A History of the County of Yarmouth Nova Scotia

By J.R. Campbell

An excellent history of Yarmouth county including biographical information and listings and details of early families.  This book is a high quality reprint of a rare volume that was originally published in 1876. 

An example of detail provided in the list of settlers:

• "Robert Robertson arrived 1784, originally from Holland, A Hessian (soldier), settled at Cranberry Head, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia".

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Chapter
• Chapter 1 - Limits of the County, physical character, climate, natural history
• Chapter 2 - Introductory historical facts, earliest references.
• Chapter 3 - Aboriginal inhabitants, Indian relics, French settlers and settlements.
• Chapter 4 - Early English setters, the county known to American fishermen before settlement, government offers to intending settlers, land grants.
• Chapter 5 - The first arrivals, their locations, condition and first experiences.
• Chapter 6 - Progress of the work of settlement, Committee appointed by council, rules for their guidance.
• Chapter 7 - Continued until influx till 1764, first notice of Argyl and Pubnico, Mr. Cawley's return, Personal references.
• Chapter 8 - Increase between 1764-7, township grant, marks of progress, grist and saw mills.
• Chapter 9 - Opening of the County by-roads, public worship, first ministers, Chebogue Church raised.
• Chapter 10 - Township of Argyle, when set apart, successive settlement of Argyle, Tusket, Eel Brook, and Pubnico, The D'Entremonts.
• Chapter 11 - Fresh arrivals, memorial for a re-adjustment of county limits, colonial troubles of 1775, politics of the period.
• Chapter 12 - Third decade 1780-90, loyalist element in the county, Cape Forchue meeting house, Escheated property, partition of the township of Yarmouth, original settlers of Tusket, church covenant of 1784.
• Chapter 13 - Commercial progress, fishing, early local merchants, Yarmouth made a Port of Shelburne, J.N. Bond, religious revolution, Henry Alline, Johnathon Scott, Harris Harding, religious census, Original homes and first locations of the early settlers.
• Chapter 14 - Opening of the nineteenth century, condition of roads and bridges, institution of the post office, H.G. Farish, progress in public buildings, Episcopal Church, Abbe Sigogne, social conveniences.
• Chapter 15 - Supremacy of Yarmouth gradually asserted, War of 1812-14, Loyal Memorial, defences.
• Chapter 16 - The story of Yarmouth shipping enterprise, Anthony Landers, rise of the Methodist body, the Free Baptists. rise and progress fo Sunday schools.
• Chapter 17 - Social progress from 1800, negro slaves, new settlements, Salmon River, Kemptville, Beaver River, Ohio, Hebron, Carleton, temperance and total abstinence, societies, Great Fire of 1820.
• Chapter 18 - Political and educational progress, Confederation, incorporation, judicial history of the county, courts, common places, our schools and school-masters
• Chapter 19 - Literature, literary remains, the press.
• Chapter 20 - Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Yarmouth.
• Chapter 21 - The town of Yarmouth, churches, schools, private residences, banks, insurance offices, manufacturers, agricultural societies, synopsis, steam by land and water, fisheries, general trade, recapitulation, conclusion.

Details:

240 Pages (blank pages removed from digital edition)
6.25" X 9.25"
Illustrations
Originally published by J.A. McMillan, St. John, 1876
This edition by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2003 
ISBN 1894571797 (hardcover)