- Hulsemann Chevalier
- Beale George W
- Caroline Beale
Sun rose 5:47. behind a lofty distant tree— Fahrenheit 38.
Morning visit from the Chevalier
Hulsemann, Secretary of the Austrian legation; whom we met
in the Steamer Bangor to Portland, and on our return to Boston at the
Tremont house. I did not then recollect his name, having seen him not
more than once or twice at Washington last winter— He told me that he
had been out here with Mr
Caleb Cushing at the Pic Nic on
the 3d. and they had visited our family—but
the Ladies had not remembered him any better than I did, and until this
day knew not who he was— Mr Beale and his daughter
Caroline were here this
Evening; and Charles and
his wife of course.— I
walked this afternoon to Mr John Greenleaf’s, and saw
him and his two daughters, Mrs Lucy and Mrs Mary
Dawes. He is 78 years of age, of which he has been upwards
of 60 years blind, and for some years past hard of hearing, though not
absolutely deaf.— Mrs Greenleaf, my Cousin, once Lucy Cranch, is
but three months younger than myself. She is now confined to her
chamber, by a dropsical disease, from which there is no hopes of her
recovery— I called next at the house of Mrs T. B. Adams, but she was
gone with her son John Quincy, to
visit Mr John
Marston at Taunton, and Elizabeth was at Mr Edward Miller’s. My last
visit was Dr Woodward who is building a house— There I met
two young women daughters of Henry
Wood— His wife is a daughter of
Deacon Ebenezer Adams,
first cousin both by father and
mother’s side to my father. I
did not know them. There is hardly an old family in this town, with whom
I have not some affinity in blood— But to return to the province of
Nova-Scotia— Mr Curtis purchased for me at Fredericton,
Thomas C. Haliburtons
Historical and Statistical account of Nova-Scotia, in two 8vo. Volumes, published in 1829. a very
valuable work.— From this it appears that the population of the
Provinces in 1790 was about 30000. in 1817. 82053. and in 1827.
123,848—besides 30000 in the Island of Cape Breton: Hence within the
last half century the population has more than quadrupled; and has kept
a full proportion to the average increase throughout the United States;
though in no wise comparable to the increase in our Western States, or
New-York or Pennsylvania— Two thirds of this population of Nova-Scotia
proper consists of the remnants and descendants of 20000 loyalists or
refugees from the North-American States who settled there in 1783
immediately after the close of the American revolutionary War— The
numbers of the people now including the Island of Cape-Breton must
exceed 200,000— The territory of the Peninsula covers an Area of 15617
square miles nearly double that of the State of Massachusetts; and with
a population of 100 to a square mile, which is about that of
Massachusetts, would number more than one million and a half of
inhabitants— It is not probable that it will ever feed such numbers— Its
situation however is favourable to commerce, and its climate to the
establishment of manufactures. Of these there are now none, the policy
of the mother country being to furnish them for the Province— They are
imported duty free, and there is neither capital nor shill in the colony
to start or maintain a competition with the manufacturers at home.