Today's post is the final installment of a three part history on
the life of Rev. Jacob Bailey. The image in this post is Old St
Edward's Church in Clementsport, Nova Scotia. This is one of the
churches where Jacob Bailey would have performed regular
services. As he did through the majority of his life, Bailey
kept an accurate and descriptive journal of his daily
activities. It is through these journals, as well as his copies
of correspondence that he kept in letter books, that we gain
insight not only into Bailey but into the time in which he
lived. Bailey’s journals from June of 1779 record the family’s
sadness on leaving Pownalborough, their voyage to Halifax and
their arrival in Nova Scotia’s capital. Bailey “had a most
advantageous striking view of this Northern capital stretching a
mile and a half upon the eastern ascent of an extensive hill –
while a large a collection of shipping lay either contiguous to
the wharves or else were riding with the Britannic colours
flying, in the chanel, a sight which in