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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 16, 2014
Caption: Foreign Protestant Settlement in Lunenburg Marker
Additional Description: Captions (English / French): (left side, top to bottom) Map of Lunenburg by Lieutenant H. Pooley, c. 1821. / Carte de Lunenburg par Le lieutenant H. Pooley, v. 1821.; Re-enactment for the 250th Anniversary. / Reconstitution historique pour le 250ᵉ anniversaire.; (bottom, center) This pocket sundial (c. 1760) belonged to Rev. Bruin R. Comingo who came with Lunenburg’s early settlers. He was the first German Reformed Presbyterian minister in the province. / Ce radian solaire de poche (v. 1760) appartenait au Rév. Bruin R. Comingo que est arrivé avec les premiers colons de Lunenburg. Il a été le premier Allemand à être ministre du culte presbytérien réformé de la province.; (right side, on left) St. John’s Anglican Church, c. 1935. / Église anglicane St. John’s , v. 1935.; A fine example of “Fraktur”, German folk art manuscript illumination, brought to Nova Scotia by the Zwicker family. / Un bel exemple de «fraktur» - art populaire allemand de l’enluminure des manuscrits - , apporté en Nouvelle-Écosse par la famille Zwicker.; (right side, on right) Bird’s eye view of Lunenburg, 1879. / Vue aérienne de Lunenburg, 1879.; Sterling silver coffee pot owned by Dettlieb Christopher Jessen. Born in Germany, he came to Nova Scotia in 1752, serving as a commissioner to distribute farming implements and rations to early Lunenburg settlers. / Cafetière en argent sterling ayant appartenu à Dettlieb Christopher Jessen. Né en Allemagne, il est arrivé en Nouvelle-Écosse en 1752 où il a été commissaire charge de distribuer des outils agricoles et des rations aux premiers colons de Lunenburg.; Globe Flower / Trolle; Roses are a tradition in many Lunenburg gardens. / Il est traditionnel de cultiver les roses dans de nombreux jardins de Lunenburg; Document certifying that Georg Frederick Bailly had sworn the oaths and declarations required under the Act for Naturalizing the Foreign Protestants and others, c. 1761. / Document attestant que Feorge Frederick Bailly a prêté les serments et fait les déclarations nécessaires in vertu de la loi sur naturalisation des protestants étrangers et autres, v. 1761.; Re-enactment of Foreign Protestant landing. / Reconstitution historique de l’arrivée des protestants étrangers.
Submitted: October 25, 2014, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p290074
File Size: 3.262 Megabytes

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