文档介绍：THE CHIGNECTO ISTHMUS AND ITS FIRST SETTLERS
THE CHIGNECTO
ISTHMUS AND ITS
FIRST SETTLERS
BY HOWARD TRUEMAN
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THE CHIGNECTO ISTHMUS AND ITS FIRST SETTLERS
PREFACE.
For some years past I, mon with many others, have felt that all
letters of interest and accessible facts in connection with the early history
of the Truemans should be collected and put in permanent form, not
because there is anything of interest to the general public in the records of
a family whose members have excelled, if at all, in private rather than in
public life, but in order that the little knowledge there is of the early
history of the family might not pass forever out of the reach of later
generations with the death of those whose memory carries them back to
the original settlers. In getting together material necessary for the work,
numbers of interesting facts concerning other families came inevitably to
light. In order to preserve these facts, and at the same time give the book a
slightly wider interest, I decided to write a short history of those families
connected by marriage with the first and second generations of Truemans,
and also, as far as material was available, of the first settlers in the old
township of Cumberland, which now includes the settlements of Fort
Lawrence, Westmoreland Point, Point de Bute, Jolicure, Bay Road, Bay
Verte, Upper Tidnish and Port Elgin. Finally, as a kind of setting for the
whole, I have prefaced these records with a brief outline of the early
history of the Isthmus.
That the work falls far below the ideal goes without saying. Anyone
who has made the effort to collect facts of local history knows how
difficult it is to get reliable information. In almost every case where there
was a conflict of opinion I have endeavored to verify my facts by light
thrown on them from different directions; but doubtless mistakes will be
found. By keeping the work in preparation for a longer time, more matter
of interest could certain