McConnell, who is head of the Old Holy Trinity Charitable Trust, has been looking into old records and is discovering a rich culture of determined people who were unwanted in the 13 colonies and who had struck out on their own.
“They didn’t have much. So, they were hoping that the government, either in England or through the church, would donate money to complete the construction of the church, but that didn’t happen,” McConnell said. “They had to try to raise the money on their own, and the way they did that was to try to sell the pews. It didn’t go as well as they hoped.”“So, he ended up buying about half of the church pews.
Jeffery Jenkins was a freed slave who lived to be 100 years of age and died in 1857. He came to Nova Scotia in 1783. He’s buried in the cemetery at Old Holy Trinity Church in Middleton. - Lawrence Powell“The surname Hill is the most common one that appears in the Anglican Parish records of Wilmot with the notation ‘Coloured’,” he wrote. “For several years Charles Hill served as Sexton, or the person responsible for maintenance of the church property.
An entry in the church records notes his burial: “1883 Jan. 26 - In the Pine Grove Cemetery Charles Hill aged 80 years. Many years Sexton of the Church .”McConnell said the 1871 census shows the Jenkins and Hill names in the Wilmot area as well as the nearby communities of Nictaux, Clarence and Broad Cove. “Other African surnames that appeared were: Brown, Middleton, Clement, Jackson, and Neil,” he wrote.
McConnell said many Loyalists, including Black Loyalists, arrived and then left. In this part of the province, most of the Loyalists remained.
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