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Excerpt from report of the Rev. Canon H. Brigstocke, president of the Church of England Institute, delivered at the institute’s annual meeting held 12 February 1880, in Saint John. – 2 February 1880. – 2 pp. of textual records. Canon Brigstocke offers a brief account of the founding of Beaufort Mission, located about two miles north of Biggar Ridge, in Kent Parish, Carleton County. In 1879 William Beaufort Mills led a number of Saint John Anglicans, who had suffered financial losses due to the Great Fire of 1877, north to Carleton County, where they created the Beaufort settlement on land received under the
Free Grants Act of 1872 . Here Brigstocke recounts that the Church of England Institute responded generously to missioner Hoadley’s request for assistance by sending the settlers 17 packages of clothing and one parcel of prayer books. MC223-D-SJ-7C1a Minutes of the annual meeting of the Church of England Institute, 12 February, 1880, pp. 7-8, PANB.
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