To: Karen Sims
From: Janine Barber
Date: Aug 6, 2016
Saved as: ReplyToSimsKaren.rtf
Hi Karen,

Your dates and Payne information is very important to us; thanks so much.

Some Payne/Payne dates we've found through the parish records of Rev Cossit:

June 1 1789 William and George are baptised by Lydia and John Pain
July 21 1791  Hiram Payne witnesses the marriage of James Gould and Sophia Payne
Susanah Gould and Ann Gould baptized
1798 William Gould is baptized and John and Lydia Paine are named.

I am also interested in the parentage of Tisdale Paine, who attends one of these baptisms.

Here's how to look for the record of George and William Pain's baptisms. Note:  the "clip" or image can be found in the attached Word document; for some reason, it did not end up in the text shown below.

I wrote this up after multiple frustrating attempts to replicate the steps.  The citation leads to a URL that says "no image found".

This will be published in the next issue of the Connecticut Genealogy News. 

A Connecticut Colonist in Canada:  Parish Records Found
Submitted by Janine Barber, #20572
Rev. Ranna Cossitt of Granby, Connecticut kept parish records for his military chapel in Sydney, Nova Scotia.[i]  His story will be written in a future article; the paragraphs following show how to find his hand-written text. It’s a hidden treasure for Revolutionary War genealogists, those seeking Loyalists who left their homes.  Rev. Cossit’s penmanship shows more flourishes for the marriage of notables; it notes whether a baptism was “a private ceremony” and, in one case, explains the suicide of a young woman.
Use these steps to find this journal.  Here’s a passage showing my ancestors, John Paine and Lydia (Tisdale) Pain, as they baptize two sons[ii].

First, open Family Search.  This is a free site but requires a login id and password.
Second, Open “Search” and select “Record” from the pop-up screen. 
Third, Move your cursor to “Research by Location”.  Click on the map of Canada.  The pop up screen shows ten locations; choose “Nova Scotia”. 
Fourth, scroll down to “Nova Scotia Image Only Historical Records” and select “Nova Scotia Church Records 1720-2001.”
Fifth, click on “View Images in this Collection” and select “Cape Breton”.
Sixth, “City or Town” is your next selection – choose “Sydney”.
Seventh, under “Denominations and Parish”, select “Church of England in Canada St. George”.
Eighth, Choose “Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1785-1824”.  You will view page “1 of 145”.
Type in “11” to view the record of John and Lydia (Tisdale) Paine’s baptism of sons William (28 July 1786) and George (19 January 1789).  Select Page 18 to view the marriage of my ancestor James Gould to Sophia Paine; James had stood with his father at the Battle of Saratoga[iii], and it is believed that his wife Sophia is a descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower[iv].  James Gould’s descendant Frank Gould moved to Connecticut and founded the Silver Lane Pickle Company in East Hartford, Connecticut.[v]
These steps need to be followed.  Look through and you will find some familiar names from the Revolutionary war.  Note: the citation leads you to a different location where you cannot view these records.   
Note to Karen:  Look for page 11 of 145 (the baptisms of William and George); also pages 18 (Hiram Payne witnesses the Gould marriage), 23, 39, and 42.

[i] Mason Wade Odyssey of a Loyalist Rector (Montpelier, Vermont:  Vermont Historical Society, Spring, 1980), v. 48, No. 2, 97; Wade notes that Ranna Cossitt used fifteen spellings of his name.
[ii] Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720 – 2001, Cape Breton, Sydney, Church of England in Canada St. George, Baptisms, Marriages, and Births, 1785 – 1824, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8BCK-QVN?i=10&wc=M6PF 3W5%3A219773301%2C219773302%2C219773303%2C219784901%3Fcc%3D1925428&cc=1925428, Image 11 of 45.
[iii] Pension records for James Gould, Jr., were purchased from National Archives of Washington, D.C., and are in the author’s possession.
[iv] Rosa D. Tisdale, Meet the Tisdales: Descendants of John Tisdale of Taunton, Mass., 1634-1980 (Baltimore:  Gateway Press, 1981), 190.
[v] Family records from Hesper Gould’s letters; in author’s possession.