Global Heritage Press

COILBOUND EDITION

Kingston and the "Loyalists of the Spring Fleet" of 1783
By Walter Bates

The original title page of this book includes a lengthy title and attribution, as was common when this history was written:

Kingston and the "Loyalists of the Spring Fleet" of A.D. 1783. With Reminiscences of Early Days in Connecticut: A Narrative. By Walter Bates, ESQ., Sometime High Sheriff of the County of Kings. To Which is Appended a Diary Written by Sarah Frost on Her Voyage to St. John, N.B. with the Loyalists of 1783. Edited with Notes by W. O. Raymond, A.B. Rector of St. Mary's Church, St. John, N.B.

Contents include:

• Map of the original land grants for the Kingston Grant (includes names of owners on their lots)
• Introduction
• The Narrative of Walter Bates - Early days of the Revolution wih some account of the sufferings of the Loyalists
• Personal adventures of the narrator during the war
• The voyage of the First Fleet on 1783 and the settlement of Kingston by a band of Loyalists
• Return [list] of the families, etc, embarked on board the [ship] Union Transport, Consett Wilson, Master, Huntington Bay April 11th, and completed April 16th, 1783. Includes:
  • List of Passengers (adult males - head of household)
  • Number of signers [each adult male - adult males only]
  • Number of Women [with each adult male]
  • Number of children above 10 years old [with each adult male]
  • Number of children under 10 years old [with each adult male]
  • Former place of abode [town and state]
  • Occupation [ adult males]
• Trinity Church - Its History and its Rectors
• Incidents in the early days of Connecticut
• The diary of Sarah Frost: Written on board the ship "Two Sisters" during her voyage to Saint John's River Nova Scotia, in the spring of A.D. 1783