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Between two and three thousand people were brought in by the 

 British government to found the new town and settle the country. These 

 people were chiefly made up of retired military and naval officers, soldiers 

 and sailors, gentlemen, mechanics and farmers — far too few — and some 

 Swiss, who were extremely industrious and useful. On the whole, they 

 were not the best colonists to build up a prosperous industrial com- 

 munity. The government gave the settlers large inducements in the 

 shape of free grants of land, and supported them practically for the first 

 two or three years \ It was not until the Acadian population was 

 removed, and their lands were available, that the foundation of the 

 agricultural prosperity of the peninsula was really laid. 



In the summer of lYôS a considerable number of Germans were 

 placed in the present county of Lunenburg, where their descendants 

 still prosper, and take a most active part in all the occupations of life. 

 Many of the settlers came from Liineberg, others from Switzerland, and 

 not a few from Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs, between the 

 Ehine and Ehone. The names of original settlers — of Eudolf, Jessen, 

 Knaut, Ivaulbach, Hebb, Eisenhauer, Gaetz, and Oxner, particularly — 

 are constantly met in the official and poHtical records of the country for 

 nearly a century and a half. A. Kaulbach now represents the county in 

 the House of Commons-. 



IV. New England Migration.— The settlement of 1749 was supple- 

 mented in 1760 and subsequent years by a valuable and large addition of 

 people who were induced to leave Massachusetts and other colonies of 

 New England and establish themselves on the fertile Acadian lands and 

 other favoured parts of the peninsula. Persons not well acquainted with 



one published at Nuremberg in 1756, another in Paris in 1755, both of which are the 

 same as the one I give. The same plan was also printed at Hamburgh in 175K 

 Opposite pages 18, 20, 24, 26, I give reprints of four old copper plates (London, 1777), 

 engraved by John Boydell from drawings by R. Short, dedicated to Lord Halifax, 

 and in possession of Dr. S. E. Dawson of Ottawa. 



1 In Dr. Akins's " Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova 

 Scotia," (Halifax, N.S., 1869) we find the following lists of the early settlers : 



1. List of the settlers who came out with Governor Cornwallis to Chebucto in 

 June, 1749, Page 506 et seq. 



2. A list of the families of the English, Swiss, etc., which have been settled in 

 Nova Scotia since the year 1749, and who are now settlers in the places hereinafter 

 mentioned. Page 650 et seq. A total of 4,249 persons are given as living within the 

 pickets and suburbs of Halifax, town of Dartmouth, on the islands and harbours, 

 employed in the fisheries, and on the isthmus and the peninsula of Halifax. This 

 enumeration is confined to the places named and does not comprise the British 

 people living in Annapolis, then very few in number. The same list is given in 

 Akins's " History of Halifax City." Coll. N.S. His. Soc, vol. VIIL, 1895. Mr. Justice 

 Burbidge, the able judge of the exchequer court of Canada, is a relative of Colonel 

 Burbidge, one of the early English settlers, who became one of the most useful and 

 influential inhabitants of the Cornwallis district. 



2 See " History of the County of Lunenburgh," by Mather Byles DesBrisay, judge , 

 of County Court, etc., Toronto, Montreal and Halifax, 1895. Large 8vo, illustrated. 



Sec. II., 1899. 2 



