enjoyed the services of a Missionary, but the Bishop deemed it expedient to unite these three places, as it enabled him to impart the ministra- tions of religion to a portion of the country in a spiritually destitute condition, and to make a better arrangement for the several clergymen en- gaged in this and the adjoining county. At the date just given (1794) the Reverend George Pidgeon, a young man lately ordained, was en- trusted with the care of this newly created sphere of labor, who reported, upon his appointment, that the inhabitants of Rawdon were two hundred and seventy in number, and that the church, which was erected at a cost of £102, would be fit for use in the following summer. Mr. Pidgeon did not continue long in this place, but after the lapse of a year or a little less was removed to Fredericton in the Province of New Brunswick. I ■ The mission continued vacant until the arrival of the Kevcrend William Colsell King, uho Mas sent out by the Society P.G.F.P. in the year 1797. His initiation into missionary life was not of a cheering character; he had a tedious voyage, " having been tossed upon the ocean for nine weeks and three days, before he had the happi- ness of setting foot on ground." As NcM'port was now disconnected from the mission, which was designated by the Gospel Propagation Society as that of " Rawdon and Douglas," some account of this latter township is necessary. " It is bounded," says Haliburton, " on the North and East by Colchester Pay and the Shubenacadie River, on the South by Halifax, and on the West by Rawdon and Newport. It is one of the finest townships in the Province ; embracing a great quantity of excellent marsh, intervale and upland, and abounding with lime, gypsum, coal, slate and freestone. Noel, which was originally settled by the French, is situated on the borders of Colchester Bay ; and after the expulsion of the Acadians, was granted to emi- grants from the North of Ireland. The upland in this neighborhood, and from thence to the Shu- benacadie, is of a good quality ; but the marshes, which are extensive, are by no means equal to iW 6 those at tlie mouth of the river. Nothing can exceed the fertility of all that tract of country that adjoins this noble stream : the dyke lands arc extensive, and in fruitfulness are alone equal- led by those near Windsor, and the upland is uniformly good. Douglas also contains the Ken- netcoot, the Five Mile lliver, Nine Mile River, and the Gore settlements ; all which were com- prised in a grant of 105,000 acres, made to Lieut. Col. Small, in the year 1784, for the location of the 2nd battalion of the 84th Regiment. The Kennetcoot Settlement lies on a river of that name, which is about eighteen miles in extent, but is not navigable at this place. The upland here is indifferent, and the intervale was the prin- cipal attraction to the first inhabitants, who were Americans that had enlisted in the 84th while stationed on Long Island." Haliburton's History of Nova Scotia from which the above is quoted was published in the year 1829, and the Report of the Society P. G. F. P. from which the following extract is made was published in 1798. A comparison of them is interesting. " Mr. King, after resting himself a few days in the hospitable mansion of Mr. Stanser at Halifax, took a journey of ninety miles to Aylesford, to pay his respects to the Bishop of A Nova Scotia, to exhibit his credentials from the Society and to receive tlie Bishop's advice and directions, previously to his proceeding to the mission of Kawdon and Dou^das, to which the Society had appointed him, and whither he went without loss of time. In a letter of the 20th of December last he has given the Society a very circumstantial account of the kind reception he met with and of the state of those places. It appears that the township of Kawdon is a wilderness about 15 miles square and is distant nearly 40 miles North-west from Halifax. The settlers — about 42 families — are mostly from the Southern States, with a small proportion of Eu- ropeans who lie scattered from half a mile to four miles from each other. In the centre is a neat little church lately erected at the expense of Government. Douglas adjoins it and is a still more dreary wilderness about 30 miles square, and contains the distinct Settlements of Noel, Shubenacadie, the Five Mile Kiver, the Nine Mile River and the Upper an i Lower Districts of the Ivennetcoot Of these the three last only are attached to the mission, the rest consisting chiefly of seceders from the Kirk of Scotland. The Nine Mile Iliver is a young colony of about thirty highland veterans with their families, who 8 have willingly stcpt forward in ostabHsLing the mission — and so also have the Kennctcoot ])is- triots wliich consist of about tliirty-one families of English, Scotch, Irish and American, 'ihoro is a neat cliiirch at the head of the Iliver, 13 miles from Rawdon Church, near to which a house is to be built for the Missionary, towards which the people of both townships have sub- scribed £120. At present Mr. King boards and lodges in Rawdon at four dollars a week. A glebe is appropriated to each township. He speaks in 'much commendation of the zeal of the people for the promoting of religion, and of the great liberality which the dissenters of every description have shown on this occasion. And, he adds, though placed in a newly settled coun- try, and subject to many inconveniences naturally arising from that circumstance, and more espe- cially from the present dearness of every article of life, and from the laborious care which a mis- sion, extending nearly 30 miles, through roads the worst that can be imagined, must necessarily require, yet he is happy in the thought that, by a prudent perseverance in his duty, he shall soon see religion firmly established in those promising settlements. He declares himself contented in his situation, and that it shall ever be his study 9 to fulfil the cxpoctutions and merit the approlm- tion of the society." The township h,.,l ecrtainly improve,! dnripR the lap.se of thirty years. The following .sen- fences, from the above extracts, when plaecl in J"xta-po.s,tion, appear rather antagonistic - •' i)ouglas," says Mr. King, •' a.ljoin.s it (IW (Ion) and is a still ,„„,,, ,l„.,a„j viUhrvm " " It IS." says Halibnrton, " one of the J!„est Invn- A/';' m the Province. Mtl,i,u, can e.eee.! tl,. ferUhu, of uU that trad of eountnj that adjoins thi.s nohio stream (Shubcnacadie)." -VVe must remember, when reading these statements, that a long period of time had passed, during which tnuch labor had been expended in clearing the forest and tilling the soil, and that these wllely diffenng assertions were made by men in wi,l, !v .hffenng circumstances, the one having j,„t kl^t old England, with its rich luxuriant meadows, its grand and stately edifices, and its densely peopled towns ; the other, accustomed from childhood to thinly scattered settlements, humble tenements =>nd rugged roads through forests. They both con- trasted the present with the past : the missionary looked back on the noble country in which he had spent his youth, and all around him then looked tticar and solitar »T^ the native of Nova 8 cofia 10 (I recalled the past history of his land, and seeincr the evidence of progiTss and success, every thing wore an aspect at once clieering and full of promise. Mr. King has himself lived to sec vast clianges in tlie Province. He is the ohlest missionary in the diocese, and it is not a little remarkable that he has made choice of Douglas as a suitable place for his residence during the summer months ; that which, half a century ago, was so " dreary a wil- derness " affords him a pleasing retreat in the evening of life. Mr. King wrote in 1798 that every thing had succeeded to the utmost of his expectations ; he preached in general to crowded audiences, and was in the habit of catechising all the children ; to facilitate whose instruction he requested the society' to establish a school, and to send him a supply of prayer books and small religious tracts. This desire was complied with. During that year he had baptised twenty-three infonts and two adults ; married two ; buried one ; and had in his church twenty-six communicants. Animated by the presence and counsel of a resident minister the parishioners united in ar. effort to build the parsonage spoken of, but changed the prpposed site for that on which it stands now, and tracts of 1 11 seeing I^i^id were provided for a glebe. These formed a partial endowment, and have ever since been of material assistance in supporting the ministry in this township. Indeed, without either house or farm it would have been impossible, as far as we can judge, to have continued the mission. Thus far we have learned several interesting facts : first, that Rawdon was erected into a mis- sion, in conjunction with Newport and Douglas, in 1 794 ; secondly, that the Rev. G .rge IMdgeon was the first missionary ; thirdly, that the church was ready for service the same autumn ; fourthly that the Rev. W. C. King was the second mis- sionary, and appointed in 1797, when Newport was disjoined from the mission ; fifthly, that in 1798 a parsonage was building; lastly, that a school was established at the same date. The books for which Mr. King sent arrived safely in 1799, and in the letter which acknow- ledges their receipt, he states that the lot of land on which the house was building consisted of 1G3 acres, situated near the church, and that some portion of it was even then cleared. And a still more important announcement, as regards the work of the minister of the Gospel of Christ, is thus briefly made, " He likes his people, and they have a reciprocal regard for him." In 1 801 his notifia 12 .stood thus: Baptisms nine; marriages four ; com- municants seventeen ; when he " had the satis- faction of perceiving that his professional labors, Avith the blessing of God, had effected a striking and acknoM'ledged reformation of manners." This was much needed, for many had brought with them, from the revolted States, the lawless habits and loose principles engendered by civil war Inured as soldiers to a thoughtless and reckless course of living during the stormy period of the revolution, they had formed habits and imbibed sentiment, which ill accorded with Christianity. Ihe promulgation of Gospel precepts seems to have produced, in some measure, its hallowing mfluence, and m my who were bold in sin for- sook at least its grosser forms, and endeavored to lead new and better lives. In 1803, the Society P. G. F. P. honored Mr King's draft for the sum of £100 which they had en- gaged to give towards the parsonage house, so soon as It should be conveyed in trust to them. This had been effected, with the approval of the bishop the year previous, and the completion of the whole' matter tended to settle the missionary, and render inm happy in his situation. His notitia for 1802 stood thus : Baptisms eighteen ; marriages three; communicants eighteen. 13 Shortly after the period when this return was made Kawdon was erected into a Parish. The Order in Council bears date March 4th, 1806, and reads as follows : " To comprehend ail the lands lying and being m the Township of Rawdon, by the name of the Parish of St. Paul, for and during sucli time as the said Township shall consist of one Parish only." After spending ten years in great harmony with his people, Mr. King parted with them in much sorrow. Domestic affliction had visited him in his abode at Rawdon, and he not unwillin-ly accepted the appointment of Principal of The Academy at Windsor, " a situation which," he says, ^ "he had repeatedly refused in happier days." In closing his connection with the mis- sion, he left the house, garden, and glebe in com- plete order, and returned the Society " his most sincere thanks for many proofs of their attention and kindness, and his prayer to the Almighty was that He miglit bless their pious zeal, and send a supply of fiiithful laborers for His- service." With this now aged missionary's subsequent career many of the leading inhabitants of this and the neighbouring Provinces are acquainted; for to him they are indebted for the sound edn.«f,-n,> i I , 14 which they received, and which has enabled them to dischar^.e the duties of their various avocations With success to themselves and credit to their instructor. • In the year 1809 the Rev. Dr. Cochran, at the desire of the Bishop, took charge of Rawdon, in connection with his own mission, which at that time comprised Newport and Falmouth. He in- forms the Society that, though the congregation at Kawdon was numerous, they did not consider themselves members of the Church. i\o doubt ' many had attended Divine Service partly out of regard and respect for Mr. King, and partly be- cause no other place of worship was open. After Mr. Kmg's removal, however, a Baptist mission was formed, and, during the winter immediately ensumg, some few seceded from the Church On the 28th March, 1809, the church was par- tially consumed by fire, but was speedilv so far repaired, by a subscription of £20, made' up by the inhabitants, that Divine Service could be held withm its walls. In the month of September, 1810, a number of persons went from Rawdon to Newport, where the Bishop held a confirmation, and in the same year^ a subscription list was opened towards the repair of the church, and application made to the ift" mm 1 r> Governor for a grant of public money out of tlie '' Arms fund," which His Excellency liad signified his intention of applying towards the completion or repair of churches in those parishes wliere the people were disposed to erect themselves. The condition being fulfilled the sum of £130 was granted by Sir G. Prevost. Another change is now made, and in 1814 Dr. Cochran resigned his charge of Kawdon, and the Rev. William Twining having remdved from Capo Breton was allowed to choose his own mission, and his choice fell upon Rawdon and Douglas.' It fell to Mr. Twining's lot to serve the parish of Newport as some of his predecessors had done. The arduous labor imposed upon him prevented frequent visits to Douglas, for it was impossible faithfully to serve churches and congregations so widely separated. Mr. Twining reports as early as the year 1815 that the parsonage was already beginning to decay, and that the glebe lands had suffered much injury from the tenants in occupa- tion. His notitia for that year contains : ]3ap. tisms 33; burials 7; marriages 19. Inl817 Colonel Smith, of Douglas, presented the Church at Rawdon with a service of Commu- nion plate ; and Sir- John Sherbrooke, before his removal to Quebec, gave £.50 towards the ex- It 1() pensc's of eroctiiiff a stconlp 'n under Mv T • r . ^^^- -^^^^' congregation, ^ncler Mi. Iwmmgs ministrations continued to ~e, an. the ordinances of the Chu: ^^ apcisms o2; marriages 13; burials 7 ; communicants 4n 'pk i ^u^iais X- ^^* -^^^ Wc number of bin The i,a.i,sl,cs of Douglas and Rawdon were no ccssanly left ,luri„g ;, '™'^<= "«" >«>« without .e«.L.",e:i ' :„: ,o : r e^i, and which rendered it nece^sirv f. ;o Halia. ro. medical advle^t , Tr hop together. About thl., time Mr. Joseph at K™„etfo;t«r„rt't:''""'-~ fi'mo AT r.i , ^^^^^nent. in the course of suui!:; :"" "p""'"'^" '" "-^ '™p-*-t 1 ar sh, Hahfa.., ,vhere for many years he pursued i-ononU. e and useful eal.ing ,,-Uh grc'tt ^^ C.SS. He had frequently under his eharge not •o.ss than a hundred boys at onee. Out Z tTc number who wore instructc.l by l.im ;„ „,„ , sequent course erowncl witb ,s„occs.,. M /c ., " « -nh,s retirement f,.o„ the .oils and an.i:; teaelnng determined to spend the evcnin. o h 3 da,s at Douglas, and it is pleasing to re^o^rd t. Fve~ Ki.f.'^'"" °" "•'>'^'' *'>e church Tn fl,. , „„ C'eorge, Halifax. In the year 1820, Mr. Twining was removed to Liverpool, and the Eev. Gilbert \v;„„- , ordainorl Ti„ ,_ ,"'">"' ^*^>ggins, who was oulamed Deacon by the Bishop of Quebec was .ont to supply his place. During his sho; sly pams to establish a system of education as M-ell f ry^- On receiving some books from the Society, for which he had sent immediately" no„ ns appomtment, he sp'ared no efforts to cireuhto hem throughout his parish, thus endeavo, t n td a taste for reading, as well as to imp^ar^ ".direct y, useful information. These gifts from England were always highly valued by « Mr 18 .mnarios ,vho were fortunate enough to receive tliom, an,l ten,Ie,l materially to a.sist tliem in the Kreat work of evangelisation. They ,vere each entru.,te,l with the care of a country of vast ex- tent, through which hut few roads luui heen made, and these generally over steep and rugged hills ; the,r churches and their preaching stations were far removed from one another ; and the families who attended them were so scattered throughout he broad territory that those who lived at the distance of several miles from a settler's house were haded with the fnendly title of "our neigh- bours Under these circumstances books wL valuable assistants. They took the preacher's place to some extent. As he proclaimed the Oospel m some sanctuary or humble room with the hvmg voice, so these announced its glad tidmgs m the words of those who " being dead ye. spake." They were companions of the fire- side and through many a long winter evening the hardy woodman sat before the cheerful fire which ever blaze., b.ightly upon the deep, wide hearths of the house in the wilderness, and forgot the toil and danger of the day as he read and thought of other things. These books are friends of price- less worth. They have many virtues. They change the current of our thoughts and lead away I i 19 from the weary monotonic, „f the day to some th..,sne,v. To the u„,liseipli,.e,l min, ,!, . ect they are of incmchble vah.o a„,I for' railrol, traL W ult'^ "T, ''"'' "' ''" -y and prevent' ZZZT ""''': "" '"^ They teaeh .an th t h \ Hth" '!'""• beside that in which he liveT.nd ot ' "" besides himself .^A J '^ '"''•■'™' compose the LelfP '""" "'"""^^ ""-'' carrvl,- *"' '■«'q''aintance. Thev hm to eonverse with the good and the g^t f nis own and other davs TK. • x ^^^^^^^ -o Paiaees and eottagr.- JL't^h 'Z sens and forests cnmo,. i,- " hin, ,i„ ^ '"'" ""^ sf'as and float h.m down rivers, point him to works of art "nd ti.e grander works of nature, tell him of dH o P'°fl>"!ts of every dime and teach him th.f everywhere and amid all ,„„„ I3 the noblesTwo k P ths tl " "" ""'' '""' '■'" ^-'"' ^y better paths than any which intersect the earth nd point out a better road than those on wlik the mere cxfzen of the world travels-the hil way to the eity of our God. ^ 20 t^stc by a wise selection of book, I,n T own work easier H„ i, '''•''"''■'" '"'" "'« teaebi„,3 fro. :;;/:: T^r '^^''■''^'' - - f» at least as JJr.,;^:!^:?'' root ,„ a heart rendered fit by graee and fL >! -ans wi2 ': taTto , T ^"" "^^ ^" «-na.b„pi„,:„;TeL;X?s!rfT an waters God will give the Lrel ''""'^ -i^ere was need of books in ih. • • V . i^wuns in tne mission Af W coot there was a great lack of th bestt ad 7C^'- ''"'^ '-" '^•--™°' °'-s. 1 rayer Jiooks were fn Ko ^-., i • wholesett, ,,,,,, j-^^^^^^^^^^^^ .a:LC^etoit::Tr/"\.^'^''-«'' «'• - - ;vas ra.dly ^inVril^t- were Tj '''°™ ""' ""^'^ ^l-^mentary • "' ^^'' """■^'"'- M^- Wiggins seized the \ 21 opportune moment, and hstrrr.,! .1 terest by Icndh,g those whthh K «'°"-"'8 '"" granted from England '''" ^^"^™"''J- obtaining the Tent T/l^r ;rr '" been inatructed in Halifax. 1 . ' '''"' '""' -W.eand«o„riS:Lr-^^^^^^^^^^ ' ^^^ again m need of rnmJr or, i •*. was necessary to obtain moans fo. ft " This constant re-buildW "«='"^'«toration. -.erstand. Lot f 'n rrr""^"'' " originally expended in the re" io" 0^1"' 7"" Of worship, and during the i" ylTs W 3s.stance ,vas rendered in keeping theLL ^ P% those lax views itht "'''' ''"''''''■ at the present davl Tf ^'"'"'"^ P'^™' for the' Govern! 'I^^ 7'' "^^o™^" stronger than now. I ,i ^ t "''' '™" <» receive payment for th tv rrtsl^'? done, no deception to rive Z '"^^"^ P'etion to t Jwhich'r sX^r^n^C; -omphshed. The outside show Is "t 00 ■•••feat while the uirk concealed from sicht »« rsrelossly and ehamofully executed. No other i,o,s,b»v reason ean be assigned for the nre- J^ature dceay of o„r ehurehes and pursonagel in Wova fecotia ; whoever were the bnilders, whether churehmen or others, a sad want of integrity, a lamentable lack of clear views of right and wron. are too plainly discernible. The day has come when a better state of things, wc trust, prevails, as IS testified by the fact that some of the con- tracts entered into of late years have been faith- fully performed. At the close of 1821, or early in the following year Mr Wiggins was removed, ami his place filled by the Itev. Henry Hayden, M. A., T C D who took charge on December 13, 1822, and who remamed but a short time in charge of the Parish, h.s mmd havmg become so affected as to render h.m mcapable of discharging his sacred duties w.th comfort to himself or satisfaction to others. He removed to Halifax and devoted himself to the s^udy of Astronomy of which he was passionately About the year 1823 the Rev. James C. Cochran was appointed to the vacant mission, bnt some d-ffieulty pr,- ,:nted his acceptance of the offer and he was u.ei. ';. npbyed in travelling through 23 several of the Western Counties, assisting fhosc clergymen who needed help in their extensive sphere of labor. For a year or two Kawdon was served irregularly, and no name appears on the list as R(ctor unl'i August 13, 182G, when the Rev. J. J.icloDn, who was not yet permanently statioi ^d by the IBishop. was temporarily appoint- ed. On November 2, of this year, while he was in charge, the Church and burial ground were consecrated, and thirty three persons were con- firmed. He officiated at five different places in rotation during his brief stay, at each of which he was met by a congregation of from fifty to eighty persons* His successor was the Rev. George Morris, whose name appears as the Missionary to Rawdon and Douglas in the report for 1827. After a lapse of two years the venerable Archdeacon Willis made an official tour, when he visited Mr. Morris' mission, and, strange to say, again re- ports the decayed condition of St. Paul's Church. It does not appear what degree of effort was made by tiie people to repair, it, or whether indeed they made any. Mr. Morris was popular and his coun- sels were respected, but the long dependent state of i^the Parish upon bounty from abroad had so injured their proper sense of duty that it is to be feared -24 the peoi^le but feebly responded to the wishes of their missionaries that they should help them- selves either in this or other districts. They were kind and attentive to Mr. Morris, who more than reciprocated their attentions by the most open liberality, as well in regard to their tem- poral wants as their spiritual. There was an excellent Mission Library in his time, which yet remains, and has proved of service to many of nis successors who have gathered valuable information from the pages of those old, and for the most part, sound divines, whose works compose it. The Hev. Thos. Maynard, who for a short time had been officiating at St. George's Church, Hali- fax, as Curate to Mr. Uniacke, succeeded Mr. Morris in the year 1843. It has been the lot of few men to render themselves more beloved by their people. Indefatigable in visiting and earnest in preaching, his whole flock were strongly and sincerely attached to him. The plain truths of the Gospel, which he enforced from the pulpit, were manifested in his daily walk and conversa- tion. Having set out with the determination of knowing nothing but "Jesus Christ and Him crucified," his ministry was highly valued through- outliis parish. As he was constantly spending his time in the houses of his people, reading the"* wishes of fielp them- ts. They who more the most their tem- re was an which yet lany of his nformation most part, • short time irch, Hali- 3eded Mr. the lot of leloved by nd earnest ongly and truths of le pulpit, conversa- lination of and Ilim i through- spending adinsr the 26 Scriptures or joining with them in prayer, he became intimately acquainted with them, learned then- spiritual wants and spared no pains to meet them. Having found the church in a very decay- ed condition he determined to build a new one. In this laudable desire he met encouragement and after a short tim^. the edifice was erected upon a new site a few yards removed from the old one, and i^ consecrated, together with an addi- tion to the burial ground, July 13, 1847. The present church stands almost on the highest part of the long range of the Ardoise Hills. The top of the steeple is supposed to be the most elevated point in Nova Scotia. After several years of zealous ministration, during which he organised and maintained three Sunday Schools, preached regularly at the stations, and unceasingly visited his parishioners, he deter- mined to accept the mission c. Digby, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W. Bullock. The inhabitants of Rawdon on hearing of his decision entreated him not to leave them ; with one consent they begged him to change his mind : but his final arrangements had been made, and late in the autumn of 1847 he bade farewell to the scene of many happy and useful days. 26 The Rev. Edwin Gilpin, M. A„ junr., son of the venerablemissionaryat Annapoli. was requeste-l hy the late Jiisho,. to take his plaee. He v^th hope to the future career of the present mission- ary. Difficulties, no doubt, will beset him, but the strong man must not weary of the toil of the road. All our missionaries have discomforts and discouragements to bear, but these annually gi-ow less ; and certainly the parish of Rawdon in the present year presents a very different aspect from the rough and extensive mission of 1794. As the field is reduced in size, let us pray that what remains may be more faithfully cultivated ; that as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, the minister of Christ may diligently break up the fallow ground, and spread broadcast the word of God, wliich shall bring forth fruit an hundred fold.