The papers contain the correspondence and other types of documents of the Reverend Samuel Peters, detailing his experience as an Anglican minister in Connecticut as tensions were rising between America and Britain, his flight to England due to his loyalist sympathies, his time in England during the American Revolution and for some years thereafter in which he communicated often with other loyalists across the Atlantic, providing guidance and support, and of course sharing news and situations. The other documents include as examples, memorials to British officials of his plight after the war and sermons. Subject matter includes religion - Anglican Church history and developing church in Connecticut, ecclesiastical and secular Nova Scotia, loyalist migrations into New Brunswick, and difficulties surrounding the church in Vermont in the early 19th century.
Loyalists among those as communicants include, among others, Ebenezer Dibblee of Stamford, Connecticut, and New Brunswick thereafter; William (member of the Queen's Rangers 1st American Regiment under General Simcoe) and Hannah Jarvis (daughter of Peters); and Simon Baxter of Hebron, Connecticut and New Brunswick thereafter, as well as fellow ministers, including these after the war - the Reverend Ranna Cossit at Sydney, Nova Scotia; Reverend Richard Clarke at Gagetown, New Brunswick; and the Reverend William Clark at Digby, Nova Scotia.
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