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Another condition was that the grantees must settle one-fourth of the 
land within one year (one Protestant person to every 200 acres), one- 
fourth within two years, one fourth within three years, and the re- 
maining one-fourth within four years, or the land so unsettled should 
revert to the Crown. In the condition of the country the time allowed 
was too short. It does not appear that McNutt made any very serious 
attempt to settle the grant and it was escheated in 1770. 
Commenting upon the McNutt grants in general the late Israel 
Longworth observes :— 
“The name of Alexander appears all over the province. The name 
of John in grants to the eastward, in Colchester and Hants Counties. 
The name of Joseph in the west in Liverpool and Shelburne. It is 
understood that John McNutt lived for a while at Londonderry at the 
head of the Bay of Fundy, and Joseph in Shelburne where his land lay.” 
The list of grants which follows is taken from the public records at 
Halifax. It does not include the immense “reservations” made for 
Colonel McNutt from time to time, nor is it likely that it contains every 
grant which was made to him and his associates. In considering the 
magnitude of the total acreage of these land grants it must be borne in 
mind that McNutt was in nearly every instance one of many associates. 
His share was usually considerably larger than that of the other grantees, 
nevertheless the lands which he personally held under the patents were 
but a fraction of the whole. It will be observed that the list of escheats 
in the table below is incomplete. However, in the end, very little 
land remained to Alexander McNutt of the score of grants made to 
him and his associates in various parts of Nova Scotia. 
