Cumberland was the home in Nova Scotia of Anna Green Winslow's
parents, where her father held the position of commissary to the
British regiments stationed there. George Green, Anna's uncle,
writing to Joseph Green, at Paramaribo, on July 23, 1770, said: "Mr.
Winslow & wife still remain at Cumberland, have one son & one
daughter, the last now at Boston for schooling, &c." So, at the date
of the first entry in the diary, Anna had been in Boston probably
about a year and a half.