Matthew Mingo

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Family stories handed down from previous generations say it is true. </div> <bR> <div>  In 1809, the three Mingo brothers and their father came from Philadelphia to finally settle on the  back road to River John. This was the area of Tatamagouche which means  place where two rivers meet in the language of the MicMac Indians. The Mingos  were the first white settlers at that place. Many of their descendants still farm there. These brothers were instrumental in establishing the Episcopal church at River John. In 1814, he bought a parcel of land in Middleton, on the back road from River John to Tatamagouche, two and a half miles from Denmark and four and one half miles from Tatamagouche.</div> <div>  The land was and still is a gentle area of the province with rolling hills, rich red farming soil and  the warmest waters north of the Carolinas. There is plenty of game and the fishing is excellent. To this day, the region between Tatamagouche and River John on or near the Northumberland Strait is largely unspoiled and under developed except for scattered cottages along its shores. It is easy to imagine how people lived a century or two ago, despite the electric wires and paved roadways. Most of the farm houses are as old as the first settlers.  It is a healthy land and eighty or ninety year olds can still be seen baling hay in the sunshine of the fields and meadow.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>