[siebert] the AMERICAN LOYALISTS 41 



Barry St. Léger, commandant of the post, and was soon silenced by 

 him. Mr. Scott was followed in 1782 by the Reverend John Doty, 

 who asked ''for the use of a government building in which to hold 

 services, as the French church had hitherto been used for Protestant 

 worship." * 



The loyalists who settled at Mississquoi Bay and thence scattered 

 into the Eastern Townships appear to have received their religious 

 instruction chiefly through the ministrations of Lorenzo Dow and other 

 Methodist clergymen from the neighboring states. Dow visited this 

 region as early as 1799, and within a few years Methodist societies were 

 formed in St. Armand, Sutton, Potton, and the settlement at Pigeon 

 HULf Previous to this a Baptist church had been organized in Sutton 

 by the Rev. William Marsh, a loyalist. J Presbyterianism was also 

 represented among these loyalist settlers.* 



There were few, if any, schools to which the inhabitants of these 

 townships could send their children before 1805.^ In this respect they 

 were some years behind the settlements at Machiche, Sorel, and St. Johns, 

 but the schools established at these and other places were apparently 

 too primitive to do more than furnish the most limited education.^ 



*jVIcIlwraith, Sir Frederick Haldimand, 256. 



tTucker, Camden Colony, 87; Thomas, Contributions to the History of the 

 Eastern Townships, 44, 199, 310, 311. 



J Day, History of the Eastern Townships, 288. 



* Day, Pioneers of the Eastern Townships, 171. 



"Thomas, Contributions to the History of the Eastern Townships, 18; Day, 

 History of the Eastern Townships, 204. 



•Can. Arch., 1889, xx. 



