Great Sites: Coming to Loggerheads at Sam Bliss' Estate

This fortnight we learned you can take the Loyalist out of the states, but maybe you can’t take the states out of the Loyalist. You certainly can’t take the cannon out of the dooryard. Tune in to hear Dr. David Black tell us about Sam Bliss, the well armed shopkeeper turned soldier turned well-armed Quoddy Region farmer. And it’s not just weapons, Dave will also tell you about what the Blisses ate and raised on his Island. If you’re interested in Loyalists in New Brunswick, this is an important part of the archaeological record, and our second installment of the “Great Sites” series.

Show Notes:

Ashley, Elihu. 2007. Romance, remedies, and revolution : the journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.

Craig, Calvin Lee. 2003. Early families of "the Mackadavy" : settlers before, during, and following the Loyalist period, Magaguadavic Valley, Parish of St. George, Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Self published, but there’s a copy at the UNB library: https://unb.on.worldcat.org/oclc/54415977

“The Colonial Flip, George Washington’s Favorite Drink” The Colonial Flip, George Washington's Favorite Drink (youtube.com)

Obituary and bibliography for John Carl Medcof https://shellfish.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/in%20memoriam%20john%20medcof%20191.pdf

Perley, Moses. 1850. Report on the sea and river fisheries of New Brunswick, within the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Bay of Chaleur. Fredericton, J. Simpson.

Great Cites:

Black, David W., and Christopher R. Blair. 2000. Faunal Remains from the Loyalist Occupation of the Bliss Islands, Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Ontario Archaeology 69:39-54.

Blair, Christopher. 2013. Looking For Bliss: An Early Loyalist Family in Passamaquoddy Bay. In Underground New Brunswick: Stories of Archaeology, edited by P. Erickson, and J. Fowler, pp. 107-116. Nimbus Publishing, Halifax

Hit Pieces:

Mack, Karen. 2023. The Rumford Falls Ceramic Assemblage and Maine Ceramic Period 2 (CP2) Pottery. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 63(2):1-42.

Will, Richard, and Karen Mack. 2023. Rumford Falls and Beyond: A Comparative Analysis of Archaic period and Ceramic Period LIthic Debitage Assemblages. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 63(2):43-60.

Credits

Sponsors: APANB and ULeth SSHRC Exchange

Producer: Emanuel Akel