244 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
franchises, and appurtenances, without any exceptions or reservations 
The nominal quit rent was one shilling sterling for every fifty acres, 
payable after ten years, and to be paid yearly afterwards. The grantees 
numbered eighty-two (besides the minister’s lot and the school lot), 
each of whom was required within three years to clear and work three 
acres for every fifty, drain three acres of marsh, if there were any in his 
lot, and to put and keep on his land three neat cattle and six hogs, till 
three acres for every fifty were fully cleared and improved. If no part 
of the land was fit for cultivation without manuring and improving, 
each grantee was required within three years to erect on part of it 
a dwelling house twenty feet by sixteen, and also to stock it with three 
neat cattle and six hogs for every fifty acres. The men to whom 
this grant was given were chiefly Ulster Scotsmen of the Londonderry, 
New Hampshire, colony, though some of them undoubtedly were 
residents of other New Hampshire towns. 
TEXT OF THE GRANT. 
M. Wilmot 
No. 66 
Dated October 31, 1765 
Registered August the 12th, 1766 
Part of the Township of Truro 
To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting: Know ye that 
I, Montague Wilmot, Esquire, Captain General and Commander in 
Chief in and over his Majesty’s Province of Nova Scotia or Acadie and 
its Dependencies, Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c., 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 the said Province, give grant, and 
confirm unto James Yuill two rights, James Yuill, Jr., one right, Alex- 
ander Nelson two rights, James Faulkner one and a half rights, Andrew 
Gamble one right, John Gamble one right, Jennet Long one right, 
William Corbitt one right, William Corbitt, Jr., one right, Matthew 
Fowler two rights, William Gillmore one right, James Downing two 
rights, Wiliam Downing one right, Hezekiah Egerton one and a half 
rights, John Jefferys one right, Minister one right, School one right, 
Wilham Nesbitt, Esq., one right, Charles Procter one right, Thomas 
Gourly one and a half rights, James Gourly one right, John Gourly one 
right, Samson Moore one right, James Moore one right, James Johnson 
two rights, Adam Johnson, Jr., one right, John Johnson two rights, John 
Johnson, Jr., one right, James Johnson, Jr., one right, Adam Johnson 
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