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Carol Zwicker is the granddaughter of John McCullough Mill, an engineer from Port Greville, N.S.

John Blenkhorn is recorded in the 1820s Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records as residing in Nova Scotia Maccan, Nappan, River Hebert Cumberland in 1791 and 1794.

Joshua W Ward was born on 22 July 1787 in Advocate Harbour, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia to Patrick and Judith Ward. He married Dorothy (Morris) Ward, daughter of Lutheran and Catherine Morris. Joshua and Dorothy had eight children: Charles Joshua Ward, James Hiram Ward, Mary Berry, Elizabeth Cameron, Paulina Berry, Rebecca A Knowlton, Annie Barteaux, Sarah Ann Kelly.

Enoch Blenkhorn was born on the 18 February 1839 in Cornwallis Square, Kings County Nova Scotia. He married Sarah Emmiline (Ward) Blenkhorn (1845-1925) from Advocate Harbour, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Sarah Emmiline Ward was the daughter of Charles Joshua Ward and Hannah Jane Ward, and was the second oldest of her four siblings: Charles Beaumount Ward, Ella Marion Clark, Josephine Amanda Elliott, and Clarissa Myrtle Ann Milberry.

Enoch Blenkhorn and Sarah Emmiline Ward had a son Albert Ward Blenkhorn on 9 Janurary 1866. Albert Ward Blenkhorn went on to marry Theresa Lilah Blenkhorn. Together they had three children: Aleta Bernice Lunn (1897-1988), Ralph Edmund Blenkhorn (1899-1979), and Demaris Maria Joyce (1911-1999).

David Stanley was born in New Zealand and he had always dreamt of a life of adventure at sea. He went to Dalhousie University to complete his Masters in History and choose to do his thesis on the Spencers Island Company, a case study in Nova Scotian entrepreneurial success. David hosted a presentation to the public at The Age of Sail Museum and gave a copy of his thesis to the museum archives.

Rufus William Smith was born November 3, 1848. He was a Master Mariner for most of his adult life and commanded several sailing vessels. Most notably he commanded the N.B Morris. At the age of 31, he married Mary Kirkpatrick, who was 23 at the time, in 1880, Cumberland County N.S. Captain Smith taught his wife how to navigate. Mary sailed as first mate with her husband on the N.B Morris. Mary and Rufus had a son named Ray R. Smith. Mary Kirkpatrick Smith died on April 20th 1909 in Parrsboro, Cumberland County N.S at the age of 52. Retired from sailing Captain Smith died at the age of 86 in 1934 at Musquodoboit Harbour, Hallifax County, N.S. Mary and Rufus's grandson Clyde David Smith was born in 1935 and passed away in 2019.

Hazel Eugenia Slater was born in Ward's Brook, Cumberland County, NS. She was a daughter of the late John and Elsie (Canning) Slater. She was a school teacher.

Charles Dimock Seaman was born August 8th 1905 in Parrsboro N.S. to Alonzo Seaman and Lilliam (McArthur) Seaman. Brought up in Parrsboro, his parents owned and operated the Ottawa House Inn. Charles was a graduate of Mount Allison University in 1923 and spent most of his working years with a credit bureau in Salem, Massachusetts. Retiring in 1965, he moved to Florida to spend his retirement years.

John Merriam is the son of Captain Rand Merriam and Grandson of Captain Harvey Doane Merriam. John is a former RCMP member and lives with his wife Linda sharing their time in their two homes in Berwick and Wards Brook, N.S.

Andrew Ewan McCully, was born in 1886 to Fredrick Lemuel McCully and Emma Amelia Ayer. He married Emma May Crossman in 1908, at age 22. They had 5 children. Andrew passed away in 1926, at age 40.

John Hatfield was born in 1740 in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England. Early in the American Revolutionary War, he was a Sergeant in the 4th (Kings Own) Regiment of Foot, where he served in Boston, Staten Island, and Brooklyn before being discharged on March 10, 1777. He was then appointed Captain in the 3rd New Jersey Volunteers, a unit based largely out of Staten Island on April 15, 1777. He served with the Volunteers in the Battle of Savannah under Lt. Col. Archibald Campbell on December 29, 1778. Later, he served in the 1779 Quebec campaign with Robert Rogers's Kings Rangers.

He was married on June 28, 1778 to Mary Lockerman at New York City’s Trinity Church, by the Loyalist Reverend Charles Inglis, Rector and Chaplain in the regiment and who later was made Bishop of Nova Scotia. Family oral history indicates that Capt. John Hatfield eloped with his wife-to-be, Mary Lockerman, bringing her from Staten Island to New York in a small row boat. She came from an anti-Loyalist Knickerbocker family.

John and Mary had three children. The family sailed from New York to Nova Scotia with 2,000 Loyalists circa 1783. They arrived first in Yarmouth and then moved to the Parrsborough Shore. They landed and took possession of land at Fox River. He was granted 700 acres in 1784 at Lot 51 in Fox River, "on the shore of Minas Gut." He retired from the Kings Rangers with half pay in 1792.

The Hatfields prospered, and purchased more land, some years before the present town, Parrsboro, (first called Mill Village) was named. John Hatfield took an active part in the development of Parrsboro district. He was appointed by the Court of Sessions in 1794 as Surveyor of Highways and he was again appointed in 1799. Captain John Hatfield passed away on November 16, 1804 and was interred in uniform within the Hatfield family burying ground near the mouth of the Fox River. Approximately, 50 years later Mary (Lockerman) Hatfield was buried in the churchyard of the Holy Trinity parish of Port Greville, Nova Scotia.

Roy Lesmere Fletcher was born in 1931 in New Salem, Cumberland County, NS, to Carl and Gertrude (Atkinson) Fletcher. Roy left home at fourteen and went to London, Ont. where he worked for the city of London. He later joined the Canadian Armed Forces. Roy was a well decorated soldier who served in the Korean War. He lived in London, Ont. for 38 years, moving back to New Salem, N.S. in 1977. He moved to Parrsboro in 2003 and to Amherst in 2005. He worked as a Commissionaire for the Sand River Correction Centre, and retired in 1990, when the Centre closed. He was predeceased by his wife, the former Emily Baker in 2007; sisters, Cora, Marion, Olga; brothers, Roland, Sydney. He passed away on August 19, 2018, in Upper Nappan, Cumberland County, NS.