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David Brockway, b. 1835 in Kingsclear, York Co., NB
Jeremiah Brockway, b. 1838 in Brockway, York Co., NB
http://books.google.com/books?id=2tMBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA397&lpg=PA397&dq=Union+Colony+1880+Colorado&source=web&ots=gsUxE0EM-Z&sig=5JQ-AAaVCjEVj0ftYzh7iHDoSnc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR16,M1
The Union Colony at Greeley, Colorado, 1869-1871 By James Field Willard
"A colony, strictly speaking, was an association of indivduals banded together for the purpose of migration to
Colorado, of settling together and of pursuing common aims after their arrival. Some measure of organization was
necessary, though it need not bind the members very strictly. They might go to Colorado in a body, or they might go separately; in either case they usually traveled on special tickets and received special freight rates as
colonists. They settled in one locality. In the Union Colony type a town with its community life was an
essential feature of the colony. After settling in the territory the colonists pursued certain aims in common.
The amount of such united effort varied. The German Colonization Company was a communistic association, whereas the Union Colony and its imitators were semi-cooperative.
The first colony was the German colony which left Chicago in a body on February 8, 1870 and selected the Wet Mountain Valley, now in Custer County, as the site of their settlement. The second colony to reach the territory was the far more famous and prosperous Union Colony. Organized in New York in December, 1869, its members began to arrive in Colorado in April and May, 1870, and founded the settlement centering at Greeley."
Does anyone know how Brockway, NB came to be so named?
Lou
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