242 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
in the grant, are as follow: Joseph Ballad (probably Ballard), Ebene- 
zer Basset, James Beal, John Beal, David Blackmar, Simeon Blackmar, 
Solomon Blackmar, William Blackmar, John Brewer, Abner Brooks, 
Benjamin Brooks, Edward Brooks, Martin Brooks, Phineas Brooks, 
Joseph Brown, Samuel Brown, Joel Camp, William Carey, Joseph 
Carley, Isaiah Carpenter, Isaiah Chaddock, Ebenezer Child, Benjamin 
Coley, Jr., Gedeon Coley, Daniel Colton, Jr., Isaac Colton, John Craw- 
ford, Abraham Crawley, John Crawley, Benjamin Cummins, Edward 
Damon, Edward Damon, Jr., John Damon, Stephen Davis, Simon 
Davis, Johathan Dickinson, Nehemiah Dickinson, Mark Feray, Noah 
Feray, John Gibbs, James Glasford, James Hartwell, William Hart- 
well, Deborah Haywood, widow; Ephraim Haywood, George Hay- 
ward, John Haywood, Daniel Hoer, Francis Hoer, Leonard Hoer, 
Nathan Hoer, Israel Holton, James Holton, Daniel Knowlton, 
Stephen Knowlton, Daniel Loch, Ebenezer Loch, Robert Lotheride, 
_ Ebenezer Luce, Benjamin Lull, Benjamin Lull, Jr., Hezekiah Marks, 
Elijah Marsh, Judah Marsh, Thomas Marsh, Daniel McCallum, Thomas 
McClintoch, John McIntyre, Thomas McIntyre, Joseph MeNall, Isaac 
Mecham, Jerehiah Mecham, Ebenezer Miller, Aron Neilson, Moses 
Neilson, Samuel Norcross, Moses Olmstead, David Paterson, James 
Paterson, Jr., John Paterson, William Paterson, Abijah Powers, Walter 
Powers, Abijah Price, Abijah Price, Jr., Asa Price, Philip Richardson, 
William Rodgers, Edward Savage, John Savage, John Savage, Jr., Samuel 
Shaw, Joseph Spalding, Richard Stratton, Isaac Straker (or Stratter), 
Jeremiah Streeton, Jesse Sudderick, Ichabod Sudderick, Archibald 
Thomas, Archibald Thomas, Jr., William Thomas, James Thompson, 
Jonathan Train, Robert Traen, Alexander Turner, Jr., Andrew Turner, 
Reuben Turner, Ebenezer Washburn, David Wheeler, Deliverance 
Wheeler, Ephraim Wheeler, George Wheeler, Samuel Wheeler, William 
Wheeler, Henry White, James Wilson, Daniel Winston, Zebulon Young. 
The local Colchester tradition to which we have already referred, 
based possibly on a statement of Judge Haliburton which we have 
quoted, says that the very earliest beginning of English settlement in 
both Truro and Onslow was made in the fall of 1759, by twenty men 
from New England, most of whom had previously served in the garrison 
at Fort Cumberland. However correct this may be concerning Onslow it 
is probably entirely true concerning Truro, but the first certain informa- 
tion we have found of New England settlers coming to Truro is an order 
of the Council at Halifax to Sylvanus Cobb, master of the sloop York, 
to sail immediately for Boston and receive such settlers for Truro and 
Onslow as “Mr. Hancock” should direct to be sent on his sloop and also 
onthe Nova Scotia Government’s transport sloop. Captain Cobb was 
also to inform Mr. Hancock that the sloop Cumberland, Captain 
