^G A. D. 1783. 



to be executed in three years. \CreecJfs Letters in Sinclair's StatiJIicnl 

 account of Scotland, V. vi, p. 593.] 



In confequence of the peace great numbers of the inhabitants of 

 New-York, and other loyalifts, removed to Nova-Scotia, where vacant 

 lands were allotted to them by government. In the month of May the 

 foundation of a new town, called Shelburne, was laid at Port-Rofeway 

 near the fouthren extremity of the peninfula, the inhabitants of which, 

 after the increafe produced by the final evacuation of New-York, were 

 computed to be about 9,000. They immediately applied to prepara- 

 tions for the fiihing bufinefs, vi^hich was held out as the principal fource 

 of their profperity, with fuch ardour, that above a hundred fifhing 

 fhalops were to be feen at once on the flocks in this firfl winter after 

 the foundation of the town ; and they had very fanguine hopes of foon 

 rifing into great commercial importance. 



Near to Shelburne another town was laid out, which was intended folely 

 for the reception of the fwarms of negroes, whom the war had delivered 

 from flavery, and call upon the Britifh government for fupport. About 

 1 ,200 of thofe people were now fet down in this new fettlement, and fur- 

 nifhed with pro vifions, clothing, agricultural tools, &c. But the nature of 

 the climate and agriculture of that coiintry, fo different from what they 

 had been accuftomed to, was fufHcient, independent of the idle habits 

 they had acquired as followers of the army, to prevent them from hav- 

 ing any fuccefs in the line of fober agricultural induftry. Many of 

 them took opportunities of getting to London, where they fauntered 

 about the ftreets as beggars, till government took compaflion upon 

 them, and fhipped them off for Sierra Leona on the coaff of Africa. 

 Others of them, who were of a more adive difpofition, got to the Weft- 

 Indies, where negro labour is in requeft, and there earned their bread as 

 free labourers. 



The loyalifls of South Carolina, Georgia, and the Floridas, went 

 moftly to the Weft-India iflands, the climate and produdions of which 

 were more adapted to their conftitutions and former purfuits, and alfo 

 fitter for their negro flaves, than thofe of Nova Scotia. Many of them 

 became planters of cotton, an article of rapidly-increafing demand for the 

 Britifh manuflidures : and great numbers of thofe who went to Jamaica 

 apphed to the cultivation of indigo, which they found more profitable 

 there than on the continent, the quality being greatly fuperior. 



The following view of the tobacco trade from the beginning of the 

 year 1775 to the end of this year is inferted in order to fhow, how it 

 was affeded by the war in its extent, and alfo in the mode of conduct- 

 ing it. 



