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In a short time he did sail, and in November, 1762, he again appeared 
in Halifax, with about a hundred and fifty more settlers,’ to whom 
the Council assigned lands at La Have, in Lunenburg County, trans- 
porting them there in vessels hired by the Government, and furnishing 
them with provisions for the winter. In 1765, as we further learn 
from Mr. Francklin, a third vessel reached Halifax from Ireland, bring- 
ing about fifty persons, “chiefly belonging to families before introduced 
and settled by Colonel McNutt.”’ Of the one hundred and fifty or more 
people in the second band brought by McNutt, the Lieutenant Governor 
wrote to the Lords of Trade: “Mr. McNutt very unexpectedly arrived 
here in November last at the head of above two hundred persons, 
embarked from Ireland for the Plantations in general, and not for Nova 
Scotia in particular, as appeared by Mr. McNutt’s demand of a sum 
of money for their provisions or that otherwise he would carry his 
passengers to Philadelphia. However contrary to his express engage- 
ment with the Lords of Trade that no expence should be incurred to 
this Government for his settlements, yet I conceived it might discourage 
the general plan resolved upon if persons offering themselves should 
without some very pressing reason be refused, and therefore these 
people, who are in extreme poverty, were received upon the terms 
required by Mr. McNutt, and are at present fixed at New Dublin.” 
In his History of Lunenburg County (page 181), Judge Des Brisay 
says: “A settlement was made in Lower Dublin by people from Ire- 
land in 1762. Hence the name New Dublin. These immigrants left 
from time to time for places promising, as they thought, more inviting 
prospects.” McNutt himself says that in consequence of many dis- 
couragements some of them embarked the following spring for New 
England, while part of those that remained became “tenants to Belcher 
[the Lieutenant Governor] and Company.” ? 
In 1767 a general census of Nova Scotia was made by Mr. Francklin, 
and although we do not learn from it the names of the Scotch-Irish 
families therein mentioned, we do learn pretty accurately the number 
of people of this nationality then living in the several townships. In 
this census we find in Truro 301 “Irish,” the town’s whole population, 
in Londonderry, 130, and in Onslow 100. In the Hants County town- 
ships we find—in Windsor, 60, in Falmouth 20, and in Newport 17. 

2 Under date of November 5, 1762, Murdoch says: “Col. McNutt having arrived 
with 170 settlers from Ireland, who were to go to the township of Dublin, and 100 
of them being in distress, provisions for four months were voted them by H. M. 
Council.” Murdoch’s History of Nova Scotia, Vol. II, p. 423. This information is 
taken from the Council minutes. 
1Archdeacon Raymond’s first monograph, p 74. 
