You Shouldn’t Get Stumped Traditional Geocache
You Shouldn’t Get Stumped
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On the way to the caches on this Shepody road take your time; it could be harmful to your vehicle. There are boulders and large gravel on the road. Take your time. I wouldn’t want to see anyone have to walk out.
This is a micro so BYOP
Some of the people who were allotted land on the Shepody Road were not very well satisfied due to the poor quality of the land. The truth is that when the tide of Immigration from Ireland began about 1818 there was very little good land along the rivers left ungranted. In 1826, a number of the settlers petitioned to have the Shepody Road improved. They complained of its condition and the choice of taking it over the tops of some mountains nearly perpendicular and so very stony that no labor ever could make it a good turnpike road. The petition states there were thirty-five families making in all one hundred and thirty three souls and they had cleared and had under cultivation three hundred and eighty acres of land. They spoke of their various hardships and how it was very difficult for them to get enough money to pay for their land grants. The petition was signed by: James Elliott. Henry Douglas, Hugh McCarter, James Alexander, Arthur Robson, Edward Robson, Robert Mills, James Dunne, Thomas Duffield, Frederick Emerson, John Patton, George Crow, Charles Campbell, Thomas Schoals, John Smith, Ephraim Smith, John Wiley, Robert Nethery, Thomas Gregory, James Nethery, William Marshall, William Scott, Joseph Emerson, James Crow, Samuel Campbell and William Barber. This gives us some idea as to the heads of families living on the Shepody Road in 1826.
Other petitions are included. Appendix B lists the owners of Land Grants.
The Anglican settlers of Londonderry were served by travelling ministers and missionaries until St. Paul's was built in the early 1850s. Rev. W. H. DeVeber reported to the Church Society in 1851 that "a neat norman structure, consisting of a tower, nave and chancel of pleasing proportions had been built. It will hold about 159 people and will, it is hoped prove a blessing to the settlers in that comparatively poor district. With the Society's help, the Missionary hopes to finish the church next summer."
Quotations also are given from the diary of Bishop Medley.
The settlers of Londonderry did get their house of worship but one by one they left the Shepody Road until the farm land was taken over by the forests.
The Ulster Scots have never had an easy time, but their toughness and their love for their church shows again in their descendants as they labor to keep the building intact, just as their forefathers labored to have the church erected.
This year, as in years past, on a Sunday in August, they will travel the dusty narrow Shepody Road to open the doors of St. Paul's Church in Londonderry and step back in time by singing the hymns of praise and hearing the words of scripture as did the settlers of years gone by.
From Ruby M. Cusack’s writings
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