[EATON] THE SETTLING OF COLCHESTER COUNTY 249 
bald, K.C.M.G., sometime Governor of the Canadian Northwest, and 
afterwards of his native province of Nova Scotia. 
From the absence of early shipping records in New England we 
do not know the exact date of the sailing of the New Hampshire colony 
to Nova Scotia, but from a notice given earlier in this chapter we feel 
sure that the people embarked at Haverhill, a few miles from the 
mouth of the Merrimac river. When they reached Colchester they 
perhaps disembarked at Savage’s Island, in Lower Truro. Their first 
shelter on land must have been in tents of some kind, for they could 
not even begin to erect houses until after they had had lands assigned 
to them. When they named their earliest settlements, loyal to their 
Irish and New Hampshire tradition, they called Upper Truro Derry 
Village, and Lower Truro, Down Village, and these names the two 
connected settlements bore until well towards the close of the 18th 
century and perhaps even into the 19th. 
“The first Truro families,’ says Lieutenant Governor Francklin 
in 1766, “were transported hither at the expense of Government, had 
lands assigned them in the Township of Truro, and were supported 
there two years, with an additional expense to Government of building 
forts and barracks for their security and troops sent for their protection 
and lately five hundred pounds of the provincial funds has been expended 
for opening roads of communication from Halifax to those settlements.” 
The settlers, however, were not able to obtain a grant of their lands 
until five years after their settlement. “They appear,” says Mr. Long- 
worth, “in common with the settlers of other neighbouring townships, 
to have had great difficulty in procuring their grant, in consequence, as 
is stated by Judge Haliburton, of opposition in Halifax. This un- 
toward event occasioned them much uneasiness and their discontent 
manifested itself, on important occasions, for many years afterwards. 
The difficulties in the way of issuing the Township grants under 
Governor Lawrence’s proclamation arose from the fact that the London 
Board of Trade and Plantations disapproved of the course pursued by 
him in promising free grants of the cultivated uplands and dyked 
marshes of the French. The Board thought that these lands should 
have been sold at a moderate price to the settlers from the other 
American Colonies, who they supposed would be possessed of some 
means. This retarded the grants.” 
Of the exact method of partition of the Truro lands to the Scotch- 
Irish New England Settlers we have no tradition remaining. In our 
History of King’s County, pages 78-82, we have given a detailed account 
of the partition of the Cornwallis and Horton lands among the New 
England settlers in those townships, and we have no doubt that very 
much the same course as was pursued in King’s County was pursued in 
