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Storey, John = Wilson, Claud 
Thompson, Archibald Wilson, James 
Vance, John Wilson, Samuel 
Wilks, John Wilson, Thomas 
Williams, Ezekiel Wilson, William, Heirs of 
Williams, John 
Of families in the Province directly from Ireland besides those 
indicated in the Londonderry grant, we know of the following: Cald- 
well, Chambers, Cochran, Cottem, Creelman, Crow or Crowe, Cummings, 
Cunningham, Curry, Densmore, Deyarmond, Dickey, Elder, Ellis, 
Flemming, Fletcher, Frame, Hill, Jenkins, Johnson, Laird, Lockhart, 
McConnell, McCullough, McDiarmid, McElhinney, McElmon, McLatchy, 
McRoberts, Oughterson, Patterson, Peppard, Pinkerton, Proctor, 
Four well known Nova Scotia Ulster Scots families, the Allisons, Magees, 
McCormicks, and McHeffeys, are said by the compiler of the Allison 
family genealogy to have come to Halifax in 1769, in a vessel that had 
sailed from Ireland for Pennsylvania, but had been disabled on the 
Sable Island reefs and had landed her passengers at the Nova Scotia 
capital. 
The name John Morrison, which appears in the list of Londonderry 
grantees deserves especial mention here. Morrison was not directly 
from Ireland, but was the son of John Morrison, one of the original 
founders of the town of Londonderry, New Hampshire. He was born 
in New Hampshire September 20, 1726, and is said by the compiler 
of the Morrison Genealogy to have been at Louisburg at the second 
capture, in 1759. Before he went to Louisburg he had taken a farm 
at Peterborough, New Hampshire, and after the capture, having been 
three months in Cape Breton, thither he returned. In the spring of 
1760 he went to Truro, and a year later his family joined him there. 
It is said that the first flour mill erected in Colchester was built by him 
and Alexander Miller, and that he built the first two-story house in 
the county. In. 1767-8 he removed to Londonderry, and in the great 
grant, as we have seen, his name appears. In 1777 he returned to 
Peterborough to look after his property there, and the following year 
his family rejoined him in New Hampshire. In 1783 or ’84, however, 
he and his family came back to Nova Scotia, and in the township of 
Londonderry, Morrison spent the rest of his life and died. A great- 
grandson of his was the Honourable Thomas F. Morrison, M.P.P. for 
the North District of Colchester, Immigration Agent for Nova Scotia, 
and member of the Legislative Council. 
In the Londonderry grant are mentioned the heirs of the Rev. John 
Moorhead. This clergyman, whom we have already mentioned, was 
