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tions were soon carried into effect. In August royal instructions ar- 
rived at New York looking to the disbanding of the provincial corps, 
in which it was provided that all non-commissioned officers and privates 
who desired to settle in Nova Scotia (of which New Brunswick then 
formed a part) should receive lands in the proportion of 200 acres for 
each non-commissioned officer and 100 acres for each private soldier, 
exclusive of smaller grants for the members of their families. The 
commissioned officers were promised grants according to their rank 
and half-pay on the disbandment of their regiments.! 
Meanwhile, in the previous April, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward 
Winslow, Isaac Allen, Stephen De Lancey, and Major Thomas Bar- 
clay had been sent to Nova Scotia to explore and locate lands for their 
comrades in arms. The determination of the place of settlement 
appears to have rested chiefly with Colonel Winslow, and extended 
up the River St. John from St. Ann’s Point (Fredericton) as far prob- - 
ably as the mouth of the Tobique. Before the end of July the explor- 
ing party had returned from its mission, and Winslow wrote to a 
friend that all were ‘‘delighted beyond expression” with the region 
they had visited. 
On September 12, Sir Guy Carleton issued an order at New York 
to Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hewlett of De Lancey’s 3rd Battalion 
to assume command of a number of provincial corps, including those 
in which the Connecticut Tories had chiefly enlisted, accompany them 
to the River St. John, and take the necessary measures to get them 
promptly to the locations allotted for their settlement. During the 
preceding summer most of the Loyalist regiments had been encamped 
on Long Island, not far from Brooklyn. Their numbers were now 
considerably reduced, not only on account of the casualties of the 
service through which they had passed, but also on account of the 
fact, previously noted, that many took their discharge at this time 
in order to return to their old neighborhoods, despite the risk of finding 
themselves unwelcome, or to seek an asylum elsewhere. As Con- 
necticut, unlike most of the other states, stood ready to pardon those 
of its exiled inhabitants who were prepared to resume the duties of 
citizenship under the new conditions, it is likely that some of them 
now sought her shores. Consequently, when the regiments sailed 
for the River St. John, September 15, they numbered only about 
one-fourth of their former strength. From the figures reported to 
the British commissary’s office in New York it appears that up to 

1 Trans. Roy. Soc. of Canada, Ser. III, Vol. IX (1915) 101; Rev. W. O. Ray- 
mond’s article on ‘‘Early Days of Woodstock” in The Dispatch of Woodstock, 
N.B., Nov. 21, 1906. 
2 Ibid., Nov. 21, 28, 1906. 
