allinne, dat er „came to Halifax with the first German settlers”. „Actually he arrived”, neffens Dr. Bell syn boarnen, „along with several other families from the Netherlands, in the „Speedwell” in 1751”.

3. It sammeljen en oarderjen fan de archivalia fan Nova Scotia is in bigjin mei makke yn 1857. Des Brisay kin dus yn ’e 60er jierren al guon stikken neigien hawwe. Op ’t heden sit al dat materiael goed oardere yn de Public Archives to Halifax.

4. „Quite a bit of Information can be discovered, none of it, so far as I have found out, at all revealing as to his personality, his later activity in the ministry of the Reformed Church, or the like. Such Information as can be ascertained has to be dug out laboriously from a miscellaneous assortment of old documents, some in original in the Archives at Halifax, some in transcript or microfilm (copies of originals in the Public Records Office in London, England, or elsewhere) either there or in the Manuscript Room of the Canadian Archives at Ottawa, some of which I have myself obtained in photostatic copy from England. This Information covers, for instance, such things as: the lots assigned to him in the settlement of Lunenburg) the names of his family (these from old „Victualling Lists”); whom he voted for in the elections for the first Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, and things of that sort”.

Neffens Dr. Bell hat Brun Romkes dus earst yn Halifax tahalden, en wie er dêrnei ien fan ’e kolonisten fan Lunenburg yn 1753; dêrwei moat er him dan as kolonist to Chester fêstige hawwe yn (of nei?) 1759, om yn 1770 dêrwei wer nei Lunenburg to forfarren, diskear as dümny.

„Why Romkes moved from Lunenburg to Chester”, skriuwt Dr. Bell, „I have no real Information. At Chester he apparently tried to make a living by fishing. And yet the place where he had been located in the Lnnenbnrg settlement was a better location fora fisherman than Chester. It is fust possible that he was attracted to Chester by the fact that a Congregationalist minister came there with the first settlement, Rev. John Seccombe, while there was still no Reformed Church at Lunenburg. And it seems to me also not impossible, that Seccombe might have „groomed” him somewhat for his later profession as clergyman, and may have been instrumenial in the Reformed group at Lunenburg coming to the idea of calling Romcas Comingo as pastor. At any rate, not only did Seccombe preach Comingo''s ordination sermon, but in due course Comingo preached Seccombe’s funeral sermon”.

5. Bisünderheden oer Brün Romkes yn syn amtlik wurk to kuilenburg is Dr. Bell noch net tsjinkaem.

Dr. Bell skriuwt fierder ü.m.: „The majority of the emigrants came