By the Numbers

The ultimate goal of the Scotch Colony was a community of 250 families.
50 Kincardineshire families sought in 1873.
50 more families emigrated in 1874 with many related to the 1873 group.

On the ship Castalia:
39 families had 3 or more children.
600 people were on the passenger list, 530 bound for New Kincardineshire.
118 were named as farmers.

On the ship Sidonian:
210 colonists sailed April 30-May 14, 1874, arriving in Andover about May 16
Number of family members:
12: Duncan
11: Mavor, Finnie, Watt
10: McRoberts, Logan, Dow
9: Edward, Webster, Cocker
8: Hamilton, Anderson, Chapman, Lawson, Stewart

Each 200-acre farm should have 2/3 level lands and 1/3 sloping (toward brook or spring, tree reserve for firewood, sugary, building timber, shady pasture.)

23 miles of roads were to be built.

Upon arrival on May 12, 1873:
2 feet of snow was on the ground.
15 out of 23 miles of roads to be built were chopped out, none stumped or turnpike.
2 houses done, 40 started, 78 contracted for, 90 needed. (The last of the 90 was done by July 1873.) In 15 years most of the log shacks were replaced with better houses.
1 barn and 1 warehouse were almost built.
2 or more families bunked temporarily in available tents, mill, sheds, barns, school, and other vacant buildings.

$1 per day to work building roads was reserved for settlers only.

Captain Brown stayed with Colonists only 1 week in May 1873 (New Brunswick government sent him to look at land on North Shore as potential settlement site.)
Brown did not visit again until 3 years later.

Where did the Colonists decide to settle in 1873:
6 families bought developed farms: Stewarts, Morrison, Johnson, Cunningham, et al
4 families (15 people) went to the U.S.
5 families (18 people) went to Fredericton or Saint John: McPherson, Smith, Wilson, et al
15 people returned to Scotland: McHardy, Hardy
15 people settled on Free Grant land in Tilley, New Brunswick: Lindsay, Walker, Ogilvie
75 people residents of New Kincardineshire but employed seasonally elsewhere
374 people reside and work in the Colony

In the spring of 1877 there were 7 families that decided to move to Kansas from the Colony: Alex Lawson, Logan, McNeil, Edward, Hamilton

The Church:
40 babies were baptized within the first 2 ½ years of arrival.
67 babies were baptized by Rev. Peter Melville in his 2 ½ years in the Colony.