"Lewis’s book outlines the history of the area from the first Mi’kmaq inhabitants through successive waves of European settlement including Acadians, New England Planters, Yorkshire immigrants and the American Loyalists.
“Those of us who come from Upper Sackville enjoy a common bond,” Lewis said.
“We come from enduring stock. Our ancestors didn’t just come here. They took root in the earth, sprang forth, and multiplied,” she said as she mentioned the many family names in her book including Estabrooks, George, Hicks, Fawcett, Sears and Wheaton.
She also spoke about how Upper Sackville “was born of the Baptist faith and born of Methodism” in close proximity to the first Baptist and Methodist churches in Canada.
“Old John Fawcett, who came from Yorkshire in 1774 as a seven-year-old boy, who gave his life to Methodism and who lived next door to this church, died an unhappy man,” she said, adding he felt betrayed in 1818 when some town Methodists chose to build a new church in Sackville without consulting the parishioners in his village.
“I wonder what he would have said if he had known that 200 years later, the beautiful Sackville Church would be razed to the ground and the little Upper Sackville Church would be left standing,” she said as the audience laughed."
source: ‘Remember Us’: New book brings Upper Sackville’s past & people to life |
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