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fortune sooner or later to lose the confidence of most of the people 
with whom he had dealings, and at last in 1769 the Nova Scotia Council 
threatened him with prosecution for claiming to have the King’s sign 
manual to settle all ungranted lands in the Province and for acting 
under this magnificent delusion. From 1778 until 1780 or ’81 he was 
in Boston, strongly sympathizing with the American cause and occa- 
sionally appealing to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia to send 
forces to Nova Scotia to deliver the people there from what he claimed 
to be British tyranny. After 1781 we know little certainly of him, 
but it seems to be well established that he returned to Virginia and 
there spent his last days, setting on foot remarkable stories of honours 
he had received in England and in Nova Scotia, which are now known 
never to have been granted him, and services in the war of the Revolu- 
tion that we know he never performed. His death is believed to have 
occurred in 1811. 
SOURCES. 
Haliburton’s History of Nova Scotia; Murdoch’s History of Nova 
Seotia; Crown Land Records, in Halifax; Massachusetts Archives; 
Poole’s Annals of Yarmouth and Barrington, Nova Scotia, in the 
Revolutionary War; Hanna’s Scotch Irish, or the Scot in North Britain, 
North Ireland, and North America; Bolton’s Scotch Irish Pioneers in 
Ulster and America; Parker’s History of Londonderry, New Hamp- 
shire, edited by G. W. Browne; New England Historical and Genealo- 
gical Register; Memorial History of Boston; Vital Records and Histories 
of various Massachusetts towns; two Monographs by Archdeacon Ray- 
mond in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada; many 
Family Histories; local writings by Israel Longworth, Esq., Barrister, 
and Hon. Sir Adams Archibald, K.C.M.G.; Eaton’s History of King’s 
County, Nova Scotia; Tombstone Inscriptions, &c, &e. 
