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Shirley of Massachusetts, a survey of Nova Scotia in 1745-46, when a 

 pUm of colonization was bein^ formed in Kni^land. Subsequently he 

 became the lirst surve^^or general of Nova Scotia, and the founder of a 

 distinguished famil}', long identified with the public life of the province 

 as members of the judicial bench, and council, and as chiefs of the public 

 surveys.' 



COLONEL MASCARENE. 



From Sai-an/s edition of Cahiek's Annapolis. 



The first council appointed by Cornwallis comprised Colonel 

 Mascarene, John Gorham, Benjamin Green, John Salisbury, Hugh 

 Davidson and Capt. Edward How. Colonel Mascarene had been for 

 some years lieutenant-governor at Annapolis, the capital from 1710 until 

 1749. Colonel Gorham had taken part in Pepperrell's expedition 

 against Louisbourg in 1745, and was a member of Mascarene's old council. 



1 F'our members of the family, including Captiiin Morris, were surveyors-general 

 in succession. A fine street in Halifax is named in their honour. The orip;inal of 

 Morris's Map of Nova Scotia and " the Northern Knglisli Colony together with the 

 French neighliouring settlements, taken from actual surveys and most approved 

 drafts and other accounts," is now in the Lenox Library, New York, and a copy 

 appears in the edition of " The Journal of Capt. W. I'ote, Jr., during his captivity in 

 the French and Indian War, &c.," printed by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1896. 

 See Appendix Ï) of this work for further reference to the Morrises. 



