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Captain How will bo best remembered by readers of Nova Scotian 

 history on account of his tragic death at Beaubassin through the 

 treachery of LeLoutre. Messrs. Davidson and Salisbury were 

 Englishmen who came out with Cornwallis. Mr. Green was a graduate 

 of Harvard Universit}^, and afterwards became treasurer of the province. 

 Other persons were in the course of time added to the original council 

 just named, until it reached its maximum of twelve members, as fol- 

 lows : Col. Mascarene, Col. Grorham, B. Green, John Salisbury, Hugh 

 Davidson, Capt. How, W.Steele, Major Lawrence, Col. Horseman, Col. 

 J. Francis Mercer, Col, E. Ellison, Col. Hopson. The governor ex-officio 

 presided in those times. One of the first acts of the executive was 

 the aj^pointment of the following justices of the peace ^ : John Brewse, 

 Eobert Ewer, John Collier, and John Duport. 



It was first proposed to make the settlement near Point Pleasant, 

 then called Sandwich Point, but on further exploration of the harbour a 

 more suitable situation to the northward was chosen. The town was laid 

 out by the engineers in square blocks, three hundred and twenty feet by 

 one hundred and twenty in depth, and the streets were given an actual 

 width of fifty-five instead of sixty as first contemplated. As originally 

 surveyed, Salter street was the limit to the south, and Buckingham street 

 to the north, but a new division of lots was immediately added, and 

 Jacob street became the northern boundary as it appears in the early 

 plan of the town on a separate page. The town was surrounded by a 

 cordon of palisades or upright pickets with five quadrangular block- 

 houses at important points. By 1753 the town, as the plan shows, 

 contained thirty-five blocks and fourteen streets, seven running from east 

 to west, and seven from south to north, which are still thoroughfares of 

 the modern city. In the middle of the town was the parade, ever since a 

 familiar feature to residents of the town. On the upper part of this 

 ground the barracks of the Eoyal Artillery stood for some years. An 

 historian of the city'^ tells us that before 1*760 "the houses were generally 

 built of square and round timber, some with small pickets placed upright 

 between the stubs of the frame, and the whole covered over with clap- 



1 1 give in Appendix D Dr. Akins's brief sketches of Governor Cornwallis, Colonel 

 Mascarene, Chief Justice Belcher, Colonel (afterwards governor) Lawrence, Rev. 

 Dr. Breynton, Hon. Richard Bulkeley, B. Green, John Salisbury, H. Davidson, 

 Capt. How, Col. Gorham, Charles Morris (first Surveyor-General), Capt. Cotterell, 

 W. Nesbitt (Speaker of Assembly), A. Hinshelwood, Otis Little, Rev. J. B. Moreau, 

 J. Creighton, Col. Hopson, Capt. J. Collier, Capt. H. Gates, J. Binney, B. & J. Ger- 

 rish, Major Lochman (from whom Lockman street is named, though spelt incorrectly), 

 M. Salter, R. Gibbons (a name well known in Cape Breton), John Duport, Joshua Mau- 

 ger (from whom Maugerville in New Brunswick is named), Michael Franklin and 

 other persons who took leading parts in the establishment of the government of the 

 new provinces. 



2 Akins's History, p. 219. 



