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during the war, he says: ''Thus he [himself] hath spent a 

 number of the years of his life in wandering, his days in poverty, hunger, 

 nakedness and cold, and all for his loyalty." 



Apparently getting no satisfaction from the Commissioners at 

 Halifax, he later sailed for London to press his claim there. On his 

 trip across the ocean and during his stay in England, he kept a Journal, 

 from which the following is taken: "Wednesday, December 5, 1787. 

 We sailed from Halifax favored with a fine day and a fair wind." "Fri- 

 day, January 11, 1788. Landed all safe and well, through the goodness 

 of the God of Heaven, without any sickness or death among us. We 

 landed about four miles from Greenock and travelled thither on foot." 

 While at Greenock he was asked, and accepted the invitation, to preach 

 in the Kirk. He was greatly embarrassed, however, for 'ere he was 

 half through his sermon he became faint and had to desist, much to 

 the surprise ( f his hearers. A few days later he took the coach to 

 Glasgow, where he was also invited to preach, this time by the Rev. 

 Mr. Gillis, minister of the College Church. The following Sabbath he 

 did preach, from Ecclesiastes 8:2. In Glasgow he spent about a month, 

 preaching occasionally and, no doubt, visiting old friends. From here 

 he went to Edinburgh, where he arrived Feb. 16, 1788. On the 20th 

 he took the coach to London, reaching there at midnight, the 22nd. 



The March ensuing, he took his certificates of recommendation, 

 one from Lt. Governor Hamilton of Quebec and one from the Rev. 

 Mr. Peters to the Lord Commissioners. His journal is now full of 

 accounts of the evasive answers he received from Government. At one 

 time he records that some one who was not favorable to him said to 

 him, "I told you before you left Halifax, that it would be to no purpose 

 to come to London, for you will hardly get as much as will defray your 

 expenses home." This unkindly speech made him feel very much 

 dejected; but after staying in England until August, he was finally 

 encouraged by being pensioned. According to the "Imperial Reports 

 of American Loyalists," (Volume 8, page 322): "The Commissioners 

 decided to pay him [Mr. Gihmorc] £20 in full and £20 more on his 

 return to Nova Scotia, as it would take too much time to refer the 

 matter back to the Commissioners in Nova Scotia for further investi- 

 gation." In the issue of September, 1860 of the "Christian Instructor 

 and Missionary Register of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia," 

 it is said, "The result of his [Mr. Gillmore's] visit [to London] was 

 that he obtained from the British Government a pension of £40 sterling, 

 per annum, which he enjoyed during the remainder of his life." 



In September 178S he left England, sailing from Gravesend on the 

 10th, and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, some six weeks latei. From 

 Boston he sent a long letter to the Rev. Dr. Stiles, President of the 



