258 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Before this time the New Dublin settlers must have removed to other 
places, but where most of them had gone we are unable to tell. 
Why no formal grant of their lands was given to the Scotch Irish 
settlers in the township of Londonderry for fourteen years after their 
arrival, we cannot explain, the great grant of the township by the 
Council at Halifax bears the comparatively late date of March 6, 1775, 
at which time Francis Legge, Esq., was governor of the Province. 
This Londonderry grant is described as ‘comprehended within the limits 
of 53,000 acres in Londonderry,” and as being divided into “sixty-nine 
shares of five hundred acres each, to James Fulton and sixty-eight other 
persons.” That the original Ulster company settling in Londonderry 
may have comprised only twenty families, as we have said, is quite 
possible, but in the fourteen years that had elapsed since the first settle- 
ment these had no doubt been joined by others, and so the number of 
persons to whom grants might now be given might easily be sixty or 
seventy, or perhaps more. The text of the grant is as follows: 
“This day a Grant passed under the Seal of the Province and 
signed by His Excellency the Governor giving and conferring agreable 
to a vote of His Majesty’s Council for said Province bearing date the 
tenth day of February, 1775, unto James Fulton, John Rogers, Anthony 
McClane, James Wilson, Alexander McCurdy, John Denny, Robert 
Spencer, John Mahon, Joseph McClelan, Ezekiel Williams, William 
Nicholson, James Cook, William Martin, George McNutt, John Vance, 
William Nesbitt, John Palmer, James Lyon, John Reagh, and the heirs 
of the Rev. John Moorhead, their heirs and assigns, two Rights of land 
each, containing five hundred acres each right; unto the heirs of Robert 
Barnhill, John Barnhill, Joseph Prow, Thomas Baird, David Graham, 
the heirs of William Wilson, Samuel Wilson, William Flager, Claud 
Wilson, Francis Reed, William McCully, Thomas Wilson, Elizabeth 
McCully, Archibald Thompson, Robert Forbes, William Forbes, William 
McClentag, Richard Bartlet, William Long, Robert Faulkner, John 
Storey, the Rev. David Smith, Robert Calderwood, Jasper McKinley, 
Samuel McClane, Samuel Archibald, Robert Archibald, John Morrison, 
Thomas Flager, William Fisher, William McKim, Peter McClelan, 
Robert Dill, John Willams, the heirs of William Cook, Samuel Fulton, 
William Davison, Thomas Fulton, Archibald Karr, John Wilks, John 
Huit, William Southerland, David Hunter, James McNutt, John Mc- 
Clelan, Robert McClelan, and John Clarke, their heirs and assigns, one 
right each containing five hundred acres, being in the whole eighty- 
nine shares or rights of land, each share or right to contain five hundred, 
which said eighty-nine shares or rights are comprehended within the 
limits of a tract of land situate, lying, and being in the township of 
