The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories

rection was to offer exceptional advantages to the New England soldiers, who constituted the largest part of the force at the taking of Beausejour, if they would remain in the country. Ve

d scalped while out getting wood for the fort. Colonel Scott, commandant at Cumberland, immediately sent two hundred of the New England men to Bay Verte with a sergeant and ten men of the regulars. The sergeant replaced the men who were killed, and

and, and that a provision vessel had been boarded by French and Indians in the Bay of Fundy and carried up the River Petitcodiac." Th

ly was to consist of twenty-two members, twelve to be elected by the Province at large, four for the township of Halifax, four for the township of Lunenburg, one for Dartmouth, one for Lawrenceto

islature of Halifax the oldest in the Dominion of Canada. This year, also, Governor Lawrence issued his fir

. The first proclamation had, however, to be supplemented by a second, in which full liberty of conscience and the right to worship as they pleased was secured to Protestants of all denominations. This guarantee

chooner to proceed to Chignecto, to examine that part of the Province with a view to settlement. Mr. Mott and his par

napolis. This year (1759) persons in Connecticut and Rhode Island sent Major Dennison, Jonathan Harris, James Otis, James Fuller, and John Hicks, to

w England to settle in Nova Scotia was very marked, and resu

was granted to transport twenty families with seventy-nine head of cattle to the township of Amherst. In 1763, a number of families came to Sackville and were given grants of land by the Government. These Sackville emigrants were adhere

of 100,800 acres. It included all the territory between the La Planche and Aulac Rivers, and extended east to Bay Ver

Cumberland of thirty-five families. The township of Cumberland of (sic) was given 18,

nding a representative to the Assembly at Halifax. The request was granted, and Joshua Winslow was chosen as the first representative of the township. Col

tague Wilmot, Esquire,

His Majesty's Provin

Majesty's regiments of

he chief command of this Province and in your safe arrival therein. Although remote from the Capital, and perhaps last in our addresses,

footing with our neighbours, we cannot help presuming upon the liberty of signifying to Your Honour our regret thereat, and praying that you will be pleased to permit the solution of our affairs to be laid before you,

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The Presbyte

ive. The former married Theodora, a sister of Col. Jonathan Crane the father of Hon. Wm. Crane; the latter married Col. Wm. Eddy, of Revolutionary fame, who was afterwards killed in the British attack on Machais, and the Fort Lawrence property inherited by his wife was escheated to the Crown. After Alpheus Morse's death his widow married Major How, an officer in Eddy's command. Upon the failure of the rebellion, Mrs. How and Mrs. Eddy fled to the United States. Alpheus Morse's sons were Alpheus, James, Joseph, Silas, and John. The two first lived in Cumberland, where their descendants are still found. Judge Morse and Dr. Mo

ed in Sackville. Obediah joined the Eddy rebels in 1776, and was made a commodore by the Contine

and Throop's plan is still referred to. His grant was in Upper Point de Bute, where some

s-John, William and Ale

ame occurs still in th

s to Boston picked up a waif in the person of Brook Watson, a young man who had had one of his legs bitten off by a shark in West-Indian waters. Watson was trained under Winslow, and the foundation of his success was hereby laid. General Joshua was Commissary-General of the British in Nova Scotia.

and Jesse. John settled in Amherst and Jesse in Fort Lawrence

ned to England and published a book in London, in 1774, describing a voyage from Nepi

s slaves, a negro family, to whom he afterwards gave their freedom, and gave them also his name (now spelled Martin). Captain Mar

was a large property owner in Point de Bute on both sides of the r

Assembly. Tradition says his death was caused by falling into the

n, and came to Connecticut when

ttled in Fort Lawrence, and from there r

He had two sons, Martin and Ebenezer, the former of whom settled at R

in 1749. He soon after came to Cumberland. John and Winkworth Allan were his sons. His gr

d all the other Allans are the descendants of the first William.

to assist in the Expulsion. He afterwards left the country, going to London, where he wa

in height, and broad in proportion. Samuel was afterwards made a judge. It is said that Judge Gay's daughter Fanny was in Boston at the time of the sea duel between the SHANNON and the CHESAPEAKE, and

y, and after his discharge settled in Bay Vert

d a large number of his descendants are s

cendants lived in Sackville and Bay Verte for a

He had a large family of sons and they settled in different p

Samuel Raymond li

y and Jabez, settled in

ll common in th

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a time, but afterwards removed to King

and the name is yet f

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, under Commodore Ayer, sacked Mr. Watson's premises one night and took the old gentleman

n the country, and his d

ed in the country. Nehemiah lived in Sackvi

and and remained in the country.

kshire family of Richardson, whose descendants are still

land family and the name

d and the name is now

shelwood left

is still in

f the How that was shot by the

or family now rem

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Ebenezer Storer, Dani

was from Dumfr

ames to be found in the lists of a hundre

he St. John River. They called their settlement Maugerville. The name Sunbury

along the river. Some of their names were: Perley, Barker, Burpee, Stickney, Smith, Wasson, Bridges, Upton, Palmer, Coy,

s before the others. The Rev. Mr. Noble was there before t

he Nova Scotians wanted it at the Aulac or further west. They compromised on the Missiquash.* This division made some trouble in nomenclature and has puzzled a good many persons since that date. The part of the old township of Cumberland on the west of the Missiquash became the parish of Westmoreland, in the county of Westmoreland. Fort Cumberland was in th

ned to give up agitating for a change. In 1792 the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia presented an address to the Lieutenant-Governor, in which they say "there is a very pressing necessity of an alteration in the division line, between this and the n

. A second from the head of the tide on the Memramcook by a certain magnetic line to the salt water of Cocagne Harbor, a

nd, thence north fifty-four degrees, twenty-five minutes east, crossing the south end of Black Island, two hundred and eighty-eight chains to the south angle of Trenholm's Island, thence south thirty-seven degrees east, eighty-five chains and eight-two links to a post, thence south seventy-six degrees east, forty-six chains and twenty links to the portage, thence sou

bject treated exhaustively in a work just published, entitled "A Monograph of the Evolution of the Boundaries of the

re taken from the ann

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Allan, Abeil Richardson, John Huston and John Oates were appoin

John Huston, John Jencks, Joshua Sprague, Valentine Estabrooks and William Maxw

house of Mrs. Charity Bishop, who kept an inn at Cumberland. There were present Captain John Huston, Doctor John Jencks, Joshu

newly arrived settlers, and the proceedings were largely taken up with settling such matters. It was re

31st August, Mr. Elijah Ayers'

oderator and Robert Foster, clerk. They, with John Thomas, were appointed

w that if a proposed escheat was made it would be attended with great confusion, as but few of the grants had

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