224 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 
A Grant 
of 
The Township of Onslow 
Containing 50,000 acres 
21st February, 1769 
Nova Scotia 8.8. To all to whom these Presents 
shall come Greeting:— Know ye that 
William Campbell I Lord William Campbell Captain 
General and Governor in Chief in and 
over His Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia or Acadie and its De- 
pendencies, Vice Admiral of the same &e&c&e By Virtue of the Power 
and authority to me given by His Present Majesty King George the 
Third under the Great Seal of Great Britain, have Given, Granted, 
and Confirmed, and do by these Presents, by and with the advice and 
Consent of His Majesty’s Council for said Province Give, Grant and 
Confirm unto the several persons hereafter named, A Tract of Land 
Situate, Lying and being called and known by the Name of The Town- 
ship of Onslow, beginning at the Northwestern bound of the Township 
of Truro at the Head of Cobequid Bay, thence to run East by the Com- 
pass Six Miles on the said Township of Truro and ungranted Lands, 
thence North Seven Miles and a half, thence West Eleven Miles and 
Twenty-four Chains (of four roods each) or until it meets the Eastern 
Boundary line of the Township of Londonderry, thence to be bounded 
Westerly on said Township and the River Chegonois down to the Con- 
fluence of it with Cobequid Bay, thence to be bounded on the South by 
said Cobequid Bay, to the bound first mentioned. Containing in the 
whole by Estimation Fifty Thousand Acres more or less with allowance 
for Roads, Sunken lands &c. &c., making Ninety-six and one-half 
Shares or Rights of One Hundred Shares or rights whereof said Town- 
ship doth Consist Computing each Share or Right at Five Hundred 
Acres with all and all manner of Mines unopened excepting Mines of 
Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper and Coals, in and upon the said Rights or 
Shares of Land Situate as aforesaid, to the said Grantees in the propor- 
tions hereafter mentioned that is to say unto Richard Upham, William 
Hamilton, Anthony Elliott, Thomas Stevens, James Lyon, John Steel 
and James Wilson each Two Shares,« + + unto Frances Blair, Jonathan 
Higgins, Joseph Scott, John Carter, William Tackles, Hugh Tackles, 
Jacob Stevens, William McNutt, The Heirs of Jacob Lines, Nathaniel 
Gallop, Edward Brooks, David Hoar, Martin Brooks, William Blair, 
Ephraim Howard, Joshua Lamb, David Gay, David Blackmore, Abner 
Brooks, Carpenter Bradford, George Howard, Ephraim Scott, John 
Polly, Samuel Nichols, Peter Richardson, Ephraim Howard Jun’r., 
Robert Crowell, Abijah Scott, David Cutting, Isaac Ferrell, Daniel 
