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Colchester. In King’s, lot-layers and surveyors were appointed, and the 
lots were numbered and drawn for individually. The lots drawn for com- 
prised arable land, dyked marsh, and wood land, of each of which every 
settler received a certain share. From an early plan of the distribution 
of lands in Onslow, which still exists, we see that in that township the 
settlers were assigned shares of these various sorts of land as in King’s. 
Regarding the settlement of Truro, the late Hon. Sir Adams 
Archibald has written: “Very considerable sums of money were ex- 
pended by the Imperial Government in bringing Protestant settlers to 
Nova Scotia. Special inducements were offered to immigrants, such as 
transport to the Province, grants of cleared lands, and aid in the first 
years of the settlement. In this way, in the year 1760 were settled 
Granville, Annapolis, Cornwallis, Horton, and Falmouth. Early in 
1761 Newport was settled, and in the latter part of the month of May of 
that year, a body of immigrants landed in Truro, and another in Onslow 
The intervening lands, between Newport and Onslow on one side of 
Cobequid Bay, and between Onslow and Economy on the other, were 
left for subsequent years. The first settlers at Truro consisted of fifty- 
three families, comprising in all a hundred and twenty souls. They had 
come originally from the North of Ireland, having first immigrated to 
New Hampshire. After a short stay there, hearing of the inducements 
to settle in Nova Scotia they decided to come to Truro. When they 
came they brought with them a hundred and seventeen head of cattle, 
farming implements, and household utensils, together with seed-corn 
and potatoes. Government supplied their transport. The voyage from 
New England was tedious. The ships were detained by contrary winds and 
it was well on to the end of May before they arrived at their destination.” 
That in some way the early Scotch-Irish settlers of the District of 
Colchester generally, managed to give the Government at Halifax the 
impression that they were aggressive and turbulent, is learned from the 
memorial of Lieutenant Governor Francklin on behalf of the Governor 
and Council, in August, 1766, to the Lords of Trade. Mr. Francklin 
says: “The Government here has experienced more difficulty in keeping 
peace and good order in the two little towns of Truro and Londonderry, 
settled by Colonel McNutt’s followers, than with all the other settlements 
in the whole Province, they being mostly composed of persons from the 
Charter Governments who still retain so great a degree of republican 
principles that they make it a point to oppose on all occasions every 
measure of Government calculated to support the honour and authority 
of His Majesty’s Crown and Dignity.” The strong opposition to 
British rule in America shown by the Scotch Irish in the middle colonies 
at the time of the Revolution is very well known, but what unusual 
demonstrations of independence had been manifested by the people 
