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III. Baptists— The now settlers who came to Nova Scotia from New 

 England between 17U0-17fi3 were, for the most part Congregationalists, 

 and by 17(;9 there were six churehcs of this denomination, at Barrington, 

 Liverjpool, Chester, Halifax, Cornwallis and Cumberland, each with a 

 pastor; but in the eoui-so of time those people became Presbyterians 

 or Jiaptists. The Kev. Mr. Alline, called the Whittield of Nova 

 Scotia, was a iKtpular preacher between 1770 and 1784, who established 

 several "new light " churches which eventually became, for the most 

 part. Baptist. The same body gradually embraced a large portion of the 

 most influential families of New Kngland origin, and ditterenccs in the 

 Church of England at Halifax added to their numbers. One of the early 

 Baptist ministers was the father of the eminent Canadian statesman 



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REVEREND DR. CRAWLEY. 



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Sir Charles Tupper. Acadia College, which was established as early as 

 1829, as an academy at Horton, owed much of its success to the ability 

 and energy of the Keverend Drs. Pryor and Crawley, who with the 

 Honourable Mr. Johnston, always a supporter of denominational colleges, 

 were seceders from the Church of England. The most striking tigure in 

 the history of the Jîaptists of Nova Scotia is undoubtedly that of Dr. 

 Crawley, a member of a family which had always held an honourable 

 position among the gentry of England. His lather was a commander in 

 the Royal Navy, wliere, as a midshijunan, he had served under Nelson. 

 The captain settled in the island of Ca])e Breton, and the present writer 

 well remembers his beautiful home across the harbour of Sydney, where 

 the boyhood of I)r. Crawley was pjissed among the trees and flowers 



