248 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Moore, James School Lot 
Moore, Joseph Scott, George 
Moore, Samson Taylor, John 
Moore, William Taylor, Matthew 
Morrison, John Whidden, David 
Nelson, Alexander Whidden, James 
Nesbitt, William Wright, James 
Procter, Charles Yuill, James 
Rains, John Yuill, James, Jr. 
Savage, John 
In the record of troops raised for “the total reduction of Canada,” 
to be found in the Massachusetts State Archives, is a muster roll con- 
taining the names of a lieutenant and fifty-nine men, under charge of 
Captain Alexander McNutt, who undoubtedly formed the company 
that Haliburton says served at Fort Cumberland in 1759, some of them 
afterward settling permanently in Truro. In this muster roll we find 
the names of the following Truro grantees: Samuel Archibald, James 
Dunlap, John Fisher, William Fisher, Robert Hunter, William Kennedy, 
John McKeen, John Taylor, Matthew Taylor. And in a list of men 
serving under McNutt from April 28 to November 30, 1760, we find the 
additional Truro names: David Archibald, Thomas Dunlap, and Charles 
McKay. 
In Mr. Thomas Miller’s “ Historical and Geanealogical Record of the 
First Settlers of Colchester County” the families of a considerable 
number of these grantees, as of other settlers not of this migration have 
been traced in Nova Scotia for three or four generations. By far the 
greater number of the grantees were from Londonderry, New Hamp- 
shire, though some were not. Miller traces the Archibald families, 
founded in Truro by four brothers, David, Samuel, Sr., James, and 
Thomas, all of whom this writer says were born in Ireland and did not 
migrate to New Hampshire until about 1757. These brothers, accord- 
ing to Miller, arrived in Truro December 13, 1762, their three sisters, 
married respectively to the grantees Matthew Taylor, Sr., William 
Fisher, and Samson Moore, coming with them. From David Archibald, 
the eldest of these four settlers in Truro, sprang in the third generation 
Colchester County’s most distinguished son, the Honourable Samuel 
George William Archibald, LL.D., Speaker of the Assembly, Attorney 
General, and Master of the Rolls; and in the fourth generation, his sons, 
Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald, K.C.M.G., and Sir Thomas Dixon 
Archibald, Kt. Bach., Baron of the Exchequer of Great Britain. From 
Samuel Archibald, Sr., another of the Archibald settlers in Truro, 
sprang also in the fourth generation the Hon. Sir Adams George Archi- 
