from a letter by Hattie C. (Burnett) Hughes.
There livid in Dunminnin, Antrim County, Ireland, one, Moses Redmond, owner of a flax mill. His wife, Rebecca Dunn of a prosperous Irish family.
Moses, Rebecca and 12 of their 13 children, ranging in ages from 20 to 4 years, and grand children, left Ireland in 1818 and set sail for South Carlina, USA. They were ship wrecked off Nova Scotia. The "Acadian", a Halifax weekly paper, reported on October 10, 1818: "The brig "Hardy" from Belfast, Ireland, for this place, out 49 days with 114 passengers went on shore Sunday about 11:00 o'clock at Cole Harbour. Passengers and crew saved." Their daughter Molly and her husband William Gaston and two sons came later to Musquodoboit and Tangier.
Moses and family spent the winter of 1818 - 1819 in Halifax and in the spring of 1819 they went up the Musquodoboit River and settled in Upper Musquodoboit. They were granted land there about 1823.