240 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Mack, Alexander McCollom, Rev. James MacGregor, John MeMurphy, 
John and Samuel Moore, Peter Patterson, John Pinkerton, Hugh Rankin, 
a second John Morrison, James Reid, James Rogers, Archibald Stark, 
James Taggart, Matthew Taylor, Andrew Todd, John and Thomas 
Wallace, James Wilson, and John Woodburn. Other New Hampshire 
towns that may properly be considered daughters of Londonderry, are 
Acworth, Antrim, Bedford, Chester,. Goffstown, New Boston, Man- 
chester, Merrimack, Peterborough, and Windham. Into Vermont and 
Maine also, not a few of the Londonderry people sooner or later spread. 
The enthusiasm for migrating to Nova Scotia which swept the New 
England coast towns and many parts of the colony of Connecticut not 
directly on the sea, on the publication of Governor Lawrence’s procla- 
mations was shared by the Londonderry, New Hampshire, colony, and 
in 1761 a considerable group of them, under the guidance of one of their 
countrymen, a certain Captain Alexander McNutt, migrated to Truro. 
In two monographs by Archdeacon Raymond recently published in the 
Transactions of the Royal Society the story of McNutt and his vast 
plans for colonizing Nova Scotia has been ably told. In a memorial to 
the Lords of Trade, dated Halifax, August 30, 1766, in which the 
writer strongly denies charges of unfair dealing Mc Nutt had made against 
the Nova Scotia Government, Lieutenant Governor Francklin says that 
in August, 1759, McNutt first appeared in Halifax, and applied for land 
for himself and a certain number of other persons who he said wished 
to settle in the Province. In the spring of 1761 he appeared again with 
a list of six hundred subscribers for land; but of these six hundred, only 
fifty families came. The subscribers for land whose names were thus 
presented by McNutt were probably all or nearly all persons living in 
the Scotch-Irish settlements in New Hampshire, and it is the fifty 
families of Scotch-Irish that came whom we know as the first settlers in 
the township of Truro. 
In a recently issued work, the “ Diary of Matthew Patten,” of Bed- 
ford, New Hamphsire, a neighbouring town to Londonderry, we find 
interesting testimony to MeNutt’s labours in organizing the Truro 
colony. Under date of January 29, 1760, Mr. Patten writes: “I spent 
the afternoon and evening with Mr. Alexander McNutt at John Bell, 
Jr’s., concerning his Township and monis.” March 2, 1760, he writes: 
“T attended on a meeting of Mr. Macnutt’s Signers and was chose Clerk 
and one of their Committees to go to Hallifax to get the grant and survey 
the land.” January 12, 1761, he writes: “I went to Londonderry to 
a meeting of Nova Scotia Subscribers.” With this information con- 
cerning McNutt’s part in the settlement of Truro agree the statements 
made by Judge Haliburton in his History of Nova Scotia in 1829. 
“The first British settlers of Truro,” says Haliburton, “were Irish 
