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being no county divisione at this time). He was succeeded in that office in 

 1750 by Captain Foy, who held that situation many years, and received a small 

 pension on his retirement. Mr. Cotterell afterwards acted as assistant Pro- 

 vincial Secretary. 



William Nisibett came out with Cornwallis in 1749 as one of the Governor's 

 clerks. He practised as an attorney and solicitor. He was appointed Attor- 

 ney General on ?Re resignation of Mr. Little, which office he held for 25 years. 

 He was one of the first representatives in the General Assembly of 1758, and 

 was elected speaker on 4th D.^cemlber, 1759. He continued in the Chair of the 

 House (with the intermission of one session when sick) until 1783, when he 

 retired on a small pension and died the following year aged 83. In 1763 he 

 declined a seat in the Council. During the period of his being Speaker, the 

 House sat for 14 years without being dissolved. The old house in which Mr. 

 Nis'bett resided situated in Grafton Street, Block letter E, CoUins's division, 

 mentioned in a forïner chapter, still remains, though much changed by the 

 cutting down of the street many years ago. He left no male descendants. 

 His daugrhter. Mrs. Swann, died in the old Grafton street house about 60 

 years ago. 



Archilbald Hinshelwood was one of Governor Cornwallis's clerks, and per- 

 formed the duties of Deputy Secretary with Mr. Cotterell and others for many 

 years. Most of the drafts of the letters sent to England by the tirst three 

 Governors are in his handwriting. He was elected a member of Assembly 

 for Lunenburg in 1759 and again in 1765. Lord William Campbell the Governor 

 appointed him to the Council in 1773, but he died before taking his seat. His 

 property on Argyle Street afterwards occupied by the Oity Water office fell 

 to his netphaw, (he having no childre-n), who left two sons in the navy, both 

 of whom died young. The old property was sold about 60 years since and 

 purchased by Mr. W. A. Black, who resided there ^many years. 



Otis Little was Captain of one of the New England Independent Com- 

 panies. He was probably a native of England. Being in England in 1749, 

 he came out with Governor Cornwallis, who appointed him Commissary of 

 Stores, from which office he was dismissed on suspicion of having traded in 

 the supplies for the settlers. He acted as first Attorney General of the Colony 

 and was probably a lawyer by profession. He -was the author of a well-writ- 

 ten pamphlet on the resources of Nova Scotia, written in 1748 with a view to 

 encouraging British emigration to the province. Captain Little left a daugh- 

 ter, who died unmarried at Halifax early in the present century. 



John Baptiste Moreau, designated gentleman and schoolmaster in the 

 book of the settlers, had been originally a Roman Catholic priest, and Prior 

 of the Aibibey of St. Matthew at Bresite. He joined the exipedition under Corn- 

 wallis in 1749, and went to Lunenburg with the settlers in 1752. He received 

 ordination as a clergyman of the Church of England in 1750, and officiated to 

 his countrymen and the Germans in the County of Lunenburg, where he died 

 much esteemed and regretted in the year 1770. He left a son, Cornwallis 

 Moreau, who was the first male child born in Halifax, and was called Corn- 

 wallis after the Governor. This old man was living at La Hêve, in Lunen- 

 burg County, in the year 1848, being nearly 100 years of age. He received 

 pecuniary assistance from the Nova Scotia Philanthropic Society in that year. 



Doctor John Breyton came up from Louis/bourg with the army, where he 

 had been acting Chaplain to the Forces. He succeeded Mr. Tutty at St. 

 Paul's in 1751 or 1752, in conjunction with Rev. Thomas Wood. Mr. Breynton 

 was inducted Rector in 1758 or '9, under the provisions of the Statutes of the 

 Province, and Mr. Wood acted as Curate or "Vicar. After Mr. Wood's removal 

 to Annapolis in 1763, Mr. Joshua Wingate Weeks, from New England, became 

 assisitant minister at St. Paul's. Dr. Breynton received his degree of D.D. in 

 1770. He died in 17 — , and was succeeded at St. Paul's, as rector, by the Rev. 

 Doctor Robert Stanser, afterwards Lord Bishop of the Diocese. Dr. Breynton 



