THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Hewett, John 
Higgins, Jonathan 
Higgins, Jonathan, Jr. 
Hoar, David 
Hoar, Ebenezer 
Hoar, Solomon 
Howard, Ephraim 
Howard, Ephraim, Jr. 
Howard, George 
Howard, John 
Knowlton, Daniel 
Knowlton, Mary 
Lamb, Joshua 
Lines, Jacob, Heirs of 
Lines, Jacob, Jr. 
Lyon, James 
MeNutt, Abner 
McNutt, William 
Nichols, Samuel 
Pierpont, Joseph 
Polly, John 
Polly, John, Jr. 
Putnam, Caleb 
Richardson, Peter 
Rude, Jabez, Heirs of 
Scott, Abijah 
Scott, Asa 
Scott, Ephraim 
Scott, Joseph 
Steel, John 
Stevens, Christopher 
Stevens, Jacob 
Stevens, Jacob, Jr. 
Stevens, Thomas 
Tackles, Hugh 
Tackles, Hugh Actor (Easter) 
Tackles, James 
Tackles, William 
Upham, Abigail 
Upham, Nathan 
Upham, Richard 
Upham, Richard, Jr. 
Whippey, Richard, Jr. 
Whippey, William 
Whippy, Samuel, Heirs of 
Wilson, James 
Wilson, Peter 
Wright, Deborah 
Richardson, Reuben 
If Haliburton, and the Onslow Township Book of Records of 
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are to be taken for authority on the point, 
the settlement of Onslow did not begin until sometime in 1761; but in 
determining the exact date we must be influenced by the fact that the 
people of Truro and Onslow appealed to the Government for aid in open- 
ing communciation with Halifax on the fifth of August, 1760. It is 
therefore reasonable to conclude that Haliburton’s statement that the 
first British settlers, who he says, numbered thirty families and came 
from Massachusetts, bringing with them twenty head of horned cattle, 
eight horses, and seventy sheep, landing in Onslow in the summer of 
1761, relates to the second instalment of the signers under Scott and 
Knowlton, who expected to settle in May of that year. 
By far the larger number of the men who are mentioned in the great 
Onslow grant, with their families actually settled in Colchester. Unlike 
the eastern Connecticut men who settled in King’s County, the genea- 
logies of few of these have been compiled, consequently in many cases 
we do not know precisely from what towns they came. Most, however, 
