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APPENDIX D. 



PROMINENT BUILDERS OF NOVA SCOTIA, 

 Ff' m A kins' s History of Halifax Citij, pj). 225 et seq. 



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The following short sketch of some of the persons who took a lead in 

 establishing the Colony, has been compiled chiefly from public records :— 



Th.? Honourable Ediward Cornwallis, the first Governor and Commander- 

 in-Chief, was a younger son of Charles, third Baron Cornwallis by Lady 

 Charlotte Butler, daughter of Richard, Earl of Arran and uncle to the cele- 

 bnated Duke of Ormonde. He was born Ln 1713, was member of Parliament 

 for the borough of Eye in 1749, and was elected member for the city of West- 

 minster in 1753 shortly after he returned from Halifax. He married, the same 

 year, a daughter of the late Lord Townshend, but left no children. He was 

 afterwards raised to the rank of Major General and appointed Governor of 

 Gibraltar. General Cornwallis was twin brother of Dr. Frederick Cornwallis, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury. 



The gentlemen who composed the first Council were Paul Mascarene, 

 Edward How, John Goriham, Benjamin Green, John Salisbury and Hugh 

 Davidson. 



Col. Mascarene was a native of Castras in the south of France, was born 

 In the year 1684. His parents were Huguenots and were compelled to fly from 

 their native country on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes when all Pro- 

 testants were driven from France. He made his way to Geneva at the age 

 of 12, wiheire he received his education. He afterwards went to England, where 

 he recedved a comniission in the British army in 1708. He was appointed 

 Captain in 1710 and ordered to America, where he joined the regiment raised 

 in New England for the taking of Port Royal. He was at the capture of 

 Annapolis Royal that year, and was for some time commander of the garrison 

 as senior major of the regiment. On the death of Colonel Armstrong he 

 became Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment under General Phillips, and was 

 third on the list of councillors in 1720, when the first Council was organized 

 in Nova Scotia. In 1740 he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the fort, 

 and administered the government of the Province until the arrival of Corn- 

 wallis in 1749. He remained in command at Annapolis after the settlement 

 at Halifax, and 'was subsequently engaged as agent of the British Govern- 

 ment in arranging treaties with the Indians of New England and Acadia in 

 1751. He retired from active duties and died a Major General in the British 

 army at Bo.stùn, on 20th January, 1760. He left a son and daughter. His 

 son was said to be living in New England in 1835, at a very advanced age. 

 The late Judge Foster Hutchinson, of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and 

 the late Deputy Commissary General William Handfleld Snelling, were his 

 grandsons. His great-grandson, Mr. W. Snelling Stirling, has his portrait, 

 painted by Smybert of Boston about 1725. 



Benjamin Green was a native of the province of Massachusetts, born in 

 1713, youngest son of the Rev. Joseph Green, minister of Salem, Mass., and 

 graduate of Harvard College, He was brought up as a merchant under his 

 elder brother Joseph In Boston. In 1737 he married a daughter of the Hon- 



